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Dr. Kurapati receives award for his book, ‘Physician: How Science Transformed the Art of Medicine’


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Dr. Rajeev Kurapati has spent over a decade as a hospital physician within Northern Kentucky’s St. Elizabeth Healthcare system.

His latest book, Physician: How Science Transformed the Art of Medicine, examines how the doctor-patient relationship evolved over centuries. The work brings readers into the present awareness of current day medicine and what it means to be a physician and patient in the rapidly changing healthcare industry.

An Amazon #1 New Release, Physician was recently recognized with a gold medal and a five-star review from the Readers’ Favorite 2018 Book Awards.

The annual contest receives thousands of entries worldwide, ranging from independent authors to New York Times bestsellers to celebrity writers. Submissions include books from both small presses and publishing behemoths like Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster, and contest awards are broken down into 140 specific categories.

Award winners were recognized Saturday at a ceremony during Miami Book Fair International, currently the largest book fair in the United States.

Published by Greenleaf Book Group in early 2018, Physician interweaves moving personal patient stories with a historical overview that reveals interesting and untold details of the profession’s past — exploring the transformation of the healing tradition from a spiritual practice to a scientific one.

With an eye toward the future of medicine, Physician acts as a conversational field guide that navigates readers through the evolution of the patient-physician relationship, the future of medicine, and how we might return to more patient-centered care.

“This book is the result of an earnest attempt to answer a seemingly simple question,” says Dr. Kurapati. “Why is it that physicians and poets feel destined never to speak the same language? In other words, why is medical literature dry, devoid of rhyme and rhythm, and full of technical language, like an instruction manual?

Dr. Kurapati

“As I threw myself into researching this question, I was taken on a journey that revealed the fundamental assumptions about the foundation upon which modern medical science was built. It became a search for the meaning of who I am as a physician (as a person of science) within the context of my everyday experiences in the profession.”

In his review of Physician for the Readers’ Favorite Awards, Joel R. Dennstedt writes, “Physician: How Science Transformed the Art of Medicine achieves three major milestones of nonfiction writing: It’s hugely important; it’s masterfully researched; it’s fascinating to read.”

According to Dennstedt, “Dr. Kurapati has done a major service to his profession by recapping the most cogent aspects of medicine’s rise to respectability, consistency, and applicability.

“Kurapati is compelled to return to medicine’s philosophical roots and the grand ideal of a holistic but personalized study, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals.”

This is the second book for Dr. Kurapati, a practitioner, thought-leader, and writer covering topics relating to health, medicine, and mindfulness. A contributor to publications like Slate and Smart Health Today, Kurapati’s first book, Unbound Intelligence, was the winner of a 2014 National Indie Excellence Award.

He lives in Florence.

Physician
is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play. Learn more at www.RajeevKurapati.com.


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