Great, except vital details are ALWAYS left out of these decidedly un-verbose summaries. You'll learn a lot of medical terms great, albeit occasionally a little repetitive and verbose, making it feel a little more focused on impressing itself than it is on entertaining or educating you. It's academic in tone without being academic in ethic. I wouldn't call this book conversational. And Eventually You Get Tired And Say Ugh Fine I'll Be Vegan. The Highly Educated Guy With An Extreme Agenda Who Peppers His Speech With Jargon and Is Capable of Referencing Lots of Statistics To Make Himself Sound Right You Have This Vague Feeling Something Isn't Adding Up But Dude. But the tone is the exact combination of two types of people I couldn't stand in college:ġ. Personally, I managed to both agree with everything written here and also be highly annoyed by it.īuckley is a longtime MD herself, which is a great opportunity to educate people on how seemingly emotional decisions have physical effects, and vice versa, and she does nearly do that. Lots of people LOVE this book, including literally all of my favorite childbirth educators, both personal (my own midwives, doula teachers, Bradley Method instructor, etc) and general (Ina May Gaskin wrote the intro, and many other books I enjoy reference and highly recommend it).
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