📚 Physician-patient Relations

Books with physician-patient relations on their catalogue record, first published between 1722 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject physician-patient relations in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,523 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Vies des dames galantes	Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme	1722	96
	This is going to hurt	Adam Kay	2017	27
	Health psychology	Shelley E. Taylor	1986	18
	The doctor, his patient and the illness	Michael Balint	1957	15
	"Speaking of operations--"	Irvin S. Cobb	1915	12
	Physician and patient	Worthington Hooker	1849	11
	On learning from the patient	Patrick Casement	1985	10
	Interpersonal process in psychotherapy	Edward Teyber	1988	9
	The therapeutic relationship in systemic therapy	Carmel Flaskas	1996	9
	Communication in medical care	John Heritage	2006	9
	Do No Harm	Marsh, Henry	2014	9
	Doctor and patient	S. Weir Mitchell	1888	8
	Dying	John Hinton	1967	8
	Stories matter	Rita Charon	2002	8
	The Anatomy of Hope	Jerome Groopman	2003	8
	The impossibility of knowing	Jackie Gerrard	2011	8
	The doctor-patient relationship	Kevin Browne	1967	7
	Focal psychotherapy	Michael Balint	1972	7
	Head first	Norman Cousins	1989	7
	Relating in psychotherapy	John Birtchnell	1999	7
	Rival truths	Lindsay St Claire	2002	7
	Communication skills that heal	Barry Bub	2006	7
	Interviewing and patient care	Allen J. Enelow	1972	6
	Doctors talking with patients/patients talking with doctors	Debra Roter	1992	6
	Disease and Diagnosis	William E. Stempsey	1999	6
	The Gift of Therapy	Irvin D. Yalom	2002	6
	Relationship Power in Health Care	John B. Livingstone	2016	6
	Seven Signs of Life	Aoife Abbey	2018	6
	Should the patient know the truth?	Samuel Standard	1955	5
	Dear doctor	Juliet Lowell	1955	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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