An Attempt to Understand and Communicate

This book contains a set of short essays, in which the author tries to understand human nature as he saw it and tested it, after working for a long time as a doctor, university professor, and researcher concerned with ethics and medical anthropology. The first chapter deals with the nature of communication between people and the differences in human nature, including the types of active listening, the link between happiness and intelligence, research discoveries, coincidences, negative thoughts, and more. The second chapter contains articles on medicine and medical ethics, and how the nature of disease symptoms reflects the culture of the patient. The third chapter focuses on medicine and literature, and in it the author writes about the diseases of Al-Jahiz, correlation between medicine and literature, and medical diagnosis in Arabic and English literature and so on. The author studied in British schools and universities, and in the fourth chapter of the book the author reflects on his experiences and memories of his days of study there. In the fifth chapter we find the author’s translation of famous English songs.