An author's philosophy of physiology textbook writing.

Then I thought of another answer almost as facetious as the first. This was that many textbooks of medical physiology had become very discursive, written primarily by teachers of physiology for other teachers of physiology, and written in language understood by other teachers but not easily understood by the basic student of medical physiology. This, I am afraid, is a failing of all of us in medical teaching. But, here again, I truly did not think of this at all when I began writing my own textbook of medical physiology.