When Doctors Become Patients

Name: When Doctors Become Patients
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ISBN: 9780195327670

ISBN-10: 0195327675

ISBN-13: 9780195327670

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Klitzman

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For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like "House" touch on the topic, never has there been a "systematic, integrated look" at what the experience is like for doctors who get sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more…

Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Introduction



Becoming a Patient



"Magic White Coats": Forms of Denial and Other Internal Obstacles to Becoming a Patient



"The Medical Self": Self-doctoring and Choosing Doctors



"Screw-ups": External Obstacles Faced in Becoming Patients



"They Treated Me as if I Were Dead": Peripheralization and Discrimination



"Coming Out" as Patients: Disclosures of Illness



Being a Doctor After Being a Patient



Double Lens: Contrasting Views and Uses of Medical Knowledge



"Being 'Strong'": Workaholism, Burnout, and Coping



"Once a Doctor, Always a Doctor?": Retirement



"Touched by the Light": Spiritual Beliefs and Their Obstacles



Interacting with Their Patients



"Us versus Them": Treating Patients Differently



Improving Education: Can Empathy Be Taught?



Conclusions: The Professional Self


References


Index