Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients and Medicine

Name: Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients and Medicine
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ISBN: 9780472030842

ISBN-10: 0472030841

ISBN-13: 9780472030842

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Expanded)

Authors: Jerome Lowenstein, Howard Markel, Alexandra Minna Stern

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In this book, an accomplished physician and teacher of medicine discusses the importance of being a "caring" doctor, especially now that the focus of medicine is increasingly on technological innovation and health care costs. With wisdom and compassion, Dr. Jerome Lowenstein tells stories about relationships between medical students and their teachers, physicians and their colleagues, and physicians and their patients. He reflects on what doctors learn from treating chronic illness; how they respond to patients' needs for reassurance; how they bear the burden of treating patients with life-threatening or degenerative disease; whether the distinction between traditional and "alternative"…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 4/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine.



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


The Midnight Meal


The Biomolecular Revolution


Can You Teach Compassion?


Coughs, Clouds, and Ice


Treating Chronic Illness


Patients as Teachers


Reassurance and the Warning on the Label


Defending the Common Cold


Asymmetry


On Drawing Blood


The Vital Signs


The Dummy and the Standardized Patient


Holding the Blood Gas Report


The Narrative Instinct


The Weight of Shared Lives: Truth Telling and Family Caregiving


AIDS


A Marriage Without Divorce


Shaky Evidence


A Critical Incident


The Homeless Man on Morning Rounds


Numbers, Numbers


Alternative Medicine


Bellevue Hospital


Where Have All the Giants Gone? Reconciling Medical Education and the Traditions of Patient Care with Limitations on Resident Work Hours


Afterword


Notes


Index