Beneath the White Coat

Doctors, Their Minds and Mental Health
Herausgeber: Gerada, Clare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138499737
• ISBN-10: 1138499730
• Artikelnr.: 60019045

Autorenporträt

Dr Clare Gerada has been a medical practitioner since 1982. Having first trained in psychiatry she became a GP in 1992, and has worked in the same practice ever since. She has been heading up a groundbreaking service for sick doctors (practitioner-patients) since 2008 which has rapidly become an international leader. Between 2010-2013 she led the Royal College of General Practitioners, the largest of all the of Royal Colleges, and only the second women to hold this Office in its history.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Contributors. Preface. THE MAKING OF A DOCTOR. The making
of a doctor: medical self and group of belonging. Mental illness in
doctors: an historical context. What makes medicine such a difficult task
master and doctors at. higher risk of mental illness?. Rising levels of
mental illness, fact or fiction?. Surviving and thriving in medicine.
Resilience. Shame in medicine. Suffering, sacrifice and stigma. DOCTORS AND
THEIR ILLNESSES. Doctors and mental illness: an overview. Doctors and
substance misuse disorder. Autism in doctors. Burnout in doctors. Suicide
in doctors and its sequelae. Bipolar disorder and other psychotic states.
COVID-19 and mental illness. DOCTORS AS PATIENTS. Doctors as patients.
Doctors treating doctors. The doctors' doctor. How to be a good enough
patient: from sickness to health. Services for mentally ill doctors. The
migrant doctor. Medical students. Different specialities and risk of mental
illness. Talking helps. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG. Sticking to the rules:
professional and unprofessional behaviour. Making sense of the regulatory
process. Improving the outcome of a serious investigation. Index.