Robert Klitzman

When Doctors Become Patients

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to look at the phenomenon of 'wounded healers': doctors who fall ill and become patients themselves. It weaves together intimate, personal interviews with health care providers who have fallen ill, to provide a rich portrait of the psychology of doctors, the nature of human illness, and the pitfalls of our health care system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780195327670
• ISBN-10: 0195327675
• Artikelnr.: 22782795

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* Part I: Becoming a Patient
* 2: "Magic white coats": forms of denial and other internal obstacles
to becoming a patient
* 3: "The medical self": self-doctoring and choosing doctors
* 4: "Screw-ups": external obstacles faced in becoming patients
* 5: "They treated me as if I were dead": peripheralization and
discrimination
* 6: "Coming out" as patients: disclosures of illness
* Part II: Being a Doctor After Being A Patient
* 7: Double lens: contrasting views and uses of medical knowledge
* 8: "Being strong": Workaholism, burnout, and coping
* 9: "Once a doctor, always a doctor?": retirement
* 10: Touched by the light: spiritual beliefs and their obstacles
* Part III: Interacting with Their Patients
* 11: "Us vs. them": treating patients differently
* 12: Improving education: can empathy be taught?
* 13: Conclusions: the professional self