Equal partners : a physician's call for a new spirit of medicine / Jody Heymann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heymann, Jody, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heymann, Jody, 1959-.

Heymann, Jody.

Physicians--United States--Personal narratives.

Physicians.

Informed consent (Medical law)--United States--Personal narratives.

Informed consent (Medical law).

Hemangiomas.

Patients.

Biography.

Brain--Hemorrhage--Patients.

Brain--Hemorrhage.

Health.

United States.

Physician and patient--United States--Personal narratives.

Physician and patient.

Heymann, Jody, 1959---Health.

Brain--Hemorrhage--Patients--United States--Biography.

Brain.

Hemangiomas--Patients--United States--Biography.

Physicians--United States--Biography.

Physician and patient--United States.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Summary:

One week after graduating with honors from medical school, Jody Heymann woke up in an emergency room with no memory of how she got there, and, within hours, was transformed from physician into patient. The hospitalization and brain surgery that followed taught her more about the practice of medicine in America than all her years of schooling. Her deeply disturbing conclusion: patients all too often occupy the bottom rung of the ladder, with their legs tied to prevent them from climbing. Heymann's experiences as a patient convinced her to work toward a new, more compassionate spirit of medicine -- one in which physicians and patients are equal partners.

Notes:

Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-258).

ISBN:

0812217330

OCLC:

42862036