When doctors become patients / Robert Klitzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klitzman, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--Miscellanea.

Physicians.

Physician and patient--Miscellanea.

Physician and patient.

Physicians--Anecdotes.

Physicians--psychology.

Attitude of Health Personnel.

Attitude to Health.

Physician Impairment--psychology.

Physician's Role--psychology.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Physicians--psychology.

Attitude of Health Personnel.

Attitude to Health.

Physician Impairment--psychology.

Physician's Role--psychology.

Physician-Patient Relations.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

"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

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

"Us vs. them": treating patients differently

Improving education: can empathy be taught?

Conclusions: the professional self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index.

ISBN:

0195327675

9780195327670

OCLC:

83758431

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