Post graduate year one : lessons in caring / Kenneth M. Heilman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heilman, Kenneth M., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians--United States--Biography.

Physicians.

Residents (Medicine)--United States--Biography.

Residents (Medicine).

Heilman, Kenneth M., 1938-.

Heilman, Kenneth M.

Physical Description:

xiii, 175 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A world-renowned clinician, teacher, and researcher in cognitive and behavioral neurology, Dr. Ken Heilman has found that stories of his own initiation into the world of doctoring are one of the best ways to engage students and trainees about the common professional, medical, and ethical challenges they will face in daily practice. The twenty-five stories gathered here span the author's first year of clinical training at Bellevue Hospital during the 1960s following his graduation from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. That year- known in the past as internship or first-year residency and now called post graduate year one- is recognized as one of the most intellectually, emotionally, and physically demanding in a physician's life. For the author, it was to hold the most valuable lessons on caring for patients and to exert the greatest lasting influence on how he practices medicine. Each story in this book conveys a core lesson about the practice of medicine and also tells a wonderful tale- about how the author contracted tuberculosis because of a colleague's carelessness, a tough nurse who was a great teacher, a cardiologist who missed a diagnosis because of his arrogance, an acid-dropping ascetic who turned tricks on the side, a fellow trainee caught in a lie, and, as timeless a story as there ever was, the utter impossibility of finding a parking spot in New York City, among others.

Contents:

Naiveté : Patty O'Keefe

Clinical judgement

Responsibility : night sweats

Chutzpah : distant sounds

Credentialing : the imposter

All animals are equal, but some

: administrators

Fabrications : gum guiac

Priorities : do not admit her

Disbelief : someone is chasing me

Confidences : listening to the voice within

Mortality : no one dies

Experience : it was just a gesture

Cynicism : cough it up again

Purity : freedom from the body

Altruism

Ethical boundaries : iatrogenic melanoma

Suffering : phantom pain

Gratitude : thank you, doctor

Intimidation or invitation

Decisiveness : don't confuse me with the facts

An afternoon off

Know thyself : not cut out to be a physician

The "disposition problem"

Nirvana : the last day.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611998622

0-19-972418-0

1-281-99862-1

OCLC:

316007274