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When doctors become patients / Robert Klitzman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klitzman, Robert, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Miscellanea.
- Physicians.
- Physician and patient--Miscellanea.
- Physician and patient.
- Physicians--Anecdotes.
- Physicians--psychology--Personal Narratives.
- Attitude of Health Personnel--Personal Narratives.
- Attitude to Health--Personal Narratives.
- Physician Impairment--psychology--Personal Narratives.
- Physician's Role--psychology--Personal Narratives.
- Physician-Patient Relations--Personal Narratives.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians--psychology--Personal Narratives.
- Attitude of Health Personnel--Personal Narratives.
- Attitude to Health--Personal Narratives.
- Physician Impairment--psychology--Personal Narratives.
- Physician's Role--psychology--Personal Narratives.
- Physician-Patient Relations--Personal Narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Looking at the phenomenon of 'wounded healers': doctors who fall ill and become patients themselves, this text weaves together 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 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 versus Them'': Treating Patients Differently
- 12 Improving Education: Can Empathy Be Taught?
- 13 Conclusions: The Professional Self
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029626-7
- 0-19-770924-9
- 1-282-54421-7
- 9786612544217
- 0-19-974839-X
- OCLC:
- 607555281
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