Doctor / Andrew Bomback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bomback, Andrew S., author.

Series:

Object lessons.

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physician and patient.

Primary care (Medicine).

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine. In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms. At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Fourth Wall

2. My Favorite Types of Patients

3. I Have Good News and Bad News

4. You Get Better Because We Are Better

5. Doctors at Home

6. Texters and Emailers and Tweeters

7. What Are Their Names?

8. Highly Attentive Medicine

9. It's Complicated

10. And It Will Last Forever

11. The Business of Medicine

12. A Diagnosis (Something to Do)

13. Everything You Say Is Important to Me

14. Harp Lies

15. The Longer You Stay, the Longer You Stay

16. The Future Is Already Here

17. History and Physical

18. Don't Worry

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2018).

ISBN:

9781501338205

150133820X

9781501338182

1501338188

9781501338199

1501338196

OCLC:

1201427203