When a Doctor Hates a Patient : And Other Chapters in a Young Physician's Life / Enid Rhodes Peschel and Richard E. Peschel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peschel, Enid Rhodes, author.

Peschel, Richard E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanistic psychology.

Medicine--Case studies.

Medicine.

Medicine in literature.

Physicians--Training of.

Physicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE FACE OF DEATH

2. MY CADAVER

3. "BUT WHAT IF SHE SHOULD DIE?"

4. RITUAL AND THE DEATH CERTIFICATE

5. THE FALLEN WOMAN

6. ABERRANT MEDICAL HUMOR

7. WHEN A DOCTOR HATES A PATIENT

8. SOME LESSONS FROM THE CANCER WARD

9. "AM I IN HEAVEN NOW?"

10. THE SURVIVOR

CONCLUSION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS QUOTED

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520330108

0520330102

OCLC:

1149525572