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1 online resource (x, 333 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-322) and index. |
| 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. |
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"Magic white coats": forms of denial and other internal obstacles to becoming a patient -- "The medical self": self-doctoring and choosing doctors -- "Screw-ups" in the system and in care: 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. |
| Summary |
For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the invincible doctor role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like House touch on the topic, never has there been a systematic, integrated look at what the experience is like for docto. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physicians -- Miscellanea.
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Physicians. |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Physician and patient -- Miscellanea.
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Physician and patient. |
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Physicians -- Anecdotes.
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Anecdotes.
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Physicians. |
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Attitude of Health Personnel. |
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Attitude to Health. |
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Physician Impairment. |
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Physician's Role. |
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Physician-Patient Relations. |
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Personal Narrative.
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Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Anecdotes.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Klitzman, Robert. When doctors become patients. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780195327670 (DLC) 2007005289 (OCoLC)83758431 |
| ISBN |
9780199748396 (electronic book) |
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019974839X (electronic book) |
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9780195327670 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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