When doctors become patients
By: Robert Klitzman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780195327670
Subjects: Physicians -- Miscellanea; Physician and patient -- Miscellanea; 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
Genres: Miscellanea.; Anecdotes.; Personal Narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Magic white coats": forms of denial and other internal obstacles to becoming a patient; title: "The medical self": self-doctoring and choosing doctors; title: "Screw-ups": external obstacles faced in becoming patients; title: "They treated me as if I were dead": peripheralization and discrimination; title: "Coming out" as patients: disclosures of illness; title: Double lens: contrasting views and uses of medical knowledge; title: "Being 'strong'": workaholism, burnout, and coping; title: "Once a doctor, always a doctor?": retirement; title: "Touched by the light": spiritual beliefs and their obstacles; title: Us vs. them: treating patients differently; title: Improving education: can empathy be taught?; title: Conclusions: the professional self.; title: "Magic white coats": forms of denial and other internal obstacles to becoming a patient; title: "The medical self": self-doctoring and choosing doctors; title: "Screw-ups" in the system and in care: external obstacles faced in becoming patients; title: "They treated me as if I were dead": peripheralization and discrimination; title: "Coming out" as patients: disclosures of illness; title: Double lens: contrasting views and uses of medical knowledge; title: "Being 'strong'": workaholism, burnout, and coping; title: "Once a doctor, always a doctor?": retirement; title: "Touched by the light": spiritual beliefs and their obstacles; title: Us vs. them: treating patients differently; title: Improving education: can empathy be taught?; title: Conclusions: the professional self.