Becoming a doctor
Subtitle: learning and unlearnings about life and the politics of medicine
By: Hloni Bookholane ; foreword by Litha Sokutu
Contributors: Sokutu, Litha, foreword writer; University of Cape Town. Medical School
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780624089247; 9780624089254
Subjects: Medical students; Biography; Physicians; Medicine; COVID-19 (Disease); Patients; Treatment
Description: "Join Hloni Bookholane on his journey of becoming a doctor: from student to intern at the world-famous Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to the best school of public health in the world across the Atlantic, and back home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There are highs and lows - learnings and unlearnings - about the personal versus political as he discovers how government policy, socioeconomics and more influence disease and medicine." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 189).
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Learning and unlearning. The best of times, the worst of times; title: Hospital admission, an inconveniene we need to understand; title: Medicine and the #mustfall movements; title: To complain is to be previleged.; title: Part 2. Developing greater emotional intelligence. So much than Grey's anatomy; title: Seeing beyond the immediate red flag; title: The social determinants of health; title: Breaking the bad news; title: Careers need care too; title: COVID 19 call. Part. 3. A new perspective. Hopkins University; title: Rethinking medicine; title: Critical care quotas; title: Back to the beginning; title: Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.