Characteristics of compassion
Subtitle: portraits of exemplary physicians
By: by Helen Meldrum.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers; Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780763757335
Subjects: Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Physicians -- Awards -- United States; Physicians -- Biography; Empathy -- Biography; Physician's Role -- Biography; Physician-Patient Relations -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dr. Anne Brooks : the woman who answered more than one calling; title: Dr. Michael VanRooyen : supporting this small and sickly world; title: Dr. Sylvia Campbell : finding peace on the other side of trauma; title: Dr. Jack McConnell : the doctor who flunked retirement; title: Dr. Bruce Gould : a voice for the urban and rural poor; title: Dr. G. Scott Morris : making common ground for faith and health; title: Dr. Colleen Kivlahan : listening to many truths; title: Dr. Mark Asperilla : inheriting a commitment to service; title: Dr. Gary VanderArk : What's harder than brain surgery? mobilizing the healthcare community; title: Dr. Gerald G. Jampolsky : his Rx, spiritual healing; title: Dr. Jeannette South-Paul : living from missing to mission; title: Leonard Morse, MD : having an impact on health in the small town and leaving a bigger legacy; title: Dr. Wendy Ring : have compassionate care, will travel; title: Dr. William Schecter, with Gisela Schecter M.D. : the kindest cut, surgery with soul; title: A summation of what was shared.