When doctors become patients /
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 pa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.
- "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.