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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klitzman, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.