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From Residency to Retirement Physicians' Careers over a Professional Lifetime.

From Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the U.S. health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mizrahi, Terry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Colección:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Meet the Doctors: Career Choices in Their Own Voices
  • 3. Satisfaction and Strains: The Ups and Downs of Being a Doctor, Part I (Early to Mid-Career)
  • 4. Satisfaction and Strains: The Ups and Downs of Being a Doctor, Part II (Mid-Career to Retirement)
  • 5. "Speaking of Their Own": Relationships with Peers, Partners, and Protégés
  • 6. Mistakes and Malpractice: The Bane of Physicians
  • 7. The Physicians on Health Regulations, Reimbursement, and Reform
  • 8. Vulnerability from Within: Hidden Revelations about Disillusionment, Cynicism, Fear of Failure, and Self-Doubt
  • 9. The Personal and the Professional: The Interaction between Private Lives and Public Postures
  • 10. Physicians' Happiest and Unhappiest Times, and Their Wishes and Misses throughout Their Careers
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Series Titles