What Doctors Feel : How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine (Paperback)

from lauriebrown54

Doctors are expected to have a professional demeanor, treating all patients equally and compassionately, without their emotions interfering. But doctors are human beings first and physicians second. They have prejudices. Med school and internship overworks them and burns out their empathy before ...

from hgoldsmith

Seven chapters, focusing on "negative" emotions (fear, shame, grief, anger, being overwhelmed)-but structured around experiences, rather than those emotions. The main chapters are interwoven with a story of a long-term patient that Ofri has written about elsewhere (eg, Medicine in Translation). A...

from arubabookwoman

Ofri a medical doctor, examines a range of emotions, including anger, grief, shame, pride, fear and several others, that doctors may experience in their interactions with patients, and how these emotions, especially if they are unrecognized, can affect the quality of care the doctors give. This b...

from DrGordonCaldwell

Why should you read this book? This is an open honest and raw account of what it feels like to be Doctor. The author re-emphasises the central need for doctors to know who the patient is, before moving on to attempts at diagnosis and treatment recommendations. The author describes the joy of succ...

from DrGordonCaldwell

Why should you read this book? This is an open honest and raw account of what it feels like to be Doctor. The author re-emphasises the central need for doctors to know who the patient is, before moving on to attempts at diagnosis and treatment recommendations. The author describes the joy of succ...