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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810127203321

Autore

Klitzman Robert

Titolo

When doctors become patients / / Robert Klitzman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-029626-7

0-19-770924-9

1-282-54421-7

9786612544217

0-19-974839-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Physicians

Physician and patient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: Becoming a Patient -- 2 ''Magic White Coats'': Forms of Denial and Other Internal Obstacles to Becoming a Patient -- 3 ''The Medical Self'': Self-doctoring and Choosing Doctors -- 4 ''Screw-ups'': External Obstacles Faced in Becoming Patients -- 5 ''They Treated Me as if I Were Dead'': Peripheralization and Discrimination -- 6 ''Coming Out'' as Patients: Disclosures of Illness -- PART II: Being a Doctor After Being a Patient -- 7 Double Lens: Contrasting Views and Uses of Medical Knowledge -- 8 ''Being 'Strong' '': Workaholism, Burnout, and Coping -- 9 ''Once a Doctor, Always a Doctor?'': Retirement -- 10 ''Touched by the Light'': Spiritual Beliefs and Their Obstacles -- PART III: Interacting with Their Patients -- 11 ''Us versus Them'': Treating Patients Differently -- 12 Improving Education: Can Empathy Be Taught? -- 13 Conclusions: The Professional Self -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

Looking at the phenomenon of 'wounded healers': doctors who fall ill and become patients themselves, this text weaves together personal



interviews with health care providers who have fallen ill, to provide a rich portrait of the psychology of doctors, the nature of human illness, and the pitfalls of our health care system.