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About the Book:
?A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician? that explores doctor-patient relations, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors? emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe)
While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life?s most challenging moments. But understanding doctors? emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice can make all the difference on giving and getting the best medical care.
Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions?shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love?that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care.
Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. Ofri also reveals that doctors cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.
Author : Danielle Ofri
ASIN ? : ? 0807033308
Publisher ? : ? Beacon Press; 1st edition (6 May 2014)
Language ? : ? English
Paperback ? : ? 232 pages
ISBN-10 ? : ? 0807033302
ISBN-13 ? : ? 9780807033302
