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What doctors feel : how emotions affect the practice of medicine / Danielle Ofri

By: Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2013Description: 224 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780807073322 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807073326 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • How emotions affect the practice of medicine
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.69/5 23
LOC classification:
  • R 727.3 .O375 2013
NLM classification:
  • W 62
  • W 62
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : why doctors act that way -- The doctor can't see you now -- Can we build a better doctor? -- Scared witless -- A daily dose of death -- Burning with shame -- Drowning -- Under the microscope
Summary: "By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emotions influence the way physicians treat their patients both medically and interpersonally. Exploring the full range of human emotion--from the fear of making a fatal mistake to the pride and elation of triumphing over death, What Doctors Feel allows patients at the other end of the stethoscope to have a good listen to the beat of the emotional life behind the white coat."--Beacon Press
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Books Overnight Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Circulation Section R 727.3 .O375 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0008113

"Published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction : why doctors act that way -- The doctor can't see you now -- Can we build a better doctor? -- Scared witless -- A daily dose of death -- Burning with shame -- Drowning -- Under the microscope

"By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emotions influence the way physicians treat their patients both medically and interpersonally. Exploring the full range of human emotion--from the fear of making a fatal mistake to the pride and elation of triumphing over death, What Doctors Feel allows patients at the other end of the stethoscope to have a good listen to the beat of the emotional life behind the white coat."--Beacon Press

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Department of Medicine

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