Patients and Doctors - Life-changing Stories from Primary Care (Hardcover, New)

How patients heal doctors In Patients and Doctors, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes--from suffering to humor to death--help us to understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. In settings as diverse as Slovenia and Sweden, Cambodia and New Jersey, we learn what makes the healer feel graced with insight or scarred with misadventure. In Washington State, we anguish with patient and doctor alike when a young resident removes a screw from a little boy's foot; on the Israeli-Jordanian border, a woman goes into labor just as the air-raid sirens signal the beginning of the Gulf War. These compelling accounts remind us what is at stake in doctoring, reinforcing the value of stories in the teaching and practice of medicine: to calm, to validate, and to illuminate the human experience. "These stories illustrate humane physicians at their best."--Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1994
First published:	July 1999
Editors:	Jeffrey M. Borkan • Etc • Shmuel Reis (Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel) • Jack H. Medalie (Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, USA) • Dov Steinmetz (Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Negev, Israel)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-16340-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General practice Promotions
LSN:	0-299-16340-7
Barcode:	9780299163402

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