Robert Klitzman: When doctors become patients, (2008)
Publisher description:
“For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness – not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the ‘invincible doctor’ role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick, never has there been a systematic, integrated look at what the experience is like for doctors who get sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more broadly, the experience of becoming ill. The psychiatrist Robert Klitzman here weaves together gripping first-person accounts of the experience of doctors who fall ill and see the other side of the coin, as a patient. The accounts reveal how dramatic this transformation can be – a spiritual journey for some, a radical change of identity for others, and for some a new way of looking at the risks and benefits of treatment options. For most however it forever changes the way they treat their own patients.These questions are important not just on a human interest level, but for what they teach us about medicine today. While medical technology advances, the health care system itself has become more complex and frustrating, and physician-patient trust is at an all-time low. The experiences offered here are unique resource that point the way to a more humane future.”
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Book Reviews:
Ira B. Wilson
Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 118, no. 5, s. 1588
http://www.jci.org/articles/view/35627
Janet R. Gilsdorf
NEJM, 358 (12), s. 1309-10
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMbkrev59469
Peter Lewis
Family Medicine, October 2009, vol. 41, no. 9, s. 670-671
http://www.stfm.org/fmhub/fm2009/October/Peter670.pdf
Caitlin E. Slodden
Sociology of Health & Illness, vol. 31, no. 5, s. 780-781
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01180_2.x/full
Straddling Kingdoms
Charles R. Meyer
Minnesota Medicine, April 2009
http://www.minnesotamedicine.com/CurrentIssue/BookReviewApril2009/tabid/2933/Default.aspx
Tara Parker-Pope
The New York Times, February 8, 2008
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/when-doctors-become-patients/
Articles by Robert Klitzman:
“Patient-time”, “doctor-time”, and “institution-time”: Perceptions and definitions of time among doctors who become patients
Patient Education & Counseling. 66(2):147-55, 2007 May
“Post-residency disease” and the medical self: identity, work, and health care among doctors who become patients
Perspectives in Biology & Medicine. 49(4):542-52, 2006
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/toc/pbm49.4.html
Views and approaches toward risks and benefits among doctors who become patients
Patient Education & Counseling. 64(1-3):61-8, 2006 Dec
Improving education on doctor-patient realtionships and communication: lessons from doctors who become patients
Academic Medicine. 81(5):447-53, 2006 May
Challenges and changes in spirituality among doctors who become patients
Social Science & Medicine. 61(11):2396-406, 2005 Dec
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