What Doctors Feel by Danielle Ofri Md
"A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician" that explores the doctor-patient relationship, 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 beobjective, 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 newborndie 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 throughgallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of medicine in New York University School of Medicine and has spent more than two decades caring for patients at New York's Bellevue Hospital. Academic mainstays in medical schools, universities, and residency programs, Ofri's books and papers have become academic staples. She is the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review and contributes to the New York Times on a monthly basis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807033302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807033308 |
| Title | What Doctors Feel |
| Author | Danielle Ofri Md |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 2014-05-06 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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