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| Becoming a Better Physician: Insightful and Inspirational Stories from Attending Physicians, Residents, and Medical Students |
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Doody's Core Title (2026 Edition)
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2.2
(Health Sciences - Medical Education)
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ISBN: 978-3031694127,
134 pages,
Hard Cover
ISBN-10: 3031694120 |
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| Copyright: |
2024 |
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| Edition: |
1st |
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| Editor: |
Goldstein, Mark Allan, MD; Tran, Kathy May, MD |
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Family Medicine
, General Internal Medicine
, Medical Education |
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| Publisher: |
Springer |
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| List Price: |
$59.99 |
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At A Glance
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This book shares physicians' stories, both challenging to read and easy to celebrate, to encourage the reader to reflect upon their own stories and by doing so, become a better physician. illuminating and revealing essays have been divided into six chapters, each with its own theme: Learning and Training, Career, Caregiving, Physician as Patient, Personal Growth, and Love and Loss. There are thirty-nine essays, each covering a different aspect of the theme of their chapter. An author in Learning and Training relates the difficulties and successes they had in their marriage throughout their residency and how it has affected them as a physician. Career reveals the story of a doctor who dealt with employer retribution over publicly expressing his views on healthcare, and another who questions what "work-life balance" really means. In Physician as Patient, we are reminded that doctors have strengths and weaknesses and are human. Physician is a beautifully written insight into the lives of the physician authors that encourages the reader to reflect on their own story, embrace vulnerabilities, forgive shortcomings, celebrate resilience, and build community. This volume will be an enlightening read for physicians, future physicians, and anyone interested in learning about the physician's point of view.
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Reviewer:
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Rick Kellerman,
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(University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita)
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Are the author's objectives met? |
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
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Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Are there sufficient illustrations? |
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Reviewer:
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Rick Kellerman,
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(University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita)
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Description
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| This book is a compilation of 45 essays, poems and commentaries about critical clinical care incidents experienced by physicians and medical students. The authors of each chapter explain how they were personally affected, how they responded, and how they used the learnings from these incidents to become better physicians. |
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Purpose
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| The purpose of this book is to help physicians, physicians-in training and medical students who have experienced professional, personal and family challenges, setbacks, and failures to recognize that all physicians have experienced these kinds of emotionally traumatic events and that we can learn from these experiences to be better physicians in the future. The authors send a collective message that the reader "is not alone" when they have feelings of embarrassment, self-doubt, diffidence, grief, depersonalization, and failure. |
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Audience
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| The audience for this book is physicians in all career stages, physicians-in-training, medical students, and those interested in the process of doctoring. The Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts General Hospital serves as the editor which helps bring cohesion to the stories. Authors from a variety of medical specialties are represented, most are from New England and west coast teaching hospitals. |
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Features
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| Each of the 45 chapters tells a story about an emotionally challenging event physicians or medical students have faced: death of a child, failed relationships, substance use disorder, being fired, racism, miscommunication, misunderstanding, mistrust, depression, anxiety, moral injury, loss of hospital privileges, board of healing arts inquiries, and feelings of enduring grief, depersonalization, and isolation to name a few. The stories are grouped in one of six themed sections: "Learning and Training", "Career", "Caregiving", "Physician as Patient", "Personal Growth", and "Love and Loss". The authors do not respond to a templated list of questions in this book; they tell their own stories in their own way. Authors courageously reflect on their experiences, describe their feelings and offer insights for others. In many cases, the physician authors likely experienced emotional release (catharsis) and post-traumatic growth in the process of putting pen to paper (or typing at the keyboard) when telling their stores. |
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Assessment
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| Each chapter is thoughtful, well-written, and meaningful. All physicians will relate to these stories and will be reminded of similar situations they have experienced. It is within the realm of possibility that some who read this book will be reminded of unwanted suppressed memories. Many other physicians will be comforted knowing that other physicians have suffered from personal and professional challenges and that they are not alone in their feelings of embarrassment, sadness, grief, and self-doubt. |
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