The soul of a doctor Harvard Medical students face life and death

"By the time most of us meet our doctors, they've been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they're not all like that, and most didn't start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibili...

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Other Authors: Pories, Susan, 1953-, Jain, Sachin H., 1980-, Harper, Gordon, 1942-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Communication
  • More like Oprah / Alaka Ray
  • Learning to interview / Joe Wright
  • The difficult patient / Anh Bui
  • No solution / Keith Walter Michael
  • An emotional war on the wards / David Y. Hwang
  • Giving bad news / Amanda A. Muñoz
  • Straight answers / Ari Wassner
  • Of doors and locks / Matt Lewis
  • Reclaimin the lost art of listening / Mike Westerhaus
  • 2. Empathy
  • Inshallah / Yetsa Kehinde Tuakli-Wosornu
  • The twelve-hour child / Wai-Kit Lo
  • On saying sorry / Alejandra Casillas
  • Coney Island / Yana Pikman
  • The naked truth / Joseph Corkery
  • Losing your mind / Esther Huang
  • Breathing, the movie / Joe Wright
  • Donor / Kimberly Layne Collins
  • Living with Mrs. Longwood / Rajesh G. Shah-- 3. Easing suffering and loss
  • Not since 1918 / Kedar Mate
  • The tortoise and the air / Vesna Invančić
  • "Looking at the world from far away" / Amy Antman Gelfand
  • Early-morning ED blues / Kim-Son Nguyen
  • Zebras / Hao Zhu
  • The last prayer / Joan S. Hu
  • Limitations / Greg Feldman
  • Autopsy / Christine Hsu Rohde
  • It was Sunday / Tracy Balboni
  • Transitions / Kristen L. Leight
  • Imagine how you'd feel / Andrea Dalve-Endres
  • Squeeze hard / Brook Hill
  • Code / Joan S. Hu
  • The heart of medicine / Annemarie Stroustrup Smith
  • Black bags / Kurt Smith
  • A murmur in the ICU / Joe Wright
  • Rewiring / Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui
  • Taking my place in Medicine / Antonia Jocelyn Henry
  • Identity / Alex Lam
  • The outsider / Charles Wykoff
  • Raincoat / Anonymous
  • Physicians or escape artists? / Sachin H. Jain
  • The healing circle / Chelsea Elander Flanagan Bodnar
  • Strong work / Walter Anthony Bethune
  • I would do it all again / Gloria Chiang
  • Growing up / Vesna Invančić.