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TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction 1 PART I: Becoming a Patient 1 Chapter 2: ¿Magic White Coats¿: Forms of Denial and Other Internal Obstacles to Becoming a Patient 1 Chapter 3: ¿The Medical Self¿: Self-Doctoring and Choosing Doctors 1 Chapter 4: ¿Screw-Ups¿ in the System and in Care: External Obstacles Faced in Becoming Patients 1 Chapter 5: ¿They treated me as if I were dead¿: Peripheralization and Discrimination 1 Chapter 6: ¿Coming Out¿ as Patients: Disclosures of Illness 1 PART II: Being a Doctor After Being a Patient 1 Chapter 7: Double Lens: Contrasting Views and Uses of Medical Knowledge 1 Chapter 8: ¿Being ¿Strong¿¿: Workaholism, Burnout, and Coping 1 Chapter 9: ¿Once a Doctor, Always a Doctor?¿: Retirement 1 Chapter 10: ¿Touched by the Light¿: Spiritual Beliefs and their Obstacles 1 PART III: Interacting With Their Patients 1 Chapter 11: Us vs. Them: Treating Patients Differently 1 Chapter 12: Improving Education: Can Empathy Be Taught? 1 Chapter 13: Conclusions: The Professional Self 1 REFERENCES 1
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Physicians -- Miscellanea.
Physician and patient -- Miscellanea.
Physicians -- Anecdotes.
Physicians -- psychology -- Personal Narratives.
Attitude of Health Personnel -- Personal Narratives.
Attitude to Health -- Personal Narratives.
Physician Impairment -- psychology -- Personal Narratives.
Physician's Role -- psychology -- Personal Narratives.
Physician-Patient Relations -- Personal Narratives.