Overview
This book explores the psychosocial impact of serious illness - its effect on a person's identity and relationships - and the doctor's role in counseling patients. Even the most seasoned physician often feels inadequate when it comes to discussing the personal impact of disability and serious illness with patients. It takes time attention and skill. Most physicians who are good at this learn what to say from observations of physicians they respect and the conversations they share with patients over many years of practice. Like everything else in medicine there is a continuous learning curve. This book offers a beginning. It includes first-hand experiences and reflections on serious illness by physicians and patients concrete advice on how to initiate discussions of difficult psychosocial issues topics for organising discussion suggested readings and guides for patient interviews. 'Much is written about patient-centered care and the patient experience. What sets this book apart is first Lenore Buckley's ability to tell stories about her own medical experience. These teaching tales give young physicians a sense of the task that their profession requires of them while keeping that task within human proportions. Second and complementing that is her excellent compilation of quotations and stories from the memoirs of patients and physicians especially physicians as patients. I hope this empathic useful collection of materials for teaching and reflection finds its way into medical school curricula and I hope it is one of those books that physicians return to during years of practice especially when they sense that the treatment expert is crowding the witness out of the room. Patients need both doctors. Lenore Buckley shows how doctors are able to expect nothing less of themselves.' Arthur W Frank in the Foreword
Full Product Details
Author: Leonore Buckley ,
Dennis J. Shale
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: CRC Press
Edition: 1st New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.40cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.850kg
ISBN: 9781846192890
ISBN 10: 1846192897
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 25 August 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This is one of the top five books I have read during my medical career...This book is written for all physicians and, more importantly, medical students and those in training so they can see from the very beginning how important this concept is. The book is relevant for patients also...should be mandatory reading for everyone who works providing healthcare. It is extraordinarily powerful and personal.' DOODY'S REVIEW SERVICE Takes the unusual approach of sharing stories from physicians who have experienced chronic illness themselves, thereby bridging the inevitable chasm between patients and physicians...will be useful for libraries that serve health professions' education programs and practicing professionals...Recommended. CHOICE
Author Information
Leonore Buckley, Dennis J. Shale
