The Doctor, His Patient, and the Illness
Author : Michael Balint
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Medicine
ISBN :
Author : Michael Balint
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Medicine
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Author : Michael Bálint
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Medicine
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Author : Norman Cousins
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780393326840
The story of a recovery from a crippling disease and the physician patient partnership that beat the odds by using the patient's own capabilities.
Author : M. Balint
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : Robert Klitzman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195327675
For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like "House" touch on the topic, never has there been a "systematic, integrated look" at what the experience is like for doctors who get sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more broadly, the experience of becoming ill.The psychiatrist Robert Klitzman here weaves together gripping first-person accounts of the experience of doctors who fall ill and see the other side of the coin, as a patient. The accounts reveal how dramatic this transformation can be-- a spiritual journey for some, a radical change of identity for others, and for some a new way of looking at the risks and benefits of treatment options. For most however it forever changes the way they treat their own patients. These questions are important not just on a human interest level, but for what they teach us about medicine in America today. While medical technology advances, the health care system itself has become more complex and frustrating, and physician-patient trust is at an all-time low. The experiences offered here are unique resource that point the way to a more humane future.
Author : Owen Stanley Surman M.D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0595603874
The Wrong Side of an Illness: A Doctor's Love Story is a non-fiction novel based on the memoirs of a general hospital psychiatrist whose life is turned upside down by physical signs of his wife's silent illness. What follows is his extraordinary account of their journey through her battle with ovarian cancer. His ability to translate emotion into prose allows him to share with his reader the subtle nuances of the narrator's altered role, the family's experience, the complexity of medical interactions in the setting of tragic illness, and the hope that follows from a loving marriage and a fulfilling career of patient care. Her fatal illness is the subject of a candid narration of love, loss, and recovery.
Author : Ben Watt
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802192033
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: “Unforgettable . . . Few have told such a compelling life-story as skillfully” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, singer/songwriter Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard-topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a London hospital complaining of chest pain. As his condition worsened, doctors were baffled. He was eventually he was diagnosed with a rare life-threatening autoimmune disease called Churg-Strauss Syndrome. “To paraphrase Joseph Heller,” Ben says, “you know it’s something serious when they name it after two guys.” By the time he came home, two-and-half-months later, his ravaged body was forty-six pounds lighter, and he was missing most of his small intestine. “Unfold[ing] like a page-turning mystery” (The Los Angeles Times), and “told with great wit and without self-pity, Patient is a sobering look at how life can suddenly be transformed into a humbling vaudeville of tests, IV’s, catheters, and bedpans” (The New York Times Book Review). Injecting a frankness and natural humility into his “funny, frightening, and piercingly vulnerable” (Interview) chronicle of a medical nightmare, Ben writes about his childhood, reflects on family, and his shared life with band member and partner, Tracey Thorn. The result is “a vivid, finely wrought look at having one’s future yanked away, and surviving physically and emotionally” (Dallas Morning Star-Telegram). A Sunday Times Book of the Year A Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year An Esquire (UK) Best Non-Fiction Award Finalist
Author : Michael Balint
Publisher :
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Samuel William Bloom
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Hospitals
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Author : David B. Agus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1451610173
From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers comes a monumental work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life.