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• Title:When doctors become patients / Robert Klitzman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Klitzman, Robert.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W21 .K575 2008
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Physicians--Miscellanea.
  Physician and patient--Miscellanea.
  Physicians--Anecdotes.
  
• Medical Subjects: 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.
  
• Description:x, 333 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195327670 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0195327675 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:"Magic white coats": forms of denial and other internal obstacles to becoming a patient
  "The medical self": self-doctoring and choosing doctors
  "Screw-ups": external obstacles faced in becoming patients
  "They treated me as if I were dead": peripheralization and discrimination
  "Coming out" as patients: disclosures of illness
  Double lens: contrasting views and uses of medical knowledge
  "Being 'strong'": workaholism, burnout, and coping
  "Once a doctor, always a doctor?": retirement
  "Touched by the light": spiritual beliefs and their obstacles
  Us vs. them: treating patients differently
  Improving education: can empathy be taught?
  Conclusions: the professional self.