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    The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
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    The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
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    The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death

    By Jerome E. Groopman

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    About this ebook

    True stories of transitioning from medical school classrooms to the realities of the hospital: “Moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable” (Atul Gawande, MD).
     
    After years of practice, doctors can sometimes seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. What goes on in their minds? Were they always like that, or has their work changed them? And how do some physicians manage to retain their warmth and humanity over the course of a long career?
     
    This “thoughtful and illuminating” book takes us into the day-to-day lives of third-year medical students at an Ivy League school—just starting out in their profession and dealing with patients face-to-face for the first time (Publishers Weekly). In their own words, more than forty of them reveal what it’s really like to enter this field, having their principles of scientific rigor and idealism tested as they cope with real people and real crises in real time.
     
    This doctor’s-eye-view of the dramas—and occasional comedies—of the world of health care offers fascinating insights about clinical medicine and a behind-the-scenes look at a job that can range from repetitive routines to life-and-death decisions at any given moment. These stories “offer a unique vantage on illness, life, and struggle—capturing in vivid glimpses that crucial moment in a doctor’s life when one transitions from outsider to insider” (Atul Gawande, MD, New York Times–bestselling author of Being Mortal).
     
    “Thoughtful and illuminating.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 11, 2012
    ISBN9781616202279
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    • 4/5
      I really struggled to rate this book, because while it was enlightening and many of the doctors told tales that were inspiring or heartbreaking all at the same time, there were an equal number of stories that showed doctors growing their very own little god-complexes. For every story where a doctor saw a patient as a person, there was another where a male doctor was angry at female patients for exercising their right not to let him handle their genitals (even as he admitted he wants his wife to see a female provider) or who treats an unconscious patient as a learning experience and only remembers as an afterthought that they are a human being.While the editors of the book see this as hope for the future of medicine, I found it fairly depressing: if these doctors are the best they could do, we can look forward to many more years of many paternalistic, arrogant doctors--though at least the ratio is looking better.
    • 2/5
      These essays by Harvard Medical Students are uneven, and somewhat detached, as they relate their feelings regarding the study of and practice of medicine.