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Book SynopsisAn invaluable guide to becoming a competent and compassionate physician. Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, includes little guidance on the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of becoming a healer. Written for anyone in the health care community who hopes to grow emotionally and cognitively in the way they interact with patients, On Becoming a Healer explains how to foster doctor-patient relationships that are mutually nourishing. Dr. Saul J. Weiner, a physician-educator, argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirationsit demands a capacity to see past the otherness that separates the well from the sick, the professional in a white coat from the disheveled patient in a hospital gown. Weiner scrutinizes the medical school indoctrination process and explains how it molds the physician's mindset into that of a task completer rather than a thoughtful profe
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On Becoming a Healer] offers a very common sense human discussion about the challenges we face in forming relationships with patients . . . and how we think about patient care decision-making.
—Dr. Stefan Kertesz,
"The Curbsiders" PodcastTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Physician or Technician?
Chapter 2. Healing Interactions
Chapter 3. Your Personal Journey
Chapter 4. Overcoming Judgmentalism
Chapter 5. Engaging with Boundary Clarity
Chapter 6. Caring
Chapter 7. Making Medical Decisions
Chapter 8. Healers Are Realists
Chapter 9. Physician or Technician? (Revisited)
Chapter 10. Healing as an Organizing Principle
Bibliography
Index
