Making a Good Doctor: Sources of Strength and Wisdom [Paperback]

1. Beginning? 2. I Dread This? 3. Framing the Problem: Suffering and Knowing in the World of Things
4. When Death Comes to Work? 5. Medicine: We Make It; It Makes Us? 6. Levels of Experience? 7. Steps Toward Deep Listening? 8. Your Everyday, My Once in a Lifetime? 9. Dialogue and Healing? 10. Attending to the Unsaid: On Knowing, Care, and Strength? 11. Ill Take it With me When I Go? 12. Alienation, Resonance and the Formation of Physicians? 13. Second Thoughts  Reflections on Early Medical Career Experiences? 14. Wisdom in Medical Practice? 15. Why I Run? 16. Dualisms, Bread and Roses, and Finding Joy? 17. The Planning of Magic? 18. End

We can all find ourselves lost from time to time whether we are near the beginning, the middle, or the ends of our professional lives. Doctors are no exception. Making a Good Doctor addresses core questions which lie at the heart of what is to be a doctor. What is our work for? How do we learn to be good at it???

Edvin Schei

I was, long ago, a critical medical student who hoped in vain that medicine would teach me about people and make me wiser. Slowly, learning from my patients, I found my way as a family doctor, a teacher of medical students, a researcher in medical education, and an advocate of human connection in medicine. I have been a visiting scholar at Boston University, McGill University in Montreal, and Maastricht University. I have learned that medicine, and patients, profit from philosophy, friendliness, humour and honesty.

Iona Heath

I worked as a general practitioner in a deprived inner-city area of London for almost 35 years.? It was an amazing place to work and I learnt almost everything I know from the courage and endurance of my patients and from colleagues from across the world but perhaps especially from Scandinavia.? I discovered that the work of general practicel3Ÿ