What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

Danielle Ofri

232 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction health informative slow-paced

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A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient carePhysicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through som...

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