Incidental findings : lessons from my patients in the art of medicine

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Label

Incidental findings : lessons from my patients in the art of medicine

Title remainder

lessons from my patients in the art of medicine

Statement of responsibility

Danielle Ofri

Creator

• Ofri, Danielle

Subject

• Medicine -- Anecdotes
• Physician and patient -- Anecdotes
• Physicians -- Anecdotes

Genre

• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

Ofri has finished her training as a physician and is learning through practice to become a more rounded healer. The book opens with the tables turned: Ofri has to enter her own hospital as a patient. She experiences the very real sense of invasion and panic that routinely visits her patients. These fifteen intertwined tales include that of a man who has lost the will to live, and she too comes dangerously close to concluding that he has nothing to live for; patient whose difficult decision to have an abortion highlights the vulnerabilities of doctor and patient alike; a patient whose physical and emotional abuse she can't possibly heal, so she must settle on treating the least of her patient's problems; and a concluding chapter in which Dr. Ofri's touch is the last in a woman's long life

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

610.69/6

Index

no index present

LC call number

R705

LC item number

.O38 2005

Literary form

non fiction

NLM call number

• 2005 F-182
• W 62

NLM item number

O33i 2005