Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2008-04-15
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1587296527
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Patient Listening pdf
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From the fictional portrayal of Dr. Gregory House to Jerome Groopman's bestseller How Doctors Think, both medical professionals and the general public recognize that there is more to the doctor's job than technical practice. Yet why do so many patients come away from their doctors' offices feeling dissatisfied with their interactions? In this welcome addition to the growing field of narrative medicine, physician Loreen Herwaldt uses the illness narratives of two dozen writer-patients to teach listening skills to medical students, residents, physicians, and other health care providers.
Herwaldt skillfully pares each narrative down to its most basic elements, rendering them into powerful found poems that she has used successfully in her role as a teacher and in her own practice. Drawing from narratives by writers who are both emerging and well known, including Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, and Mary Swander, each poem reveals the experience of illness and treatment from the patie Download Patient Listening for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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