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The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
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The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Gordon Harper; Sachin H. Jain; Susan Pories

Here are voices of third-year medical students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal with real people in real time and in real crises and when they must learn to put aside their emotions to make quick, accurate, and sensitive decisions.


From the publisher

By the time most of us meet our doctors, they've been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they're not all like that, and most didn't start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal with real people in real time and in real crises and when they must learn to put aside their emotions to make quick, accurate, and sensitive decisions. Their decisions aren't always right, and the consequences can be life-altering--for all involved. Moving, disturbing, and candid, their true stories show us a side of the profession that few ever see, or could even imagine. They show, often painfully, how medical students grow up, right at the bedside.

From the rear cover

You're in a hospital trying for the first time to be a doctor. No more textbook diagrams and classroom cadavers; this is the real thing, in real time. You've got a patient who's convinced that her illness is the same one that she saw once on Oprah and is turning down all other tests. A young woman is being told she'll have to sacrifice one baby to save the other. And you just told another patient she might have cancer but left her panicked when you had to rush off. How do you handle all this and stay sane, and then somehow become a good doctor? Here are candid firsthand accounts of the profound experiences that transform medical students into doctors--for better or worse--right at the bedside.

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  • Title The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
  • Author Gordon Harper; Sachin H. Jain; Susan Pories
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 236
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-06-02
  • ISBN 9781565125070 / 156512507X
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.84 x 5.68 x 0.76 in (19.91 x 14.43 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Harvard Medical School, Medicine - Study and teaching -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005055590
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2006, Page 60
  • Foreword, 07/01/2006, Page 39
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2006, Page 100
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/27/2006, Page 66
  • School Library Journal, 07/01/2006, Page 135

About the author

GORDON HARPER, M.D., a child and adolescent psychiatrist, is the director of the Patient-Doctor curricula at Harvard Medical School and the recipient of the Award for Teaching Excellence from the Child Psychiatry Fellows at Children's Hospital of Boston.


SACHIN H. JAIN is a third-year medical student at Harvard. He is a tutor in medicine and public policy and has been awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and the Galbraith Fellowship.


SUSAN PORIES, M.D., a breast cancer surgeon and a surgical educator and investigator, has been named one of America's top surgeons and is a scholar in the Academy at Harvard Medical School.

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