Name: What Doctors Feel
ISBN: 9780807073322

Danielle Ofri

An assessment of the role of doctor emotions in health care draws on scientific studies and real-life stories to explore how fear, empathy and other strong feelings affect the decision making practices of medical professionals, discussing how experiences ranging from mistakes and tragedies to legal disputes and personal mortality are distinctly influencing medical care.

How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

What Doctors Feel

Nicole

who knew meeting a girl i might lose all connection with soon would lead me down this path?
i've never given a thought to how doctors felt until then, and now, it's become a sudden blooming of inspiration. it makes me want to earnestly pursue my bachelor's and possibly post-graduate work, centred around the very field of doctors and the care they receive as part of their work - or lack thereof.
i'm not sure if this is something i can do. i'm not sure if i'll be given the opportunities. there is much structural change that prevents me from making change, and doctors from benefitting. but it is so interesting.

What Doctors Feel How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

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