Patient Listening
Patient Listening: A Doctor's Guide Loreen Herwaldt (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587296527
DDC: 610
Edition: Paperback; 2008-04-15
Summary:
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
patient's perspective. Patient Listening includes a detailed general
introduction and a how-to guide that will prove invaluable in the
classroom and in clinical practice. This book will inspire
thoughtfulness in everyone who reads it. It is also designed to
foster discussions about all aspects of the patient experience from
ethics to stigmatization to health insurance. Patient Listening is
not just about bedside manner but also about how health care
providers can gain the most from their interactions with patients and
in turn offer more appropriate treatments, develop more cooperative
and responsive relationships with their patients, and thus become
better doctors.
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