The Soul of a Doctor Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death

by Pories, Susan; Jain, Sachin H.; Harper, Gordon; Groopman, MD, Jerome E.

• ISBN13: 9781565125070
• ISBN10: 156512507X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-02
• Publisher: HACHETTE

Summary

The making of a doctor in a series of essays-written by future physicians uniquely qualified to offer a startling point of view. Written by third year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities, these essays focus on the odd transition that happens when a student deals with real people in real time and real crises. Moving and candid: they show us a side of the profession that few of us would ever otherwise see or even imagine, and show, often painfully, how a medical student grows up, right at the bedside.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface	xv
Introduction	xix
I. Communication
More Like Oprah	3	(4)
Alaka Ray
Learning to Interview	7	(4)
Joe Wright
The Difficult Patient	11	(6)
Anh Bui
No Solution	17	(4)
Keith Walter Michael
An Emotional War on the Wards	21	(6)
David Y. Hwang
Giving Bad News	27	(4)
Amanda A. Munoz
Straight Answers	31	(4)
Ari Wassner
Of Doors and Locks	35	(4)
Matt Lewis
Reclaiming the Lost Art of Listening	39	(8)
Mike Westerhaus
II. Empathy
Inshallah	47	(4)
Yetsa Kehinde Tuakli-Wosornu
The Twelve--Hour Child	51	(4)
Wai-Kit Lo
On Saying Sorry	55	(6)
Alejandra Casillas
Coney Island	61	(4)
Yana Pikman
The Naked Truth	65	(4)
Joseph Corkery
Losing Your Mind	69	(2)
Esther Huang
Breathing, the Movie	71	(4)
Joe Wright
Donor	75	(2)
Kimberly Layne Collins
Living with Mrs. Longwood	77	(10)
Rajesh G. Shah
III. Easing Suffering and Loss
Not Since 1918	87	(6)
Kedar Mate
The Tortoise and the Air	93	(14)
Vesna Ivancic
``Looking at the World from Far Away''	107	(4)
Amy Antman Gelfand
Early--Morning ED Blues	111	(4)
Kim-Son Nguyen
Zebras	115	(4)
Hao Zhu
The Last Prayer	119	(8)
Joan S. Hu
Limitations	127	(4)
Greg Feldman
Autopsy	131	(4)
Christine Hsu Rohde
It Was Sunday	135	(4)
Tracy Balboni
Transitions	139	(8)
Kristin L. Leight
Imagine How You'd Feel	147	(4)
Andrea Dalve-Endres
Squeeze Hard	151	(4)
Brook Hill
Code	155	(6)
Joan S. Hu
The Heart of Medicine	161	(6)
Annemarie Stroustrup Smith
IV. Finding a Better Way
Black Bags	167	(8)
Kurt Smith
A Murmur in the ICU	175	(4)
Joe Wright
Rewiring	179	(2)
Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui
Taking My Place in Medicine	181	(4)
Antonia Jocelyn Henry
Identity	185	(6)
Alex Lam
The Outsider	191	(4)
Charles Wykoff
Raincoat	195	(4)
Anonymous
Physicians or Escape Artists?	199	(6)
Sachin H. Jain
The Healing Circle	205	(4)
Chelsea Elander Flanagan Bodnar
Strong Work	209	(4)
Walter Anthony Bethune
I Would Do It All Again	213	(4)
Gloria Chiang
Growing Up	217	(12)
Vesna Ivancic
Epilogue	229	(8)
About the Authors	237	(8)
Acknowledgments	245