On Becoming a Healer av Saul J. (University of Illinois at Chicago) Weiner

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<p><b>An invaluable guide to becoming a competent and compassionate physician.</b></p><p>Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, includes little guidance on the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of becoming a healer. Written for anyone in the health care community who hopes to grow emotionally and cognitively in the way they interact with patients, <i>On Becoming a Healer </i>explains how to foster doctor-patient relationships that are mutually nourishing. </p><p>Dr. Saul J. Weiner, a physician-educator, argues that joy in medicine requires more than idealistic aspirations--it demands a capacity to see past the otherness that separates the well from the sick, the professional in a white coat from the disheveled patient in a hospital gown. Weiner scrutinizes the medical school indoctrination process and explains how it molds the physician''s mindset into that of a task completer