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Volume 358:1309-1310 March 20, 2008 Number 12
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When Doctors Become Patients

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By Robert Klitzman. 333 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. $35. ISBN 978-0-19-532767-0.

It's the irony of professions: the financial planner goes broke, the lawyer is sued, and the doctor gets sick. This interesting book is an under-the-microscope dissection of medical practice, the experience of being ill, and interactions that physicians who are also patients report having with their physicians. The goal of When Doctors Become Patients is to provide a better understanding of the complex relationships between physicians and patients by highlighting the unique situation of the sick doctor, with a focus on power, dignity, denial, errors, guilt, communication, authority, professional boundaries, dependency, emotional distance, and the interpretation of numbers (laboratory test . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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