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Talking with Doctors
Author: David Newman

"Despite, or perhaps because, of advances in technology, the ability of physicians to communicate with each other and with their patients is being eroded. The plight of the patient with life-threatening illness, alone in a sea of independent superspecialists, is portrayed in Talking with Doctors with clarity and thoughtfulness. This book should ... more »be required reading for all medical students, and could well form the basis for a course entitled 'Being and Finding the Best Doctor.'"--William Silen, M.D., Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School "Physicians too are destined to become patients, so they cannot but share the dismay of lay readers at David Newman's moving and troubling account of his life-threatening illness and the series of consultations and disparate treatment recommendations to which it gave rise. Talking with Doctors attests to the terrific burdens placed on seriously ill patients in a technology-driven system that fractionates care among different specialists. Mr. Newman, a thoughtful, reflective psychotherapist, proved adequate to the burden of evaluating his doctors and their disparate recommendations. Reading his cautionary story will be preventive medicine for the public and should be included in the continuing education of every physician."--David Gordon, M.D., FACR, Professor of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "David Newman's Talking with Doctors should be required reading for all medical students, practicing physicians, and health care professionals. It should also be carefully read by anyone intending to utilize medical services at any point in his or her lifetime - which is to say, all of us. When we talk with our doctors we are often in our most emotionally vulnerable state: uninformed, frightened, confused, even overwhelmed. We are intensely dependent on strangers whose medical purview and time constraints rarely allow them to meet our need for contact, understanding, and meaningful dialogue. David Newman brings the sensitivity of a psychotherapist, with expertise in the nuances of emotion, personality functioning, and interpersonal dynamics, to this riveting examination of his horrifying and inspiring illness experience."--Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University Despite the calm, even enigmatic, title of his book, David Newman takes us through a terrifying narrative arc involving his own illness, diagnosis, treatment and recovery. But at the core of this story is the chain of maddening and courageous and finally reparative dialogues with doctors. There are lessons here about power, about the impact of mortality and disease on doctors' communicative integrity, and about the need to be proactive in regard to one's own health. Talking with Doctors illuminates in a very personal way the problems of medical practice in the current climate of managed care, high-tech treatments, and scarce resources. It is required reading for anyone who has faced grave illness, and, more broadly still, for anyone who has faced deep psychic or material danger under circumstances of urgency and pressure. In short, it is a book for everyone to read and ponder. --Adrienne Harris, Ph.D., Author, Gender as Soft Assembly (TAP)

ISBN-13: 9780881634464
ISBN-10: 0881634468
Publication Date: 12/5/2005
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Analytic Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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