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Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor (Art of Mentoring)
Treatment Kind and Fair Letters to a Young Doctor - Art of Mentoring Author:Perri Klass New York Times contributor and beloved author Dr. Perri Klass offers a glimpse inside the doctor's office for aspiring physicians, medical buffs, and anyone who's ever been a patient. If you've ever gotten wrapped up in the arcana of "E.R." or "House," or been absorbed by a piece in The New Yorker by Gawande, Groopman, or ... more » Nuland, or sat on that exam table wondering what's really going on in your doctor's head, then this book is for you. Expertise versus commonsense practice; moral judgments on young patients or their parents; asking tough questions; death and physician-assisted suicide; daily life with a doctor's job (yours or a family member's); doctors as patients--Klass addresses the primary issues in the life of any doctor and, by extension, the lives of those for whom they care. Perri Klass, M.D., is a writer, teacher, pediatrician, and mentor. In her frequent contributions to the New York Times, she takes on a host of issues particular to the life of a doctor--secrecy, ethics, fear, grief, and competition--with a warmth and wit her readers have come to love. Now, in the newest addition to Basic's ART OF MENTORING SERIES, she offers her guidance, and her stories, to a new generation of doctors and readers.« less