Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

In "Also Human: A Doctor's Story", Caroline Elton explores the emotional resilience of doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic, using extraordinary case studies and decades of work supporting clinicians. It is a provocative, perceptive, and deeply humane examination of the modern medical profession, written with sympathetic sympathy for the wounded healer.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2019
Publisher: Cornerstone

For anyone seeking to comprehend the immense pressures placed on our medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is an absolute necessity. _____________________________ A furious dispatch from the front lines of the hospital system. THE TIMES ,Book of the Week _____________________________ Doctors are the individuals we rely on in our most challenging times. We entrust them with our lives. However, what impact does such stress have on a person? What does it take to face death, disease, distress, and suffering on a daily basis? To work in a healthcare system that is pushed to its breaking point? To make decisions that will alter lives – or possibly end them? And how do doctors manage their own doubts and fears when they are expected to have all the answers? Caroline Elton is a psychologist who, for two decades, has specialized in assisting doctors: the obstetrician whose own fertility treatment failed; the trainee oncologist struggling to face patients with the disease that killed her father; the brilliant neurosurgeon whose career stalled in an environment hostile to women; and many more. Drawing on extraordinary case studies and decades of work supporting clinicians, Also Human presents a provocative, perceptive, and profoundly humane examination of the modern medical profession. _____________________________ Written with perceptive sympathy for the wounded healer, it is essential reading for both doctors and patients. HILARY MANTEL Crucial and timely. ATUL GAWANDE Fascinating and troubling. Read it and weep. SUSIE ORBACH Haunting, beautiful, and urgent. JOHANN HARI At the heart of this book is the problem of how emotional resilience can be identified in prospective doctors and strengthened in practicing doctors. We are fallible human beings, not omniscient.

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 192 x 133 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780099510796