Rage and Reconciliation
Inspiring a Health Care Revolution
Seiten
2005
Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
978-0-87074-503-4 (ISBN)
Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
978-0-87074-503-4 (ISBN)
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Featuring personal essays, this book describes a lawyer's see-sawing emotions over a misdiagnosis of what she was told was an inoperable tumor - and her anger at her physician's cavalier attitude. The accompanying 80-minute audio CD contains three of the essays read by actors and a panel discussion of the ethical dimension of the issues raised.
In these often intense and searing personal essays, a lawyer describes her see-sawing emotions over a misdiagnosis of what she was told was an inoperable tumor - and her anger at her physician's cavalier attitude about the mistake; a physician formerly employed by an HMO rails at the accepted practice of managed care organizations finding legal loopholes to trump a patient's needs; a physician wrestles with the idea of doctors policing themselves, knowing he is powerless in the face of an incompetent colleague. An expansion of a special issue of the journal "Creative Nonfiction", this volume of essays by patients and their caretakers, physicians, and health care providers is intended to serve as a foundation for future dialogue and a means to begin to heal the wounds in our health care system. The accompanying 80-minute audio CD contains three of the essays read by actors and a panel discussion of the ethical dimension of the issues raised.
In these often intense and searing personal essays, a lawyer describes her see-sawing emotions over a misdiagnosis of what she was told was an inoperable tumor - and her anger at her physician's cavalier attitude about the mistake; a physician formerly employed by an HMO rails at the accepted practice of managed care organizations finding legal loopholes to trump a patient's needs; a physician wrestles with the idea of doctors policing themselves, knowing he is powerless in the face of an incompetent colleague. An expansion of a special issue of the journal "Creative Nonfiction", this volume of essays by patients and their caretakers, physicians, and health care providers is intended to serve as a foundation for future dialogue and a means to begin to heal the wounds in our health care system. The accompanying 80-minute audio CD contains three of the essays read by actors and a panel discussion of the ethical dimension of the issues raised.
LEE GUTKIND is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh and is a prolific author whose diverse works include Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather; The Best Seat in Baseball, but You Have to Stand: The Game as Umpires See It; Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation; and Stuck in Time: The Tragedy of Childhood Mental Illness. He has edited many collections, including A View from the Divide: Creative Nonfiction on Health and Science.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.3.2006 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Medical Humanities |
| Verlagsort | Dallas |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-87074-503-4 / 0870745034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-87074-503-4 / 9780870745034 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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