
Treatment Kind and Fair
Letters to a Young Doctor
Perri Klass(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 12. June 2007
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-465-03777-3 (ISBN)
Description
This work provides a glimpse inside the doctor's mind for aspiring physicians, medical buffs, and anyone who's ever been a patient. If you get completely wrapped up in the drama of "E.R." or "House", or sit in the surgery 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. Ranging broadly in subject matter, these brief, intellectual primers to life are a stimulating read for anyone who wants to experience the insights, wisdom and advice of today's leading minds.
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Edition
Annotated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Annotated edition
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-465-03777-3 (9780465037773)
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E-Book
08/2008
Basic Books
€7.99
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Person
Dr Perri Klass is a writer, teacher, paediatrician, 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.