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Accidental kindness : a doctor's notes on empathy / Michael Stein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469671833
  • 1469671832
  • 9781469671826
  • 1469671824
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Accidental KindnessDDC classification:
  • 610.69/6 23/eng/20220613
LOC classification:
  • R727.3 .S755 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Also by Michael Stein -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1. Remains -- 2. Losing Control -- 3. Acting like a Doctor -- 4. Full Hearted and Half Empty -- 5. Making Impressions -- 6. Random Acts of Kindness and Unkindness -- 7. Lying -- 8. Accidental Kindness -- 9. Forgiveness -- 10. Kindness Matters -- Acknowledgments -- References
Summary: "We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctors kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient's forbidden or unrealistic expectation"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Also by Michael Stein -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1. Remains -- 2. Losing Control -- 3. Acting like a Doctor -- 4. Full Hearted and Half Empty -- 5. Making Impressions -- 6. Random Acts of Kindness and Unkindness -- 7. Lying -- 8. Accidental Kindness -- 9. Forgiveness -- 10. Kindness Matters -- Acknowledgments -- References

"We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctors kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient's forbidden or unrealistic expectation"-- Provided by publisher.

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