Doctors as Patients

✍ Scribed by Petre Jones

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Doctors, as strong, clever, resourceful professionals, are heir to human frailty and illness, like anyone else. This book is about diagnosable, label-able mental illness such as eating disorders, affective disorders and, sometimes, psychosis. More than that, it is a book about doctors, many fully-functioning, practising doctors, who suffer from these illnesses, and the unique insights and problems that arise when the doctor is the patient, especially when questions of insight and judgement are blurred.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
About the Editor
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece It Could Never Happen to Me
Introduction
Part One: The Stories
1: Setting the Scene
2: Personal View
3: Accepting Who You Are/Learning a New Identity
4: Depression Has Many Faces
5: Life Can Only Be Understood Backwards
6: Hope Beyond . . .
7: Until 1996
8: My Foster Mother Was Dying
9: Inside Every Doctor is a Patient
10: Running on Empty
11: Since Childhood
12: Telling the Story
13: The Other Side of the Sheets: A Special Case?
14: Themes from the Stories
15: Issues in Treatment
Part Two: What's It Like?
16: Stigma and Discrimination
17: Easily Misunderstood Experiences
18: Key Issues for Medical Students and Schools
19: Being a Doctor with an Illness to Patients with an Illness
20: GMC Health Procedures and the Sick Doctor
21: Reflections on Illness and Health
Part Three: Dealing with It
22: Ongoing Support and Relapse Prevention
23: Ideas for the Dark Days
24: Flexible Ways of Being a GP
25: The Financial Cost of Illness
26: Mental Health and Employment
27: Doctors’ Support Network
28: Resources
Index