A groundbreaking examination of the pain, pressure and joy of medical work by a psychologist known as the 'doctor's doctor'
Caroline Elton is an occupational psychologist who has spent the last twenty years training and supporting doctors. She received her PhD from University College London's School of Medicine and set up and led the Careers Unit supporting doctors in over seventy hospitals across London.
All agree there is a crisis in health care, but this book looks
behind the headlines and tots up the human cost of a flawed system.
Written with perceptive sympathy for the wounded healer, it is
necessary reading for both doctors and patients.
*Hilary Mantel*
With a compassionate eye for detail and a deep understanding of
just how the systems we train and practice in as doctors can fail
us as human beings, Caroline Elton offers a crucial and timely
reminder that doctors are Also Human.
*Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal*
This furious dispatch from the front line of the hospital system
argues we must care for our medics more... a book that may have
found its popular moment.
*The Times, 'Book of the Week'*
Caroline Elton is an occupational psychologist who has worked with
medics for more than 20 years. She is uniquely qualified to
comment... I’d be surprised if anyone who reads it will ever look
at doctors in the same light again.
*Guardian*
Also Human describes, through a series of case histories... the
emotional and psychological problems that doctors can face. The
interesting question... is how doctors overcome such feelings and
carry on working, despite often having to witness, and sometimes
cause, terrible suffering for our patients. At the heart of this
book is the problem of how emotional resilience can be identified
in prospective doctors and strengthened in practising doctors. We
are fallible human beings, not omniscient gods.
*Sunday Times*
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