What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Danielle Ofri
The public has often painted a romanticized portrait of the medical professional as hard, cold, and unflinchingly daring, immune to the emotions and stresses that plague the rest of us. However, while the stresses and rewards that doctors face in their profession are unique, they respond to them with the same emotions as the rest of us - with fear, shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, confusion... In this book, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines her own career and draws on anecdotes from other medical professionals to reveal the emotional side of medicine.
