Doctors as Patients

Doctors as Patients

Doctors as Patients was written by and Petre Jones. The 200 page book was published by Radcliffe Publishing in 2005 with an ISBN 10 of 1857758870. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Doctors as Patients mentions 1 serial killers including Beverley Allitt. The author Petre Jones has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

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. Doctors as Patients provides lessons for dealing with this situation - for doctors treating other ill doctors and for doctors who are currently ill or who may themselves suffer illness in the future. It is an unique combination of first-hand experiences of...