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Author Klass, Perri, 1958-

Title Treatment kind and fair : letters to a young doctor / Perri Klass
Published New York : BasicBooks ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], 2007

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 W'PONDS  362.1 Kla/Tka  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 233 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Deciding to be a doctor: choosing and being chosen, and making your mother proud -- Asking questions, crossing borders -- Physical findings: appreciating a mass -- The state of residency -- Bug, drugs, and data -- Against medical advice -- Making mistakes -- Knowing stories and keeping secrets -- Death and dying and presiding -- Work and life
Summary "Ranging through a wide variety of subjects, Perri Klass gives a doctor's-eye-view on the state of medicine in America today. She looks at current medical privacy legislation and how it affects her daily practice. She reveals the ways in which being the repository of so many secrets has shaped her - she presents a few examples of secrets she kept, and some she wishes she hadn't kept so well. She examines why it is that so many doctors make assumptions about patients when they should be asking questions - about child development, STDs, personal habits."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Medicine -- Vocational guidance.
Physician and patient.
Physicians -- Attitudes.
Physician's Role.
Career Choice.
Physician-Patient Relations.
LC no. 2007006848
ISBN 0465037771 (hbk.)
9780465037773 (hbk.)