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Author Scholtens, Martina, author.

Title Your heart is the size of your fist : a doctor reflects on ten years at a refugee clinic / Martina Scholtens, MD
Published [Victoria, British Columbia] : Brindle & Glass, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages)
Contents Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; About the Author
Summary "Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees. An Iraqi journalist whose son has been murdered develops post-traumatic stress disorder and mourns his loss of vocation. A Congolese woman refuses antiretroviral treatment for her new HIV diagnosis, and instead places her trust in Jesus. Two conservative Muslim Iraqi women are inadvertently exposed to pornography when a doctor uses Google Images to supplement a medical discussion. By turns humorous, distressing, and moving, these stories offer insight into the people seeking a new life in Canada while navigating poverty, language barriers, and Canadian neighbours who aren't always friendly. This collection is filled with hope and humour, and is a deeply moving portrait of how one doctor attempts to provide quality care and advocacy for patients while remaining culturally sensitive, even as she wrestles with guilt, awareness of her own privilege, and vicarious trauma. In the spirit of Louise Aronson and Atul Gawande, Scholtens' writing explores the transformative moments in which a clinical doctor-patient relationship becomes a profound human-human connection."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis MEDICAL / Family & General Practice
MEDICAL / Public Health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: page 166
Notes Online resource; title from EPUB version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed May 25, 2020)
Subject Scholtens, Martina.
SUBJECT Scholtens, Martina
Subject Refugees -- Medical care -- Canada -- Anecdotes
Clinics -- Canada -- Anecdotes
Physician and patient -- Anecdotes
Physicians -- Canada -- Biography
Physician and patient.
Physician-Patient Relations
Refugees
Urban Health Services
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Clinics
Physician and patient
Physicians
Refugees -- Medical care
SUBJECT Canada
Subject Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Anecdotes
Biographies
Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781927366691
1927366690