Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
By: Suzanne Koven
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Who will I be when I have fewer patients? When I have no patients at all? It's often noted that "practice" as it relates to medicine has two meanings: the act of caring for patients and the doctor's never-ending process of perfecting his or her craft. But there's a third meaning, too, one I'm only now appreciating as I contemplate the end of my career. Medicine is a practice in the way that yoga or meditation is for many people, an activity repeated so often that it becomes a kind of incantation. I have, for so long, stood to my patients' right sides as physicians have done for centuries, palpated the lymph nodes in their necks, armpits, and groins; auscultated their hearts and lungs; asked the same questions I first learned to ask nearly forty years ago—What makes the pain better? What makes it worse? These rituals are for me an anchor without which I fear I might simply drift away. Of course I suspected all along that what I feared wasn't abandoning my patients, but myself."-Suzanne Koven, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
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