Making a Good Doctor: Sources of Strength and Wisdom – Taylor & Francis Group

‘Doctors will love this book. It speaks to them in profoundly personal ways, and also in stimulating intellectual ways [and] full of source material to help doctors and educators shape a better world in medicine.’ - Moira Stewart, PhD, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Western University, CanadaWhat does it mean to be a good doctor?How do we learn to respond well to suffering-both our patients’ and our own-and to sustain ourselves in systems that so often undermine those very values we must hold on to?In this anthology a group of physicians from five countries-ranging from newly qualified doctors to internationally recognized scholars-come together to reflect on the tensions and promises of current medical education and practice.Making a Good Doctor is a weave of academic inquiry, personal narrative, literary reflection, and pedagogical dialogue. Across eighteen chapters, the book explores the emergence of medicalization, over-diagnosis