- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section One Stress of Being a Medical Student Introduction
- 1 Distributed Emotional Intelligence
- 2 First Clinical Attachments
- 3 Between two Worlds
- 4 Laughter for Coping
- 5 Bringing Complexity thinking to Curriculum Development
- Section Two Stress of Being a Physician
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- 7 Physician Stress
- 8 The Medico-Legal Environment and How Medico-Legal Matters Impact the Doctor
- 9 The Impaired Physician
- 10 How Doctors Become Patients
- 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Section Three Management of Physician Stress
- 12 Overcopers
- 13 Stress and Coping
- 14 Treatment and Prevention Work
- 15 Promoting Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Physicians
- 16 Ethical Decisions
- Section Four Personal Reflections
- 17 Surgery
- 18 The Gifts of Palliative Care
- 19 Pediatrics
- 20 Psychiatrists in Distress
- 21 Medical Students and Residents
- 22 Family Medicine
- 23 Anesthesiology
- 24 Emergency Medicine
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
Maintaining a Balance
Maintaining a Balance
Doctors Caring for People who are Dying and their Families
- Chapter:
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- Source:
- First Do No Self Harm
- Author(s):
Huggard Peter
Macleod Rod
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The care of people who are dying is both a rewarding and challenging aspect of clinical practice. To understand how best to undertake this essential part of medicine it is important to understand the technical aspects of care, as well as the psychosocial and spiritual dimensions. Listening to what people who are dying are concerned about, frightened of, and hope for is essential. This chapter explores these issues and investigates the nature of care, reviews some professional and personal anxieties that doctors may have, and looks at how teamwork is an essential component of end-of-life care. By recognizing and reflecting on the elements that make us the sort of doctors we are, we can begin to understand how best to help people at this most challenging of times in their lives. We have a responsibility to ensure that clinicians of the future have adequate and effective education in order that our care for people who are dying is the best it can possibly be.
Keywords: end of life care, role of the physician, empathy, nature of hope, patient family relations, professional anxiety, personal anxiety, professional teamwork, medication concerns, spirituality
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section One Stress of Being a Medical Student Introduction
- 1 Distributed Emotional Intelligence
- 2 First Clinical Attachments
- 3 Between two Worlds
- 4 Laughter for Coping
- 5 Bringing Complexity thinking to Curriculum Development
- Section Two Stress of Being a Physician
- 6 Maintaining a Balance
- 7 Physician Stress
- 8 The Medico-Legal Environment and How Medico-Legal Matters Impact the Doctor
- 9 The Impaired Physician
- 10 How Doctors Become Patients
- 11 Healthy Docs = Healthy Patients
- Section Three Management of Physician Stress
- 12 Overcopers
- 13 Stress and Coping
- 14 Treatment and Prevention Work
- 15 Promoting Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Physicians
- 16 Ethical Decisions
- Section Four Personal Reflections
- 17 Surgery
- 18 The Gifts of Palliative Care
- 19 Pediatrics
- 20 Psychiatrists in Distress
- 21 Medical Students and Residents
- 22 Family Medicine
- 23 Anesthesiology
- 24 Emergency Medicine
- 25 Conclusions
- Index
