IMPERFECT BALANCE: Behavioral Health Disorders & First Year Medical Students - Softcover

Arroyo, Richard; Noone, Logan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1092988955 ISBN 13: 9781092988957

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

THE NARRATIVES SHARED IN THIS BOOK HIGHLIGHT THE LIVES OF TEN FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS, EACH OF WHOM STRUGGLES WITH A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DISORDER. Medical school. We have dreamt of being here. We have exerted years of effort to be sitting in these seats. Yet the high-stress, high-stakes academic struggle can so easily aggravate and amplify the emotional struggle. Why are some students capable of sailing the storm while others are drowning silently? How much control do we actually possess over the influences that make up our mind? The students in this first-year class exhibit a spectrum of both diagnosed and undiagnosed behavioral health disorders. What have they learned that has allowed them to succeed? There is an assumption that medical students are flawless and in perfect balance. This is untrue. Like medicine, we are inherently imperfect. But it doesn’t stop us.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1092988955
• ISBN 13: 9781092988957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273