Re-humanizing Medicine: A Holistic Framework for Transforming Your Self, Your Practice, and the Culture of Medicine - Softcover

David R. Kopacz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782790756 ISBN 13: 9781782790754

Publisher: AYNI BOOKS, 2014

Synopsis

What starts as personal dissatisfaction in the workplace can become personal transformation that changes clinical practice and ultimately changes the culture of medicine. Physicians and professionals train extensively to relieve suffering. Yet the systems they train and practice in create suffering for both themselves and their clients through the neglect of basic human needs. True healthcare reform requires addressing dehumanization in medicine by caring for the whole person of the professional and the patient. Re-humanizing Medicine provides a holistic framework to support human connection and the expression of full human being of doctors, professionals and patients. A clinician needs to be a whole person to treat a whole person, thus the work of transformation begins with clinicians. As professionals work to transform themselves, this will in turn transform their clinical practices and healthcare institutions.

About this title

About the Author

David R. Kopacz, MD, has worked in many different practice settings, but re-humanizing medicine has always been his underlying focus. He currently works in Primary Care Mental Health at the Seattle VA and is an acting assistant professor at the University of Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: AYNI BOOKS
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782790756
• ISBN 13: 9781782790754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 419