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To protect privacy, all patients’ names have been changed (with the exception of Julia Amparo-Alvarado and Isaac Edwards, whose names and stories are already in the public record from news media). Additionally, other identifying characteristics have been changed. Real names are used for doctors who gave permission. For those doctors who preferred anonymity, only first names (pseudonyms) are used.
Text design and composition by Kim Arney
Parts of chapter 5 were published as Danielle Ofri,
“Ashamed to Admit It: Owning Up to Medical Error,”
Health Affairs 29 (2010): 1549–51.
John Stone, “Gaudeamus Igitur,” Journal of the American Medical Association 249, no. 13 (1983): 1741–42. Copyright © 1983 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ofri, Danielle.
What doctors feel : how emotions affect the practice of medicine / Danielle Ofri.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN 978-0-8070-7333-9
ISBN 978-0-8070-7332-2 (alk. paper)
I. Title. 1. Attitude of Health Personnel—Personal Narratives. 2. Physicians—psychology—Personal Narratives. 3. Emotions—Personal Narratives. 4. Empathy—Personal Narratives. 5. Interprofessional Relations—Personal Narratives. 6. Physician-Patient Relations—Personal Narratives.
610.69’5—dc23 2012049349