| Description |
1 online resource (491 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: Mindful Medical Practice -- Chapter 2. Mindful Rounds, Narrative Medicine, House Calls and Other Stories -- Chapter 3. Lost Heart(beat)/Broken(body) -- Chapter 4. Working with Groups Mindfully -- Chapter 5. The Opera of Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Mindful Psychiatrist: Being Present with Suffering -- Chapter 7. The Death of a Snowflake -- Chapter 8. Carmen?s Story -- Chapter 9. A Mindful Life in Medicine: One Pediatrician?s Reflections on Being Mindful -- Chapter 10. Embodied Wisdom: Meeting Experience through the Body -- Chapter 11: Minding Baby Abigale -- Chapter 12. Mindfulness in Oncology: Healing Through Relationship -- Chapter 13. Choosing to Survive: A Change in Reproductive Plans -- Chapter 14. Mindfulness in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts -- Chapter 15. In the Heart of Cancer -- Chapter 16. Hiking on the Eightfold Path -- Chapter 17. Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance Through Mindfulness: One Nephrologist?s Experiences -- Chapter 18. Richard?s Embers -- Chapter 19. Mindful Decisions in Urogynecological Surgery: Paths from Awareness to Action -- Chapter 20. The Good Mother -- Chapter 21. I Am My Brother?s Keeper -- Chapter 22. The Mindful Shift -- Chapter 23. Lifeline -- Chapter 24. Medical Students? Voices: Reflections on Mindlessness During Clinical Encounters -- Chapter 25. Growth and Freedom in 5 Chapters -- Chapter 26. A Wounded Healer?s Reflections on Healing -- Chapter 27. Mindfulness, Presence and Whole Person Care -- Chapter 28. Mindful Attitudes Open Hearts in Clinical Practice -- Index. |
| Summary |
This book is about being mindful in clinical practice and how mindfulness enhances the quality of patient care while adding depth and meaning to a clinicians? work. Chapters include narratives from clinicians who consciously apply mindfulness in real life settings. Authors from various settings provide examples that capture how emergent mindfulness is. Mindful Medical Practice demonstrates to physicians, residents and students how mindfulness enriches both their practices and lives. . |
| Subject |
Clinical medicine -- Philosophy.
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Meditation -- Therapeutic use.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
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MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
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MEDICAL / Diseases
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MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
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MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
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| Added Author |
Dobkin, Patricia L., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mindful Medical Practice 3319157760 (OCoLC)907629692 |
| ISBN |
9783319157771 electronic bk. |
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3319157779 electronic bk. |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-15777-1 doi |
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