Title Accidental kindness : a doctor's notes on empathy / Michael Stein, M.D.

Publication Info.

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	610.696 STE	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	610.696 STEIN	Check Shelf

Description	206 pages ; 18 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	"We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctors kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient's forbidden or unrealistic expectation"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Stein, Michael, 1960-
	Physician and patient -- United States.
	Physicians -- United States -- Conduct of life.
	Kindness.
	Empathy.
	Empathy. (OCoLC)fst00908880
	Kindness. (OCoLC)fst00987598
	Physician and patient. (OCoLC)fst01062819
	Physicians -- Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst01062848
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form:	ebook version : 9781469671833
ISBN	9781469671802 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1469671808 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9781469671819 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	1469671816 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9781469671826 (ebook)
	9781469671833 (ebook)

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