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When Doctors Get Sick

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Harvey Mandell

    1. The William W. Backus Hospital, Norwich, USA

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  2. Howard Spiro

    1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

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Table of contents (51 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Cardiovascular Diseases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

      • Maurice Fox
      Pages 3-6

    3. Coronary Disease

      • Maurice H. Pappworth
      Pages 7-17

    4. Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft

      • Benjamin Felson
      Pages 19-27

    5. Myocardial Infarction

      • Robert L. Seaver
      Pages 29-38

    6. Cardiac Arrest

      • Lewis Dexter
      Pages 39-43

    7. Viral Myocarditis

      • Hastings K. Wright
      Pages 45-49

  3. Orthopedic-Neuromuscular Disorders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Guillain-Barré Syndrome

      • Denise Bowes
      Pages 53-58

    3. Meniere’s Disease

      • William D. Sharpe
      Pages 59-62

    4. Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma and Limb Amputation

      • Hugh L. Dwyer
      Pages 63-69

    5. Lyme Disease

      • David B. Bingham
      Pages 71-77

    6. Prosthetic Hips

      • Joyce L. Dunlop
      Pages 79-87

    7. Multiple Sclerosis

      • Miriam C. Chellingsworth
      Pages 89-93

    8. Disc with L-5 Root Compression

      • Stephen N. Sullivan
      Pages 95-103

    9. Herniated Discs

      • Sam J. Sugar
      Pages 105-118

    10. Parkinson’s Disease

      • Donald B. Hackel
      Pages 119-121

    11. Parkinson’s Disease

      • Louis B. Guss
      Pages 123-127

  4. Neuropsychiatric Disorders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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About this book

When a doctor gets sick, his status changes. No longer is his role de­ fined as deriving from doctus, i. e. , learned, but as from patiens, the present participle of the deponent verb, patior, i. e. , to suffer, with all the passive acceptance of pain the verb implies. From pass us, the past participle, we get the word passion, with its wide gamut of emotional allusions, ranging from animal lust to the sufferings of martyrs. It is the connotation, not the denotation, of the word that defines the change of status. When a doctor is sick enough to be admitted to a hospital, he can no longer write orders; orders are written about him, removing him from control of his own situation. One recalls a sonnet from W. H. Auden's sequence, The Quest, which closes with the lines: Unluckily they were their situation: One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjuror fine apparatus, Nor a rifle to a melancholic bore. That is a reasonable expression of twentieth-century skepticism and ra­ tionalism. Almost all medical literature is written from the doctor's point of view. Only a few medically trained writers-one thinks of Chekhov's Ward Six-manage to incorporate the patient's response to his situa­ tion. Patients' voices were not much in evidence until well into the twentieth century, but an early example is John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624).

Editors and Affiliations

  • The William W. Backus Hospital, Norwich, USA

    Harvey Mandell

  • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

    Howard Spiro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: When Doctors Get Sick

  • Editors: Harvey Mandell, Howard Spiro

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2001-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42653-7Published: 30 September 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2003-4Published: 29 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2001-0Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 464

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general

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