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    The Behavior of Doctors: Their Health, Their Attitudes, Their Methods
    The Behavior of Doctors: Their Health, Their Attitudes, Their Methods
    The Behavior of Doctors: Their Health, Their Attitudes, Their Methods
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    The Behavior of Doctors: Their Health, Their Attitudes, Their Methods

    By Richard W. Hudgens

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    THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW DOCTORS BEHAVE - AT BEST , AT WORST AND IN BETWEEN. - WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE AUTHOR'S OBSERVATIONS OF THE EFFECTS, GOOD OR BAD, OF HIS OWN AND HIS COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, ATTITUDES AND METHODS OF WORKING.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateApr 28, 2012
    ISBN9781475915389
    The Behavior of Doctors: Their Health, Their Attitudes, Their Methods
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    Richard W. Hudgens

    Dr. Richard Hudgens is a Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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      Book preview

      The Behavior of Doctors - Richard W. Hudgens

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Chapter III

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      This book is about how physicians behave—at best, at worst, and in-between—with no implication intended that I have behaved better than anyone else. My assumption is that, among other reasons, we went into the field of medicine to help people. We all wrote that on our applications to medical school. Except maybe my college classmate Joel Handelman, who claimed he wrote, Because M.D. means More Dollars. I didn’t believe he put that in his application. He wasn’t dumb. This book is about living up to our stated wish to help people. It is about the behavior of doctors in general and psychiatrists in particular, since I am a psychiatrist.

      The book is divided into three sections, concerning doctors’ health, their attitudes and their methods. Their health—good or ill, physical or mental—dominates everything about their behavior, and is here considered first.

      Some of their attitudes are openly declared in word and action. Some may be unexpressed, their discovery by others depending on observation and intuition. And doctors may be only partially aware of some of their own attitudes, hiding them unreflectively even from themselves. It is a doctor’s attitudes—about people, about their work, and about life itself—that say the most about her at any given stage of her always changing life and practice.

      The methods doctors use in their ever-evolving creation of a framework for living, loving and working, determine finally how effectively they carry out their expressed aim of helping people, assuming they really meant what they said in the first place.

      Chapter I

      The Health of Doctors—The Good,

      the Bad and the Ugly

      In 1954, when I was in my second year at the Washington University School of Medicine, Evarts Graham, the imposing and revered Professor of Surgery, presented his ground-breaking findings on the connection between tobacco smoking and lung cancer. He and his colleagues had constructed a smoking machine, which extracted the tar from cigarettes. He smeared the tar on the back of mice, who then developed cancer at the site. [This was subsequently memorialized in song in a student show that our class put on: He painted tobacco juice on the fuzz, said ‘Let there be cancer,’ and the cancer was.]

      So there we were, bright 23-year-old students at a good medical school. Did we all take to heart his convincing lesson ? Some didn’t, alas. And none of the big smokers in our class

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