Synopses & Reviews
They’re smart. They’re passionate. They’re doctors. White Coat Wisdom is an unprecedented look at the medical profession, through the eyes of extraordinary physicians who talk about what they do, how they got there, and why medicine is so much more than a job.
You will discover:
• inside knowledge about disease prevention
• the secrets of total career satisfaction
• the ability to achieve success, no matter how daunting the challenge
• why service to others transforms work into a calling.
White Coat Wisdom reveals how physicians from various specialties and locations developed their resolve, found their medical passion, and learned—and continue to learn—on their journey. Real doctors, real stories.
Review
“A ground-breaking book that gives readers an insightful understanding of the interconnection between institutional culture and caring practice within the health-care system in the United States and beyond.”—
Hispanic OutlookSynopsis
Many Voices explores the relationships and the tensions at the intersection of caring in the context of health, and culture. As the social voices of diverse groups are increasingly acknowledged in healthcare, ideological frictions between goals of assimilation and of diversity and multiculturalism remain unsolved. Caring (or its opposite, neglect) mediates in health-related encounters in ways that are often described more rhetorically than realistically. Here are the issues as they are experienced.
Synopsis
Many Voices explores the relationships and the tensions at the intersection of caring in the context of health, and culture. As the social voices of diverse groups are increasingly acknowledged in healthcare, ideological frictions between goals of assimilation and of diversity and multiculturalism remain unsolved. Caring (or its opposite, neglect) mediates in health-related encounters in ways that are often described more rhetorically than realistically. Here are the issues as they are experienced.
Synopsis
White Coat Wisdom is an unprecedented look at the medical profession, through the eyes of extraordinary physicians who talk about what they do, how they got there, and why medicine is so much more than a job.
About the Author
“Riveting—White Coat Wisdom delivers authentic answers from seasoned physicians.”—Ira Martin Grais, MD, FACC, FACP, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
“Well-written and concise.”—Mayo Clinic Proceedings
“Doctors’ lives are always interesting, especially when the reader is allowed behind the curtain. White Coat Wisdom is a good read for anyone, but of course, of special interest to the growing number involved in health and medicine.”—C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, U.S. Surgeon General from 1981 to 1989
“White Coat Wisdom is fascinating reading for physicians and laymen alike, a rare view of medicine and the medical calling from the inside. As a historian of the progress and pitfalls of health care in our time, I found it a mine of revealing information.”—Michael Bliss, winner of the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, professor emeritus, University of Toronto
“Medicine and health care have been undergoing exponential changes that affect patients, providers, and those who finance this immense undertaking. White Coat Wisdom is an easy read that offers insights to the many influences on care from those within the profession.”—Nancy W. Dickey, MD, president of Texas A&M Health Science Center and past president of the American Medical Association
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. No Strain, No Gain
1. Top “Gunner” (Anderson Bauer, MD)
2. Back to Med School (Sandra Osborn, MD)
3. Adjusting to Medicine (Daniel Wik, MD, DC)
4. Young at Art (LuAnn Moraski, DO)
5. Blood, Sweat and Fears (Layton “Bing” Rikkers, MD)
6. Operating Without a Scalpel (Mark Aschliman, MD)
II. Innovators
7. Seeing the Invisible Light (Julian E. De Lia, MD)
8. Delivering the Male (Robert Alt, MD)
9. Unconventional Wisdom (David Morris, MD)
III. Ounce of Publicity, Pound of Cure
10. Lights, Camera, Reaction! (Patrick Remington, MD, MPH)
11. Doctoring Health Policy (Peter Vila)
12. Wrench in the Killing Machine (Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA)
13. Pretty Smart (Tina Marie Sauerhammer, MD)
IV. Performing Artists
14. Physician Musician (Adam Dachman, DO)
15. Playing Doctor (Mark Timmerman, MD)
16. Facing Plastic Surgery (Andrew Campbell, MD)
V. Life On-call
17. A Cut Above (John Riesch, MD)
18. It’s the Relationship, Baby (Robert Jaeger, MD)
19. Quarter Pounder with Thighs (Dennis Costakos, MD)
20. Don’t Show Me the Money (John Frantz, MD, and Mary Frantz, MD)
VI. Frayed Net
21. “DR DTOX” (Michael M. Miller, MD)
22. Sick, Huddled Masses (George Schneider, MD)
23. Bleeding Money (John Whitcomb, MD)
24. Homophobia and Health (Paul Wertsch, MD)
VII. Physicians who Listen
25. Strong, Silent Types (Norman Jensen, MD, MS)
26. War Rapport (Paul Vastola, Jr., MD)
27. Fill-in Physician (Alan Schwartzstein, MD)
VIII. Medicine on Trial
28. Doctor in the Courthouse (Richard Roberts, MD, JD)
29. Sick—of Lawyers (Pamela Galloway, MD, and Christopher Magiera, MD)
IX. World Class
30. Transplant from Turkey (Munci Kalayoglu, MD)
31. The Vision Thing (Kevin Flaherty, MD)
32. Miraculous Minds (Darold Treffert, MD)
33. Practicing Medicine…and English (Miroslav “Misha” Backonja, MD)
34. Lifelong Rescue Mission (Ayaz Samadani, MD)
X. Grave Matters
35. Dying Right (Philip Dougherty, MD)
36. Medicine Run Amok (Kay Heggestad, MD)
XI. Tribute
37. Rolling Wonder (Kenneth Viste, Jr., MD)