Contents
1
Introduction
PART I Becoming a Patient
2 ‘‘Magic White Coats’’: Forms of Denial and Other
Internal Obstacles to Becoming a Patient
3 ‘‘The Medical Self’’: Self-doctoring and Choosing
Doctors
4 ‘‘Screw-ups’’: External Obstacles Faced in Becoming
Patients
5 ‘‘They Treated Me as if I Were Dead’’: Peripheralization
and Discrimination
6 ‘‘Coming Out’’ as Patients: Disclosures of Illness
PART II Being a Doctor After Being a Patient
7 Double Lens: Contrasting Views and Uses of
Medical Knowledge
8 ‘‘Being ‘Strong’ ’’: Workaholism, Burnout,
and Coping
9 ‘‘Once a Doctor, Always a Doctor?’’: Retirement
10 ‘‘Touched by the Light’’: Spiritual Beliefs
and Their Obstacles
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