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doctor as patient-doctor relationships
overview, 70–71
deference problem, 75–76, 77–78
denial systems, 74–81
and self-doctoring expectations, 77
VIP treatment, 71–73, 83, 85
See also physician selection
double-lens experience
overview, 4, 181, 210–212
complementary medicine, 207–210
framing of information, 194–197
medical uncertainty, 181–184
odds interpretation attitude,
198–203
researching the disease, 191–193
See also risk/benefit assessments
dying label, 136–137
Eleanor, health care professional
(and physician husband)
(comments on)
colleague role conflicts, 76, 77,
79–81
disclosure, 153–154
empathy training, 273–274
end-of-life care, 290
family support, 220–221
hospital administration, 293
invulnerability beliefs, 35
physician selection factors, 70
retirement decision-making, 236
self-doctoring behaviors, 32–33,
38, 58
spirituality, 251–252
treatment location, 69
workaholism, 215
empathy
as physician selection factor, 64–68
training for, 12–13, 273–276,
291–292
See also communication
challenges; compassion
end-of-life care, 290–291
Ernie, an internist (comments on)
body image, 96
disclosure conflicts, 163
discrimination, 134
empathy training, 274
psychiatric symptoms, 101
exiting the sick role, transition
obstacles, 141–143
expectations level, 124–125
faith. See spirituality
family members
disclosure conflicts, 176–177
as support system, 220–221
fatigue, dismissal of symptoms, 96–97
Foucault, Michel, 6
Fox, Renée, 182, 257
framing challenges
information presentation,
106–107, 194–197, 288–290
statistics interpretation, 198–203,
206
Frank, a surgeon (comments on)
denial stage, 30
peripheralization, 142
personality change, 217–218
physician selection, 75
spirituality, 245
workaholism, 214
Frank, Jerome, 260
Frankl, Victor, 8
friend role, conflicts, 74–77, 80–81
future, perspective conflicts, 121–122
Geertz, Clifford, 16
George, an internist, on treatment
location, 68–69
Gigerenzer, Gerd, 185
Gilligan, Carol, 111–112
God complex, 109–112, 132
Goffman, Erving, 10–11, 146
good patient role, complexities,
305–306
gratitude, 224–225
grief, 3–4
Groopman, Jerome, 12
group support systems, 221–222
hair losses, 102–104
Harry, an internist (comments on)
confidentiality, 287
dignity losses, 104–105
disclosure, 151, 152
empathy challenges, 291
framing of information, 196