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Index 331 preventive health behaviors, 9–10, 52–57, 285–286, 300 privacy conflicts. See disclosure conflicts professional life uncertainty, coping challenges, 182–184 prognoses uncertainty, coping challenges, 182–184 Proust, Marcel, 10 psychiatric symptoms, 100–102, 108, 133–135, 282–283 Redelmeier, Donald, 185 referral process, changes, 128, 130, 133 religion. See spirituality research-level medicine, as self-doctoring behavior, 48–51 retirement issues overview, 239 decision factors, 227–230 identity conflicts, 236–239 post-work activity, 233–236 timing, 231–233 risk/benefit assessments overview, 184–185, 206 medical knowledge advantages/ disadvantages, 186–191 and odds interpretation, 200 and self-doctoring behavior, 48–51 and side effects, 97–99 Rochelle, a surgeon, on risk-benefit assessment, 187 Roger, a surgeon (comments on) communication, 277–278 physician selection factors, 74 spirituality, 248 suicide, 223 role conflicts. See doctor as patient-doctor relationships role-modeling, for empathy training, 275 Ronald, a radiologist (comments on) disclosure conflicts, 152, 160, 168 hierarchy benefits, 264 nonmedical aspects of doctoring, 286 patient decision-making, 270 self-doctoring option, 38–39 time conflicts, 123 waiting problem, 118 Roxanne, a gastroenterologist (comments on) denial, 29–30 dignity losses, 105 disclosure conflicts, 148, 149, 161 empathy challenges, 291 insider-status, 41 language for pain, 94 mild symptom interpretation, 96 odds interpretation, 201 physician selection factors, 65 professional identity, 26 researching the disease, 191–192 retirement decision-making, 234 self-doctoring behaviors, 48 spirituality, 242, 250, 252 strength from patients, 224 time conflicts, 124, 276–277, 280 Sally, an internist (comments on) adherence challenges, 285–286 boundary conflicts, 77 mild symptom management, 99 patient decision-making, 270 peripheralization, 132 physician selection factors, 61–62, 66–67 preventive health behavior, 54 researching the disease, 193 self-doctoring, 44, 58–59 stigmatization, 68 time conflicts, 117, 120–121, 286 Sally, an internist, post-interview, 309 schedules, 104–105, 120 See also time conflicts Scott, an internist (comments on) boundary conflicts, 76, 77 complementary medicine, 208–209 deference problem, 76 doctoring style changes, 259 insurance obstacles, 89 odds interpretation, 199 peripheralization, 130 retirement decision-making, 227–228 self-doctoring behaviors, 44, 45 VIP treatment, 73