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Attending Others: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words

Attending Others: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words

Volck, Brian

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Publisher Price: $27.00

ISBN10: 1620327287
ISBN13: 9781620327289
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Jul 20 2016
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called patients. Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's a curriculum where the best teachers are children and their mothers, the classrooms are Central American villages and desert landscapes, and the essential texts are stories, poems, and paintings. Through practices of focused attention, he grows from detached observer of his patients' lives into an uneasy witness and grateful companion. From the inner city to the Navajo Nation and from the Grand Canyon to the mountains of Honduras, Volck learns to listen to children unable to talk, to assist in healing when cure is impossible, and to love those whose life and experiences are radically different from his own. This is not a how-to book or a brief for reforming medical education. Attending Others is a highly personal account of what the author learned about medicine after he completed his formal education. The short answer, it turns out, is pretty much everything.

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