Mindful Medical Practice: Clinical Narratives and Therapeutic Insights

ISBN-13: 9783319157764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 163 str.

Patricia Dobkin

Opis

This book is about being mindful in clinical practice and how mindfulness enhances the quality of patient care while adding depth and meaning to a clinicians' work. Chapters include narratives from clinicians who consciously apply mindfulness in real life settings. Authors from various settings provide examples that capture how emergent mindfulness is. Mindful Medical Practice demonstrates to physicians, residents and students how mindfulness enriches both their practices and lives.

Spis treści

Title Page

Contributing Authors

Dedication

Kindness

Preface

Foreword

 

Chapter 1.  Introduction: Mindful Medical Practice

Chapter 2.  Mindful Rounds, Narrative Medicine, House Calls and Other Stories

 

Chapter 3.  Lost Heart(beat)/Broken(body)
       

Chapter 4. Working with Groups Mindfully
 

Chapter 5. The Opera of Medicine

Chapter 6.  The Mindful Psychiatrist: Being Present with Suffering

 

Chapter 7.  The Death of a Snowflake

 

Chapter 8.  Carmen’s Story

Chapter 9.  A Mindful Life in Medicine: One Pediatrician’s Reflections on Being Mindful

Chapter 10.  Embodied Wisdom: Meeting Experience through the Body

Chapter 11: Minding Baby Abigale

Chapter 12. Mindfulness in Oncology: Healing Through Relationship

Chapter 13. Choosing to Survive: A Change in Reproductive Plans

                                               

Chapter 14. Mindfulness in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Chapter 15. In the Heart of Cancer
                           

Chapter 16. Hiking on the Eightfold Path

Chapter 17.  Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance Through Mindfulness: One Nephrologist’s Experiences

           

Chapter 18. Richard’s Embers

Chapter 19.  Mindful Decisions in Urogynecological Surgery: Paths from Awareness to Action

Chapter 20. The Good Mother

Chapter 21. I Am My Brother’s Keeper

 

Chapter 22. The Mindful Shift

 

Chapter 23. Lifeline

 

Chapter 24. Medical Students’ Voices: Reflections on Mindlessness During Clinical Encounters

 

Chapter 25. Growth and Freedom in 5 Chapters        

Chapter 26. A Wounded Healer’s Reflections on Healing

Chapter 27. Mindfulness, Presence, and Whole Person Care

Chapter 28. Mindful Attitudes Open Hearts in Clinical Practice

 Index

O autorze

Patricia Lynn Dobkin

Department of Medicine,

Programs in Whole Person Care

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec 

Canada