Becoming a Better Physician: Insightful and Inspirational Stories from Attending Physicians, Residents, and Medical Students

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Contents
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Contributors
1: Learning and Training
	Commentary: Thawing
	Good Grief
	The Night I Almost Walked Away from Medicine
	Work on Professionalism
	My Undeserved Coaches
	Married in Medicine
2: Career
	Commentary: My COVID Epitaph
	Finding Empathy While Fighting Misinformation
	No Silence, Please!
	Instead of That Phone Call
	Hard Work
	A Triumph Over Moral Injury
	Forging Trust
	Being Fired
3: Caregiving
	Commentary: Deep Breath
	Befriending Our Edges
	The Art of Listening: Beyond Languages and Borders
	One to One
	Young Hearts Dying
	Tell Me More
	Superheroes Need Healing Too
	My Father Didn’t Want to Live if He Had Dementia—But Then He Had It
4: Physician as Patient
	Commentary: There Is No “Us” and “Them” in the Doctor–Patient Relationship
	There Is No Crying in Surgery
	I’ll Never Float Again
	The 7-Year Consult
	Joy Machine
	Free Refills
	Doctors Are Humans: Breaking Painful Stereotypes
	A Journey’s Journal: Finding Strength in Words and Gratitude in Experience
	Lessons Learned
5: Personal Growth
	Commentary: Anatomy of Burnout
	The Blessing of a Bear
	unDOCumented Medicine
	Overcoming Overwhelm
	The Frustration of a Musician-Turned-Physician
	Are you Chinese? Yes, and I’m Asian American Too
	Embracing Loss to Find Fulfillment
6: Love and Loss
	Commentary: Abe
	The Gifts Grief Brings: One Physician’s Journey Through Grief After Loss
	Mental Compartment Syndrome: It Is Time to Decompress
	No Symptoms or Signs
	Learning to Live in an Alternate Universe
	Superiority of the Grieving Syndrome (SGS)
	I Learned the Most from My Father’s Death Following Surgery
Acknowledgements
Index