Review of Becoming A Doctor edited by Lee Gutkind

There is a theme through these nineteen pieces by doctors and one psychologist, that of remembering the humanity of both doctors and patients. Medical students are often taught that they should keep emotionally distant from their patients, that it will help with their treatment of them, and also with their own self-preservation. But to carry this to the extreme, or to carry it to every single patient regardless of the circumstances, is that appropriate? Or even possible? What sort of person could not get involved, to some degree, with a dying patient they have cared for?

Review continued at Metapsychology Online Reviews.