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Published in: Society 4/2014

01-08-2014 | Book Review

Danielle Ofri, M.D., What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 232 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0807073322

Author: Alan B. Astrow

Published in: Society | Issue 4/2014

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Do emotions help or hinder reasoned decision-making? The Greek philosophers came down on the side of hindrance with the Stoics advocating thorough-going dispassion, or apathia. Although precisely what the master physician William Osler meant at the dawn of the 20th century has been debated, his celebrated essay “Equanimitas” has been interpreted as heir to that tradition of emotional distancing, and primary source for the image of physician as aloof master of high technology. …
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Title
Danielle Ofri, M.D., What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 232 pp. $24.95. ISBN: 978-0807073322
Author
Alan B. Astrow
Publication date
01-08-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-014-9806-x

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