Doctors, as strong, clever, resourceful professionals, are heir to human frailty and illness, like anyone else. This book is about diagnosable, label-able mental illness such as eating disorders, affective disorders and, sometimes, psychosis. More than that, it is a book about doctors, many fully-functioning, practising doctors, who suffer from these illnesses, and the unique insights and problems that arise when the doctor is the patient, especially when questions of insight and judgement are blurred.
Author(s): Petre Jones
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 214
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
About the Editor
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece It Could Never Happen to Me
Introduction
Part One: The Stories
1: Setting the Scene
2: Personal View
3: Accepting Who You Are/Learning a New Identity
4: Depression Has Many Faces
5: Life Can Only Be Understood Backwards
6: Hope Beyond . . .
7: Until 1996
8: My Foster Mother Was Dying
9: Inside Every Doctor is a Patient
10: Running on Empty
11: Since Childhood
12: Telling the Story
13: The Other Side of the Sheets: A Special Case?
14: Themes from the Stories
15: Issues in Treatment
Part Two: What's It Like?
16: Stigma and Discrimination
17: Easily Misunderstood Experiences
18: Key Issues for Medical Students and Schools
19: Being a Doctor with an Illness to Patients with an Illness
20: GMC Health Procedures and the Sick Doctor
21: Reflections on Illness and Health
Part Three: Dealing with It
22: Ongoing Support and Relapse Prevention
23: Ideas for the Dark Days
24: Flexible Ways of Being a GP
25: The Financial Cost of Illness
26: Mental Health and Employment
27: Doctors’ Support Network
28: Resources
Index
