Also Human

The Inner Lives of Doctors

De: Caroline Elton

Narrado por: Rachel Bavidge

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Also Human by Caroline Elton, read by Rachel Bavidge.

Doctors are the people we turn to when we fall ill. They are the people we trust with our lives, and with the lives of those we love. Yet who can doctors turn to at moments of stress, or when their own working lives break down?

What does it take to confront death, disease, distress and suffering every day? To work in a healthcare system that is stretched to breaking point? To carry the responsibility of making decisions that can irrevocably change someone’s life – or possibly end it? And how do doctors cope with their own questions and fears, when they are expected to have all the answers?

Caroline Elton is a psychologist who specialises in helping doctors. For over twenty years she has listened as doctors have unburdened themselves of the pressures of their jobs: the obstetrician whose own fertility treatment failed; the trainee oncologist who found herself unable to treat patients suffering from the disease that killed her father; the brilliant neurosurgeon struggling to progress her career in an environment that was hostile to women. Drawing on extraordinary case studies and decades of work supporting clinicians, Also Human presents a provocative, perceptive and deeply humane examination of the modern medical profession.

'Crucial and timely.' Atul Gawande

'Haunting, beautiful and urgent.' Johann Hari

Reseñas de la Crítica

All agree there is a crisis in health care, but this book looks behind the headlines and tots up the human cost of a flawed system. Written with perceptive sympathy for the wounded healer, it is necessary reading for both doctors and patients. (Hilary Mantel)

With a compassionate eye for detail and a deep understanding of just how the systems we train and practice in as doctors can fail us as human beings, Caroline Elton offers a crucial and timely reminder that doctors are Also Human. (Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal)

This furious dispatch from the front line of the hospital system argues we must care for our medics more... a book that may have found its popular moment. (Helen Rumbelow)

Caroline Elton is an occupational psychologist who has worked with medics for more than 20 years. She is uniquely qualified to comment... I’d be surprised if anyone who reads it will ever look at doctors in the same light again. (Decca Aitkenhead)

Also Human describes, through a series of case histories... the emotional and psychological problems that doctors can face. The interesting question... is how doctors overcome such feelings and carry on working, despite often having to witness, and sometimes cause, terrible suffering for our patients. At the heart of this book is the problem of how emotional resilience can be identified in prospective doctors and strengthened in practising doctors. We are fallible human beings, not omniscient gods. (Henry Marsh)

Her descriptions of the psychological forces underlying the way doctors act … is fascinating, with succinct explorations.

Fascinating, troubling, educative. Read Elton and weep and then think, argue and implement what needs doing to support not squander our medics. (Susie Orbach)

Have you ever wondered what your doctor thinks and feels once you walk out the door? Also Human is the uncensored answer - and it’s haunting, beautiful, and urgent for all of us to know. (Johann Hari)

An important, necessary book. Also Human shows that doctors are indeed all so human. (Dean Burnett, author of The Idiot Brain)

Doctors are people, too. They possess the same virtues, faults, fears and desires of the rest of us but it's easy for patients to forget this obvious truth. Caroline Elton's revelatory, sometimes disturbing, book, is a welcome reminder of this. For doctors and patients alike, this book is required reading. (Nick Rennison)

Thank you!

Unique perspective of a clinical psychologist who helps doctors in the UK. As a physician in the U.S., I found the firsthand accounts of the struggles of medical training are spot on. I recommend that every medical trainee read this book to help them weigh their own strengths, weakness, and motivations for pursuing medicine. This book can also expose people to the institutional, cultural, and psychogical forces that make this profession so difficult. The author ends the book on a hopeful but challenging note.

Madatory Reading

This is a necessary book for premedical and medical students as well as trainees, practicing physicians and academic teachers in medical school. It is well-researched and indexed. Also Human is an extraordinary book.

book for the puplic

the book emphasized the problems with health care and the medical profession in general, which we already aware off. i think the book would be more suited for the puplic, rather than to help medical doctors.