Practice Makes Perfect: : How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives

Name: Practice Makes Perfect: : How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives
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Author: David Roberts M D
ISBN: 9781481104814

David Roberts M D

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Have you ever wondered what is going on inside your doctor's head when you're behind that closed examination room door? Practice Makes Perfect: How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives helps us to understand the potential depth, sanctity, and humor within the doctor-patient relationship from both perspectives, as Dr. David Roberts makes rounds and cares for patients. Dr. Roberts has just completed his medical training and starts out in the private practice of Internal Medicine in a Midwestern college town. He is twenty-nine years old, but looks sixteen, inspiring most patients to comment, You look too young to be a doctor On his first week of hospital rounds, an angry middle-aged man dies in such a dramatic, direct manner that our doctor, and the young nurse working with him, believe he has killed this patient. From this point onward, we listen and learn with Dr. Roberts and Dr. Mark Edwards, his senior partner, as they together navigate their first five years of private practice as primary care physicians. Written in the currently popular narrative non-fiction style, throughout Practice Makes Perfect the reader follows Dr. Roberts as he cares for twenty different and unique patients. As he encounters each new human being seeking help, we are invited inside the good physician's head to see and better understand the complexity of both successful and strained patient-doctor relationships. The reader sees him quickly formulate his initial impressions, analyze the data, argue with himself and sometimes others, including his patients, and struggle with his own doubts and certainties in order to help his patients to heal. Through a series of fascinating, humorous, and poignant patient stories, this professional coming of age book chronicles Dr. Robert's journey of finding the human dignity in each patient and learning something about himself, to a growing confidence in his abilities as a physician. Using a lively and entertaining style, the author takes us inside his own mind to help us understand what doctors think, say and do, (and what they don't say or do), each time we walk into the examination room as patients seeking help for our maladies. We see Doctor Roberts honestly reflect upon his own failures, successes, doubts and certainties, to learn the truth that his patients have to teach him about life. In discovering each person's innate dignity, he finds his own true calling as a physician and healer. Each chapter begins with an epigraph, setting the stage for the patient story. In addition to meeting and learning from each patient, the reader also follows the growth and development of the fledgling practice from the first two physicians, Drs. Edwards and Roberts, to the addition of new partners, until they at last outgrow their small office and move to a new professional office building adjacent to their hospital. Recognized as one of America's Best Doctors for many years, the author's broad experiences as a practicing physician, a hospital and medical group executive, and national speaker allow him to paint an exciting and heartrending portrait of our healthcare system, and help the reader to find his or her place within it. You simply cannot listen to the news these days without hearing about what is wrong with healthcare. In stark contrast, seeing patients with Dr. Roberts helps us understand both what is right, and what could be better, about ourselves and our relationships with physicians, as we seek and then discover with him the dignity of each human spirit.…

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Titre: Practice Makes Perfect: : How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives
Auteur: David Roberts M D
Éditeur: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Année de publication: 2013
État de l'article: Very Good
Reliure: Paperback
Langue: anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1481104810
ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781481104814

Have you ever wondered what is going on inside your doctor’s head when you’re behind that closed examination room door? Practice Makes Perfect: How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives helps us to understand the potential depth, sanctity, and humor within the doctor-patient relationship from both perspectives, as Dr. David Roberts makes rounds and cares for patients. Dr. Roberts has just completed his medical training and starts out in the private practice of Internal Medicine in a Midwestern college town. He is twenty-nine years old, but looks sixteen, inspiring most patients to comment, “You look too young to be a doctor!” On his first week of hospital rounds, an angry middle-aged man dies in such a dramatic, direct manner that our doctor, and the young nurse working with him, believe he has killed this patient. From this point onward, we listen and learn with Dr. Roberts and Dr. Mark Edwards, his senior partner, as they together navigate their first five years of private practice as primary care physicians. Written in the currently popular narrative non-fiction style, throughout Practice Makes Perfect the reader follows Dr. Roberts as he cares for twenty different and unique patients. As he encounters each new human being seeking help, we are invited inside the good physician’s head to see and better understand the complexity of both successful and strained patient-doctor relationships. The reader sees him quickly formulate his initial impressions, analyze the data, argue with himself and sometimes others, including his patients, and struggle with his own doubts and certainties in order to help his patients to heal. Through a series of fascinating, humorous, and poignant patient stories, this “professional coming of age” book chronicles Dr. Robert’s journey of finding the human dignity in each patient and learning something about himself, to a growing confidence in his abilities as a physician. Using a lively and entertaining style, the author takes us inside his own mind to help us understand what doctors think, say and do, (and what they don’t say or do), each time we walk into the examination room as patients seeking help for our maladies. We see Doctor Roberts honestly reflect upon his own failures, successes, doubts and certainties, to learn the truth that his patients have to teach him about life. In discovering each person’s innate dignity, he finds his own true calling as a physician and healer. Each chapter begins with an epigraph, setting the stage for the patient story. In addition to meeting and learning from each patient, the reader also follows the growth and development of the fledgling practice from the first two physicians, Drs. Edwards and Roberts, to the addition of new partners, until they at last outgrow their small office and move to a new professional office building adjacent to their hospital. Recognized as one of America’s Best Doctors for many years, the author’s broad experiences as a practicing physician, a hospital and medical group executive, and national speaker allow him to paint an exciting and heartrending portrait of our healthcare system, and help the reader to find his or her place within it. You simply cannot listen to the news these days without hearing about what is wrong with healthcare. In stark contrast, seeing patients with Dr. Roberts helps us understand both what is right, and what could be better, about ourselves and our relationships with physicians, as we seek and then discover with him the dignity of each human spirit.

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The author’s nom de plume is David Roberts, M.D. He graduated from The University of Michigan Medical School in the 1970s, and completed his Internal Medicine residency training in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He began in private practice in the early 1980s. The book chronicles the first five years of his medical practice. In addition to medical practice over the past 30+ years he has held a variety of administrative positions, from his first position as an Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at his large, Midwestern community hospital to being the President of New Mexico’s largest health plan. In 1990, he began giving presentations on interesting and unusual patients at his state’s American College of Physicians (ACP) annual meetings. These presentations became extremely popular, and are often the highest rated sessions at the conference. Each of Dr. Roberts’ cases is presented in a mystery format, with him sequentially revealing the patient’s medical history, examination findings, laboratory, and x-ray studies. Having given more than fifty of these presentations, usually to audiences of 200 to 1,000 physicians, David has learned the basic mechanics of creating interesting patient “mysteries” that keep an audience hanging until the end. These patient cases have become an important part of the foundation for his writing career. In 2009, David began to sense that healthcare, even in the face of the enormous national political focus, struggled to “change from within.” Building on his deep love for his patients, and his thirty years of continuous medical practice, he left his executive role, returned to the care of his patients, and to begin writing their stories. From this decision comes Practice Makes Perfect: How One Doctor Found the Meaning of Lives. One of the great honors of his career, and most relevant as a source of expertise for this book, he was named one of America’s Best Doctors in 1997, and every year since then. He has also been named a “Top Doc” and the Number 1 Geriatrics Specialist every year since returning to practice in the Albuquerque metropolitan area, where he currently sees patients three days per week. A lively, entertaining, and very popular national public speaker, David continues both his national medical presentations as well as regional and local engagements. He also addresses large lay audiences on medical topics. He lives in an adobe home in the beautiful desert south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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