Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
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ISBN: 1400032571 / Publisher: Vintage, July 2004
The author of the critically acclaimed Mom's Marijuana provides a thought-provoking account of his work with a gifted young obstetrician dealing with the emotional aftermath of a terrible mistake she made with a patient as she questions her ability to help patients and role as a doctor during the therapeutic process. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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In this probing, intensely personal memoir, the words “Physician, heal thyself” assume a fresh and moving urgency."Explores wth startling depth and immediacy the question of who shall heal the fallen physician." —Elle“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.” Treating other physicians has become one of Shapiro’s specialties. When the obstetrician Amelia Sorvino seeks his help—distraught that her own medical error could have injured a patient’s baby—Shapiro finds his talents as counselor and healer pushed to their limits. Session by session, he works to discover the sources of Amelia’s anguish—for his own sake as much as hers: he’s familiar with the burden of a doctor’s guilt, and he has seen how loss and trauma, if unchecked, can echo from generation to generation in a family.
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