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Treatment Kind and Fair

Letters to a Young Doctor

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By Perri Klass

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On Sale
Aug 26, 2008
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465037780

Price

$19.99

Price

$25.99 CAD

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  1. Trade Paperback $19.99 $25.99 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD

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If you’ve ever gotten wrapped up in the arcana of “E.R.” or “House,” or been absorbed by a piece in The New Yorker by Gawande, Groopman, or Nuland, or sat on that exam table wondering what’s really going on in your doctor’s head, then this book is for you. Expertise versus commonsense practice; moral judgments on young patients or their parents; asking tough questions; death and physician-assisted suicide; daily life with a doctor’s job (yours or a family member’s); doctors as patients-Klass addresses the primary issues in the life of any doctor and, by extension, the lives of those for whom they care. Perri Klass, M.D., is a writer, teacher, pediatrician, and mentor. In her frequent contributions to the New York Times, she takes on a host of issues particular to the life of a doctor-secrecy, ethics, fear, grief, and competition-with a warmth and wit her readers have come to love. Now, in the newest addition to Basic’s Art of Mentoring series, she offers her guidance, and her stories, to a new generation of doctors and readers.

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Perri Klass

About the Author

Perri Klass, M.D., is a practicing pediatrician, an acclaimed author, and a prize-winning journalist. Her recent books include Every Mother Is a Daughter with Sheila Solomon Klass, and Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn’t Fit In with Eileen Costello, M.D. She is the Medical Director of the national literacy program Reach Out and Read, dedicated to promoting literacy as part of pediatric primary care. She is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University, and lives in New York City.

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