Leaving the Bedside: The Search for a Nonclinical Medical Career

By American Medical Association and Maija Balagot

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899708080
• ISBN13: 9780899708089
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Amer Medical Assn
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

At the bottom of the well, this book is a rope.

Leaving medicine is probably second only to being sued as a source of loneliness and confusion. This book will assure that you're not crazy for no longer wanting to practice medicine--nor are you stupid, irresponsible, or antisocial. Doctors, as the book explains, leave the bedside for plenty of legitimate reasons. It goes through the psychology behind people's decisions to quit, invites the reader to carefully consider and elucidate his own reasons, and offers suggestions for smoothing the transition. It also offers contact information for helpful organizations. It does emphasize the more common paths of business, the corporate world, or law, and doesn't offer much to those of us pursuing writing or the arts. Still, it's full of wisdom. I wore it dog-eared for a few months.

Review

I thought that this book was very informative and very much needed in the medical profession.