{ "item_title" : "Becoming a Compassionate Doctor, Then and Now", "item_author" : [" Naseem Ravanbakhsh", "Roberta Glick "], "item_description" : "Once one of the most revered, trusted, and caring of all occupations, the medical doctor now is often thought of as an impersonal bureaucrat in the business of medicine. In an attempt to encourage new physicians to embrace a more humanistic practice of medicine, the Rosalind Franklin Chicago Medical School developed a novel program that utilized mentorship, narrative writing, and an experiential team approach as a means of developing a caring, compassionate, and cooperative community within the traditional medical school. Dr. Roberta Glick became a community mentor for this course and followed a group of students for four years. Naseem Ravanbakhsh was one of her students. As a medical student, Dr. Glick encountered many of the obstacles and challenges that medical students face today. Added to that, she studied neurosurgery in an otherwise all-male field. She practiced neurosurgery in hospitals on the west side of Chicago for over thirty years, facing the daily dramas of poverty and trauma, while simultaneously trying to raise her own children to be loving and caring human beings. Dr. Glick's stories are from her challenging but truly rewarding career and are compared with the challenges facing medical students today. The students tell stories of their new experiences in fresh unfiltered voices, filled with idealism and compassion, as they look forward to their careers. This book is an attempt to remind students and physicians of that idealism and compassion that they had upon entering medical school, through sharing of personal reflections in a respectful communal environment with the help of a seasoned mentor. The hope is that it will serve as a model of how to engage with all people and how to envision a better world. Rabbi Roberta Glick, MD, spent her career as a neurosurgeon at Cook County Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital, both on the west side of Chicago. During her career, she was dedicated to improving the care of patients with brain tumors and traumatic brain injury. She continues to teach medical students, lead mindfulness meditation classes as a rabbi, and volunteer in international medical missions. Dr. Glick has two adult children and lives with her husband near Chicago. Naseem Ravanbakhsh, MD, is a transplant hepatologist at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She is dedicated to improving the care of children with liver disease. As an academic physician, her clinical practice and research is focused on chronic liver diseases including conditions like Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver disease and Fontan-Associated Liver Disease. Dr. Ravanbakhsh is very close to her family and lives in Houston, Texas.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/95/687/259/1956872590_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.95", "online_price" : "14.95", "our_price" : "14.95", "club_price" : "14.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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