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Long Walk Out of the Woods

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While in recovery from active addiction, a physician reflects on his history of depression, suicidal ideation, alcoholism, and the important lessons it has for the medical community about self-care, stereotyping, stigma, vulnerability, professionalism, patient safety, and support. He uses this wisdom to provide a prescriptive model for best practices to avoid burnout.

SKU: 978-1-949481-22-8 Categories: , , , Product ID: 7537
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Description

A pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician, Dr. Adam B. Hill, suffers stress and disillusionment with the culture of medicine, leading to alcoholism, depression and suicidal thoughts. Then while in recovery from active addiction, he loses a mentor to suicide, revealing the extent of the burnout epidemic in the medical field. By sharing his harrowing story, Dr. Hill shows how this problem manifests, considers ways to address it, and confronts commonplace attitudes regarding self-care, recovery/treatment, empathy, and vulnerability amongst medical practitioners. His book is a road map for better practices at a time when doctors around the world are struggling in silence.

Long Walk Out of the Woods is a game-changing personal narrative and prescriptive book. It expands on Dr. Hill’s famous 2017 essay in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Breaking the Stigma: A Physician’s Perspective on Recovery and Self-Care.”

Additional information

Dimensions 6 × 9 × 1 in
Pages

224

Format

Paperback

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