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From Residency to Retirement
2021
Overview
From Residency to Retireme nt tells the stories
of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a
period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the
U.S. health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of
the generation of physicians who came of age as presidents Carter
and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services.
Mizrahi observed and interviewed these physicians in six timeframes
ending in 2016. Beginning with medical school in the mid-1970s,
these physicians reveal the myriad fluctuations and uncertainties
in their professional practice, working conditions, collegial
relationships, and patient interactions. In their own words, they
provide a \"view from the front lines\" both in academic and
community settings. They disclose the satisfactions and strains in
coping with macro policies enacted by government and insurance
companies over their career trajectory. They describe their
residency in internal medicine in a large southern urban medical
center as a \"siege mentality\" which lessened as they began their
careers, in Getting Rid of Patients , the title of
Mizrahi's first book (1986). As these doctors moved on in their
professional lives more of their experiences were discussed in
terms of dissatisfaction with financial remuneration, emotional
gratification, and intellectual fulfillment. Such moments of career
frustration, however, were also interspersed with moments of
satisfaction at different stages of their medical careers.
Particularly revealing was whether they were optimistic about the
future at each stage of their career and whether they would
recommend a medical career to their children. Mizrahi's subjects
also divulge their private feelings of disillusionment and fear of
failure given the malpractice epidemic and lawsuits threatened or
actually brought against so many doctors. Mizrahi's work, covering
almost fifty years, provides rarely viewed insights into the lives
of physicians over a professional life span.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Subject
ISBN
0813570042, 9780813570044, 9780813570020, 0813570026, 0813591325, 9780813591322, 1978822766, 9781978822764
