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Dora Calott Wang is a Yale-trained psychiatrist who began her career as
a doctor with great enthusiasm. But after less than a decade of her
practicing medicine, that enthusiasm was shattered by the seismic
shifts that shook the entire medical profession.
Once a cherished, even sacred, vocation, medicine has become a business
driven by profit. What made medicine turn its back on its central
tenets? In The Kitchen Shrink, Wang explores what happened,
through the prism of her own research and experience. In these pages we
watch as she struggles to maintain her professional standards as health
care's priorities shift away from the compassionate care of patients
and, instead, toward improving the bottom line, and along the way we
meet some of her patients, whose stories reveal an oft-ignored human
side of our besieged system. As the medical landscape shifts beneath
Wang, she confronts depression and exhaustion, and fights to find a
balance between work and home, as it become ever clearer that she
cannot untangle the uncertain futures of her patients from her own.
Part memoir and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an
unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the
realities of free-market medicine in today's America.
pub date: 2010-04-29 | hardcover | 9781594487538 |
