Medicine, meaning, and identity : essays from early-career physicians
Nathan Carlin (Editor), Keisha S. Ray (Editor)
"Racial, gender, and other forms of discrimination from colleagues and patients add an extra layer to how minorities experience medicine. Given that Black, Latinx, Indigenous people, and other minorities make up a very small percentage of medical students, interns, residents, and attending physicians, such individuals have fewer people around them who share their experiences, which can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and isolation. Whatever we want to call these experiences of suffering-perhaps the term "burnout" is used more than any other-it seems clear that there is, for a variety of reasons, a crisis of meaning in medicine today that is inherently related to identity"-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2025
Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2025