Main description:

This book is about being mindful in clinical practice and how mindfulness enhances the quality of patient care while adding depth and meaning to a clinicians' work. Chapters include narratives from clinicians who consciously apply mindfulness in real life settings. Authors from various settings provide examples that capture how emergent mindfulness is. Mindful Medical Practice demonstrates to physicians, residents and students how mindfulness enriches both their practices and lives.

Contents:

Title Page

Contributing Authors

Dedication

Kindness

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1. Introduction: Mindful Medical Practice

Chapter 2. Mindful Rounds, Narrative Medicine, House Calls and Other Stories

Chapter 3. Lost Heart(beat)/Broken(body)

Chapter 4. Working with Groups Mindfully

Chapter 5. The Opera of Medicine

Chapter 6. The Mindful Psychiatrist: Being Present with Suffering

Chapter 7. The Death of a Snowflake

Chapter 8. Carmen's Story

Chapter 9. A Mindful Life in Medicine: One Pediatrician's Reflections on Being Mindful

Chapter 10. Embodied Wisdom: Meeting Experience through the Body

Chapter 11: Minding Baby Abigale

Chapter 12. Mindfulness in Oncology: Healing Through Relationship

Chapter 13. Choosing to Survive: A Change in Reproductive Plans

Chapter 14. Mindfulness in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Chapter 15. In the Heart of Cancer

Chapter 16. Hiking on the Eightfold Path

Chapter 17. Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance Through Mindfulness: One Nephrologist's Experiences

Chapter 18. Richard's Embers

Chapter 19. Mindful Decisions in Urogynecological Surgery: Paths from Awareness to Action

Chapter 20. The Good Mother

Chapter 21. I Am My Brother's Keeper

Chapter 22. The Mindful Shift

Chapter 23. Lifeline

Chapter 24. Medical Students' Voices: Reflections on Mindlessness During Clinical Encounters

Chapter 25. Growth and Freedom in 5 Chapters

Chapter 26. A Wounded Healer's Reflections on Healing

Chapter 27. Mindfulness, Presence, and Whole Person Care

Chapter 28. Mindful Attitudes Open Hearts in Clinical Practice

Index