About Abraham M. Nussbaum

Abraham M. Nussbaum, MD, is the Chief Education Officer at Denver Health, an integrated safety-net system, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

His professional interests include improving care for persons with chronic mental illness, medical education, and medical humanities. (My personal interest are listening to 60's soul, assembling bicycles, imagining the ideal NBA team, and writing badly in the third person.) He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physicians Search for the Renewal of Medicine: One Physicians Search for the Renewal of Medicine Mar 22, 2016

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Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing psychiatrist who explains how population-based reforms have diminished the relationship between doctors and patients, to the detriment of both. As an antidote to failed reforms and an alternative to stubbornly held traditions, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum suggests ways that doctors and patients can learn what it means to be ill and to seek medical assistance.

Using a variety of riveting stories from his own and others’ experiences, the author develops a series of metaphors to explore a doctor’s role in different healthcare reform scenarios: scientist, technician, author, gardener, teacher, servant, and witness. Each role influences what a physician sees when examining a person as a patient. Dr. Nussbaum cautions that true healthcare reform can happen only when those who practice medicine can see, and be seen by, their patients as fellow creatures. His memoir makes a hopeful appeal for change, and his insights reveal the direction that change must take.

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