“…every patient, doctor in training, and practicing physician should read this book.”  – BERNIE SIEGEL, MD

“I’m a changed person from reading Doctor Confidential.” – Roger Jellinek, Executive Director, Hawaii Book and Music Festival

In the hushed stillness of a late night hospital room, confronted with a dead patient and an ethical dilemma, Dr. Sheff wonders, “What’s love got to do with medicine?” The answer he finds for himself in that darkest of hours, and now shares with all of us in Doctor Confidential, is “Everything!”

From the unique perspective of a nationally respected, mature physician, Dr. Sheff reflects deeply on the formative experiences of medical school and residency, giving the reader unexpected insights into the heart and mind of doctors, the experience of patients and their families, and ultimately the connection between love, medical practice, and the healing we all seek.

The unique stories in Doctor Confidential speak directly to anyone in medical training or considering a career in medicine, but also to the patient in all of us. Pulling back the veil of secrecy that too often surrounds medicine, Doctor Confidential provides compassion, humor, and ultimately hope that, when sick and most vulnerable, each of us can be heard, understood, and deeply touched by our physician.

From Rick Sheff, MD:

I knew upon completing my training as a family physician more than 25 years ago, as I know now, there is something terribly wrong with how we take care of patients and train physicians. Even before completing training I decided I must write this book. I must tell the stories that unfold in its pages for doctors in training, for all who work in healthcare, and for everyone who ever has or will entrust their vulnerability to a doctor. While written in the genre of a memoir of medical training, this book has had an almost three-decades-long gestation that has proved important because my intention never was to simply write a memoir of medical training. All along the intention behind this book has been to help change healthcare by utilizing the stories from my training as the medium through which to reveal truths too long hidden and denied, to share these truths with the goals of healing patients, healing physicians, and healing healthcare.

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