The Patient in the White Coat: My Odyssey from Health to Illness and Back

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Rosalind Kaplan had it all: loving husband, newborn son, an Ivy League medical degree, a promising career as a physician. Then came the day when an accidental stick with an infected needle changed everything. Diagnosed with hepatitis C (at the time deemed incurable and riddled with stigma), Dr. Kaplan went from confident caregiver to patient-isolated, unsure, and terrified.

Patient in the White Coat follows Dr. Kaplan as she navigates a maze of medical treatments and experimental studies, copes with changing relationships, and struggles to keep her career on track. Her courage and determination in the face of unlikely circumstances are inspirational to ...

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Overview

Rosalind Kaplan had it all: loving husband, newborn son, an Ivy League medical degree, a promising career as a physician. Then came the day when an accidental stick with an infected needle changed everything. Diagnosed with hepatitis C (at the time deemed incurable and riddled with stigma), Dr. Kaplan went from confident caregiver to patient-isolated, unsure, and terrified.

Patient in the White Coat follows Dr. Kaplan as she navigates a maze of medical treatments and experimental studies, copes with changing relationships, and struggles to keep her career on track. Her courage and determination in the face of unlikely circumstances are inspirational to doctors and chronic illness sufferers alike. Here, she shares her unique, hard-won insight into the worlds of both patient and physician, brought together in this riveting-and above all, brutally honest-memoir.

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When her life as a doctor, wife, and mother was interrupted by a surprising diagnosis of Hepatitis C, Kaplan began her odyssey. Still at the beginning of her medical career, she suddenly had to deal with a doctor who told her she "might" live to see her son's high school graduation. She tried experimental drugs that left her feeling awful. She experienced relapses twice before a third treatment finally cured her. In plain, sometimes clumsy language, Kaplan describes what will be to many a familiar story: waiting. Waiting for an appointment, the doctor, test results, or new treatments to become available. She also relates signing consent forms describing the many horrible side effects that might happen and which may or may not have been explained. In her experience Kaplan was surprised to find that "those closest to me - often because of their caring itself - backed away when I needed them most." Her story is engaging and honest; patients will relate, and physicians or students who haven't run the gauntlet of the medical system may learn what it's like to be on the other side of the stethoscope. (Aug.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781607146940
  • Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
  • Publication date: 8/31/2010
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 458,141
  • Product dimensions: 8.28 (w) x 11.04 (h) x 0.89 (d)

Meet the Author

Rosalind Kaplan, M.D., earned her B.A. at Brandeis University (1982) and her M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1987).  She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.  She also completed a clinical fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Association.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Kaplan is a regular speaker at support group meetings for sufferers of Hepatitis C.  In addition, she is the facilitator of physician support groups based on a program called Finding Meaning in Medicine. She was listed as one of the top doctors for women in Philadelphia Magazine.

Table of Contents

1 The Diagnosis 1

2 You Need to Know a Little Something 13

3 In the Kingdom of the Specialist 21

4 What We Keep and What Gets Left Behind 29

5 Before the Fall 49

6 On the Wrong Side of the Curtain 67

7 How Did I Get It?: The Stigma of Hepatitis C 79

8 The Outsider 87

9 Doctors Make the Worst Patients 101

10 Losing Hope 111

11 Life Belongs to the Living 119

12 Guinea Pig, Take Two 135

13 One More Chance 147

14 Guinea Pig, Take Three 157

15 The Ripple Effect 169

16 Winning the Race 179

17 Being the Patient in the White Coat: Privilege and Price 191

18 Picking Up Some Pieces 201

19 I See Myself in You 215

20 2004: Here but for the Grace of God 223

21 2008: Ten Years Out 229

Acknowledgments 237

Index 239

About the Author 245

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  • Posted September 16, 2010

    easy and hopeful read

    Generous sharing and revealing of writers heroic ,educational and healing journey through Medical school,illness,motherhood and her medical practice.
    It reads easy,hard to put down as you are invited into her life.
    As much difficulty she endured ,her tenaciousness and love of family and work are heartfelt and inspiring.

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