Could Staying Human in Medical Training Help Make Medicine Humane? Review of Allan D. Peterkin, Staying Human During Residency Training

Abstract

Compte-rendu / Review

Dans Staying Human During Residency Training. How to survive and Thrive after Medical School, Dr Allan D. Peterkin conseille et outille les résidents en médecine, gardant comme fil conducteur le bien-être de la personne humaine en chaque résident, essentiel à rester humain pendant cette formation exigeante qu’est la résidence. Ce compte-rendu se limite à l’éthique, telle que présentée dans le discours de l’auteur, dans son chapitre portant spécifiquement sur l’éthique clinique.

In Staying Human During Residency Training. How to survive and Thrive after Medical School, Dr. Allan D. Peterkin provides guidance and tools to medical residents, with a common thread the wellbeing of the person in each resident, essential to staying humane during the demanding training called residency. This review focuses on ethics, as presented in the author’s discourse, in a chapter specifically dealing with clinical ethics.