Joy in Medicine? What 100 Healthcare Professionals Have to Say about Job Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, Burnout, and Joy

Eve Shapiro has been writing about patient-centered care, physician?patient communication, and relationships between doctors and their patients since 2007. In Joy in Medicine? What 100 Healthcare Professionals Have to Say about Job Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, Burnout, and Joy, Eve turns her attention to those on the healthcare delivery side of this "sacred interaction."

These healthcare professionals share their enthusiasm, joys, frustrations, disappointments, insights, advice, stories, fears, and pain, explaining how it looks and feels to work in healthcare today no matter who you are, where you work, or what your position is in the organizational hierarchy.

The healthcare professionals who provide patient care deserve our collective interest in their humanity. Without some insight into who they are and the forces with which they struggle every day, we cannot fully appreciate the obstacles to providing the care we all want for ourselves and our families during the best of times, let alone in the uncertain times that lie ahead.

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. Part 1 What Promotes Joy. Part 2 What Diminishes Joy. Part 3 What Destroys Joy. Part 4 What the Experts Have to Say. Index.

Eve Shapiro, Principal, Eve Shapiro Medical Writing, Inc. is a Bethesda, MD-based medical writer dedicated to improving healthcare delivery, patient safety, and the quality of care by focusing on the factors that put physicians at the "sharp end" of badly designed systems and put patients at risk for unintended consequences and adverse events that often result.

Ms. Shapiro has written and edited more than 150 journal articles, feature articles, reports, white papers, toolkits, books, fact sheets, and brochures for print and Web publication on medical issues for clinicians, health care leaders, administrators, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. Topics include patient safety, medical ethics, medical errors, patient-centered care, systems improvement, transitions in care, physician-patient communication, preventive care, hand hygiene, alcohol and drug abuse, juvenile justice, and psychiatry.

Most recently, Ms. Shapiro has coauthored the book, The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare Through Co-Design, published in September 2017 by CRC/Productivity Press.