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Night Calls: The Personal Journey of an ObGyn Eisenberg, Henry M, MD; Eisenberg, Arlene and Eisenberg, Howard

From Publishers WeeklyIn recounting how he evolved from a position of Godlike dominance over patients to one of encouraging partnerespecially in birthingSyracuse, NY, obstetriciangynecologist Eisenberg, with the assistance of his brother and sisterinlaw, is disarmingly frank about his clinical errors and callous attitudes during residencies at Yale and Air Force hospitals He was shocked into changing his relationships with women patients when his wife of many years threatened to leave him unless he treated her not only as a spouse and mother, but as a person in her own right In accord with the selfcare movement and consumer revolution, and as a result of Eisenbergs more open attitude, patients now seek his counsel on sexual and family matters, according to the authors His more flexible, humanistic practices attempt to accommodate womens preferences and fathers participation in deliveries A winning chronicle about a physician whose sense of wonder has survived despite experience, technology and law suits First serial to New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan and the StarCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, IncFrom Library JournalThe author chronicles his life as an obstetriciangynecologist, from his years as a brash young resident at Yale in the 1950s through the winter of 1985 and his thoughts on retirement Eisenberg grows in skill and knowledge as a resident, and as a doctor he grows in spirit and concern for his patients His career is an interesting one as Lamaze and other natural childbirth methods now popular were unheard of in this country when he was training A career of 30plus years in any profession will see many changes, but perhaps more so in the past three decades in the obgyn specialty Recommended for public libraries and medical school collections Linda Morgan Davis, OCLC, Dublin, OhioCopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc