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Medicine, Fast and Slow | Victoria Sweet, MD

The Doctor's Art

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The Importance of Presence in Psychiatry

In one of your chapters in your book, Slow Medicine, you describe how shortly after completing your psychiatry internship, you started working in a community clinic. You write that it was here you learned what it meant to be a real doctor through a particular experience caring for a patient. Could you talk a little bit more about what you did learn and your experiences at this clinic? Yeah, it was fabulous. I have found nurses have just, you know, immensely taught me how to be a doctor. And in this particular case, Kathy was an amazing nurse. She just was remarkable.

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