Dr. Robert Klitzman, Author of "When Doctors Become Patients"*

Sponsored by the North Shore-LIJ Health System and the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School Of Medicine 
as well the Osler Society of New York

*As per book review on Amazon.com:
For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like "House" touch on the topic, never has there been a "systematic, integrated look" at what the experience is like for doctors who get sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more broadly, the experience of becoming ill.