Reddit mentions: The best doctor-patient relations books

This book might be helpful to you. It's about how to find balance in doing the work that we do and manage all the things we have to juggle day to day.

Best of luck to you and hang in there. Things will get easier and you will grow stronger after overcoming these challenges in your life. You've already overcome so many impossible difficulties by becoming an MD and a specialist. Most people never surpass the difficulties that lie in your past. You can beastly smash whatever obstacles lay before you.

Take care and I wish you all the best as you go forward!

This book is a little off from the nuts-and-bolts that you seem to be looking for, but is excellent and I really enjoyed it in re-examining the structure of a private practice and how patients interact with it-


https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Goats-Pap-Smears-Adventures/dp/0985710306/

1. For ethical questions, be willing to make a decision. Don't waffle. There isn't always a right answer, they're just looking for you to be a decision maker.
   
2. don't let your emotions get the best of you. Control them. Act confident. You're going to be way more scared when you get out in clinic and they need to know you're can be professional under pressure.
   
3. Encourage the other interviewees. Show you're a team player. Don't talk about how nervous you are.
   
4. If you don't feel you can be articulate, though it's really not necessary, you can try using a book like this to help you: https://www.amazon.com/Case-Files-Medical-Ethics-Professionalism/dp/0071839623/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1504474859&sr=8-26&keywords=medical+ethics

Found it on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Goats-Pap-Smears-Adventures/dp/0985710306/ref=nodl_

Not only is this a real book, it got a 4.8/5 star rating from a whopping 368 people!

You might find this book worth reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Explain-Pain-David-Butler/dp/0987342665

It's expensive, but you might be able to track down a copy at a library.

https://www.amazon.com/Explain-Pain-David-Butler/dp/0987342665

You may be able to get it cheaper elsewhere, though.

If you eat too much blue cheese, you can literally get very freaking ill.
Check it out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GIWH46W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Not to be snarky, but the cutting edge research says it's all placebo or neurophysiologic at best. Meaning nearly any novel stimulus could have resulted in the same response.

The alternative hypothesis that everyone hates can be found on www.painscience.com and in the book explain pain as well as aches and pains. If read those resources you will never go back to manual therapy as a mechanical means of alleviating pain and restoring function.

https://www.amazon.com/Louis-Gifford-Aches-Pains/dp/0953342352

https://www.amazon.com/Explain-David-Butler-Lorimer-Moseley/dp/0987342665/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=T1P9ZAV0ATF9P88BFPHZ

I have had the same experience with my back pain in recent months. I read a book called Explain Pain by a specialist in chonic pain who talks about the interaction between pain, threat signals in the brain, and stress. Educating myself helped a bit, because the truth (for me) is the pain was always there, but now i can learn coping skills to deal with it. Its not easy though, part of my current coping skills involves antidepressants to break some of the connection between stress amd my pain. Heres a link to the book if it helps. https://www.amazon.com/Explain-David-Butler-Lorimer-Moseley/dp/0987342665