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HOW CAN I HELP?
A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist
On October 5th, 2010, a 53 year-old man named Daryl Orzech jumped to his death from his apartment balcony. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder as a teenager, Daryl had ridden the illness's ups and downs for more than 30 years. He had been Dr. David Goldblom's patient for more than a decade.
What is it like to be a psychiatrist and to know the pain and intimacy of people's struggles with mental illness? What is the impact of the suffering and the recovery of people with mental illness on families and the clinicians who treat them? People have long feared mental illness and, by extension, the people who experience them. Will it ever be different? Is there reason for hope?
How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David Goldbloom as he treats patients, communicates with families, and trains staff at CAMH, the largest psychiatric facility in Canada. This highly readable and touching behind-the-scenes account puts a human face on an often misunderstood area of medical expertise. By demystifying a profession that has undergone profound change over the past 25 years, a profession that is often misunderstood by the public and the media, and even by doctors themselves, How Can I Help? offers a compassionate, realistic picture of a branch of medicine that is entering a new phase, as increasingly we are able to decode the mysteries of the brain and offer new hope for sufferers of mental illness.
DR. DAVID GOLDBLOOM is one of the world's leading psychiatrists and spokespeople on mental health and is the Senior Medical Advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. He is a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association and has received numerous accolades. He attended Harvard University, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and McGill University. In 2014, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
DR. PIER BRYDEN is a psychiatrist and clinical teacher in the Department of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children, the Pre-clerkship Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She has served as Canadian Liaison to the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is an editor of Ars Medica, a medical literary journal published by the University of Toronto Press.
How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David Goldbloom as he treats patients, communicates with families, and trains staff at CAMH, the largest psychiatric facility in Canada. This highly readable and touching behind-the-scenes account puts a human face on an often misunderstood area of medical expertise. By demystifying a profession that has undergone profound change over the past 25 years, a profession that is often misunderstood by the public and the media, and even by doctors themselves, How Can I Help? offers a compassionate, realistic picture of a branch of medicine that is entering a new phase, as increasingly we are able to decode the mysteries of the brain and offer new hope for sufferers of mental illness.
DR. DAVID GOLDBLOOM is one of the world's leading psychiatrists and spokespeople on mental health and is the Senior Medical Advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. He is a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association and has received numerous accolades. He attended Harvard University, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and McGill University. In 2014, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
DR. PIER BRYDEN is a psychiatrist and clinical teacher in the Department of Psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children, the Pre-clerkship Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She has served as Canadian Liaison to the Ethics Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is an editor of Ars Medica, a medical literary journal published by the University of Toronto Press.
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