Having worked as a manager in the healthcare sector since 1990, Meri İstiroti has gained a better understanding of the difficult aspects of the medical profession and the depth of the decisions made every day regarding patient treatments.
She realized that ordinary citizens see doctors as members of a marvelous profession, individuals ‘who cannot be overcome.’ Therefore, she created this book to convey what a challenging journey doctors embark upon from the day they enter the profession until they reach professional maturity. Alongside the risky decisions they make in the treatment of many patients during their professional lives, this book includes real stories about communication accidents with patients and their relatives, as well as with their own institutions and colleagues. It also features the memoirs of doctors, woven with both tragic and tragicomic events.
The book in your hands has been compiled to show the other side of the coin regarding this profession and to open the doors to the backstage that shapes the lives of doctors. In 2010, she set out to share her most interesting memories with some of the leading doctors in our country, so they could share with you situations they experienced, which are sometimes sad, sometimes risky, and sometimes funny. While similar examples of these experiences occur anywhere, anytime, we now leave you to enjoy these stories that will sometimes make you laugh, sometimes amaze you, and sometimes bring you to tears.