The Mindful Medical Student: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Staying Who You Are While Becoming Who You Want to Be - Softcover

DR. JEREMY SPIEGEL is a practicing psychiatrist in Portland, Maine. He has written for general, medical, and psychiatric publications. DR. BERNIE SIEGEL is a surgeon, well-known self-help author, patient advocate, and crusader for the humanization of medical education and care.

“The Mindful Medical Student should be required reading for everyone in medical school. More than that, it should be a required course!” (Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom)

“This book can be a valuable resource for any medical student in navigating the sometimes tortuous waters of training in ways that will promote greater sanity, healing, and compassion, both for oneself, and for one’s patients, not just while in school, but across the lifespan of one’s practice.” (Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD., Professor of Medicine emeritus, UMass Medical School, author, Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness)

”Medical school can be an inspiring, lofty experience or an extended exercise in personal degradation. The Mindful Medical Student is a clear, concise guidebook for negotiating the challenges all medical students face. If you want to not just survive medical school, but triumph, this book is highly recommended.” (Larry Dossey, MD, author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things)

“Jeremy Spiegel, one of our former students at Dartmouth Medical School, was always full of wisdom, depth, and perspective, and everyone who interacted with him always seemed to learn something. His new text does more of the same as it shines a useful and practical light on a great truth—it’s important to stay true to yourself and the values that brought you to medicine during the difficult socialization process that is medical school. Dr. Ron Epstein from the University of Rochester School of Medicine has written that “mindfulness” is a very useful and very high level state to achieve in medicine, a state that is even above practicing “evidence based medicine” which has become so much our mantra for medicine today. Jeremy gives practical strategies to become and stay mindful, to hang on to and honor your “true self” despite forces that hinder this and to both preserve your own humanity and share it with others as you mature into physicianhood. Having been a student affairs dean for years, I’ve never seen anything written like this book which possesses Jeremy’s unique perspectives and is informed by his deep understanding of the psyche. It is well worth reading and taking its lessons to heart for anyone on the journey to becoming a doctor.” (Joseph F. O’Donnell, MD, Senior Advising Dean and Director of Community Programs, Dartmouth Medical School)