Magic Moments in Health Care

With profound simplicity this book captures the challenges that healthcare workers face on a daily basis. Healthcare workers are searching for ways to continue the human-side of their work among the technological, disease oriented, and hospital-based approaches and other healthcare challenges. Magic Moments in Healthcare is an inspiring practical resource with exercises, stories, and tools that gently guide, inform, renew and enlighten healthcare professionals both personally and in their quest for creating meaningful healing relationships with patients. "A timely reminder of how caring for others can bring happiness to the caregiver. Magic Moments in Health Care offers practical and heartfelt advice on how to change one's mindset from feeling overburdened by responsibility to experiencing a quiet sense of joy at knowing that one is helping to ease the suffering of fellow human beings." David R. Shlim, M.D., co-author of Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama's Guidance for Caregivers "Healthcare providers will gravitate toward the genuine compassion and insight that Donna shares in helping professionals to keep their sense of humor, their sanity, but most importantly their passion and joy in serving each of their patients through their unique health care journeys." Kim Frache, Director Mental Health and Addictions Services, Alberta Health Services