LocumLife - March 2009 - (Page 29) PSYCHIATRIST ON THE ROAD T he stories in this book convey a wealth of wisdom and compassion—along with an introspective look. Says Dr. Climo, “I began reconnecting with some familiar, and some notso-familiar, insights into my specialty and myself. I recall the obvious and humbling revelation regarding the mystique of my profession. “During those locum tenens tours, what I suddenly began seeing with unexpected clarity was not really about psychiatry. It did not even involve psychiatrists or psychiatric treatment; rather it was about healing. Likewise, I came to appreciate how much the power of words lies, not in their meaning but in the magic of the stories they tell.” Psychiatrist on the Road: Encounters in Healing and Healthcare (ISBN: 13: 978-0980175813), a 208-page hardcover book by Lawrence H. Climo, MD, will be available soon for $18.95 through Bay Tree Publishing. For further details, see www.baytreepublish.com. Interested? Circle Career Card No. 604 or go to www.locumlife.com/readerservice Care, based in Irving, Texas. The opportunity was located at a community hospital in a small New England town. I enjoyed the lifestyle so much that I accepted six other engagements that included inpatient and outpatient care, emergency services, admitting unit coverage, and consultation/liaison services at Veteran Administration and Indian Health facilities. BROADENING PERSPECTIVES To this day, I do not know where to place the credit for that invigorating www.LocumLife.com renewal and change in career. How much, for example, ought I attribute to our visit to the Indian Nations of the Southwest, where we listened to their drumbeats, and also to the profound silence of the desert? How much to the single prayer feather we hung in our living room bay window, around the time my wife, Diane, began her weaving lessons with a Navajo artisan? Or to the horseback ride that we took into Canyon de Chelly to view the Anasazi ruins and rethink old perspectives? Perhaps it was when the train shook our cabin in the MARCH 2009 LocumLife 29 Interested? Circle Career Card No. 610 or go to www.locumlife.com/readerservice http://www.JacksonCoker.com http://www.JacksonCoker.com http://www.locumlife.com/readerservice http://www.baytreepublish.com http://www.tivahealthcare.com http://www.tivahealthcare.com http://www.LocumLife.com http://www.locumlife.com/readerservice
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