"This is a wonderful, unique book because it spans almost forty years in the careers of a group of physicians. It deals with important questions about aspects of career satisfaction from interpersonal relationships to health care reform. As a physician still in clinical practice, whose career evolved during the same period covered by these interviews, the book evoked some deep reflection on my own career."
~Oliver Fein, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
"Drawing on in-depth interviews of physicians that span their 35-year careers, Terry Mizrahi provides a unique, insightful account of early, mid-, and late-stage achievements, frustrations, and challenges from the 1980s through the second decade of the 21st century. Well organized and clearly written, this book will interest families, professionals, sociologists, and educators."
~Donald W. Light, author of Becoming Psychiatrists: the Professional Transformation of Self
"Mizrahi's compelling portrait of physicians' career trajectories speaks to the failure of American health policy. Buffeted by waves of policy changes that failed to address key problems, many practitioners ended their careers profoundly dissatisfied, lamenting encroachments on their autonomy and feeling less valued by society."
~Martin Shapiro, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
"From Residency to Retirement is a unique, engaging, and very personal study of a group of over twenty physicians. Mizrahi’s work, notable for its longitudinal depth, personal information, and relation to the enormity of changes in the medical profession over the period, includes the cohort's struggles, professional and personal, all in the context of patient care and practices during the study period. It is unique, well-written, important, and timely. I highly recommend it."
~Ira Mehlman, Medical Corps physician
“From the War on Poverty to Obamacare, health activist and scholar Terry Mizrahi explores the careers of a cohort of physicians trained together in internal medicine, as they navigated our continuously changing health system. Her powerful new insights shed important light on the very human dimensions of the practice of medicine during its dramatic transformation over the last forty years.”
~Hal Strelnick, professor of Family & Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"In this incredible followup to her now classic work, Getting Rid of Patients, Mizrahi has provided us an incredible gift: a 'follow-up' on this cohort as they navigated their own lives, and the vast changes in medical practice that have overtaken them. It should give every young student aspiring to be a physician pause, as they think about entering medicine as a profession. They may—or may not—know what they are getting into."
~David K. Rosner, author of Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
"Mizrahi’s latest book can be read alone or as a wonderfully informative sequel to Getting Rid of Patients, her earlier exploration of the career journeys of White male physicians. From Residency to Retirement begins with many of these same men 40+ years later sharing their stories. Through these narratives we learn how, over these years, these doctors and the medical profession have endured and adapted to an ever-changing often tumultuous environment."
~Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D., LISW, Professor, Dean Emeritus, and Director, Social Justice Initiative; Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research; and Special and Assistant to the President for Community Partnerships at Bryn Mawr College
