Abstract
Chapter 7 explores elements in the rhetoric of medicine that impede physicians’ assessments of their own health, wellness, and competence to practice. The Hippocratic texts are shaped by a rhetoric of disembodiment. In case studies, physicians appear as narrators of sickness rather than participants in efforts to combat it. The idea of the disembodied physician also plays a significant role in the rhetoric of modern medicine, obscuring the physician’s own physicality and impeding proper assessment of physical capacities. In order to provide excellent healthcare, physicians must recognize, assess, and ameliorate burnout and aging in their trainees, their peers, and themselves.
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