Title Page -- Contributing Authors -- Dedication -- Kindness -- Preface Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Mindful Medical Practice -- Chapter 2. Mindful Rounds, Narrative Medicine, House Calls and Other Stories -- Chapter 3. Lost Heart(beat)/Broken(body) -- Chapter 4. Working with Groups Mindfully -- Chapter 5. The Opera of Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Mindful Psychiatrist: Being Present with Suffering -- Chapter 7. The Death of a Snowflake -- Chapter 8. Carmen's Story -- Chapter 9. A Mindful Life in Medicine: One Pediatrician's Reflections on Being Mindful -- Chapter 10. Embodied Wisdom: Meeting Experience through the Body -- Chapter 11: Minding Baby Abigale -- Chapter 12. Mindfulness in Oncology: Healing Through Relationship -- Chapter 13. Choosing to Survive: A Change in Reproductive Plans -- Chapter 14. Mindfulness in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts -- Chapter 15. In the Heart of Cancer -- Chapter 16. Hiking on the Eightfold Path -- Chapter 17. Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance Through Mindfulness: One Nephrologist's Experiences -- Chapter 18. Richard's Embers -- Chapter 19. Mindful Decisions in Urogynecological Surgery: Paths from Awareness to Action -- Chapter 20. The Good Mother -- Chapter 21. I Am My Brother's Keeper -- Chapter 22. The Mindful Shift -- Chapter 23. Lifeline -- Chapter 24. Medical Students' Voices: Reflections on Mindlessness During Clinical Encounters -- Chapter 25. Growth and Freedom in 5 Chapters -- Chapter 26. A Wounded Healer's Reflections on Healing -- Chapter 27. Mindfulness, Presence and Whole Person Care -- Chapter 28. Mindful Attitudes Open Hearts in Clinical Practice -- Index.