Physician Patient category: 198 books
The New Consultation
Developing doctor-patient communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
The Consultation, published almost 20 years ago by the same authors, has been completely rewritten. The New Consultation will be an essential aid for all doctors and their educators to increase the effectiveness of their consultations and to help to make them more patient-centred. It includes theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Industry professionals, government officials, and the general public often agree that the modern healthcare system is in need of an overhaul. With organizations concerned with the long-term care of patients, new strategies, practices, and organizational tools must be developed to optimize the current...
by Brandon van der Kolk
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This book is a comprehensive, easy to understand guide to conducting perfect patient interviews as a physiotherapist. Written by new graduate Physiotherapist Brandon van der Kolk, this book is geared towards new physiotherapists or physiotherapy students, and breaks down everything you should be asking...
The Healing Touch
Keeping the Doctor-Patient Relationship Alive Under Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The traditional doctor-patient relationship is in jeopardy. In an era of “hurry up” medicine and “patient quotas,” health care professionals are no longer able to apply good bedside manner—the healing touch. As the focus shifts from patients to profits, this vital component of patient care...
Incidental Findings
Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the "essence of becoming and being a doctor," Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of big-city medicine. In Incidental Findings, she's finished her training and is learning through...
Bedside Manners
Play and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors,...
The Informed Patient
A Complete Guide to a Hospital Stay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused sections with step-by-step instructions, insights, and tips to illustrate what patients and their families...
Slow Medicine
The Way to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review
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Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than...
Shapeshifters
A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life
To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo--such as...
Life on the Ground Floor
Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
***Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.**
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction,...
by Dr. Neil MacKinnon and Dr. Rhonda Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Take As Directed gives Canadians a much-needed guidebook to safely navigate our encounters with health-care providers and optimize the management of our own health. In recent years evidence indicating that our health-care system can be made safer has emerged. Here a family physician and a pharmacy...
Adventures in Human Being
A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
"Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart."
--Wall Street Journal
We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone...
by Larry Karp
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“We called it THE VUE, and without a doubt, that was the most complimentary nickname Bellevue Hospital ever had.” So begins The View from the Vue, an “entertaining, colorful recall” (Publishers Weekly) of life a half-century ago at New York City’s medical court of last resort.
Between...
Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients
Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Physicians who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses face daunting communication challenges. Patients and family members can react to difficult news with sadness, distress, anger, or denial. This book defines the specific communication tasks involved in talking with patients with life-threatening...