Physician Patient category: 198 books
Proper Doctoring
A Book for Patients and their Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
“People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone....
The Secrets of Medical Decision Making
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical...
Chasing Hope
A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.
Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening...
by Danielle Ofri
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?
Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what...
The Secret Language of Doctors
Cracking the Code of Hospital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Most people have visited a doctor’s office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases...
I Will Need to Break Your Other Leg
tales of medical adventure and misadventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In these often hilarious, and always thought-provoking tales of medical intrigue and misadventure, drawn from the author's experiences as a doctor in rural Nepal and the inner-city wildernesses of the UK, Prasanna Gautam encounters medical conundrums with some very surprising outcomes. But there is...
Making Sense of Medicine
Bridging the Gap between Doctor Guidelines and Patient Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The more we know about medicine, the more we realize that many health questions have no one true answer. Realizing this, and thinking carefully about how medicine asks patients to treat their conditions, leads us to some questions. How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’...
Love, Fear, and Health
How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology,...
Heroes Need Not Apply
How to Build a Patient-Accountable Culture without Putting More on Your Plate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Everyone in healthcare knows that the lack of accountability negatively impacts care, and when accountability improves throughout your organization, care improves. What healthcare leaders don’t know, is how to improve accountability and why it so critically linked to improving patient care.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Proper health education is a vital component to ensuring patients’ satisfaction, safety, and well-being. To achieve this goal, interdisciplinary collaboration has emerged as an innovative method for promoting healthy living. Healthcare Community Synergism between Patients, Practitioners, and Researchers...
Med School 101 for Patients
A Patient’S Guide to Creating an Exceptional Doctor Visit
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This step-by-step guide will share strategies on preparing for doctor visits and communicating with doctors to get the most out of limited time. Taking the approach of working with your physicians as patient partners, the book suggests you first see your doctors as human beings. Learn their backgrounds,...
by David Greene MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
The Ultimate Guide to Medical Internet Marketing contains essential information that every practice should incorporate for successful patient acquisition. In this updated second edition, Dr. David Greene lays out the basics of the internet, search engines and websites along with techniques every practice...
by Bradley P. Bengtson, MD
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
With breast augmentation and tumor removal the #1 procedures in cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery, respectively, according to latest ASPS information, this issue on breast augmentation presents discussion of procedures for cosmetic enhancement and for breast reconstruction. The first section...
What Matters in Medicine
Lessons from a Life in Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Primary care has come into the limelight with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the unchecked and unsustainable rise in American health care expenditures, and the crest of Baby Boomers who are now Medicare-eligible and entering the most health care–intensive period of...