Physicians category: 57 books
by Stephen D. Silberstein, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
A new edition to the HHC Library, Contemporary Guide to Headache and Its Disorders™ is written by Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, the Director of the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the current editor of Headache Review. Headache patients, especially...
by Nina Iovenko
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Good relational skills, exceptional reasoning abilities, and a desire to help people are all necessary to be a success as a physician's assistant. The physician's assistant is an indispensable addition to the practices of internists, primary care physicians and emergency care facilities. Their work...
Make Your Move
A Physician's Guide to Clinical and Non-Clinical Alternatives to Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
The doctor’s work is one of honor, integrity, and knowledge. It is one of benevolence and the desire to help others so that they may live in wellness and in health. But the doctor’s work is also one of sacrifice. In the process of seeing patients, running a successful practice, and taking emergency...
by Paul Austin
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
“What makes this inspiring medical memoir stand out is the courageous measure of Austin’s humanity.”—Publishers Weekly
In this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of long, erratic shifts and endless hordes of patients with sad stories sent...
by Jeffrey B. Nordella M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Jeffrey Nordella grew up in near poverty, yet he succeeded in earning a medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine. He married his soulmate, had three beautiful children, and spent each day at his family and urgent care clinic doing what doctors are supposed to do and what he loved: caring for people.He...
by Susan Kersley
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Leaving the medical profession, whether through retirement, a planned career change or one dictated by circumstances, can be a difficult transition. There may be opposition from others and from inside themselves. They may be worried about what to do next and find their expertise and professional status...
Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.
Praise for the second edition:
"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes readers to the edge of a world of grueling realities not known by most...
Smart Medicine
How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping...
by Jerome Groopman
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2008
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences....
Touched By Fire
Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
When the rapes and massacres, the plagues, the famines, the floods, or the droughts erupt in far-off places, the world stands still. MSF does not.
They are the “smoke jumpers” among international aid organizations. While others are often stymied or delayed by bureaucratic red tape, the...
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....
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...
Doctors in Denial
Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant,...
Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that...