Patient Care category: 3822 books
Health Care in Rural China
Lessons from HeBei Province
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions in the social, historical and political context...
Ryan House
In the Heart of Phoenix
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In the Heart of Phoenix was written to share the possibility of your community being able to create a sustainable model of world-class caregiving that provides respite, palliative and hospice care for children and their families who are navigating life-limiting or end-of-life journeys. Award winning...
Safe Passage
A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The study and practice of end-of-life care has seen an increasing understanding of the need for care that integrates clinical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, and ethical expertise. Yet, no one existing volume pulls together perspectives from a diverse array of religions with ethical dilemmas and...
The Word As Scalpel
A History of Medical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
"A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human...
Understanding Healthcare
a historical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Freedom in Health Care, by Kenneth A. Fisher, MD. Feb. 2016, 154 pages. With tables, reading list, and footnotes. (ISBN: 9780997151107)
Dr. Fisher provides the reader an in-depth understanding of how we got into this controversial, overly expensive, exceedingly complex and bureaucratic healthcare...
Inside the Dementia Epidemic
A Daughter's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Life Stories category of the 20th Annual Writer's Digest Book Awards, Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir is the unflinching and hopeful story of one woman's journey into family caregiving, and a vivid overview of the challenges of Alzheimer's care....
A Lucky Life Interrupted
A Memoir of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR • A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life—from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years
Tom...
The Blood of Strangers
Stories from Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing...
Becoming Dead Right
A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving...
Suburban Shaman
tales from medicine's frontline
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Medicine is not just about science. It's also all about stories, and about the mingling of narratives among doctors, and between them and their patients.' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in and around London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist,...
The Good Caregiver
A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.
As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly...
The Best Practice
How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
In the late 1990s, treatment-related deaths or complications” were the fifth leading cause of death for Americans. Spurred by the crisis, a group of dedicated physicians like Paul Batalden and Don Berwick made it their goal to study the concepts of quality improvement” used at Toyota and NASA,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death - and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades,...
Making Medicare
The Politics of Universal Health Care in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that is often taken for granted. But the road there wasn’t easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of Australia’s long, tortuous, and unconventional path toward universal health care—as it was established, abolished,...