Patient Care category: 3822 books
Giving Blood
The Institutional Making of Altruism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Giving Blood represents a new agenda for blood donation research. It explores the diverse historical and contemporary undercurrents that influence how blood donation takes place, and the social meanings that people attribute to the act of giving blood. Drawing from empirical studies conducted in the...
by Judith A. Paice, Rae F. Bell, Eija A. Kalso
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
An in-depth analysis of basic and clinical research on cancer pain, Cancer Pain: From Molecules to Suffering describes underlying mechanisms of cancer pain and reviews opioid treatment issues, including tolerance. This comprehensive new volume discusses current drug trials and research, clinical trial...
New Drugs on the Street
Changing Inner City Patterns of Illicit Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Learn the public health implications of shifting drug-related risks among the inner city poor
Inner city drug use behavior shifts and changes, leaving past drug treatment programs, drug prevention efforts, health care provisions for drug users, and social service practice unprepared to effectively...
How to Enroll in Medicare Health Insurance
Choose a Medicare Part D Drug Plan and a Medicare Supplement Plan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
How to Enroll in Medicare Health Insurance Pick a Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan and Choose a Medicare Supplement Plan >>>A User Friendly Guide to Enroll in Medicare Health Insurance This book is a user friendly guide to assist you when and how to enroll in Medicare. This guide provides useful...
Assessing and Communicating the Spiritual Needs of Children in Hospital
A new guide for healthcare professionals and chaplains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
What is meant by 'spiritual care'? How can we assess and communicate the needs of a child in hospital effectively if we each have conflicting interpretations of 'spiritual'? This book proposes that we use a language of 'connectedness', which can fully express a child's feelings about, and understanding...
The 168 Hour Caregiving Work Week: Activity Quick Guide
250 Activity Ideas for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
The 24/7 job of caregiving is stressful enough without having the struggle to figure out things for your loved one to do so they are not just staring out a window nodding off throughout the day.
With over 250 activity ideas to help you get started, this book is designed as a quick guide for...
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...
The Behavior of Doctors
Their Health, Their Attitudes, Their Methods
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW DOCTORS BEHAVE - AT BEST , AT WORST AND IN BETWEEN. - WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE AUTHOR'S OBSERVATIONS OF THE EFFECTS, GOOD OR BAD, OF HIS OWN AND HIS COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, ATTITUDES AND METHODS OF WORKING.
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced,...
by Gweneth Wisewould
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Gweneth Wisewould had no direct descendents of her own but the Australian farming community in Central Victoria was as important to her as a family. Moving from Melbourne in the 1930s, she soon became respected and was known only as “The Doctor” for over 30 years. This book recounts her historical...
Backbone
Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An inspirational, powerful, and funny manual for coping and living with devastating pain.
For two decades, Karen Duffy —New York Times bestselling author, former MTV VJ, Revlon model, and actress— has managed to live an enriching life despite living in a state of constant pain. Duffy has...
My Imaginary Illness
A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How Patients Think
At age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and...
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,...