Physician Patient category: 198 books
Surviving Your Doctors
Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the...
by Ann Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
You've heard of hospice care, but you prefer not to think about it. Dying is such an uncomfortable topic, we all avoid it. In ignorance, we fear the worst.
This book will change your whole view. Taking you behind the scenes of end-of-life care, you will see the enormous efforts of nurses, doctors,...
by Rob Myers, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries.
Depressed and lonely, a man decides that pills and alcohol are too gentle an exit. How did he end up in the drivers seat without his head?
Drunken neighbours decide that beautifying the hedges on their property...
How to Talk to Your Doctor
Getting the Answers and Care You Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Showing patients how to take control of their own health care, this guide reveals how to navigate the maze of prescriptions and tests and offers advice for those who act as medical advocates for their children, aging parents, or others.
Ultimate Health
Finding It
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Western health related industries employ more people, consume more money, and have more dependent adherents than any other activity involving the entire population. Since the early 1900s, life expectancy at birth has increased from about 50 years to the low 80s. However, not all interventions have been...
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...
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,...
by John Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
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Wе аrе manipulated оn a dаіlу bаѕіѕ by all sorts of реорlе. Oftеn, this mаnірulаtіоn іѕ ԛuіtе ѕubtlе аnd іt may take us аgеѕ tо recognise іt...
Design for Care
Innovating Healthcare Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
by Dr. Randy D. Kearns
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
From Wilmington, Fayetteville, Greenville, New Bern, Elizabeth City, Wilson, Kinston, Goldsboro, and many points in between, this book offers a brief look at many of the historical asylums and sanatoriums, as well as temporary hospitals of war and disaster, in Eastern North Carolina. It shows what...
by Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
All over the world, even as you read this, mothers in poor countries struggle to deliver their babies without lifesaving medical care. This is, perhaps, the last unreached frontier of modern medicine. Walk with Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese as she extends a hand of compassion and professional care...
Overdiagnosed
Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument...
The Breast Cancer Survival Manual, Sixth Edition
A Step-by-Step Guide for Women with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
One of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on breast cancer treatment and survival, completely revised and updated
The sixth edition of Breast Cancer Survival Manual provides essential updates on treatment and care, enhancing the basic information that has made this the most trusted...
Alabama and the Borderlands
From Prehistory To Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto...