Physician Patient category: 198 books
Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures....
Queen of the Professions
The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
American medicine is under serious attack. The health care system is falling short of its major goal, improving the health of the population. The United States ranks only 35th in world life expectancy. But where American medicine arguably remains at a pinnacle in the world – in the status, wealth...
Mapping Uncertainty in Medicne
What to do when you don't know what to do?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Uncertainty is the norm in medical practice, yet often gives rise to distress in clinicians, who fear they will make shameful or guilt inducing errors. This book offers a succinct method to clinicians for classifying uncertainty and finding the right skills to manage different types of uncertainty...
by Gian Pasquale Ganzit, Luca Stefanini
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by reduced bone strength leading to an increased risk of fractures. It can strike at any age, although the risk for developing the disease increases consistently with age, and can affect women and men of all races and ethnic groups. A comprehensive treatment...
Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care
Conversations Inviting Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person’s emerging story the central focus of health and social care, and of healing.
This text gives...
The Littlest Caregiver
Excerpt From The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A doctor asked on Twitter, "What's one thing you wished you knew when you had to look after one of your own family members?"
I needed over 1000 words to respond, although my 140 character-answer is this: I wish I'd known better how to just sit still, or at least act normally, with...
by GERALD L. EVANS, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Written by a cardiologist with 40+ years of experience treating heart disease and finding that helping patients make healthy lifestyle changes was more effective than pills and procedures.
Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies
Concepts, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Electronic healthcare technologies support the interaction between patients and health-service providers, institution-to-institution transmission of data, and peer-to-peer communication between patients and health professionals. These technologies promise to deliver significant improvements in access...
by Mike Haskins, Clive Whichelow
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
What seems to be the problem?
Your job is rewarding, but if you're going to be faced with the horrors of the human body, you're going to need survival skills:
Think positively: At least you aren’t suffering from these ailments. Well, not yet...
Reassure yourself: One day you...
Healthcare Choices
5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Making healthcare decisions is hard, but making the right choices has never mattered more.
Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Care You Want and Needgives you the tools you need to choose the best medical care—for you. Archelle Georgiou, MD, explainsher CARES model, the formula she...
After Cancer: Penguin Special
A Guide to Living Well
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
As medical care improves, Australians are surviving cancer in increasing numbers. But there is little information about life post-treatment - what are some common themes and long-term side effects that people can expect to encounter?
With warmth and vigour, After Cancer demystifies the aftermath of...
Climbing Back
A Family's Journey through Brain Injury
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After her son, a Harvard sophomore, suffers a potentially devastating brain injury, Elise Rosenhaupt and her family find their orderly world turned upside down. Climbing Back chronicles their extraordinary, transformative journey of realignment and recovery—illuminating mysteries and miracles...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Every accredited American hospital is required to have a mechanism for handling ethical concerns; most hospitals satisfy this requirement by constituting an institutional healthcare ethics committee (HEC), a pattern which is repeated in most western countries. This text provides definitive, comprehensive...
Death and Dollars
Solving the Epidemic of Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Death and Dollars: Solving the Epidemic of Chronic Disease is a guide to navigating through the ever-changing field of healthcare while incorporating technology and other advancements to improve the quality of care and decrease illness, simultaneously improving and extending lives. The medical crisis...