Physician Patient category: 198 books
Listening for What Matters
Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Effective health care requires physicians tailor care to patients' individual life contexts, including their financial situation, social support, competing responsibilities, and cognitive abilities. Physicians, however, are poorly prepared to consider patients' lives when planning their care. The...
The Compassionate Practitioner
How to create a successful and rewarding practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Focusing on the importance of relationship-building, this handbook explains how to turn new clients into regulars and make your practice flourish.
If you can create trust, loyalty and a sense of safety in new clients, they are more likely to commit to the further appointments needed to experience...
by Mayer B. Davidson, M.D., Stanley H Hsia
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Improving glycemic, lipid, and blood pressure outcomes is the essence of diabetes care. Maintaining consistently positive results is an ongoing challenge for every healthcare professional. After years of clinical practice, Mayer Davidson, MD, has developed a series of algorithmic techniques that can...
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 5)
Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Related Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Cardiovascular, respiratory, and related conditions cause more than 40 percent of all deaths globally, and their substantial burden is rising, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Their burden extends well beyond health effects to include significant economic and societal consequences....
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Diet prescription is essential for all patients with hypertension and, together with an adequate pharmacologic treatment, can allow reduction of pressure values even in more severe cases. This booklet summarizes tha basic principles of correlation between sodium and hypertension, describes the rationale...
Going into hospital?
A guide for patients, carers and families
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Hospitals are a constant presence in the lives of many people. Almost everyone will visit or go into hospital at some point in their life. This can be a confusing experience: the environment is strange, the daily routine is unfamiliar and it is hard to understand the medical language. Going into hospital...
¿Bioingeniería o medicina?
El futuro de la medicina y la formación de los médicos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2012
La medicina asistencial contemporánea en los países tecnológicamente desarrollados abunda en situaciones delicadas y al límite de las posibilidades de la praxis clínica e incluso de la ética, que están propiciando un encarecimiento de la asistencia, el desengaño y desgaste profesional y variados...
Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing
Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.
Based upon training courses taught by the author...
La santé repensée
Cessez de chercher la pilule miracle, agissez différemment
Language: French
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Nous cherchons souvent le remède miracle à nos maux, la pilule qui permettrait d'enrayer rapidement nos symptômes. Il n'existe toutefois aucune solution «toute prête» pour nous prémunir contre les nombreuses maladies chroniques qui prolifèrent actuellement. Cela dit, le Dr Brouillard nous invite...
Shadows in Wonderland
a hospital odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
When TV producer Clin Ludlow is admitted to hospital for an operation, he expects to be home in 10 days. In the event he ends up staying for five months, nearly dying on several occasions, and contracting MRSA. More than nine years later he is still recovering from his experiences. In Shadows in Wonderland...
by Scott McCusker, Blaise Douros
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
With contributions from an esteemed otolaryngologist, talented photographer, and multidisciplinary specialists, Mastering Medical Photography of the Head and Neck demystifies the process of medical photography. The succinct text and high quality images serve as a practical primer for physicians without...
Feel Good Again
A Game-Changing Guide to Creating Wellness, Energy, Joy and an Enthusiasm for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Is waking up with fatigue, aches, and pains getting old for you? Your labwork is ?normal.? Your doctors shrug their shoulders. And you?re left wondering where in the world your energy and vitality could possibly have gone, especially when you?re trying to ?do all the right things.? Dr. Linda Goggin...
Think & Grow Well
Create and Preserve Your Total Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Are you tired of doctors who don't take enough time? Are you sick of medicines that don't solve problems? Would you like to be yourself again instead of wearing the label of a disease? Busy and stressed? Most self-help books teach lifestyle changes after disease strikes. Most wellness books are "how...
by Wolf Pascoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
PRAISE FOR BREATHING FOR TWO:
"In this page-turner, veteran anesthesiologist Pascoe offers a riveting portrait of surgery's most harrowing relationship and a breathtaking (pun intended!) account of what it means to hold another person's life in one's hands." -- Amazon...