Patient Care category: 3822 books
Alcohol and Drug Misuse
A Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Written by an experienced academic author, lecturer and practitioner, this comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to alcohol and drug misuse. It presents:
the context of alcohol and drug misuse, and the nature and theories of addiction, including a historical overview and policy initiatives...
Palliative Care
Handbuch für Pflege und Begleitung
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Menschen in der letzten Lebensphase zu begleiten, stellt alle Begleitende vor viele Herausforderungen und Fragen. Das bewährte Handbuch „Palliative Care“ gibt Antworten. Darin finden professionell Pflegende und Begleitende in palliativen Arbeitsfeldern – ob ambulant oder stationär – alle...
Living with Cancer
A Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
In June 2009, Andrew Griffith’s life turned upside down with his diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma. Join Andrew through his treatment, recovery, relapse and further treatment over a three year period, as he is faced with numerous physical, emotional...
Stricken
Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Develop a better understanding of what CFS/CFIDS sufferers are going through!
In the 1980s, a strange emerging epidemic baffled doctors in Incline Village, Nevada. Dismissed by the media as “The Yuppie Flu,” Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) turned out to be neither a...
Awake at the Bedside
Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This book isn’t about dying. It’s about life and what life has to teach us. It’s about caring and what giving care really means.
In Awake at the Bedside, pioneers of palliative and end-of-life care as well as doctors, chaplains, caregivers and even poets offer wisdom that will challenge,...
A Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when...
by Ira Byock
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
**From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well.
Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone.**
This is Ira Byock's dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. Dying Well brings...
Routine Miracles
Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
“This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients’ stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone...
by Jerome Groopman
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2008
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences....
Pale Faces
The Masks of Anemia
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book— the first volume in the Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series—is at the forefront of the current popular trend in medical writing that includes the work of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, in which doctors examine themselves and their profession to expose how science, art, and...
Singular Intimacies
Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. When Danielle Ofri first enters the doors as a medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine. It is here that Dr. Ofri...
Born in the USA
How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and...
Reflective Writing in Medical Practice
A Linguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book reports the results of a linguistic analysis of reflective written texts, produced during medical education or practice. It explores the topics and communication skills the authors write about, how the narratives develop, how these texts are shaped, what genres influence their composition,...
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...