Patient Care category: 3822 books
by Jacobi, Jolande
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Age of Anxiety
A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001....
American Healthscare
How the Healthcare Industry's Scare Tactics Have Screwed Up Our Economy - and Our Future.
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
I’m a family physician. I think American healthcare costs too much, and I think physicians are part of the problem. I wrote this book because I’m worried about America’s future. American businesses have become more efficient over the last 10 years, but their employees can’t feel it. Workers...
by John Luciew
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
THIS JUST MIGHT BE THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK YOU READ ALL YEAR.
Your life can change in a heartbeat. None of us know where, when or how. But a catastrophic medical condition lies in wait for us all - or our loved ones. How will we respond? How will our families react? It could be the difference between life -- or death.
by William Henry Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Doctor is a chronicle of the many ordinary and the fewer extraordinary people encountered by one physician during his forty years of practice. It serves as a testament to the grace, poise, and spirit manifested by so many in the midst of tragedies and triumphs, agonies and joys, and dying and living....
Mental Illness and the Body
Beyond Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Using real life case studies of people experiencing mental illness, this book identifies how bodily presentation of patients may reflect certain aspects of their ‘lived experience’.
With reference to a range of theoretical perspectives including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and...
River of Stone, River of Sand
A Story of Medicine and Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In 1964, newly-minted physician Stephen C. Joseph, just out of his internship, undertakes a two-year assignment as the Peace Corps Physician in Nepal. The job has two facets: responsibility for the health and medical care of a hundred young Peace Corps Volunteers scattered over the roadless hills...
Modern Death
How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today’s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about...
Letters From Madelyn
Chronicles of a Caregiver
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Madelyn Kubin was a 70-year-old Kansas farm wife. She appeared to be fragile because of her thinning white hair, macular degeneration, osteoporosis, congestive heart failure, and severe hearing loss. But when her husband Quentin suffered a debilitating stroke, she was forced to summon all of her physical,...
Hold On, Let Go
Facing ALS with courage and hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This “stay positive in difficult times” story is about a man with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) and his wife who writes about their inspiring journey in her blog called ALS With Courage. In Hold On, Let Go, Nadine Sands expands on her blog, which takes her readers from pre-diagnosis...
by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Suffering from kidney failure, or diabetes problem? You want to reserve the process and lead a normal life once more? It can be done.
The main reason for diabetes, or kidney failure is due to ... diet. Your daily sodium intake is too high. You have to learn how to control your diet from now,...
A Hospital Bed at Home
Family stories of caregiving from diagnosis to death
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2014
A Hospital Bed at Home is a linked collection of true stories about the experience of being a carer during the weeks, months and years that can stretch between the day someone you love is diagnosed with an incurable, fatal disease and the day of his or her death.
Couples facing separation...
The New Arthritis Breakthrough
The Only Medical Therapy Clinically Proven to Produce Long-term Improvement and Remission of RA, Lupus, Juvenile RS, Fibromyalgia, Scleroderma, Spondyloarthropathy, & Other Inflammatory Forms of Arthritis
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1998
...can be miraculous for rheumatoid arthritis sufferers.— Health & Healing, Tomorrow's Medicine Today
The Danger Within Us
America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
"Before you get anything implanted in your body, read this book." - Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated
**Did you know...
- Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.
- An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical...