Physician category: 198 books
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...
Heroes Need Not Apply
How to Build a Patient-Accountable Culture without Putting More on Your Plate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Everyone in healthcare knows that the lack of accountability negatively impacts care, and when accountability improves throughout your organization, care improves. What healthcare leaders don’t know, is how to improve accountability and why it so critically linked to improving patient care.
Medical Philosophy
A Philosophical Analysis of Patient Self-Perception in Diagnostics and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This innovative book clarifies the distinction between philosophy of medicine and medical philosophy, expanding the focus from the 'knowing that' of the first to the 'knowing how' of the latter. The idea of patient and provider self-discovery becomes the method and strategy at the basis of therapeutic...
Patient Treatment Adherence
Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This new book summarizes the adherence literature for a number of specific health behaviors and populations. It provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions, and measurement of treatment adherence and a synthesis of the research across demographic and chronic diseases. The...
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 Irene S. Switankowsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
A Patient-Centered Approach to the Chronically-Ill addresses the unique needs of chronically-ill patients and the challenges they present for medical doctors. This book features four principles of the patient-centered approach that can be used by physicians in treating chronically-ill patients. By...
Bedside Manners
Play and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Proper health education is a vital component to ensuring patients’ satisfaction, safety, and well-being. To achieve this goal, interdisciplinary collaboration has emerged as an innovative method for promoting healthy living. Healthcare Community Synergism between Patients, Practitioners, and Researchers...
Understanding and Using Health Experiences
Improving patient care
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Improving patient experience is a global priority for health policy-makers and care providers. The need to look at healthcare delivery through the eyes of patients is widely accepted, but how should it be done? What use can be made of this information, and what evidence is there that such exercises...
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.
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Manuel de soins palliatifs à domicile
Language: French
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Un guide essentiel pour comprendre les soins palliatifs et les besoins des patients en fin de vieSi ce livre est avant tout destiné aux médecins généralistes et aux soignants du domicile, il pourra être utile à tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux soins palliatifs et cherchent à compléter leurs connaissances,...
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...