Physician category: 198 books
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...
Medical Catastrophe
Confessions of an Anesthesiologist
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Unnecessary death rarely happens at the hands of doctors, but it does happen. Sometimes the cause is medical error. But sometimes the cause is politics. The issues underlying many medical catastrophes are numerous: a power struggle between providers, uncertainty over who’s in charge, hesitation...
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...
Your Patient Safety Survival Guide
How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates.
It takes a village to combat preventable errors...
Talking to Your Doctor
A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The last time you went to your doctor, you might have emerged feeling dissatisfied and disoriented. Nothing was clear after you left the office, and you don’t know whether it’s your fault or the doctor’s. While patients need to take control of the visit and set their agenda, the latest research...
Med School 101 for Patients
A Patient’S Guide to Creating an Exceptional Doctor Visit
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This step-by-step guide will share strategies on preparing for doctor visits and communicating with doctors to get the most out of limited time. Taking the approach of working with your physicians as patient partners, the book suggests you first see your doctors as human beings. Learn their backgrounds,...
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...
The Knowledgeable Patient
Communication and Participation in Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcare
The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing 21st century landscape. The 'knowledgeable patient' as an individual can take...
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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...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehova's Witness trauma patient
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic...
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...