Physician category: 198 books
by Mitchell D. Feldman, John F. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
The #1 guide to behavioral issues in medicine Thorough, practical discussion of the full scope of the physician-patient relationship
The goal of Behavioral Medicine is to help practitioners and students understand the interplay between psychological, physical, social and cultural issues of patients....
The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn
A Pellegrino Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need to place humanism in the medical curriculum, the nature of the patient’s good, and the importance of...
by Mike Edwin Nelson, Burtch Bennett Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
In A Barber’s Guide to Life, Medicine, and Faith, Mike Nelson shares the important lessons he learned in an American institution . . . the barber shop. As an apprentice barber to Mike Read of Mike’s Barber Shop in Lilburn, Georgia, Nelson learned not only how to cut hair but many essential life...
Our Parents in Crisis
Confronting Medical Errors, Ageist Doctors, And Other Healthcare Failings
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
On the evening of Friday, June 7, 2002, 78-year-old Fern Sjoerdsma lay in a Chesapeake, Va., hospital bed, moaning and breathing rapidly and laboriously. Her whole body seemed bloated, especially her legs. She failed to respond coherently to questions that her daughter Ann asked and acted irritated by...
The Word As Scalpel
A History of Medical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
"A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human...
Every Patient Tells a Story
Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
"The experience of...
Slow Medicine
The Way to Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review
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Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than...
Don't Let Your Doctor Kill You
How to Beat Physician Arrogance, Corporate Greed and a Broken System
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How do you take charge of your health and stop turning over your life to our confusing and intimidating healthcare system before it’s too late?
Dr. Erika Schwartz believes that today’s patient is but a leaf blowing in the wind of group-think protocols, corrupt medical societies,...
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...
Shapeshifters
A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life
To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo--such as...
Life on the Ground Floor
Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
***Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.**
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction,...
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...
by Dr. Neil MacKinnon and Dr. Rhonda Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Take As Directed gives Canadians a much-needed guidebook to safely navigate our encounters with health-care providers and optimize the management of our own health. In recent years evidence indicating that our health-care system can be made safer has emerged. Here a family physician and a pharmacy...
Adventures in Human Being
A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
"Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart."
--Wall Street Journal
We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone...