Physician category: 198 books
What Your Doctor Really Thinks
Diagnosing the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Q. You’ve been sent for a stress test. Does this mean your doctor thinks there’s something wrong with your heart?
A. Not necessarily. Doctors often schedule stress tests when they are certain a patient’s heart is healthy. So why the test?
In What Your Doctor Really Thinks, Ian...
The Patient's Playbook
How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it.
The Patient’s...
by Larry Karp
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“We called it THE VUE, and without a doubt, that was the most complimentary nickname Bellevue Hospital ever had.” So begins The View from the Vue, an “entertaining, colorful recall” (Publishers Weekly) of life a half-century ago at New York City’s medical court of last resort.
Between...
Reality Stories of Medicine
Things About Patient Care You Don't Learn at School
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This e-book is intended for healthcare providers at any level, students or practitioners. It contains six chapters of "real life" medical stories with over 300 observations learned from the day to day life of a practicing internist and subspecialist. Dr. Gullberg is a physician who has been...
Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients
Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Physicians who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses face daunting communication challenges. Patients and family members can react to difficult news with sadness, distress, anger, or denial. This book defines the specific communication tasks involved in talking with patients with life-threatening...
by Mark H. Swartz, MD, FACP
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Derive the maximum diagnostic information from interviewing and examining patients with Textbook of Physical Diagnosis. Employing a compassionate, humanistic approach, Dr. Swartz explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs,...
Staying Alive
The Signs That You Have to See a Doctor Right Now (and the Ways to Avoid Having to See One Again)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Staying Alive is the ultimate medical survival guide for the twenty-first-century patient. Written by the award-winning family physician Dr. Matthew Hahn, the book details what most effectively saves patients’ lives and keeps them well. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dr. Hahn teaches you to...
by Jonathan Herman & Teri Smieja
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This original book combines the perspective of a practicing Obstetrics/Gynecologist and a BRCA1 positive patient who met online. Through their mutual desire to help people who live with the threat or actuality of BRCA mutations and Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (HBOC), Dr. Herman and...
The Quality Playbook
A Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The Quality Playbook and the companion Workbook (which you can purchase separately on the publisher's website www.SecondRiverHealthcare.com) are about creating great clinical outcomes and safer care for patients, families, and communities; creating healthcare organizations that rank at the top...
by Kimberly Kinder
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Medical students and residents receive a lot of formal training in basic science and hands-on patient care. However, much of what you need to know to be an effective physician really boils down to communication skills. This book explores the nuances of the doctor-patient relationship, communication...
by Paula S. Bauer, MD; Mark C. Horattas, MD; George L. Litman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Masterful medicine is the pursuit of perfection. Perfection may be unattainable, but the relentless pursuit of perfection is available to all who have courage, determination and perseverance. Masters of any endeavor learn with practice to be the very best. They learn with equal measure from their successes,...
by Ian R McWhinney, Thomas Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Highly acclaimed in its first two editions, Ian R. McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice, McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine...
by Elaine Holt MD
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
**Dr. Elaine Holt is not your average doctor. **Her medical practice is small, while her heart for her patients is huge. The Doctor Next Door is a collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people. The stories spotlight the physician as a down-to-earth person, sometimes flawed and unnervingly...
by Gian Pasquale Ganzit, Luca Stefanini
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Regular exercise can improve the quality of life, reduce major risk factors of cardiovascular diseases, such as levels of cholesterol, overweight, and diabetes. Therefore, patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases, such as arrhythmias, hypertension, or heart failure, should exercise regularly....