Physician category: 198 books
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced,...
The Fight of Our Life
A True Story of Crisis, Hope, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
It was a virtual death sentence.
The resident at the hospital had just said, "We are recommending Bill be sent to a nursing home. He has some cognitive issues and is unlikely to benefit from rehabilitation."
Complications had set in ten days after successful brain...
A Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when...
Incidental Findings
Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the "essence of becoming and being a doctor," Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of big-city medicine. In Incidental Findings, she's finished her training and is learning through...
Surviving Your Doctors
Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the...
Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now
Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical advice that may or may not be relevant or even appropriate. Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now is meant...
by Ann Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
You've heard of hospice care, but you prefer not to think about it. Dying is such an uncomfortable topic, we all avoid it. In ignorance, we fear the worst.
This book will change your whole view. Taking you behind the scenes of end-of-life care, you will see the enormous efforts of nurses, doctors,...
by Rob Myers, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries.
Depressed and lonely, a man decides that pills and alcohol are too gentle an exit. How did he end up in the drivers seat without his head?
Drunken neighbours decide that beautifying the hedges on their property...
Singular Intimacies
Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. When Danielle Ofri first enters the doors as a medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine. It is here that Dr. Ofri...
How to Talk to Your Doctor
Getting the Answers and Care You Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Showing patients how to take control of their own health care, this guide reveals how to navigate the maze of prescriptions and tests and offers advice for those who act as medical advocates for their children, aging parents, or others.
Hippocrates' Shadow
Secrets from the House of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern medicine was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. Hippocrates believed in the doctor-patient connection and gained worldwide renown for championing...
Proper Doctoring
A Book for Patients and their Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
“People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone....
Ultimate Health
Finding It
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Western health related industries employ more people, consume more money, and have more dependent adherents than any other activity involving the entire population. Since the early 1900s, life expectancy at birth has increased from about 50 years to the low 80s. However, not all interventions have been...
The Unspoken Words
What Every Health Care Professional Would Love to Say to a Patient and Can’T.
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
You would not believe what patients say to their health-care providers. I am not breaking any confidentiality rules, but I am giving you an insight into what we have to deal with to provide quality care. Hopefully, you learn how not to communicate with your health-care provider. Health-connected readers will be able to relate to this book and hopefully enjoy it.