Physician category: 198 books
by Judy Fisk Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Whether you have already been, or want to go, on a Humanitarian Clowning Tour, this day-by-day trip journal will entertain and enlighten you with its informal, conversational and silly style. Clowns from many countries, aged 3 to 74, spent two weeks traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, meeting...
by Iñaki Vázquez
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
"A collection of inspiring, heart-warming, touching stories that will make you laugh, and reflect."Do you like true stories? Of people like us who go through extraordinary situations?In this book Dr. Iñaki Vázquez brings together the most surprising cases he has experienced over the course of his...
Making Sense of Medicine
Bridging the Gap between Doctor Guidelines and Patient Preferences
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The more we know about medicine, the more we realize that many health questions have no one true answer. Realizing this, and thinking carefully about how medicine asks patients to treat their conditions, leads us to some questions. How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’...
Understanding Parkinson's Disease
An Introduction for Patients and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative neurological disease characterized primarily by cognitive deficiencies and problems with muscle movements and tremors; more than a half a million Americans have the disease and the current numbers are expected to increase over the next few years. Understanding...
by Paul J. Schenarts, MD, FACS
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Perioperative Management is reviewed extensively in this important Surgical Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Cardiac risk stratification and protection; Prevention of pulmonary complications; Perioperative nutrition; Prophylactic antibiotics and prevention of post-operative infections;...
by Douglas K. Rex, MD
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Colonoscopy is the bread and butter for endoscopists and advances in the procedure to reduce time, improve efficiency, and prevent errors are very important for this group. The newest advances look at colonoscopy efficiency and a better way to target tissue sampling, which avoids random biopsies and...
by Steven L. Flamm, MD
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Dr. Flamm has invited a group of distinguished hepatologists to provide insight into the assessment of a variety of scenarios where clinical judgment based on experience and published literature is an invaluable addition to the care of individual patients. Articles included in the issue address the...
Summary of Do No Harm
by Henry Marsh | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of Do No Harm by Henry Marsh | Includes Analysis Preview: Do No Harm is neurosurgeon Henry Marsh’s memoir, with a particular focus on his mistakes and regrets. Marsh admits that he grew up privileged. He began his college career studying English, but quit...
Best Care, Best Future:
A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**ACHE’s 2015 JAMES A. HAMILTON BOOK OF THE YEAR.** Finally there is a book for healthcare leaders that only comes along once in a generation. Dr. David Lawrence shares with the readers his vast experience in leading the largest non-profit health system in the country. He describes what a...
Love, Fear, and Health
How Our Attachments to Others Shape Health and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Can the way in which we relate to others seriously affect our health? Can understanding those attachments help health care providers treat us better? In Love, Fear, and Health, psychiatrists Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter draw on evidence from neuroscience, stress physiology, social psychology,...
by Bob Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
"The Performance of Medicine is a witty, funny, folksy, intimate, yet serious, and detailed discussion about issues surrounding 'patient satisfaction' in today's world of health care.
--Samuel Harrington, MD, author of At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After A Long Life
This book is a much-needed...
Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures....
Queen of the Professions
The Rise and Decline of Medical Prestige and Power in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
American medicine is under serious attack. The health care system is falling short of its major goal, improving the health of the population. The United States ranks only 35th in world life expectancy. But where American medicine arguably remains at a pinnacle in the world – in the status, wealth...
Vital Conversations
Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors and patients, Dennis Rosen argues, is at the heart of this disparity, a pervasive problem that...