Physician Patient category: 198 books
The Good Doctor
A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care
As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital’s ethics committee, Dr. Barron Lerner thought he had heard it all. But in the...
The Cancer Experience
The Doctor, the Patient, the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Navigating the tumultuous waters of cancer treatment and decision making is difficult for all patients. It is also difficult for doctors and other medical personnel. This books deals with a variety of emotion-related and ethics issues that form much of the basis of the world of cancer related medicine:...
Patient Centered Medicine
A Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Patient-Centered Medicine: A Human Experience emphasizes the health professional's role in caring for patients as unique individuals by focusing on the patients' psychological and social realities as well as their biological needs. The book concerns itself with caring for the whole patient, and outlines...
Doctoring
The Nature of Primary Care Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
American medicine attracts some of the brightest and most motivated people the country has to offer, and it boasts the most advanced medical technology in the world, a wondrous parade of machines and techniques such as PET scans, MRI, angioplasty, endoscopy, bypasses, organ transplants, and much more...
What Doctors Feel
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care
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Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments....
By the Bedside of the Patient
Lessons for the Twenty-First-Century Physician
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
In By the Bedside of the Patient, Nortin Hadler places current efforts to reform medical education--from the undergraduate level through residency programs and on to continuing medical education--in historical context. In doing so, he traces the evolution of medical school curricula, residency and...
Your Health, Your Decisions
How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,...
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 Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
A Physician's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, bringing readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence.
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician...
Physician
How Science Transformed the Art of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
What happened that changed the priest—the revered healer of antiquity—into a person of science? How was the modern doctor made?
Physician is Rajeev Kurapati’s earnest attempt to answer this question and others central to the practice of medicine. For instance, how have the advances of medical...
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...
The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital
Let the Hospital Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2008
Doctors need hospitals and hospitals need doctors. Then why do they continue to communicate their needs to each other so badly? Why all the animosity, conflict, and mistrust?
In The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital, Dr. Samuel H. Steinberg, an experienced hospital administrator,...
by Nina Iovenko
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Good relational skills, exceptional reasoning abilities, and a desire to help people are all necessary to be a success as a physician's assistant. The physician's assistant is an indispensable addition to the practices of internists, primary care physicians and emergency care facilities. Their work...
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...