Patient Care category: 3822 books
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,...
The Informed Patient
Your Complete Guide to Understanding the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
The Informed Patient is a book about empowerment and about ethically and responsibly working with your medical professional so that your care is the best that it can be. It's about increasing your odds for a good outcome, it's about doing everything you can to make sure you leave the hospital in better shape than you entered it
Better Now
Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018
Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy...
The Cure
How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is...
Patient Engagement
Catalyzing Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
CFHI's first book on patient engagement. Case studies from healthcare delivery organizations in three countries, catalyzing improvement and innovation in healthcare illustrates patient engagement strategies and their impacts.
by Louise M. Malarkey, EdD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Saunders Nursing Guide to Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 2nd Editionis the perfect guide to laboratory testing for both students and practicing nurses alike. Featuring the latest testing information organized alphabetically for quick reference, this resource offers test formats that emphasize the...
A Life of Control
Stories of Living with Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly forty personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upon the collective experience of an endocrinologist and two nurse practitioners who worked together for...
Compassion
Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Compassion takes as its starting point 'Cum scientia caritas', the motto of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Translated as 'Science with compassion', it captures the technical and caring aspects of being a doctor. Science is continually developing but compassion is unchanging. But how relevant...
Essential Anesthesia
From Science to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Essential Anesthesia is a concise, accessible introduction to anesthetic practice. Now in its second edition, it provides a thorough overview of the science and practice of anesthesia. Part I describes the evaluation of the patient, the different approaches to anesthesia, and the post-operative care...
Personalized Medicine
Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality
Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the...
by William Bryans, Steve Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Practical budget management is at the core of this book. As well as giving an insight into the way budgets behave in certain circumstances and what can be done about it, the book also deals with practical steps the budget and resource manager can take to eliminate waste and reduce opportunities for...
Caring and Well-being
A Lifeworld Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient’s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise...
by David Newman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Without any warning, in September 1999, David Newman was told he had a rare and life-threatening tumor in the base of his skull. In the compressed space of five weeks, he consulted with leading physicians and surgeons at four major medical centers. The doctors offered drastically differing opinions;...
SUPRAMEDICINE
From Health Outcomes to Outcome Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Over the years from 1985 to 1997, there were significant developments in the Health Outcomes movement, as well as in science with the development of “Systems Theory”.Systems Theory became modern science by 1997 and was now no longer viewing nature as separate objects or things, but as a hierarchy...