Patient Care category: 3822 books
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...
Design for Care
Innovating Healthcare Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make a positive difference in healthcare.
Critically Ill
A 5-Point Plan to Cure Healthcare Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Two decades ago Dr. Fred Southwick witnessed the near demise of his wife while she was being cared for in a prominent academic medical center. For 15 years he blamed the individual physicians who cared for Mary. However five years ago the doctor realized that encouraging individual physicians to try...
by xaiver newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
As with most other industries, the healthcare field is taking hold of 21st century technology, and changing the way doctors care for their patients. Regulated by the government among healthcare professionals nationwide, electronic health record management is making it easier and more convenient for...
Overdiagnosed
Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument...
The Good Doctor
What Patients Want
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Lactose intolerance is a medical disorder in adults and children who have trouble digesting lactose, a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy foods.An enzyme called lactase is needed by the body to digest lactose.Lactose intolerance occurs when the small intestine does not produce enough of this...
Only Love Remains
Lessons from the Dying on the Meaning of Life - Euthanasia or Palliative Care?
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
What happens to the dying in the final days and weeks of their lives? What emotions come to the surface and what do they want to talk about? Attilio Stajano, a volunteer worker at the palliative care ward of a Brussels hospital, presents a series of deeply-moving personal encounters with seriously-ill...
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...
The Conversation
A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool.
There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds...
CBT for Managing Non-cardiac Chest Pain
An Evidence-based Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
CBT for Managing Non-cardiac Chest Pain is an evidence-based guide and workbook for clinicians working with people with non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP). NCCP affects around 25–30% of people in the UK, USA, and Europe and is associated with high levels of health care use and compromised quality of...
The Overweight Patient
A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Working with Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
`Kathy Leach provides a thoughtful, well-written text that addresses the `great weight debate' in an engaging and compassionate way.'
-The Psychologist, Vol. 20, March 2007
`The main body of the book focuses on clinical work, offering insightful ways of thinking about and working with...
The Knowledgeable Patient
Communication and Participation in Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Learn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcare
The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing 21st century landscape. The 'knowledgeable patient' as an individual can take...
by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies: You Need This Book to Protect Yourself … From Healthcare!
The system that is supposed to nurture, protect and restore you is actually a leach, not a life-saver. Your trusted ally is in fact your fierce enemy. How did this happen? What must you do...