Physician category: 198 books
Reflective Writing in Medical Practice
A Linguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This book reports the results of a linguistic analysis of reflective written texts, produced during medical education or practice. It explores the topics and communication skills the authors write about, how the narratives develop, how these texts are shaped, what genres influence their composition,...
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...
Nortin Hadler's 4-Volume Healthcare Omnibus E-Book
Includes Worried Sick, Stabbed in the Back, Rethinking Aging, and The Citizen Patient
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This four-volume Omnibus E-Book is a collection of Nortin Hadler's definitive works on the state of healthcare in America today. The set includes:
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America, Hadler's best-seller that shows consumers how to distinguish good medical advice...
The Secrets of Medical Decision Making
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical...
How Not To Be A Doctor
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw...
Suburban Shaman
tales from medicine's frontline
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Medicine is not just about science. It's also all about stories, and about the mingling of narratives among doctors, and between them and their patients.' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in and around London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist,...
Chasing Hope
A Patient's Deep Dive into Stem Cells, Faith, and the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
After more than four decades living with multiple sclerosis, New York Times bestselling author Richard M. Cohen finds a flicker of hope in a groundbreaking medical procedure.
Richard Cohen struggles with failing limbs and is legally blind. He has survived two bouts of colon cancer and a life-threatening...
Call Nights
Just Don't Hurt Anyone!
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
He's at it again. If you like medical humor and loved Doc Kyle's first book ER Confessional get ready as he takes on the nurses, doctors and mentors with his usual charming southern wit, salty conversation and sometimes unbelievable experiences. Don't worry there are plenty of patient stories to make...
Being a Doctor
Understanding Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Being a Doctor is much more than simply providing medical care. This book aims to increase the resilience and wellness of doctors, helping the profession to provide better care for patients, through a deep and thoughtful approach to clinical work. It explores areas that can challenge clinicians in...
by John Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
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The Patient Will See You Now
The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health
A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the...
Malpractice
A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health Care System Harms Patients and Protects Dangerous Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
An insider’s devastating critique of modern medical practices and “an honest view of what our broken health-care system looks like” (Patricia J. Skolnik, president, Citizens for Patient Safety, LLC).
In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report revealing that as many...
by Danielle Ofri
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?
Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what...
The New Consultation
Developing doctor-patient communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
The Consultation, published almost 20 years ago by the same authors, has been completely rewritten. The New Consultation will be an essential aid for all doctors and their educators to increase the effectiveness of their consultations and to help to make them more patient-centred. It includes theoretical...