Physician Patient category: 198 books
by Mike Edwin Nelson, Burtch Bennett Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
In A Barber’s Guide to Life, Medicine, and Faith, Mike Nelson shares the important lessons he learned in an American institution . . . the barber shop. As an apprentice barber to Mike Read of Mike’s Barber Shop in Lilburn, Georgia, Nelson learned not only how to cut hair but many essential life...
The Patient as Agent of Health and Health Care
Autonomy in Patient-Centered Care for Chronic Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Patient-centered care for chronic illness is founded upon the informed and activated patient, but we are not clear what this means. We must understand patients as subjects who know things and as agents who do things. Bioethics has urged us to respect patient autonomy, but it has understood this autonomy...
Routine Miracles
Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
“This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients’ stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone...
Pale Faces
The Masks of Anemia
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book— the first volume in the Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series—is at the forefront of the current popular trend in medical writing that includes the work of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, in which doctors examine themselves and their profession to expose how science, art, and...
by Mark H. Swartz, MD, FACP
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Derive the maximum diagnostic information from interviewing and examining patients with Textbook of Physical Diagnosis. Employing a compassionate, humanistic approach, Dr. Swartz explores how cultural differences can influence communication, diet, family relationships, and health practices and beliefs,...
Staying Alive
The Signs That You Have to See a Doctor Right Now (and the Ways to Avoid Having to See One Again)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Staying Alive is the ultimate medical survival guide for the twenty-first-century patient. Written by the award-winning family physician Dr. Matthew Hahn, the book details what most effectively saves patients’ lives and keeps them well. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dr. Hahn teaches you to...
Doctors in Canada
The Changing World of Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly, more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada. In this study Bernard Blishen identifies the social and political pressures on the medical profession and assesses how it has...
What I've Learned from You
The Lessons of Life Taught to a Doctor by His Patients
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
What I've Learned from You is the story of the lessons of life taught to a doctor by his patients. It takes us on a journey from an inner-city trauma center to the bedside of a dying cancer patient. It explores human relationships and gives an intimate view into the window of the human condition....
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehova's Witness trauma patient
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic...
Your Patient Safety Survival Guide
How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson's definitive guide empowers patients to be patient safety advocates.
It takes a village to combat preventable errors...
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...
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...
Patient Blood Management Case Report No. 1: The importance of preoperative evaluation of hemostasis and anemia
University Hospital Frankfurt, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This case report describes the poor outcome of a female patient who underwent elective nephrectomy. Unfortunately, the patient was suffering from undiagnosed preoperative platelet dysfunction and anemia, although blood count and clotting were almost within normal ranges two weeks earlier at the day...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Recent literature suggests that patient participation and engagement may be the ideal solution to the efficacy of healthcare treatments, from a clinical and pragmatic view. Despite the growing discussions on the necessity of patient engagement, there is no set of universally endorsed, concrete guidelines...