Doctor / patient relationship Books

Few outsiders realize that student illness is frequently, and ironically, a by-product of medical training. This unique study by a medical doctor and trained anthropologist debunks popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical...

This practical guide summarizes the principles of working with dying patients and their families as influenced by the commoner world religions and secular philosophies. It also outlines the main legal requirements to be followed by those who care for the...

When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives...

Merited attention to the scientific basis of Medicine should not eclipse the philosophical associations that run through its theory and practice as discussed in this book, especially its phenomenology. The role of precision in defining medical concepts...

Communication is the cornerstone of a strong doctor-patient relationship.This book is a guide to help you get the most out of your doctor visits with aminimum of misunderstanding and wasted time. Although your doctors’language may resemble your...

Electronic healthcare technologies support the interaction between patients and health-service providers, institution-to-institution transmission of data, and peer-to-peer communication between patients and health professionals. These technologies...

We live in an era of the digital health revolution where technological and knowledge breakthroughs greatly enhance the care we deliver to patients. However, our healthcare system still holds many friction points.This book examines cases where Blockchain...

This is the autobiographical journey of a female anesthesiologist in the American healthcare system where greed and lust for more is controlling everything we do. Are you tired, frustrated, and angry with the healthcare industry? Do you feel like you...

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...

Proper health education is a vital component to ensuring patients' satisfaction, safety, and well-being. To achieve this goal, interdisciplinary collaboration has emerged as an innovative method for promoting healthy living. Healthcare Community...

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW DOCTORS BEHAVE - AT BEST , AT WORST AND IN BETWEEN. - WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE AUTHOR'S OBSERVATIONS OF THE EFFECTS, GOOD OR BAD, OF HIS OWN AND HIS COLLEAGUES' HEALTH, ATTITUDES AND METHODS OF WORKING.

Trust Your Doctor . . . but Not That Much is filled with helpful advice for anyone who visits their healthcare provider.Inside you’ll discover:How to find the best healthcare provider for you and prepare for a productive office visitHow to build...

27 Days in November - Daisy's Story could not be written by Daisy herself. During her life, Daisy has recovered from a malignant brain tumour, a fat embolism in her lung that developed after a simple broken leg, which caused acute respiratory failure...

Today's Guide for Mentoring Tomorrow's Physicians The Making of Tomorrow's Physician is a complete guide for attending physicians supervising medical students in the field. This logically organized, approachable book will help physicians improve every...

The Heart Of A Physician: Daily Devotionals for Christian Physician Assistants is a 21-day devotional crafted to encourage and uplift those serving on the frontlines of healthcare. This book provides daily moments of inspiration, helping physician...

Escape the Success Paradox & Build a More Meaning Life w/ This Inspiring Journey Beyond AchievementClimbing the career ladder and securing prestigious credentials seem like a sure-fire route to success in life. But what happens when you've reached...

In this fascinating memoir, cardiologist Stephen Stowers eloquently captures the various changes that he has lived through over a lifetime spent as a caring and ethical medical professional. With sadness, he watched as a profession he loved became more...

Connected health also known as technology-enabled care (TEC) is the collective term for telecare, telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth, digital health and eHealth services. Connected health involves the convergence of health technology, digital media and...

The Telling, The Listening is a new collection of narrative poems drawn from forty-five years of medical practice.  Catharine Clark-Sayles, MD, served as a physician in the United States Army and private internal medicine and geriatric...

From ER to Hospital Discharge: Decode the hospital experience with Dr. Nugent's game-changing guide.When you're already sick, injured, or in pain, a hospital visit adds more stress to an already overwhelming situation. Every step is often too confusing,...

You are about enter the wild and wonderful world of one of San Antonio’s most respected and beloved board-certified plastic surgeons.He takes you behind the scenes of his successful practice and tells all, especially the “stuff” nobody...

The two people who compiled (and contributed) their own stories have over a dozen chronic illnesses between them. They and the other 19 writers want you to know what it's like. How do they, as "chronics," deal with walking into a medical office and being...

The practice of medicine has advanced lightyears in recent decades, but has yet to realize its full potential. This book shares the many tales that led to the Telemedicine revolution and brought us to where we are today. Now, with the Digital...

As a primary care physician in her mid-forties, Dr. Heather Thompson Buum is diagnosed with breast cancer; she is now facing multiple medical decisions, this time about her own health. Experiencing the system firsthand informs her future approach in...

Hopefully all colleagues in spinal practice, realize, how difficult to achieve perfection in spinal practice, this is related to the varieties of treatment, the complexities of the spinal pathology, and the difference in opinion about even one pathology...

This new book summarizes the adherence literature for a number of specific health behaviors and populations. It provides a comprehensive source on the conceptualization, interventions, and measurement of treatment adherence and a synthesis of the...

It has never been more confusing for Americans to navigate their health care. Juggling the complexities of insurance, coordination of care and treatments from various providers and specialists as well as skyrocketing medical costs, leaves most of us...

Stories and Conversations to Forge a Vision for Health CareMedicine at the Crossroads is a collection of essays based a column originally published in the Waco-Tribune Herald by renowned cardiologist Dr. Michael Attas. It touches on three perspectives...

In today’s society, healing and doctors’ visits are centered around a “self” and “me” attitude. As Christians, in spite of an illness or condition, we should approach medical care with a Christian attitude. Dr. Jim...

If you're looking for a way to naturally enhance your beauty, health, and overall longevity then look no further. Essential oils have been used for thousands of years for various uses. As of late they have come back into popularity and have helped...

With this book you will discover the amazing properties of essential oils that help preserve beauty and health, improve your well-being and normalize your mental state. They also can ease pain, remove toxins from the body, and make your home and garden...

While telemedicine was not a new concept before the COVID-19 pandemic, it has certainly helped to propel telehealth as a popular solution and tool for patients to continue to use well after the impacts of COVID-19 have been felt. However, telehealth also...

Dr. Ross I.S. Zbar spent his career as a plastic surgeon, in the US as well as abroad in developing countries, mending disease- and trauma-related deformities—and he was never hesitant to make his voice heard as an advocate for better patient care...

Famous Doctors and Famous Patients: Lives in Jeopardy? examines well-known doctors who treated celebrities and describes thesuccesses and failures of patients' treatments. Featuring well-known public figures such as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne,...

What Hurts the Physician Hurts the Patient describes MedRAP, a comprehensive program designed to advance the professional growth of medical trainees and improve their well-being by addressing factors that lead to stress and burnout. The program focuses...

In 2016, as a practicing internist Dr. Heather Thompson is diagnosed with breast cancer and must abruptly enter the healthcare system for the first time as a patient. Her experiences, observations, and process of growth and transformation are outlined in...

Properly utilized interprofessional education will prepare students in health professions to provide patient care in a collaborative team environment. Once healthcare professionals begin to work together in a collaborative interprofessional care team,...

Consulting in a Nutshell will help GPs at every career stage - from medical student to SCA candidate to experienced practitioner - to analyse, develop and grow their personal consulting style.

This ethnographic study offers a detailed picture of how modern biomedicine is altered when practised in a developing country. Addressing the question of therapeutic outcome, Dr Finkler examines various aspects of biomedicine that influence patient...