Effective Medical Communication shares the insights of pediatrician Arnold Melnick, DO, a columnist for The DO, the news and feature magazine of the American Osteopathic Association. A collection of six years' worth of Dr. Melnick's columns, this book offers osteopathic physicians, MDs and other health professionals practical advice for improving their medical writing and medical speaking. Emphasizing the importance of communicating well with patients, this anthology provides many helpful suggestions on using and recognizing body language, asking the right questions, training office personnel...

Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not included. Rather, the emphasis is on the human aspects of choosing a practice and on understanding interpersonal relationships, topics that are extremely important but less frequently recognized by residents. This book will be especially valuable for residents in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine,...

Melnick on Writing is a collection of the first ten years of columns published in the American Medical Writers Association Journal under that eponymous title -- forty in total. They represent the author's comments on all phases of writing. The columns range from serious commentaries about grammar and usages, to writings about writing, to humorous commentaries, to managing writer's block, to just plain cute thoughts -- most all with medical slants. The columns are all practical and written in a flowing, colloquial style. In a way, this anthology is a commentary on present-day medical writing...

Osteopathic Tales is a collection of actual incidents that help paint a picture of osteopathic practice and progress over a period of 70 years. Viewing them gives the reader a moving-picture experience as the profession marched along in its progress forward. Through anecdotes, it traces osteopathic medicine's move from obscurity, rejection and isolation to widespread acceptance and recognition -- not only from the public and from federal, state and local governmental agencies but also in many allopathic circles, including specialty organizations, hospitals and medical schools.

GIVING YOUR CHILD MEDICATION...SAFELY is best described by its sub-title: A practical handbook for parents. For that is what it is. It is practical, written in a conversational style, without medical jargon or heavy scientific terms. It is a handbook -- a volume to be referred to whenever there is any questions about medication or your child: what the prescription is, how to administer it, how to position the child most effectively without too much trauma, and even a discussion of the psychological and emotional aspects of administering these therapeutic agents. Pleasant and easy reading and...