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It's Your Health
ISBN: 9781453878163 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people are understandably intimidated by doctors, hospitals, insurance carriers, and the myriad of tangled paths they must navigate in order to get care through the American health care system. Their fears may well prevent them from getting the most benefits out of the excellent health care available in America today. Many people don't understand their role as active participants in the "health care conversation." Even sophisticated consumers who find themselves on this complex, multi-faceted journey may feel overwhelmed by the system. This book will help everyone, regardless of their...
Most people are understandably intimidated by doctors, hospitals, insurance carriers, and the myriad of tangled paths they must navigate in order to g...
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Pursued by a bear: How I endured years of medical treatment and lived to write about it
ISBN: 9781462039128 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Concordance in Medical Consultations: A Critical Review
ISBN: 9781857758412 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning is most powerful when it is both hard work and fun. This usually means that it is interactive and based on experience challenging but at the same time possible. This book presents a wide variety of games activities and techniques that any teacher tutor or team leader can use to help others learn. Each of the chapters has a short introduction followed by several exercises that are interactive fun and will reinforce learning in knowledge skills and attitudes. The tools provided describe not only how to do an exercise but also when with whom what will make it work well what can go wrong...
Learning is most powerful when it is both hard work and fun. This usually means that it is interactive and based on experience challenging but at the ...
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Listening as Work in Primary Care
ISBN: 9781857756364 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This book has arisen from reflections on patients' everyday stories in my work as a general practitioner. Over several years I have reflected on the mandate that general practitioners are given by society to listen and be available if required. The field of study is the everyday business of being a family doctor and the inter- and intra-personal phenomena that arise as a result.' Combining analysis of detailed accounts by general practitioners of their everyday work with theoretical argument, this book is an invaluable read for medical professionals in primary care, students of medicine and...
'This book has arisen from reflections on patients' everyday stories in my work as a general practitioner. Over several years I have reflected on the ...
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Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work
ISBN: 9780754679103 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject object. Cadaverous, sick, disabled bodies, troubled minds, wounds, vomit and so forth are all part of health and care work and threaten the clean and proper bodies of those who undertake it, yet this 'unclean' side of health work is rarely accounted for in academic literature. This volume employs the work of Julia Kristeva through a range of case studies drawn from care and nursing settings around the world. It brings together work from...
Within a variety of practice environments, health professionals often experience feelings of disgust and repulsion towards the presence of an abject o...
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Complexity in Healthcare and the Language of Consultation: Exploring the Other Side of Medicine
ISBN: 9781857758542 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an important contribution to the new and growing field of 'narrative-based medicine'. It specifically addresses the largest area of medical activity primary care. It provides both a theoretical framework and practical skills for dealing with individual consultations family work clinical supervision and teamwork and offers a comprehensive approach to the whole range of work in primary care. Using a wide range of clinical examples it shows how professionals in primary care can help clarify patients' existing stories and elucidate new stories. It can be used as a training...
This book provides an important contribution to the new and growing field of 'narrative-based medicine'. It specifically addresses the largest area of...
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Behind the Consultation: Reflective Stories from Clinical Practice
ISBN: 9781846192050 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work includes Forewords by Benyamin Maoz and John Salinsky, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; General Practitioner, Course Organiser and Author, London. 'Two very close friends - a clinical psychologist and a family physician, decide to correspond quite spontaneously with one another via email, each from his vantage point in the therapeutic realm. The work of clinicians in most areas of the health field is stressful and overwhelming and often very lonely. These factors encouraged us to negotiate some very intimate...
This work includes Forewords by Benyamin Maoz and John Salinsky, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Faculty for Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University ...
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Facilitating Groups in Primary Care: A Manual for Team Members
ISBN: 9781857754018 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medicine is one of the oldest professions; in common with law, it tends to complicate or mystify its writings by persistent use of obscure jargon. However, an increasing number of lay workers, including administrators, practice managers, medical secretaries, lawyers, social workers and care assistants, are required to be able to interpret medical records, reports and prescriptions. This book unlocks the mystery of medicine for all those whose work involves the use of medical terms, whether in hospital or general practice, or as health authority employees. It will meet the needs of most as a...
Medicine is one of the oldest professions; in common with law, it tends to complicate or mystify its writings by persistent use of obscure jargon. How...
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Communicating with Your Doctor : Getting the Most Out of Health Care
ISBN: 9781572730229 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text confronts some of the major friction points between doctors and their clients, and recommends practical steps clients can take to obtain quality medical care. The emphasis is on an active approach to seeking health care.
This text confronts some of the major friction points between doctors and their clients, and recommends practical steps clients can take to obtain qua...
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Charming Lachesis: An impression of modern medicine
ISBN: 9781470074715 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern medicine affects nearly everyone's life at one time or another. This book provides a description of healthcare derived from observation and one physician's experience providing medical care to a diverse patient population. It addresses such topics as why humans developed medicine in the first place, the processes of diagnosis, and the modern approach to therapy. The impressions of healthcare contained in this book also include thoughts on the various factors that influence modern medicine, such as ethics, business concerns and trends in the healthcare industry. This book is intended...
Modern medicine affects nearly everyone's life at one time or another. This book provides a description of healthcare derived from observation and one...
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Bitter Medicine: What I've Learned and Teach about Malpractice Lawsuits (And How to Avoid Them)
ISBN: 9781468057478 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Richard Kessler tells what he's learned as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. Army doctor, teacher, researcher and expert witness. This surgeon-professor dramatizes how he's used tragic malpractice case histories as teaching tools - showing medical students how to "Do No Harm" by avoiding preventable human errors and fatal mistakes. "Some Americans," he writes, "have been persuaded that most medical malpractice lawsuits are 'frivolous'-that they are without merit. If that were true, I would have had a hard time finding the cases I presented in...
Dr. Richard Kessler tells what he's learned as a medical student, intern, resident, practicing physician, general surgeon, U.S. Army doctor, teacher, ...
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Medicine, Mistakes and the Reptilian Brain: The NewMind Response(TM) to better decisions
ISBN: 9781470177324 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Meagher, an Emergency Room Physician, drawing on his own and colleagues' experiences, researches the nature of error. He demonstrates that these mistakes are often due to several overlapping factors, rooted in the instinctual responses from the "old" part of our brains - those that seem to have developed first. This is what is called the reptilian brain. By recognizing the effect of this "reptilian brain" on our actions and most importantly, our mistakes, we can take steps (The NewMind Response ) to curb the reptilian responses, making each of us more effective, empathetic and less error...
Dr. Meagher, an Emergency Room Physician, drawing on his own and colleagues' experiences, researches the nature of error. He demonstrates that these m...
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Handbook of Hip & Knee Joint Replacement: Through the Eyes of the Patient, Surgeon & Medical Team
ISBN: 9781466252455 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To date, we've sold 3000-4000 copies. Due to 'used book sales' after the initial purchase, we can no longer track actual sales. As such, we've recently lowered the price to compete the buy-back venues. We ask you to buy the handbook at this new low price directly from us as the authors, versus the buy back venues because we need something to keep our website operational. For you, this is a great deal With your help, we can keep the Hip and Knee Handbook on the market for all those who need this vital input before making this life-changing journey. We wish you the most excellent outcome and...
To date, we've sold 3000-4000 copies. Due to 'used book sales' after the initial purchase, we can no longer track actual sales. As such, we've recentl...
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TIME to CARE: How to love your patients and your job
ISBN: 9781475237849 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's beleaguered healthcare system, burdened with epidemic levels of stress, depression and burnout, TIME to CARE offers health professionals the opportunity of renewal. Here are the secrets to building a happy and fulfilling practice, wellbeing and resilience. Youngson bravely relates his own transition, from a detached clinician to a champion for humane whole-patient care; at times poignant, sometimes funny but always brutally honest. TIME to CARE offers a deeply compassionate and insightful account of a health system that is failing both patients and practitioners all over the world....
In today's beleaguered healthcare system, burdened with epidemic levels of stress, depression and burnout, TIME to CARE offers health professionals th...
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100 Questions & Answers about Lung Cancer
ISBN: 9781449687571 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EMPOWER YOURSELF No One With Lung Cancer Needs To Be Alone In Their Fight Against This Disease. 100 Questions & Answers About Lung Cancer, Third Edition, Guides Patients And Their Families Through Diagnosis, Treatment And Survivorship. Providing Both The Doctor'S And Patient'S Point Of View, This Book Is A Complete Guide To Understanding Treatment Options, Post-Treatment Quality Of Life, Sources Of Support, And Much More. Through 100 Questions & Answers About Lung Cancer, Third Edition, Expert Authors Use Their Experiences With Patients To Provide Support And Hope To The Tens Of Thousands Of...
EMPOWER YOURSELF No One With Lung Cancer Needs To Be Alone In Their Fight Against This Disease. 100 Questions & Answers About Lung Cancer, Third Edit...
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Patient-Centered Cure Assessment: A Methodology to Assess Whether Medical Interventions Succeed in Curing Individual Patients
ISBN: 9781532029691 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Medicine is a Team Sport: How to Become a Team Player in Your Own Healthcare
ISBN: 9781478218357 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's healthcare landscape is more complex than ever. Insurance costs and medical bills have skyrocketed. Patients and doctors are squeezed by an impersonal system that reduces face-time during visits. Patients also have to grapple with different medical institutions to get care, as well as manage a slew of medications and treatments. It's no surprise that patients and their families feel lost and confused in the system. With over 20 years of experience as primary care physician, quality care advocate Dean Limeri, M.D. shows you how to cut through the complexity. The solution? Get the best...
Today's healthcare landscape is more complex than ever. Insurance costs and medical bills have skyrocketed. Patients and doctors are squeezed by an im...
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The Power of Patient Stories: Learning Moments in Medicine
ISBN: 9781478178309 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These reflections from the career of a prominent physician help students and the public better understand patient care through insights gained from his stories. Medical knowledge and technology are advancing faster than we can learn to apply them wisely. The pace of change threatens the humanistic aspects of patient care. The arts of listening, observing and examining, and the values of professionalism, ethics, and humor are threatened; both patient and physician are dissatisfied. It is time to restore balance in the care of patients by reinforcing the importance of these skills-and this...
These reflections from the career of a prominent physician help students and the public better understand patient care through insights gained from hi...
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Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine: More Voices: a second anthology
ISBN: 9781479309603 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every Friday, thousands of readers of Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine (www.pulsemagazine.org) receive a riveting first-person story or poem about health care. Written by patients and doctors, nurses and caregivers, students and mental health professionals, these intimate and beautifully crafted pieces capture the authentic voices of people whose lives have been changed by their healthcare experiences. Pulse: More Voices is the second published collection of Pulse writing. It contains every story and poem published in Pulse between April 24, 2009 and December 31, 2010, including: Each...
Every Friday, thousands of readers of Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine (www.pulsemagazine.org) receive a riveting first-person story or poem a...
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Spinal Disorders For Beginners: The Oswestry Spine Primer
ISBN: 9781481120432 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pocket book is intended to appeal to all practitioners in Primary Care because of a perceived deficiency of information on spinal disorders stripped of the customary mystique. The vocabulary and the practise of spinal disorders, especially in the management of back pain, remain esoteric subjects for many doctors not specialised in this area. The information is designed to be accessible to the lay public and patients through the avoidance of jargon in the text.
This pocket book is intended to appeal to all practitioners in Primary Care because of a perceived deficiency of information on spinal disorders strip...
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