Clinical Medicine: Key Questions Answered
ISBN: 9780192628916 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the latest addition to our new Key Questions Answered s eries, which complements the Oxford Core Texts, It has been written to cover the breadth of clinical medicine for the medical undergraduate. Most students buy a selection of multiple-choice questions across the specialties to help them revise for exams, etc. This book has been de signed to provide a starting point, i.e. using just this one book the students can assess their knowledge and understanding of the different specialties, and build their confidence for their exams. It has been written to complement the Oxford...
This volume is the latest addition to our new Key Questions Answered s eries, which complements the Oxford Core Texts, It has been written to cover th...
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105,66 zł |
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine
ISBN: 9780195158472 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout history women have practiced the art of medicine and healing. Yet they have always faced difficulties in the medical profession--not only have they struggled to gain acceptance from their male colleagues, they have also struggled to find a balance between being a doctor and being a wife and mother.
Here, in This Side of Doctoring Eliza Lo Chin offers a penetrating analysis of what it's like to be a woman in the highly competitive field of medicine. Written over the last century and a half, this collection of personal stories, poems, essays, and quotations reveals the... Throughout history women have practiced the art of medicine and healing. Yet they have always faced difficulties in the medical profession--not only h...
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When Doctors Become Patients
ISBN: 9780195327670 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like "House" touch on the topic, never has there been a "systematic, integrated look" at what the experience is like...
For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awa...
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177,74 zł |
Respecting Patient Autonomy
ISBN: 9780252067495 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting bioethics as a practical, educational activity, this volume shows how dialogue between patients and health care providers can clarify both medical and ethical issues, promoting patient autonomy and advancing health care. The author examines the dynamics that shape relations between patient and health care provider.
Presenting bioethics as a practical, educational activity, this volume shows how dialogue between patients and health care providers can clarify both ...
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104,88 zł |
Inside Doctoring: Stages and Outcomes in the Professional Development of Physicians
ISBN: 9780275921729 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Inside Doctoring" provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective doctor to the incompetent one, Inside Doctoring presents autobiographical accounts and real-life case studies in insightful and fascinating detail.
"Inside Doctoring" provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective docto... |
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Inside Doctoring: Stages and Outcomes in the Professional Development of Physicians
ISBN: 9780275921736 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Inside Doctoring" provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective doctor to the incompetent one, Inside Doctoring presents autobiographical accounts and real-life case studies in insightful and fascinating detail.
"Inside Doctoring" provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective docto... |
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182,21 zł |
The Emergency Room: Lives Saved and Lost - Doctors Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780316765923 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From high drama to bitter irony, this one-of-a-kind collection gathers thirty-one extraordinary true stories of doctors on the hospital's front lines. Here is the chance to be on the other side of the swinging doors, to go behind the drawn curtains, to experience the chaos of an emergency room, the clamor of voices, the pulse-quickening excitement, and the hair-trigger decisions that can save a life. Meet the young woman who comes to the E.R. to have her stomach pumped, claiming to have swallowed an entire bottle of Tylenol, only to have her doctor discover that she is bulimic, fresh off a...
From high drama to bitter irony, this one-of-a-kind collection gathers thirty-one extraordinary true stories of doctors on the hospital's front lines....
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Avoiding Medical Malpractice: A Physician's Guide to the Law
ISBN: 9780387730639 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical Malpractice is written from the unique perspective of an MD/JD and covers all the right topics from an insider s point-of-view. Readers will learn basic law and the various ways laws are interpreted; how to be an effective witness in your own defense; how to manage malpractice risk; how juries make decisions; how plaintiff and defense lawyers litigate in malpractice cases; and the importance of good communication and documentation in daily practice. In addition, the book focuses on the law-medicine-politics triangle and its effect on physicians, the impact of - and issues related... Medical Malpractice is written from the unique perspective of an MD/JD and covers all the right topics from an insider s point-of-view. Readers wil... |
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Women in Medicine: Career and Life Management
ISBN: 9780387953090 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this newly revised, expanded and updated edition, the authors have provided a definitive resource about and for women physicians. From statistical data regarding practicing women physicians in the U.S. and abroad, minorities and gay/lesbian physicians, to practical advice on coping with stress, WOMEN IN MEDICINE: CAREER AND LIFE MANAGEMENT, 3rd Edition, is an exceedingly useful and insightful volume for understanding and managing the issues faced by women physicians in both their professional and personal lives.
In this newly revised, expanded and updated edition, the authors have provided a definitive resource about and for women physicians. From statistical ...
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Doctors' Careers: Aims and Experiences of Medical Graduates
ISBN: 9780415046497 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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550,92 zł |
The Limits of Medical Paternalism
ISBN: 9780415063203 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and health care, particular emphasis is given to the analysis of the conceptual background of the paternalism issue. In this book an anti-paternalistic view is presented and defended.
The Limits of Medical Paternalism defines and morally assesses paternalistic interventions, especially in the context of modern medicine and ...
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Learning to Play God
ISBN: 9780449007440 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you know what your doctor really thinks or how your doctor really feels about medicine and about you? The seeds lie in the critical first few years of a medical education, and Dr. Robert Marion, director of the Center for Congenital Disorders at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, draws from his own experiences as student, intern, and resident to provide some surprising -- and sobering -- answers. In the course of twenty gripping, illuminating, and extraordinarily candid stories, Dr. Marion reveals the dehumanizing, slightly insane, and often brutal process of medical training....
Do you know what your doctor really thinks or how your doctor really feels about medicine and about you? The seeds lie in the critical first few years...
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Industrial Safety Is Good Business: The DuPont Story
ISBN: 9780471286288 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High productivity, high quality, high morale, and associated low absenteeism are all products of a strong safety program. In the company's operational meetings, from the office of the chairman down through the daily reports from manufacturing plants, the first item of business is always safety performance. Behind DuPont's commitment to safety is a series of principles and beliefs:
* Management at every level is responsible for preventing injuries and illnesses. * Safety must be a part of every employee's training. * People are the most important element of a safety and... High productivity, high quality, high morale, and associated low absenteeism are all products of a strong safety program. In the company's operational...
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Body Movement and Speech in Medical Interaction
ISBN: 9780521253352 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on a substantial collection of video recordings of everyday medical consultations in the UK, and offers a micro-analysis of the visual and vocal aspects of the interaction between doctors and patients. Using actual examples, accompanied by numerous illustrations, Christian Heath explores the moment-by-moment coordination of body movement and speech by and between doctor and patient. He discusses various aspects of medical examination, leave-taking, and the ways in which the participants sustain each other's attention. He also raises certain practical issues of medical work,...
This book is based on a substantial collection of video recordings of everyday medical consultations in the UK, and offers a micro-analysis of the vis...
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Medical Futility: And the Evaluation of Life-Sustaining Interventions
ISBN: 9780521568777 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is either to extend costly medical treatment of uncertain effectiveness, or to terminate treatment, thereby ending the patient's life. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer perspectives on issues ranging from the definition of medical futility to the implications for care in various clinical settings, including intensive care, neonatal and pediatric practice and nursing homes. An important contribution toward the more humane and...
This volume surveys the clinical, ethical, religious, legal, economic, and personal dimensions of decision making in situations when the choice is eit...
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224,96 zł |
Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
ISBN: 9780521578127 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, the book evokes the culture of contemporary medicine by describing the experiences of doctors themselves. Pringle employs a distinctive theoretical approach, but writes accessibly and with insight about a profession that is slowly being transformed--partly due to pressure from the increasing number of women doctors. This original and important work contains new visions for medical practice.
This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, t...
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Battles of Life and Death
ISBN: 9780595131952 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
ISBN: 9780679752929 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears.
Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an urban problem had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS... By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. |
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Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge
ISBN: 9780691015057 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What becomes of the patient's story when the patient becomes a case? Addressing readers on both sides of the patient-physician encounter, Kathryn Hunter looks at medicine as an art that relies heavily on telling and interpreting a story--the patient's story of illness and its symptoms. A patient's job is to tell the physician what hurts, and the physician's job is to fix it. But how does the physician know what is wrong? What beco... |
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Living Professionalism: Reflections on the Practice of Medicine
ISBN: 9780742548510 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of personal narratives and essays, Living Professionalism is designed to help medical students and residents understand and internalize various aspects of professionalism. These essays are meant for personal reflection and above all, for thoughtful discussion with mentors, with peers, with others throughout the health care provider community who care about acting professionally.
A collection of personal narratives and essays, Living Professionalism is designed to help medical students and residents understand and internalize v...
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165,69 zł |