Patient Care

The Confident Patient is your road map and key to truly understanding and navigating your healthcare situation. This powerful guide provides you with real answers, specific questions to gain clarity, information you can use immediately, and gives you concrete ways to partner with your medical team. Healthcare is intensely personal and intimate, and The Confident Patient honors you and your family’s individual situation like a trusted friend, in a supportive, compassionate way.

二万体の検死・解剖を行なった、元監察医が解き明かす「死のメカニズム」！65万部を超えたベストセラー『死体は語る』の著者、上野正彦が死にまつわる常識・迷信・疑問を一刀両断！

クリニックの選び方から最期の看取りまで――医者の本心を、包み隠さずお話します。

The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way, Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor's office on wheels. His patients are the city's homeless adolescents and children.

Sarah Thebarge, a Yale-trained physician assistant, nearly died of breast cancer at age 27, but that did not end her deeply felt spiritual calling to medical missions in Africa. Risking her own health, she moved to Togo, West Africa - ranked by the United Nations as the least happy country in the world - to care for sick and suffering patients. Serving without pay in a mission hospital, she pondered the intersection of faith and medicine in her quest to help make the world "well".

Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their families, and their caretakers. Dr. Frank empowers patients by unlocking the mysteries of the disease and explaining in plain language the ways to confront and combat it. An award-winning medical oncologist recognized for his humanitarian approach as well as his research accomplishments, Dr. Frank understands that cancer patients and their families need insight into the disease.

We are on the cusp of a healthcare revolution. From wearable sensors, to improved point-of-care diagnostics to artificial intelligence and robotics, there is a growing number of breakthroughs in biomedical technology which are set to fundamentally change the way patients interact with their healthcare providers.

In More than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for 400 African American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty.

Most consumers agree their service experiences with hospitals, clinics, and physicians fall well short of their service experiences with hotels, resorts, and restaurants. So, what would their experiences be like if healthcare providers served them the same way hospitality providers do? Given that both industries share many common service touchpoints, one wonders whether healthcare service providers could adopt principles of hospitality to enhance the patient experience. The insights shared in this book reveal the answer: yes!

A brilliantly simple look at how we can fix healthcare without drastic policy change and political diatribes. Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system.

In a series of brief and personal essays, Why We Revolt describes what is wrong with industrial healthcare, how it has corrupted its mission, and how it has stopped caring. Montori rescues the language of patient care to propose a revolution of compassion and solidarity, of unhurried conversations, and of careful and kind care.

Medical culture has a problem with consent—and it’s not just a few bad doctors. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Zed Zha in Consented, a groundbreaking look at how the healthcare industry ignores patients’ agency and perpetuates violence. Even the best and most caring doctors can fall prey to what Dr. Zha identifies as medical rape culture: a system of beliefs and practices that enable and normalize the violation of patients’ autonomy. Dr. Zha shows how this culture is historically entrenched and argues that we need a sea change in our healthcare system to stop repeating the same mistakes.

In Deutschland werden jedes Jahr hunderttausende homöopathische Mittel "verschrieben", Vitaminspritzen gesetzt und bunte Klebebänder auf verkrampfte Muskeln getaped. Gleichzeitig nimmt die Skepsis gegenüber der Schulmedizin immer weiter zu, sodass Menschen ihre eigenen Kinder bewusst in Lebensgefahr bringen, indem sie Impfungen ablehnen.

From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, RN, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations. From the routine to the unexpected, How to Be a Patient is your ultimate guide to better health care.

Dr. Edward Creagan has been treating very sick patients for more than 35 years. This audiobook is not just about lifestyle choices, although these are important aspects of Dr. Creagan’s healthy living plan. It is about using your precious minutes in the exam room (the average doctor visit is about 16 minutes), forging the right kind of relationship with your care providers (because that world is changing quickly), and understanding and using the health care system - instead of having the system use (and often abuse) you.

First, do no harm - doctors, nurses, and clinicians swear by this code of conduct. Yet in hospitals and doctors' offices across the country, errors are made every single day - avoidable, simple mistakes that often cost lives. Inspired by two medical mistakes that not only ended in unnecessary deaths but hit close to home, Dr. Peter Pronovost made it his personal mission to improve patient safety and make preventable deaths a thing of the past, one hospital at a time.

Few experiences stir the emotions and throw a person into crisis as illness does. If affects not only the body but also the spirit and soul. Illness is about life and death, fear and hope, love and conflict, spirit and body. And yet, the healthcare system is not structured around these considerations—our doctors and other medical professionals are not trained to deal with the whole person.

Kindermedizin von 4 bis 12 Jahren mit über 500 Fragen und Antworten In diesem lang ersehnten Nachfolgeband des Bestsellers Wenn der Rotz läuft und der Pups drückt dreht sich alles um die Gesundheit der lieben Kleinen von 4 bis 12 Jahren. Der Kids.Doc beantwortet die vielen neuen Fragen der Eltern zu den Themen Sauberwerden, Impfungen, typische Kinderkrankheiten sowie zur kindlichen Entwicklung vom Kindergartenalter bis zur Vorpubertät.

Quando Clay è infettato dalla febbre Q, il mondo come lui lo conosce viene stravolto, letteralmente. Dopo la fase acuta in cui lotta per la sua vita, Clay si sente sollevato. Ma solo per poco. Nei mesi successivi continua a essere esausto ed è tormentato da dolori terribili. Sindrome da affaticamento post virale, gli dicono i medici. Una condizione cronica. Dopo la diagnosi, Clay spera di migliorare, invece la sua salute peggiora: il dolore costante e la stanchezza persistente gli rendono la vita quasi insopportabile. I medici gli dicono che deve "imparare a convivere" con la sua condizione, ma lui non sa come fare.

Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories told from the perspectives of those who receive diagnoses and those who deliver them. Confronting how we address illness in our personal lives and in popular culture, this compelling book explores narratives of diagnosis while pondering the impact they have on how we experience health and disease.