Patient Care

Loss hurts. It's tough to go through, and painful to watch. Do you know someone who's grieving and wish you could help? Are you the one grieving and wonder if what you're going through is normal? Do you wish those around you understood you better? This book has answers.

Chiropractor, lecturer, expert federal chiropractic examiner, and supervising clinician Michael Vianin (MSc, DC) is committed to ensuring clinicians and other healthcare professionals involved in the management of musculoskeletal disorders and pain syndromes have access to practical tools allowing them to apply a dispositionalist model of musculoskeletal care. In-depth and evidence-based, Michael advocates for a patient-centered and collaborative approach to pain management and treatment.

Being able to communicate effectively and fend off potential medical mishaps is a must. The purpose of this audiobook is to (1) provide you with the tools you need to actively engage in your overall health care, (2) address your concerns in finding and receiving high quality care, and (3) educate you on both a basic and advanced level.

A collection of the most memorable moments from old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Hilarious, heroic, heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem.

Pharmacist Cory Jenks had all the elements to make a competent healthcare professional. Good looks, academic accolades, multiple board certifications, and a competitive residency. However, none of these items prepared him for truly caring for his patients in a chaotic healthcare environment, and he was struggling. After implementing lessons he learned as an improv comedian, Cory’s perspective began to shift. In this audiobook, Cory takes you through the comical and powerful tools needed to create a memorable, humanizing experience for your patients and colleagues.

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy - these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like.

Doctors and patients have lost control of American medicine. Generative AI can put the power back in their hands, save millions of lives, and restore the doctor-patient relationship. Welcome to ChatGPT, MD. In this unique collaboration, renowned healthcare leader Dr. Robert Pearl teams up with the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT to examine the transformational power of generative AI in medicine.

The biggest barrier entrepreneurs face is the insurmountable number of obstacles to overcome, coupled with the lack of time to find solutions to them all. They are trapped in the mindset that in order to be successful they must do everything, but they don't know where to start. How do you determine what needs to be fixed first? How do you accurately prioritize your to-do list? If you had only a compass and a road map, you could navigate your business' problems with confidence.

The Physician Wellness Project is your roadmap to joy in your job. This step-by-step guidebook to career satisfaction and work-life balance. We'll explore the best jobs within medicine. And if you're looking to leave medicine, this book shares all the best career options for healthcare professionals beyond clinical practice.

Offering both doctor and patient perspectives, 100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Cancer provides authoritative and practical answers to the most commonly asked questions by patients and their loved ones. Along with the answers to these and other questions, this book provides information on the different types of kidney cancer, signs and symptoms, treatment options, and more.

From the co-author of Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, the first book to warn of the systematic replacement of physicians, comes Imposter Doctors, an even more frightening exposé of patient endangerment at the hands of for-profit corporate entities and healthcare conglomerates.

Patients are critical to healthcare delivery, yet their concerns and perspective are frequently lost in translation or, at worst, blatantly ignored. Patients don’t even have a place in organizational charts. Yet patients deserve their own branch of science, and author Pamela J. Brink, RN, PhD, FAAN, has started a conversation about giving patients that niche in a new area of study called “patientology”. This work is a brief overview of concepts such as medical sociology and nursing, and will prompt further research and delineation.

Dr. Erika Schwartz believes that today's patient is but a leaf blowing in the wind of groupthink protocols, corrupt medical societies, insurance companies on the take, and billions of dollars in marketing and lobbying pressure from drug companies. What is the quick fix? The answers are here in 10 clear chapters, giving examples every step of the way. It's a simple process that takes you, the patient, from being a victim to being in charge.

When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes listeners on the journey that patient and doctor travel together.

Forget the headlines about medical breakthroughs. The real crisis in healthcare hides in plain sight: the pervasive, corrosive power of incivility. Dr. Samuel DeMaria Jr., a leading voice in patient safety, fearlessly exposes how everyday disrespect—from the "hip check" in the OR to the cutting remark in the hallway—fractures teams, cripples communication, and directly threatens those we're sworn to heal. The Invisible Cut is a vital, unforgettable reckoning, demanding we confront this silent danger and build a culture of profound professional respect before it's too late.

Dr. Mackowiak, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, offers a gripping and authoritative account of 13 patients who took center stage in world history. The result is a new understanding of how the past unfolded, as well as a sweeping survey of the history of medicine. What was the ailment that drove Caligula mad? Why did Stonewall Jackson die after having an arm amputated, when so many other Civil War soldiers survived such operations?

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, and skyrocketing medical costs leave most of us confused and frustrated. In this audiobook, Dominic Gaziano, director of the Body and Mind Medical Center in Chicago, offers practical strategies to keep yourself healthy and, when necessary, engage effectively and efficiently with the health-care providers and systems you need.

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the future looks scary and uncertain. What treatment options are there? What will your quality of life be? How do you talk to your family about your diagnosis? What are the financial implications? If you find yourself with more questions than answers then you need Living with Pancreatic Cancer.

Por Qué Nos Rebelamos describe lo que está mal con la medicina industrializada, como ha corrompido su misión y ha dejado de cuidar del paciente. Montori rescata el lenguaje del cuidado del paciente y propone una revolución de compasión y solidaridad, de conversaciones sin prisa, y de una atención cuidadosa y gentil.

We are pleased to offer dentists all over the world our latest book: Unlimited New Patients: Volume 3. This is the latest in our Unlimited New Patients series, and we think it’s the best. We’ve packed this audiobook with virtually everything we’ve learned over 28 years about attracting high-quality new patients into your dental practice.