Patient Care

Treating People Not Patients, Dr. Michael Sonick provides an invaluable look into the principles that have allowed him to create a state-of-the-art patient centric practice. His back and front stage processes are not only applicable to the practice of dentistry, but to any business that serves people. His insights will empower you to grow your practice or business by changing how you view the people you serve and your role as a professional.

An easy-to-read, comprehensive guide for anyone affected by pancreatic cancer. The book includes valuable information about recent medical advances, insurance coverage, advanced testing, nursing care and living optimally given this devastating disease.

Modern medical technology helps patients recover faster than any other time in history. However, the human interaction between patient and care giver is still the essential foundation of healing. “I’m Here” is a personal narrative from the patient’s perspective. Filled with practical advice, packed with humor and overflowing with appreciation, Marcus Engel encourages health care professionals to practice compassionate communications in all its forms.

Patient is a quirky, humorous, and occasionally poignant romp through the American health care system. After a seemingly mild case of COVID-19, the author finds himself hospitalized with acute renal failure. The connection to COVID-19 is tenuous at best, yet he is examined from head to toe with the ruthless efficiency that only a hospital with the latest technology can accomplish. Scans and tests of every possible type are conducted, eliminating the most dire of diagnoses.

It’s finally here–a thorough exploration of the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare industry that is detailed, succinct, and easy to listen to! There’s no denying the power of artificial intelligence. When taught, programmed, and incorporated correctly, it’s nothing short of a modern miracle. And, thanks to recent technological advancements, it’s now a widely accessible modern miracle.

This book covers all areas/topics in the field of medical informatics. This information can be used to train more virtual medical informaticians so that provider-led teams can function more effectively. After all, more effective medical teams mean better care for patients, and that is the ultimate goal of providers.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, the universe seems to Deane Waldman, MD MBA: After four decades fighting the system to provide best care to cardiac babies, he knew something had to change, but change to what?

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.

In the course of caring for the ill or dying, health care professionals are sometimes the only ones available to provide spiritual comfort to their patients. In our modern pluralistic society, where patients could come from any number of religious traditions, it can often be difficult to find exactly the right words in these situations.

While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, health care has finally gone digital.

Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them. Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our...

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.

With decades of experience and over 30,000 life-saving organ transplants performed, Mayo Clinic has one of the largest and most successful transplant programs in the world. With the collective knowledge from expert physicians, surgeons, and researchers, Mayo Clinic Guide to Organ Transplant illuminates the science and the process of transplantation.

This audiobook is a comprehensive guide in understanding how to deal with a person on the autism spectrum within the medical system, formulating effective communication strategies, and developing best care practices. It covers sensory issues, pain tolerance, body awareness, communication challenges, legal and ethical issues, HIPPA compliance, Americans with Disabilities Act, and much more.

Brought to you by Penguin. A profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS. We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he might be dead tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. To look into a parent's panicked eyes as...

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.

Quando la malattia bussa alla nostra porta, ogni certezza sembra vacillare. Anche chi ha sempre creduto nella scienza si trova improvvisamente attratto da soluzioni facili, promesse miracolose, vie alternative. Mantenere la rotta quando si è in balia della paura è difficile e, nonostante tutte le migliori intenzioni, il rischio di cadere nel baratro delle illusioni è alto.

www.whocaresbooks.com This is the story of the true patient experience combined with extensive research and shocking stories that have led to the conclusion that the system is indeed broken. The book will take you through parts of the healthcare system from the viewpoint of a teen mom and her son, with complex medical needs and intellectual disabilities, over the course of 2 decades. As a patient or family member of a patient you intersect with the medical system at your most vulnerable, weak, and in desperate need of help.

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.

Healing through Connection is more than a book—it’s an invitation to rediscover yourself as a healer and as a human being. Written with deep compassion and honesty, it reimagines what it truly means to serve, to care, and to heal—both within your profession and within your own life. Inside this book, you’ll find practical tools, communication strategies, and restorative practices you can use right away. But you’ll also encounter something far more rare: a safe place to explore the emotional landscape of healthcare.