Medical Careers

An inauspicious encounter in a doctor's surgery during a routine follow-up for IVF initiated a descent into a labyrinth of questioning and uncertainty. Those first words ushered out of the doctor's mouth started a year where the author's mind was consumed by medical research, medical terms, hospital visits, medication and explanations. The diagnosis was breast cancer.

Have you ever thought about working in medical records? Do you want to know more about what a job in medical records entails? If so, this is the audiobook for you.

The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices is an indispensable audiobook for medical professionals to market their businesses. Ali Asadi presents an in-depth examination of marketing analysis and emphasizes the importance of setting goals and implementing strategy. Also covered are such important subjects as social media, web design, SEO, email marketing, and many more.

Getting into medical device sales is tough. Because it is such a lucrative field to be in, hundreds of people compete for a single job when it is available. Learn what steps you must take to differentiate yourself and get into the industry without spinning your wheels and wasting time.

The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices is an indispensable audiobook for medical professionals to market their businesses. Dr. Ali Asadi presents an in-depth examination of marketing analysis and emphasizes the importance of setting goals and implementing strategy. He covers in detail such topics as designing an inviting reception area; marketing through brochures, newsletters, and your personal website; determining patient attitudes through surveys; and analyzing your competition. 

Many medical professionals feel like they've been studying their whole life, through medical school, working as a registrar, and then specialist training, but despite all that study they feel like they have never learned how to run a successful business. They build a business around their medical skills, but despite their high level of medical achievement they feel like their finances, overall stress levels and personal life are suffering, and they don't know where to start to fix it.

On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was just finishing rounds at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. At that same moment 16 miles away, a hard-charging boy named TJ veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all but killed the boy, leaving him with a shattered leg, severe internal injuries, a massive blood clot near the brain stem, and - but for the fragile spinal cord - a complete separation of the skull from the spine.

How can America's healthcare system be transformed to provide consistently higher-quality and lower-cost care? Nothing else in healthcare matters more. Prescription for the Future identifies some standout medical organizations that have achieved higher-quality, more patient-focused, and lower-cost care, and from their examples distills 12 transformational practices that could transform the entire healthcare sector.

As residents, we understand the burnout epidemic is driven by the system - but the system won't change overnight. This book can help you reduce stress and improve your performance with practical solutions that won't take years to implement or permission to start. Using best practices and evidence-based research, this step-by-step guide outlines a series of practical solutions proven to decrease burnout for those with no time, no money, and no power.

As a fledgling doctor, what would you choose: practising medicine in rural India or going abroad in search of financial security? How would you face the people who depend on you if your wealth is wiped out in the stock market? How would you pursue a dream project, knowing the many challenges that lie ahead? In Excellence Has No Borders, Dr, B.S. Ajaikumar, an oncologist, answers these questions in an inspiring and fascinating narrative. He details how he has made cancer treatment accessible to all and created a chain of world-class cancer hospitals across India.

Today, nursing is one of the most ubiquitous professions in the world, and images of war immediately call to mind nursing the wounded, but it was not long ago that such ideas were relatively primitive. Indeed, schoolchildren are still taught about the revolutionary exploits of Florence Nightingale, the war nurse who is often credited as the founder of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale first came to prominence during the Crimean War in the middle of the 19th century when she helped organize efforts to treat wounded soldiers.

Are men poised to dominate the burgeoning cannabis industry business by default? Not if Dr. Leslie Apgar and Gina Dubbé have anything to say about it. These two best friends and businesswomen challenged norms and expectations by opening their own medical cannabis dispensary. And it was anything but easy. 

The growth of careers and career pathways within medicine and health care can be confusing, yet it reflects the evolution of modern medicine which relies upon a myriad of different specialists each able to contribute their own particular skills to the care and wellbeing of the patient or client. Careers within the NHS are many and varied, with opportunities to train not only as nurses and doctors but also as dieticians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language therapists.