Patient Care

Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work in the 'ministry of bodies', that huge complex where people come to be cured and to die. From unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O'Mahony documents life in the halls and wards that all of us will visit at some point in our lives with his characteristic wit and dry and unsentimental intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measures, and the Patient with a Serious Illness, Sixth Edition is a guide to help patients and families with end-of-life decisions. Millions of families have been helped and comforted by the common sense and practical advice found in this audiobook.

Author and spine surgeon Dr. David Hanscom has observed that in this era of corporate medicine, surgical decisions are often made quickly, without a complete evaluation or attempt at nonsurgical rehabilitation before proceeding. The result? The majority of spine operations are unnecessary, and many surgeries are performed on spines with normal, age-related conditions.

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.

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.

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.

Physicians enter their professions with the highest of hopes and ideals for compassionate and efficient patient care. Along the way, however, recurring problems arise in their interactions with some patients that lead physicians to label them as "difficult." Some studies indicate that physicians identify 15 percent or more of their patients as "difficult." The negative feelings that physicians have toward these patients may lead to frustration, cynicism, and burnout.

Are you a dedicated healthcare professional frustrated by the language barrier that hampers your ability to provide the best possible care to your Spanish-speaking patients? Don't you wish you had a practical tool at your disposal that could help you learn medical Spanish and connect effectively with your patients? Perhaps it's been a daunting task to find a resource that focuses solely on the healthcare context and makes learning Spanish as easy as sipping your morning espresso.

Doctor Kimberly Cortwell is not having fun. The virus has caused nothing but overpowering work for everyone, and it doesn’t seem like there’s an end in sight. She’s not particularly surprised to have a new case at the hospital but this case is special. Seth Ash is not reacting to the illness like other people do. Something is happening in his body, and whatever it is just might be the key to making real headway against the pandemic. It would be a truly exciting and wonderful thing if the man wasn’t so irritating, smug, self-righteous, and handsome.

Hardly anyone is happy with American health care these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional health care system. But that’s only part of the problem. In this important and timely book, Dr. Robert Pearl shines a light on the unseen and often toxic culture of medicine.

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.

Still Not Safe is the story of the rise of the patient - safety movement - and how an "epidemic" of medical errors was derived from a reality that didn't support such a characterization. Physician Robert Wears and organizational theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe trace the origins of patient safety to the emergence of market trends that challenged the place of doctors in the larger medical ecosystem.

In Physician Leadership, renowned medical leader Dr. Karen J. Nichols delivers a concise guide for busy physicians doing their best to successfully lead people and organizations. The book covers foundational leadership essentials that every physician needs to master to transform themselves from a highly motivated novice leader into an effective, skilled, and productive leader.

No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired - in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota - Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious circumstances.

Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medical maze from the other side of the bed. Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? Why is she expected to research her own best treatment options? Why is there so much red tape? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care.

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.