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Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error—mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it’s readily available and we’re entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it. The Patient’s Playbook is a call to action.

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.

From the drug addicts who call Amanda ‘the mother I never had’ to the women who’ve pushed back at domestic abuse, to women close to release in their 70s, who just want to stay in the place that they’ve always known, these are stories that are heartbreaking, harrowing and heart-warming. Amanda listens, prescribes and does what she can. After all, she’s their doctor.

Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country’s most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.

The People's Hospital is the story of how Ben Taub Hospital strives to provide healthcare to Houston's most vulnerable population, against the background of the chaos of American healthcare. By telling the frequently heartbreaking stories of patients who have had to battle their desperate financial circumstances as well as life-threatening disease. These are extraordinary stories in which doctors are tied up with complex moral questions about money vs healthcare.

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the RBT exam's requirements, the benefits of becoming an RBT, and the exam format and structure. You'll also learn about the foundations of behavior analysis, including basic principles, assessment and measurement, functional assessment and analysis, and ethics. In addition to providing a theoretical overview of the key topics, this guide also includes 450 practice questions to help you prepare for the exam.

Encontrar la vocación profesional en la vida es, sin duda alguna, una de las decisiones más importantes que se pueden tomar. Si además esa vocación tiene una relación directa con el trato con los pacientes donde determinadas cualidades resultan imprescindibles para el bienestar de todos ellos, este audiolibro ofrece las herramientas necesarias para el descubrimiento de estas cualidades. Un audiolibro idóneo para todos los que sienten una vocación de servicio a los demás en cualquier profesión del campo de la salud, tanto si aún no se han formado como si llevan años de ejercicio profesional.

Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things: a Space expert at NASA, an adviser to the World Health Organisation, a successful Big Pharma executive. But Michael Briggs had a secret. A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country.

As a physician, you’ve devoted years of your life to training. From classrooms and textbooks to residency and beyond, you’ve honed your clinical expertise and technical abilities. But these skill sets are only half of the equation to achieving excellence. What is the other half? Emotional intelligence. In Extraordinary Doctor, top neurosurgeon Nimesh H. Patel explores the importance of emotional intelligence in physicians and how it is pivotal to succeeding in the field.

While Covid-19 has brought increased attention to chronic and complex illnesses, these conditions have impacted millions worldwide, long before the pandemic. Covid was not the first exposure to cause long-term disease and disability, nor will it be the last. In Invisible No More, Dr. Ilene Ruhoy aims to empower the long-term patients of chronic and complex diseases, delving into her own harrowing experience as a patient.

What if we could see a doctor faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost? With the emergence of telemedicine, we now can. And this book is a primer on telemedicine for anyone who wants to take charge of their health and understand all their healthcare options. This valuable guide illustrates why telemedicine is not only a viable solution to many of our healthcare problems but also an inevitable and crucial one.

Medical negligence, Government corruption, deliberate, dangerous surgical procedures, this book has it all. Never agree to corrective surgery before listening to this book. Learn from those directly involved, prime witness accounts like you have never seen before. This book charts the harrowing primary account of Dr Morris Waxler, vision scientist, Neuropsychologist, and former Science Manager (Branch Chief) of the PRK/LASIK team at the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) who has spent many years trying to end the corrupt, harmful, and sometimes fatal consequences of LASIK eye surgery.

In a world where the practice of medicine is constantly evolving, Physician Reborn offers a lifeline to healthcare professionals seeking clarity, resilience, and fulfillment in their careers. Through a compelling narrative and practical insights, this book serves as a guiding light through the complexities of modern healthcare.

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.

If you are a new nurse practitioner, physician assistant, new physician resident or any type of new healthcare professional that will be working with patients, this is a unique book about patient interaction and different scenarios that can occur. The book discusses tips on how to approach different situations when trying to be an effective healthcare provider for your patient.

All Bleeding Stops gives listeners an intimate look at what goes on inside a trauma center, highlighting injuries sustained in car crashes, shootings, and stabbings—basically anything bleeding, obstructed, or perforated. Having lived and breathed trauma for four decades, Dr. Cohn is an ideal guide to demystify the role of the trauma surgeon and their place in a hospital. The behind-the-scenes look he provides is infused with sobering tales from his career as a military surgeon and in trauma centers across the country as well as his descriptions of high-profile medical stories.

When it comes to helping patients manage chronic and acute conditions and make healthier choices in such areas as medication adherence, smoking, diet, and preventive care, good advice alone is not enough. By using MI techniques, doctors, nurses, and other providers can transform conversations about change. The book shows how even the briefest clinical interaction can serve to build trust, clarify patients' goals as well as reasons for ambivalence, and guide them to take positive steps.

In 44 Praxisfällen entschlüsselt Dr. medic Roland Pfeiffer die Migräneursachen und zeigt Wege der Migränetherapie auf. Ein Buch für Patienten, Ärzte, Heilpraktiker und Osteopathen. Jeder Migränepatient ist individuell und jede Migräneursache ist individuell. So individuell wie der Fingerabdruck eines jeden von uns. Deshalb wurde dieses Buch geschrieben. Die Migräne ist ein Rätsel, das zur Lösung herausfordert. Dr. medic Pfeiffer richtet sich mit seinem Buch an alle Menschen mit Migräne, um dieses Rätsel für jeden einzelnen greifbarer zu machen.

The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions. 'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twenty authors, including active physician executives, counselors, and healthcare chaplains, addressing three core concepts related to the well-being of physicians.

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognizing the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work, the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work—shame, stigma, suffering, and sacrifice—and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery.