Showing titles in Physician & Patient

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.

I did not become a doctor to help people cheat death, but to help them understand it. In The Liver Doctor, Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, expert hepatologist and one of India's most vocal advocates of science-led medicine, tells us the fascinating story of the least understood, most indispensable and...

Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and given only a year to live. Myra and Matt decide to celebrate Havi's short life and vow to show her as much of the world as they can, surrounded by friends and family who relocate to be in Havi's orbit. Tapping their Judaism, they transform Friday night Shabbats into birthday parties—"Shabbirthdays"—to replace the birthdays Havi will never have."Shabbirthdays"—to replace the birthdays Havi will never have.

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.

クリニックはどうやってどう作るの？ お金をどう工面しているの？ 収入は？ どんな生活をしているの？ 患者と患者家族に思うことは？ 上から目線の大学病院にイライラするときとは？ 看護師さんに何を求めているの？ 診察しながら何を考えているの？

What does it truly take to become a doctor—while still trying to remain human? In Learning to Heal, Liz Casper pulls back the curtain on the demanding, beautiful, and often brutal world of medical training. With unflinching honesty and heartfelt vulnerability, she shares the challenges of pursuing a medical doctorate while raising a young family, exposing the emotional, physical, and spiritual weight that comes with learning to care for others.

आयुर्वेद, योग व संगीतोपचार या विषयांतील तज्ज्ञ डॉ. बालाजी तांबे आज माझा कट्टा या विशेष कार्यक्रमात सहभागी झाले...

We are all caregivers. Whether we’re raising kids, caring for aging parents, supporting a loved one, working in health care, or simply showing up for the people in our lives, caregiving is part of who we are. But in the rush to care for others, many of us keep putting ourselves last. We’ve ignored our needs, pushed past our limits, and felt guilty for even daring to pause. It’s time to change that.

The goal of this book is to help young doctors achieve careers that are satisfying for them and beneficial for their patients and families. Nurses may find this useful as well. The focus throughout is on the process of practicing clinical medicine rather than on information, and on how each student or resident can learn to develop their own natural abilities to achieve maximum success as a doctor. The style of the book is relaxed and conversational. This is not a textbook but rather a series of reflections and discussions around the central themes involved in practicing medicine.

In this deeply personal and empowering audiobook, longtime patient and advocate Gwen Mayes reveals the hidden emotional toll of living with chronic illness—and how resilience, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence can transform the journey. Written with candor, empathy, hope, and humor and drawing on her own decades-long experience with heart disease, she explores the profound mind-body connection, the gaps in our healthcare system, and the strategies that help patients stay grounded when their physical health feels unpredictable.

Across cultures and civilizations, humans have relied on natural medicine for thousands of years. Long before modern pharmaceuticals existed, healers worked with roots, leaves, bark, minerals, sunlight, water, fasting, movement, and touch. They understood something essential: the body is not a machine that simply wears out. It is a living, adaptive, self-repairing system. Modern science is now confirming what traditional wisdom has known all along: Inflammation drives most joint degeneration. Nutrition shapes tissue repair. Movement nourishes cartilage. Sleep regulates healing hormones.

A healthcare AI expert examines how artificial intelligence can either undermine or enhance the doctor-patient relationship, offering frameworks to keep medicine human-centered. Subjects to Sovereigns explores what happens when the most powerful AI systems in medicine make decisions about patients who are never really heard? For most of modern medicine, patients have been treated as data points inside someone else’s system. Artificial intelligence risks locking that pattern in forever.

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...

First person stories of patients who recovered from Alzheimer's Disease--and how they did it. It has been said that everyone knows a cancer survivor, but no one has met an Alzheimer's survivor – until now. In his first two books, Dr. Dale Bredesen outlined the revolutionary treatments that are...

Hospice care workers play a crucial role in providing guidance and assistance to individuals and their families during one of life's most challenging moments. In this subchapter, we will explore the significant role these professionals play in supporting patients and their loved ones through the decision to remove life-support. Understanding the questions and concerns that patients may have, especially when facing the difficult decision to remove life-support, is vital.

Quando Clay è infettato dalla febbre Q, il mondo come lui lo conosce viene stravolto, letteralmente. Dopo la fase acuta in cui lotta per la sua vita, Clay si sente sollevato. Ma solo per poco. Nei mesi successivi continua a essere esausto ed è tormentato da dolori terribili. Sindrome da affaticamento post virale, gli dicono i medici. Una condizione cronica. Dopo la diagnosi, Clay spera di migliorare, invece la sua salute peggiora: il dolore costante e la stanchezza persistente gli rendono la vita quasi insopportabile. I medici gli dicono che deve "imparare a convivere" con la sua condizione, ma lui non sa come fare.

Иван Михайлович Сеченов, смог превратить физиологию в точную науку, благодаря его исследованиям искусство диагностики болезней шагнуло далеко вперед. Однако путь успеху знаменитого врача был очень непрост. Его мать, крепостная крестьянка мечтала, что сын когда-нибудь станет профессором. Ивану пришлось самому пробиваться в жизни.

Are you ready to embark on your journey to becoming a NHA certified phlebotomist? Look no further! You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the NHA exam. However, the truth is that the NHA test is a challenging exam. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Ivan Prine, a healthcare professional, developed the NHA Study Guide!

Unlocking the Secrets of Lasting Impact is an all-encompassing guide for healthcare professionals, equipping you with the tools to create powerful first impressions, cultivate exceptional patient engagement, and forge meaningful connections throughout the patient journey.

This book is about churn or patient turnover. This is for those DPC doctors, not only those in mature practices, but also for those newbies who are just starting out. Everyone needs to worry about losing patients. It’s not only a blow to your ego when people are going out the door seemingly as fast as they are coming in but also a blow to your bottom line. And it could put you out of business.