Author: Harold Melvin Hays Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483143791 Category : Languages : en Pages : 312
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Excerpt from Doctor and Patience It is a timely and human document that Dr. Hays has put together in Doctor and Patience. Most medical schools turn out the medical student of to-day having taught him much of diagnosis, little of therapeutics, and still less of medical ethics. The science of medicine is taught today as thoroughly as our scientific knowledge permits, but the rules and laws of conduct governing the profession in their rela tion to each other and the peculiar professional relations between the doctor and his patient, are left for each individual student to acquire by experience as he goes along. Formerly, when the preceptor system was in vogue and every young student attached himself to some older physician, each one acquired the traditions of the profession and absorbed the result of the elder's experience in life and was thus saved many mistakes that he otherwise might have made. To - day, necessarily, much of the science of medicine is taught by men who live a labora tory existence out of contact with the sick or. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: S. Weir Mitchell Publisher: ISBN: 9781331077169 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 184
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Excerpt from Doctor and Patient The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity rather than the medical attendant. The larger number have from their nature a closer relation to the needs of women than of men. It has been my fate of late years to have in my medical care very many women who, from one or another cause, were what is called nervous. Few of them were so happily constituted as to need from me neither counsel nor warnings. Very often such were desired, more commonly they were given unsought, as but a part of that duty which the physician feels, a duty which is but half fulfilled when we think of the body as our only province. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365290056 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Excerpt from Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Desirable apartments for a single gentleman affixed thereon, and at the farther end a French dressmaker eked out a slender income. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: David Biro Publisher: Pantheon Books ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 314
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So writes David Biro, a young doctor who had everything going for him -- a beautiful wife, a successful medical practice, and the Ph.D. in literature he had always dreamed of -- when he was diagnosed, at thirty-one, with a rare blood disease. Of the two possible treatments, he chose the riskier one, a bone marrow transplant. As he charts his journey from doctor to patient, from professor of dermatology to high-ranking medical "zebra, " Biro brings clarity to one of the most medically complex procedures of our time. And in writing about his own fears, Biro taps into the anxieties we all feel when confronted with a medical world that though more technologically advanced than ever strikes us, at times, as confusing -- with its contradictory diagnoses -- and compassionless.Combining the self-analysis of Oliver Sack's in A Leg to Stand On with the emotional impact of Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, "One Hundred Days" is more than a physician's triumphant account of his own illness, it is a searing and, ultimately, hopeful meditation on illness and mortality, fate and the fellowship of family.
Author: A. L. Sabin Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781391662763 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 400
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Excerpt from The Complete Family Doctor The Author confesses no allegiance to any school but the school of Nature. Whatever acts in harmony with the natural laws of the human body as proven by many years of experience is here used regardless of any opposition or persecution which may be used against it by any of the differ ent schools of medicine whose pet hobbies may have been unceremoniously laid aside. It has not been the Au thor's aim to conciliate medical societies and combinations. His sole aim has been to save the patient. The heartless opposition of different schools of medicine - the desire to master and subdue all other schools has' in thousands of cases made them utterly regardless of the welfare of the patient. When asked what he would do in a given case by the Author, a popular physician said, I would lose my patient before I would violate the teachings of my school, even if I knew the teachings of another school would save him. The Author regards such a course and such a practice as that given above as little better than murder, and he regards it as one of the greatest duties of his professional life to throttle such practices in their stronghold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Edward T. Creagan Publisher: Write On, Inc. ISBN: 9780757301100 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 344
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Dr. Creagan's prescription for prevention and survival teaches readers how to take control of their health care, their medical records and their decision making and shows patients how to wisely select and build partnerships with their doctors.
Author: S. Thomson Publisher: Рипол Классик ISBN: 587359516X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 399
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On a plan entirely new: with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them, to cure disease
Author: German Woodhead Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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Excerpt from Industrial Colonies and Village Settlements for the Consumptive Symonds, and we together examined the patients, sampled the climate and other conditions, and argued with Unger and Ruedi. Then for the second time came Hope; more solid Hope. Given a fairly early case, and three years, and recovery was in the offing. And so we went on cheerfully with Davos. But Davos was not for every one; nor was every case an early 'one. Then came the discovery that lower altitudes would do if certain conditions were obtained; and so arose the great sanatorium movement. But slowly we found that patients could not spend their lives in sanatoriums; and one day on making my way up to one of them in England, I met on the way patient after patient, slouching along, bored to death with themselves and with each other; and even worse in morale than in body. Better discipline and better notions of thera peutics mended some of that; still I could not forget those listless saunterers, and it became evident to some of us, however unwillingly, that Hope was drooping again. The sanatorium was doing a great educative work no doubt; but at the end of its four or six months - what then? To send the patient away with recommendations about light jobs, and a regime, was almost a mockery or quite. What about the wage, and the family to be supported? The next lesson was brought home to me by a visit with other commissioners to certain cities, concerning some such problems. Before me now I see a gaunt hollow-eyed man, coughing, and leaning against the wall as he tried to talk to us, saying that his mates when he came out of the sanatorium - good fellows as they were - had bought him a milk that he might creep round, and earn a bit. The brave wife, shawl on head and mill apron on, had just come from the factory, and apologised for the dirty house - as well she might. The poor thing was working all day at the factory to keep the wolf from the door. All being dragged down together into the pit! What is the value of a good house, or a clean house, if no wages! What is there for the children? And what is to stop the infection! Who then would have the imagination, the initiative, the business capacity, to lift this burden, like lifting a world? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807073334 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 267
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“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But understanding doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice can make all the difference on giving and getting the best medical care. Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. Ofri also reveals that doctors cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.
Author: John Berger Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 067973726X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 177
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In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable to themselves. In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tend the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. And as Berger and Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life. First published thirty years ago, A Fortunate Man remains moving and deeply relevant--no other book has offered such a close and passionate investigation of the roles doctors play in their society. "In contemporary letters John Berger seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience." --Susan Sontag
Author: Harold Melvin Hays
Author: S. Weir Mitchell
Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
Author: David Biro
Author: A. L. Sabin
Author: Edward T. Creagan
Author: S. Thomson
Author: German Woodhead
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD
Author: John Berger