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Author: Jerome Groopman Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547348630 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 325
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On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
Author: Jerome Groopman Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547348630 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
Author: Marty Makary Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1608198383 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 257
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Argues for more transparent, democratic and safer healthcare practices to keep patients better informed and hold poor-performing doctors and flawed systems accountable.
Author: Elizabeth Bailey Publisher: Hachette Go ISBN: 0306924668 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 158
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"A godsend for concerned friends and relatives trying to rein in the chaos."-The New York Times Whether you're addressing the rising chaos of a pandemic or preparing for a scheduled surgery, having checklists prepared to guide you through a hospital visit can often mean the difference between comfort and pain, personal and distant care--and even life or death. In today's hospital system, you can face a series of perplexing obstacles to satisfactory care, from overworked healthcare providers to understaffed facilities--which are heightened in times of crisis. You need to know how to take charge of your own healthcare; Elizabeth Bailey shows you how to do just that with a series of essential, easy-to-use checklists to better manage, monitor, and participate in your own healthcare, including: Before You Go, What to Bring, Master Medication List, Discharge Plan, and more. It is more important than ever to have a protocol, including a detailed plan for hygiene and communications while hospitalized. You can trust the medical staff, but you also need to trust yourself or a loved one to be your own best advocate. Newly revised and completely up-to-date, The Patient's Checklist shows you how.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309175690 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 411
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Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey. Primary Care fills this gap with a detailed definition already adopted by professional organizations and praised at recent conferences. This volume makes recommendations for improving primary care, building its organization, financing, infrastructure, and knowledge baseâ€"as well as developing a way of thinking and acting for primary care clinicians. Are there enough primary care doctors? Are they merely gatekeepers? Is the traditional relationship between patient and doctor outmoded? The committee draws conclusions about these and other controversies in a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion that covers: The scope of primary care. Its philosophical underpinnings. Its value to the patient and the community. Its impact on cost, access, and quality. This volume discusses the needs of special populations, the role of the capitation method of payment, and more. Recommendations are offered for achieving a more multidisciplinary education for primary care clinicians. Research priorities are identified. Primary Care provides a forward-thinking view of primary care as it should be practiced in the new integrated health care delivery systemsâ€"important to health care clinicians and those who train and employ them, policymakers at all levels, health care managers, payers, and interested individuals.
Author: Oscar London Publisher: Ten Speed Press ISBN: 1580089178 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 122
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This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poignant insights gleaned from 30 years of general practice--while never taking himself (or his profession) too seriously. The classic book on the art and humor of practicing medicine, celebrating its 20th anniversary in a new gift edition with updates throughout. Previous editions have sold more than 200,000 copies. The perfect gift for med students and grads as well as new and practicing physicians. Approximately 17,000 students graduate from med school each spring in North America.
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 J. Connolly Publisher: Castle Connolly Medical ISBN: 9781883769666 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 1232
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This book is the newly revised 4th edition of Castle Connolly's hot-selling consumer guide on how to obtain the very best health care in the New York City area. It is a unique book that provides information on about 6,000 of the best doctors in all 5 New York City boroughs, Westchester & Long Island counties, plus northern New Jersey & southern Connecticut. Programs & services of all acute care hospitals & HMOs in the region are described as well. The book explains what makes a doctor the best & lays out the criteria to use when choosing a physician. Sample questions for potential physicians & other health care providers are incorporated. Although oriented to local physicians, the book also lists "super-specialists", physicians known throughout the region to be outstanding in their field. Most doctors listed, regardless of their classification, are Board Certified. The physician listings include office address, phone numbers & HMO affiliations, as well as hospital affiliations & much more data, all vital to careful physician selection. The Guide also gives an overview of how to choose hospitals & HMO & offers a review of the inner workings of both. To order call 1-800-399DOCS, fax: 212-980-1716, or write Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., 150 E. 58th St., New York, NY 10155. Available through Independent Publishers Group.
Author: Les Irwig Publisher: Judy Irwig ISBN: 1905140177 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 255
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Every day we make decisions about our health - some big and some small. What we eat, how we live and even where we live can affect our health. But how can we be sure that the advice we are given about these important matters is right for us? This book will provide you with the right tools for assessing health advice.
Author: Walter George Bradley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 344
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Even in this information age, people dealing with often serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable information, the essential medical facts. Using case histories as examples, the author, one of the world's leading neurologists, explains the neurological examinations, tests, clinical features, causes and treatments available for Alzheimer's disease, migraines, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's and other frequently diagnosed neurological disorders. Known by medical students and physicians across the globe as the editor of the leading neurology textbook, Neurology in Clinical Practice, the author now provides a definitive resource for patients, caregivers and other health practitioners. This book is for anyone who has ever had a neurological symptom, from a headache to tingling hands, and for anyone with a personal interest in how the brain works in health and disease.
Author: Jerome Groopman
Author: Jerome Groopman
Author: Marty Makary
Author: Elizabeth Bailey
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Oscar London
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD
Author: John J. Connolly
Author: Anita D. Taylor
Author: Les Irwig
Author: Walter George Bradley