Books : Professional & Technical : Medical : Medicine : Doctor-Patient Relations

• Home
• US Store
• Electronics
• Computers
• Sitemap

Books : Professional & Technical : Medical : Medicine : Doctor-Patient Relations

• How Doctors Think

  Jerome Groopman M.D.

  
  A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments-or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.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. He 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 have a profound impact on our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking, offering 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 physicians, 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 tr

  

   

• Atlas of Human Anatomy: with Student Consult Access, 5e (Netter Basic Science)

  Frank H. Netter MD

  

  Atlas of Human Anatomy uses Frank H. Netter, MD's detailed illustrations to demystify this often intimidating subject, providing a coherent, lasting visual vocabulary for understanding anatomy and how it applies to medicine. This fifth edition features a stronger clinical focus-with new diagnostic imaging examples--making it easier to correlate anatomy with practice. Student Consult online access includes supplementary learning resources, from additional illustrations to an anatomy dissection guide and more. Netter. It's how you know.

  • See anatomy from a clinical perspective with hundreds of exquisite, hand-painted illustrations created by, and in the tradition of, pre-eminent medical illustrator Frank H. Netter, MD.
  • Join the global community of healthcare professionals who've mastered anatomy the Netter way!
  • Expand your study at Student Consult online, where you'll find a suite of learning aids including selected Netter illustrations, additional clinically focused illustrations and radiologic images, videos from Netter's 3D Interactive Anatomy, dissection modules, an anatomy dissection guide, multiple-choice review questions, "drag-and-drop" exercises, clinical pearls, clinical cases, survival guides, surgical procedures, and more.
  • Correlate anatomy with practice through an increased clinical focus, many new diagnostic imaging examples,
  
   

• Get The BEST Medical Care-YOU Can Navigate The Medical Maze: A Patient Guide

  Donna Maldonado-Schullo

  
  Do you know the right questions to ask your doctor, or even how to find the best doctor for your care? Are you an informed consumer when it comes to your medical care? Consider this "If you live in Fort Myers FL., you're two or three times more likely to get your knee replaced than if you live in Miami..." the reason has nothing to do with knees. The healthcare consumer in the USA has a "43% chance of undergoing an unnecessary test" How do you prevent that? How does this happen that "more people now die from the misuse of prescription drugs purchased legally in pharmacies than from illicit drugs bought on the street." All of this can be reduced by one person; you. You need to know how to get the best out of one of the costliest and most fragmented medical systems in the developed world. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to be a more informed and smarter consumer. Everything you need, facts, statistics, the questions to ask your doctors, the resources on the Internet, and the law to back you up.
  
   

• Hardwiring Excellence: Purpose, Worthwhile Work, Making a Difference

  Quint Studer

  
  A "textbook with passion", Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence. In this book, author Quint Studer, CEO of Studer Group, draws on his personal experience as a former hospital executive who led two organizations to the top 1% in patient satisfaction and his experience coaching hundreds of healthcare organizations since.
  Studer, a nationally acclaimed educator, coach, and thought leader in healthcare today, is a master storyteller, mixing "chicken soup style" stories with personal insight, simple tools, and in-depth recommendations on how good organizations can become great ones.
  
  Based on Studer Group’s Nine Principles SM, Quint Studer shows how to retain more employees; ensure better customer service; build strong leadership, align organizational values, goals, and results; increase communication; reward and recognize individual success while also requiring accountability; and move operational performance for better financials, market share, and growth.
  
  At the core of the journey, he says, is a sense of purpose, worthwhile work and making a difference. When organizations learn how to harness this passion in their employees, they create a success spiral with ever increasing momentum.
  
  In fact, Richard L. Clarke, FHFMA, President and CEO of Healthcare Financial Management Association says, "Quint Studer’s Nine Principles of service and operational excellence provide the missing link between people power and strong financials. It’s about courageous leadership."
  
   

• Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness (5th Edition)

  Rachael E. Spector, Rachel E. Spector

  
  Boston College School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA. Brandon/Hill Nursing List first-purchase selection (#344). Promotes an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Emphasizes the influence of social, political, and demographic changes. Previous edition: c1996. Softcover. DNLM: Cultural Diversity--United States
  
   

• Overdiagnosed

  H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartzl, Steve Woloshin

  
  From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
  
  Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, most of whom will not benefit from treatment, might be harmed by it, and would arguably be better off without screening.
  
  Drawing on twenty-five years of medical practice and research on the effects of medical testing, Welch explains in a straightforward, jargon-free style how the cutoffs for treating a person with "abnormal" test results have been drastically lowered just when technological advances have allowed us to see more and more "abnormalities," many of which will pose fewer health complications than the procedures that ostensibly cure them. Citing studies that show that 10 percent of two thousand healthy people were found to have had silent strokes, and that well over half of men over age sixty have traces of prostate cancer but no impairment, Welch reveals overdiagnosis to be rampant for numerous conditions and diseases, including diabetes, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, gallstones, abdominal aortic aneuryisms, blood clots, as well as skin, prostate, breast, and lung cancers.
  
  With genetic and prenatal screening now common, patients are being diagnosed not with disease but with "pre-disease" or for being at "high risk" of developing disease. Revealing the economic and medical forces that contribute to overdiagnosis, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, excessive worry, and exorbitant costs, all while maintaining a balanced view of both the potential benefits and harms of diagnosis. Drawing on data, clinical studies, and anecdotes from his own practice, Welch builds a solid, accessible case against the belief that more screening always improves health care.
  
   

• Introduction to Radiologic Sciences and Patient Care, 3e

  Arlene M. Adler MEd RT(R) FAEIRS, Richard R. Carlton MS RT(R)(CV) FAEIRS

  
  This text introduces students to the imaging sciences and familiarizes them with patient care skills necessary for clinical practice. The content covered in the new 3rd edition meets the standards set by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Curriculum Guide and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) Task List for certification examinations. It helps students prepare not only for certification, but also for professional practice.
  
  Instructor resources are available to qualified adopters; contact your sales representative for more information.
• Over 300 photos and line drawings clearly demonstrate patient care procedures.
• Chapter Objectives list concepts students should have mastered by the end of the chapter, to emphasize important points and help students focus.
• Key terms with definitions are presented at the beginning of each chapter as an introduction to new terms that students will encounter as they read the chapter.
• Numerous, up-to-date references at the close of each chapter direct the student to additional resources for further research.
• Appendices provide practice standards, professional organizations, state licensing agencies, the AART code of ethics, and patient's rights information, giving students additional professional information that prepares them for what they will encounter in practice.
• Comprehensive cove