Patient Care

You don’t need an earthquake to have a disaster. Many industries are in a state of tremendous turmoil and some will not survive the change. And yet, this is a time of extraordinary opportunity for individuals and organizations that can adapt, engage and innovate. Mere resilience is no longer enough. Are you ready to thrive? Inspired by challenges faced by the health care industry, but applicable to any organization, Beyond Resilience will show you how to transform: confusion into clarity, adversity into opportunity, pressure into productivity and the indescribable mess of disaster into ...

Cybersecurity for Healthcare Professionals is a conversation about keeping you and your patients safe from cyberattacks. With the ever-evolving risk of all internet users becoming victim to cyber crime, the healthcare industry requires extra attention in ushering forth a new era of preventative care that includes maintaining network security and protecting patients from an often-overlooked, different kind of threat.

The second edition of this text advocates for a transformational change in the way doctors protect their mental health, look out for their colleagues, create a kinder, more humane work culture and lead health system reform. Brimming with poignant and hopeful stories and quotes from a diverse array of doctors from many different specialties and at all career stages, the book is a celebration of the growing global interconnectedness and the changing face of the medical profession.

Are you having anxiety or fear about your upcoming surgery or procedure? This clear and concise essential guide is here to help! It is easy to understand and helps you navigate the challenging and stressful surgical journey with more confidence and peace of mind. This book gives you a comprehensive road map and guidance for you to be in more control of your surgery. You will find invaluable insights and practical advice to help you feel more informed, more at ease, and more empowered every step of the way.

Conquer the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and Paramedic Profession: Your Concise Guide to a Career Assessing a Patient’s Condition and Administering Emergency Medical Care is the ultimate resource for aspiring emergency medical technicians and paramedics. This comprehensive guide delves into the vital role these professionals play in delivering life-saving care during emergencies. It covers every aspect of the profession, from responding to 911 calls and assessing patient conditions to performing critical procedures and safely transporting patients to medical facilities. Readers will...

Direct Primary Care is an affordable and highly efficient primary care delivery model that promises unrestricted access to your personal doctor with same-day appointments and 24/7 remote access for a flat monthly fee. No deductibles. No copayments. No office visit charges. No insurance required.

Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories told from the perspectives of those who receive diagnoses and those who deliver them. Confronting how we address illness in our personal lives and in popular culture, this compelling book explores narratives of diagnosis while pondering the impact they have on how we experience health and disease.

A man who has injured himself trying out his girlfriend's waxing treatment. The inimitable curiosity of a boy whose cactus has left his hand in a mess. More Googled self-diagnoses than one can count. These are the cases that Rudd faces daily. As hilarious as they are poignant, the memoirs showcase some of the most baffling as well as heartbreaking stories that any doctor and their patients have had to experience.

In the course of caring for the ill or dying, health care professionals are sometimes the only ones available to provide spiritual comfort to their patients. In our modern pluralistic society, where patients could come from any number of religious traditions, it can often be difficult to find exactly the right words in these situations.

Новая книга автора бестселлера The Sunday Times "Все, что осталось"! Наши кости - молчаливые свидетели той жизни, которую мы ведем, и на них записывается вся наша биография. Основываясь на годах исследований и огромном профессиональном опыте, всемирно известный судебный антрополог, кавалер Ордена Британской империи профессор Сью Блэк приглашает нас в потрясающее путешествие, полное неожиданных открытий.

We are on the cusp of a healthcare revolution. From wearable sensors, to improved point-of-care diagnostics to artificial intelligence and robotics, there is a growing number of breakthroughs in biomedical technology which are set to fundamentally change the way patients interact with their healthcare providers.

With 40 million people uninsured and the government poised to nationalize health care, Americans need all the information they can get on which way to turn. Dr. Thurston takes the reader through real life cases in his training and practice that give the reader a behind the scenes look at what it means to be a doctor in America today. Stories that will bring tears to your eyes sometimes from laughter and sometimes from anguish, will let you in on the truth behind a system that is morphing in ways that threaten to destroy the doctor-patient relationship and with it, the once best health care ...

Since her childhood, Kelechi A. Uduhiri, MD, MPH, MS wanted to be a physician. Inspired by the bedside manner and kind deliberations of her family's house-call doctor, she finally realized that dream, as the first woman in her family to become a medical doctor. She delighted in the time spent with her patients, hearing their stories, understanding them more deeply. As years passed, however, she spent less and less time with her patients, ending up at a shocking seven-minutes-per-patient timeline due to the enormous amounts of paperwork and documentation.

Insightful, uplifting enlightening, inspirational, enriching, and transformational for cancer patients and their loved ones around the globe. In her masterpiece, The Path to Soul Immunity: $oul Currency for Life and the Big C with Dr. EB, Dr EB delivers and narrates in her unique style of prose with soothing cadence, laced with grace, bounded by love; her insight: her patients seen through her lens; their voices within heard louder than they can utter; the story of not just their lives, but the fears they harbor inside.

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.

Анна Блинова — популярный блогер, которого смотрят более 100 000 мам и пап, доула и акушерка, мама троих детей. В своей книге она рассказывает о самом главном событии в жизни любой женщины — появлении на свет малыша. Простым языком, опираясь на свой многолетний опыт ведения родов и курсов для мам, Анна подготовит вас к трудностям и радостям вашего нового положения. Эта книга для тех, кто ждет родов и мечтает сделать первые дни ребенка безопасными и счастливыми.

Doctor Kimberly Cortwell is not having fun. The virus has caused nothing but overpowering work for everyone, and it doesn’t seem like there’s an end in sight. She’s not particularly surprised to have a new case at the hospital but this case is special. Seth Ash is not reacting to the illness like other people do. Something is happening in his body, and whatever it is just might be the key to making real headway against the pandemic. It would be a truly exciting and wonderful thing if the man wasn’t so irritating, smug, self-righteous, and handsome.

Death exposes the dangerous state of affairs in our "sick-care system" and the dangers of the current medical/pharmaceutical complex. Doctors causes over 800,000 deaths and millions of life-threatening complications each year. Or, as Harvard Professor Lucian Leape testified before Congress, it’s equivalent to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day!

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.

When seven-year-old Angela Harris is rushed to a hospital emergency room in an unexplained coma, Dr. Ben Allen, the young pediatrician assigned to her case, welcomes the diagnostic challenge. His enthusiasm turns to frustration when confronted with the child's overbearing father, her phlegmatic mother, her senile great-aunt, a knife-happy surgeon, and a hospital administrator who values fund-raising above patient care. Consumed by his efforts to save Angela, Allen must do so in the face of a series of events that threaten to end his budding career.