Physician Wellness

The Confident Patient is your road map and key to truly understanding and navigating your healthcare situation. This powerful guide provides you with real answers, specific questions to gain clarity, information you can use immediately, and gives you concrete ways to partner with your medical team. Healthcare is intensely personal and intimate, and The Confident Patient honors you and your family’s individual situation like a trusted friend, in a supportive, compassionate way.

Discover how you can get more from your healthcare appointments. Whatever your reason, you can learn how to get more from your healthcare appointments. While working as a registered nurse, I was diagnosed with a degenerative autoimmune disease. The one thing that helped me the most was my experience of sitting on both sides of the desk. Just because you haven't had that experience firsthand, it doesn't mean you can't learn how to make your healthcare appointments work for you, too.

On the road to becoming a physician, Dr. Kelly longed to find serenity in a world of conflicting ideas and aspirations. The demands of his medical training left little time for personal growth, so he reached out to those around him. He took notes on the lessons of life he learned from his patients and their families. They opened their hearts and exposed their wounds. He paid attention and listened, and his patients became his teachers.

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.

The secret to opening physician-patient communication channels, reducing physician burnout, and achieving real results for patient health outcomes lies in the embrace of technology. In Prescription Technology, author Dr. Pranathi Kondapenini shows healthcare stakeholders how current and future technology tools can be leveraged to reduce stress for the doctor and increase the patient's adoption of modified lifestyle behaviors.

If you are a new nurse practitioner, physician assistant, new physician resident or any type of new healthcare professional that will be working with patients, this is a unique book about patient interaction and different scenarios that can occur. The book discusses tips on how to approach different situations when trying to be an effective healthcare provider for your patient.

We understand that not all doctors are insensitive assholes. Some of them are wonderful empathetic human beings who want to help people. We love those medical professionals! Let's make more of those in medical school. Our goal with this book is to illustrate what needs to change in the medical field to make doctors more sensitive to what patients are going through.

Diabetes happens in a life that already has a story. This book, composed of nearly 40 personal narratives, based on taped interviews, about the lives of actual patients with diabetes, draws upon the collective experience of an endocrinologist and two nurse practitioners who worked together for 25 years. The book provides a wealth of information about diabetes, including material on prevention, complications, and new technology, but it is not intended as a textbook on diabetes or as a self-care manual for patients.

"Gudrun og det hvide snit" afdækker et grumt stykke danmarkshistorie. Gennem sin barndom har forfatter og journalist Janne Aagaard besøgt sin mors moster Gudrun på et plejehjem i Arden og undret sig over Gudruns skæbne: "Hun var lidt af en legende i vores familie. Gudrun, der var indlagt stort set hele sit liv, damen med bare et ben, hende der elskede mænd. Skammen og skylden lå som et stort tæppe over hende og hendes begrædelige liv." Gudrun er en af de 4500 danskere, der fra midten af 1940’ene og 40 år frem fik det hvide snit - det sidste blev udført i 1983.

Редкий врач может популярно, не увлекаясь профессиональными терминами, объяснить далекому от медицины пациенту причины возникшей у того проблемы. Да и времени нет – рецепт в руки, и... следующий! Врач-терапевт Георгий Олегович Сапего, автор блога @Для пациентов, восполняет этот пробел. Кратко, понятно, образно и даже с юмором рассказывает о самых интересных аспектах здоровья с учетом последних научных открытий. Вернее, переводит с медицинского языка на человеческий.

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.

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.

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.

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.

La capacità dei medici di ascoltare e rispettare i malati nel momento della loro sofferenza è un'arte difficile da insegnare e il suo apprendimento richiede più tempo e denaro rispetto alla padronanza della tecnica. Oggi, l'abuso della tecnologia, la corsa al progresso, il superspecialismo, la competizione rischiano di privare i medici dell'empatia verso i pazienti. Quando questa comunicazione fallisce, l'intero sistema di cura entra in crisi: una crisi profonda e radicale, che la medicina è chiamata a risolvere.

The People's Hospital is the story of how Ben Taub Hospital strives to provide healthcare to Houston's most vulnerable population, against the background of the chaos of American healthcare. By telling the frequently heartbreaking stories of patients who have had to battle their desperate financial circumstances as well as life-threatening disease. These are extraordinary stories in which doctors are tied up with complex moral questions about money vs healthcare.

Neue Quanten-Erkenntnisse für ein langes und gesundes Leben. Gemeinsam mit dem Quantenphysiker Dr. Jack Tuszynski und dem Endokrinologen Dr. Brian Fertig zeigt der Bestsellerautor und ganzheitliche Mediziner Deepak Chopra, wie sich die Erkenntnisse der Quantenwissenschaft darauf auswirken, wie wir leben und altern. Der Schlüssel dabei ist der Quantenkörper. Dieser beeinflusst von seiner subatomaren Ebene aus unsere Gedanken, Gefühle, aber auch unseren Stoffwechsel und damit die Energieproduktion unserer Zellen.

Patients are critical to healthcare delivery, yet their concerns and perspective are frequently lost in translation or, at worst, blatantly ignored. Patients don’t even have a place in organizational charts. Yet patients deserve their own branch of science, and author Pamela J. Brink, RN, PhD, FAAN, has started a conversation about giving patients that niche in a new area of study called “patientology”. This work is a brief overview of concepts such as medical sociology and nursing, and will prompt further research and delineation.

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.

When Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews left the frontline buzz of hospital medicine for an NHS GP surgery, she was overwhelmed by the number of patients that were being let down by our healthcare system. Having witnessed the extent that box-ticking exercises were robbing her patients of their happiness, and sometimes their lives, she started to envisage a new way to care that put individuals and community at its centre. Laura tells the incredible stories of the patients, doctors, artists and complementary health practitioners that have shaped her years as a GP.