Physician Wellness

"You're Not a Doctor: Why Physicians Are Needed" is a compelling exploration of the contentious issue of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) seeking greater autonomy in healthcare. As I near the end of my medical school journey, I share firsthand experiences and insights into the risks and rewards of granting midlevel providers more independence.

Discover how you can finally get rid of stress naturally with the ultimate yoga handbook that reveals the exact steps to dramatically enhance your wellness through yoga. Living a life of abundance, happiness, and fulfillment is not as hard as you might think - nor is it something just a few lucky people are destined to experience. Getting rid of stress and living a worry-free life is actually much simpler than you thought it would be.

The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions. 'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twenty authors, including active physician executives, counselors, and healthcare chaplains, addressing three core concepts related to the well-being of physicians.

What do health and healing - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - really mean? After decades researching this question, Patricia Muehsam, MD, offers a revolutionary new way to think about health. Muehsam invites listeners to travel beyond medicine, to Absolute Health. It involves being, not doing, and it’s available to all of us, in this very moment.

The state of medicine today has its challenges. If you're suffering from ill health, and you're feeling lost and overwhelmed, there is a path for you to become wholly aligned if you're willing to take responsibility for your healing. In this insightful book, nutritionist and yoga teacher Ciara Jean Roberts shows us the path to happiness and healing through her personal journey of dealing with a lifelong kidney condition charting from childhood to teenage dialysis to transplantation and beyond. She shows us:

When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849, there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark - "What, trust a woman doctor - never!"

Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their families, and their caretakers. Dr. Frank empowers patients by unlocking the mysteries of the disease and explaining in plain language the ways to confront and combat it. An award-winning medical oncologist recognized for his humanitarian approach as well as his research accomplishments, Dr. Frank understands that cancer patients and their families need insight into the disease.

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.

Half a world away from home in 1976, 18-year old Anne B. Thomas awakens on the side of a two-lane road paralyzed from the chest down. Fast forward through a rigorous year of physical therapy to when her doctor gives her an ominous warning: “You will live a long time and be a burden on your family for the rest of your life unless you check yourself into a nursing home”.

How can you protect your right to a balanced life, in a profession that demands perfection? Medical life is challenging. The culture is competitive, the environment intense, the machinery complex and unwieldy, and the expectations high. Under such constant stress, many doctors sacrifice their own wellbeing to try and provide the best possible care for their patients. Coaching offers a way to immediately start bridging this known gap. You are a whole human, and it's time to treat yourself like it.

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.

Fascinomas - fascinating medical mysteries. A paralyzed teen recovers overnight. A woman complains her breast implants speak. A man and his dog become gravely ill at the exact same time. These strange real-life cases and many more can be found in author and physician Clifton K. Meador's newest collection, Fascinomas. Combining the word fascinating with the term for a tumor or growth, fascinoma is medical slang for an unusually interesting medical case.

Nearly one in every five Americans deals with mental illness in a given year, and the rates are climbing. Among physicians, the rate is even higher as the time spent in medical training significantly increases the risk of poor mental health. None of us is fully immune from the ravages of mental health problems. This book is about the fallibility of us all, including the doctors who are supposed to care for us. It is about the fine line of illness and normal emotion and about how to change the norms of medical practice in light of human weakness.

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.

Every now and again, one comes across an audiobook that opens the heart and lets the soul sing. Such an audiobook is a window on the wonder and joy, the beauty and the depths of the world around us. Such an audiobook leads us from one jeweled insight to another, like the Genie giving Aladdin a tour of the treasure cave. Once found, such an audiobook joins a precious few in a privileged place on one's bookshelf, to be taken down, re-listened and savored over and over. Soul Medicine by Dr. Judith Boice is exactly such an audiobook.

Do you wish you understood others better? Do you want to master your own emotions? In recent years, it’s become increasingly obvious that emotional intelligence just as important, if not more so, than simply possessing a high IQ. Research suggests that people with higher emotional intelligence lead more successful, productive lives. They are happier, healthier, and generally better at achieving their goals. But what is emotional intelligence? How does it differ from IQ? And how can you learn to improve yours?

This book is dedicated to the legacy of those men and women who strive to create a better world with their expertise and commitment to providing healthcare services. Physicians Cookbook includes hundreds of proven relationship marketing recipes for success, including the success ingredients of lectures, in-house promotions, event management, health fairs, and much more in order to deliver your valuable services to more patients! My book will walk you down the road to success and assist you to lead your team.

Offering both doctor and patient perspectives, 100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Cancer provides authoritative and practical answers to the most commonly asked questions by patients and their loved ones. Along with the answers to these and other questions, this book provides information on the different types of kidney cancer, signs and symptoms, treatment options, and more.

Dr. Edward Creagan has been treating very sick patients for more than 35 years. This audiobook is not just about lifestyle choices, although these are important aspects of Dr. Creagan’s healthy living plan. It is about using your precious minutes in the exam room (the average doctor visit is about 16 minutes), forging the right kind of relationship with your care providers (because that world is changing quickly), and understanding and using the health care system - instead of having the system use (and often abuse) you.

All across America, doctors are being forced to close due to the steady decline of insurance reimbursements. Opt-Out is a prescription for struggling private practice owners who want to turn their business around without relying on insurance networks. Dr. TJ Ahn, a Korean-born podiatrist, enrolled in podiatry school, inspired by the “Golden Era” of private practice surgery.