Doctor / patient relationship Books

Book SynopsisA new and creative way of thinking about the consultation in primary care, for both trainees and practising GPs The book features a unique Two Houses model to help the reader move away from completing a series of tasks to focusing on the two key objectives at the heart of every consultation: Working out what matters (The House of Discovery) Deciding with the patient what to do about it (The House of Decision) Using the rich metaphors contained within these houses, the book explores common pitfalls that can beset those who are learning the craft of consulting in primary care, and encourages the reader to fill their toolbox with the skills needed to develop their own patient-centred consultation style. The GP Consultation Reimagined is based on the author's experience of teaching communication skills over 10 years as a GP Training Programme Director. "This book will not teach you to improve your consultations. That is its great merit. Instead, it will encourage you to learn how to consult better." From the Foreword by Roger NeighbourTrade ReviewExcellent reading, a must for professionals like me 'I really resonate with the teaching methods used by Doc Martyn. I love the visual imagery and walk thru' Amazon reviewer Well written and imaginative 'Really well written and imaginative. So good to have a fresh look at how the GP consultation can be enhanced to improve patient care and shared management. Highly recommend this book.' Amazon reviewer 'This book is specifically written for the GP (in training) and deserves a big thumbs up!... All in all this is the most innovative and original APC [doctor–patient communication] book that we have read in recent years.' Huisarts en Wetenschap -- Huisarts en WetenschapLove love love 'A completely refreshing overhaul of the GP Consultation from a Dr who clearly puts his patients first and foremost. Some fantastic pearls of wisdom contained within as well some highly relatable visual imagery and a light hearted touch. Leaves you feeling motivated to try to do a better job!' Amazon reviewerTable of ContentsForeword by Roger Neighbour; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the author 1. The GP consultation in the ICE age 2. Two Houses – a new model for the consultation 3. The GP toolbox 4. Entering the House of Discovery 5. Popping the bubble 6. Exploring the basement 7. Finding dry rot 8. Tending the garden 9. A house with two wings 10. The High Tech Room 11. Optional Rooms 12. Room 101 13. Empty Rooms, Hidden Rooms and Locked Rooms 14. Forecasting the future 15. Putting it into practice 16. The Two Houses guide to passing the CSA 17. Consulting in the 21st century

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Book SynopsisCommunication in anaesthesia, pain management, and intensive care can have profound impacts on patients and healthcare colleagues. Good communication can result in better patient outcomes and experiences of the hospital setting, whereas poor communication is frequently at the heart of adverse incidents, complaints, and litigation.This handbook outlines two model frameworks to improve communication: one to give structure to an interaction and one that explores language structures and the layers of meaning to our words. The frameworks are essential tools for communicating with children, obstetric patients, and those with needle phobia. A practical guide, the book is packed with useful tips to enhance interactions with both patients and colleagues. Numerous examples and vignettes clearly demonstrate ideas that will improve patient care, safety, and bring out the best in everyone around. Fully updated with new clinical guidelines and literature, the second edition includes new chapters on how to talk to patients in pain, featuring motivational interviewing techniques, and on social media. Increased coverage of managing challenging situations, includes communicating with distressed relatives, dealing with complaints, and working with interpreters. The contributors and editors are senior clinicians from North America, Europe, and Australasia, working at the coalface of perioperative and critical care. Blending theory, science, and practicality, this book complements resources for communication skills teaching in anaesthesia and other related professional groups.

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Book SynopsisIn Ordinary Deaths, Dr. Samuel LeBaron reminds us of our need for human connection when experiencing death and loss. Based on more than thirty years of working with children and adults dying from cancer, LeBaron’s memoir contains stories of longing, confusion, love, and humility—often woven together. Sharing recollections from his childhood in rural Alberta and experiences from his career, LeBaron reveals a life of vital, intimate connection with others. His employment at a morgue during medical school, his early years as a clinical psychologist, and later careers in primary care and hospice in California, all translate into compassion and a deep understanding of death. Writing as he faces his own terminal illness—Stage IV lung cancer—LeBaron helps readers find acceptance and solace.Trade ReviewSamuel LeBaron … has collected his lessons from a lifelong dance with death into a profound memoir…. LeBaron’s recollections brim with emotional insights, celebrate the virtue of honesty between caregiver and patient, and authentically depict the value of letting each person find their particular way to peace and acceptance…. Ordinary Deaths reminds us that each individual’s path to death is as different and unique as their own life has been. In our death-denying world, that is extraordinary indeed.” John Terauds, Quill & Quire, August 31, 2022 [Full review at https://quillandquire.com/review/ordinary-deaths-stories-from-memory/]"Writing [Ordinary Deaths] was a 15-year process made all the more poignant by the fact that LeBaron is, himself, dying. Two and a half years ago, LeBaron was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer…. LeBaron’s ability to hold space for the uncertainty, mystery and doubts we have about dying is anything but ordinary." Deb Cummings, Alumni News, October 10, 2022 [Full article at https://alumni.ucalgary.ca/news/ordinary-deaths-anything]"Through LeBaron’s stories and the filter of his imagination, we witness his experiences as psychologist, physician and person. His clinical testimony makes us reflect: We may not want to look at death, but we can’t look away from it either. Our fascination with the death of others is often accompanied by the denial of our own death.... But the book is more than a memoir of how to face death: Ordinary Deaths is about how to face life." Tony Errichetti, The Intima, October 24, 2022 [Full review at https://www.theintima.org/book-reviews-intima/ordinarydeathbysamuellebaron]Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Magic Medicine 2. Worms 3. Voices 4. Under Water 5. In the Barn 6. Aunt Margie 7. Charlie Gough 8. In the Field 9. To Tell the Truth 10. The Laughing Cure 11. La Llorona 12. Día de Muertos 13. Second Chances 14. Permission to Breathe 15. The Ferryman 16. Winterreise 17. Fathers 18. Lost Horses 19. The River Styx 20. Dream Baby 21. Safe Harbor 22. The Tillandsia Epilogue  Notes Appreciations"

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Book Synopsis''I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.'' Sunday Times''Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional.'' Adam Kay, ObserverAt seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring a series of organ failures and multiple major surgeries.Every step of the way, Awdish was faced with something even more unexpected and shocking than her battle to survive: her fellow doctors' inability to see and acknowledge the pain of loss and human suffering, the result of a self-protective barrier hard-wired in medical training.In Shock is Rana Awdish''s searing account of her extraordinary journey from doctor to patient, during whichTrade ReviewOutstanding... What marks it out is not the scale or urgency of the trauma, although I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe. It is the writing. It sparks and crackles with a dark energy... The writing is not just intense, but intelligent... In Shock stands above other patient memoirs. -- James McConnachie * The Sunday Times *Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful - evocative and emotional. -- Adam Kay * The Observer *In Shock is both an enthralling page-turner and a haunting call to arms for the medical profession to practice with greater kindness, compassion and humility. Awdish captures beautifully how and why doctors, against our best selves, can lose sight of our patients in furious pursuit of the diagnosis, the save, the cure. Anyone – doctor or otherwise – whose life has been touched by illness will be transfixed by this deeply moving tale of catastrophic illness and everything it teaches us. -- Rachel Clarke, author of Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's StoryAwdish looks at the way we practice medicine with a combination of love and outrage. She writes beautifully about the secret, shameful feelings many doctors feel they have to hide and she shows us how we might do better. After reading this book, I feel like a different doctor. -- Gabriel Weston, author of Direct Red: A Surgeon's StoryA brave, powerful memoir about what it is like to be both a doctor and a patient... There is a widsom that literally comes from suffering. * The Times *There are few recent books to compare it to. Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, another physician’s account of illness, ended with his death. Awdish lives to tell the tale, but her cascade of medical problems is appallingly severe. Like [Adam] Kay’s, her writing is motivated by trauma, both her own and that of her medical colleagues…The dramatic story of her illness and recovery alone would make the book compelling, but in the growing genre of medical non-fiction, it is her reflections on medical practice that really stand out. -- Dr Alexander Van Tulleken * TLS *Compelling and insightful, this story of what a doctor learns through coming close to death is packed with both action and reflection. * Cathy Rentzenbrink, bestselling author of The Last Act of Love *Urgent and supremely eloquent... In Shock is a book to set alongside the likes of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, Direct Red by Gabriel Weston and, of course, Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air. -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *An extraordinary memoir. * Daily Mail *Awdish describes her experiences powerfully... In Shock is a reminder that the sick are not subhuman, doctors are not superhuman, and that medicine needs to be human in order to truly heal. -- Sarah Ditum * Mail on Sunday *In Shock is a notable, ambitious and welcome contribution to an emerging dialogue concerning the quality and orientation of acute hospital care. -- Paul D'Alton * Irish Times *Awdish's book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes ... dramatic, engaging and instructive. * New York Times *Harrowing and enlightening... This is a story of darkness and light, horror and hope. It's not an easy read, but it is a fascinating one, and highly recommended. * The Sunday Business Post *Had me hooked right from the start. Incredible story, and even more incredible story-telling... has had an unexpected impact on me and will change the way I practice medicine from here on. * Dr Ranj Singh *

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Book Synopsis'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN* * * * *What is it like to be a brain surgeon?How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason?How do you live with the consequences when it all goes wrong?DO NO HARM offers an unforgettable insight into the highs and lows of a life dedicated to operating on the human brain, in all its exquisite complexity. With astonishing candour and compassion, Henry Marsh reveals the exhilarating drama of surgery, the chaos and confusion of a busy modern hospital, and above all the need for hope when faced with life's most agonising decisions.* * * * *Winner:PEN Ackerley Prize South Bank Sky Arts Award for LiteratureShortlisted:Costa Biography AwardDuff Cooper PrizeWellcome Book PrizeGuardian First Book AwardSlightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeLonglisted:Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionTrade ReviewNeurosurgery has met its Boswell in Henry Marsh. Painfully honest about the mistakes that can 'wreck' a brain, exquisitely attuned to the tense and transient bond between doctor and patient, and hilariously impatient of hospital management, Marsh draws us deep into medicine's most difficult art and lifts our spirits. It's a superb achievement * Ian McEwan *An enthralling read . . . a testimony of wonder . . . Marsh's style is admirably clear, concise and precise . . There is no forcing of a narrative arc or a happy ending, just the quotidian frustrations, sorrows, regrets and successes of neurosurgical life -- Gavin Francis * GUARDIAN *An elegant series of meditations at the closing of a long career. Many of the stories are moving enough to raise tears, but at the heart this is a book about wisdom and experience -- Nicholas Blincoe * DAILY TELEGRAPH *[Do No Harm] simply tells the stories, with great tenderness, insight and self-doubt . . . Why haven't more surgeons written books, especially of this prosaic beauty? Well, thank God for Henry Marsh . . . What a bloody, splendid book: commas optional -- Euan Ferguson * OBSERVER *Incredibly absorbing . . . an astonishingly candid insight -- Bill BrysonRiveting . . . extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frightening . . . [Marsh] writes with uncommon power and frankness * NEW YORK TIMES *Offers an astonishing glimpse into this stressful career. This is a wonderful book, passionate and frank. If Marsh is even a tenth as good a neurosurgeon as he is a writer, I'd let him open my skull any time -- Leyla Sanai * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *Henry Marsh . . . sets a new standard for telling it like it is . . . His love for brain surgery and his patients shines through, but the specialty - shrouded in secrecy and mystique when he entered it - has now firmly had the rug pulled out from under it. We should thank Henry Marsh for that -- Phil Hammond * THE TIMES *When a book opens like this: "I often have to cut into the brain and it is something I hate doing" - you can't let it go, you have to read on, don't you? . . . I trust completely the skills of those who practise [brain surgery], and tend to forget the human element, which is failures, misunderstandings, mistakes, luck and bad luck . . . Do No Harm by Henry Marsh reveals all of this, in the midst of life-threatening situations, and that's one reason to read it; true honesty in an unexpected place -- Karl Ove Knausgard * FINANCIAL TIMES *As gripping and engrossing as the best medical drama, only with the added piquancy of being entirely true, this compelling account of what it's really like to be a brain surgeon will have you on the edge of your sunlounger -- Sandra Parsons * DAILY MAIL *A mesmerising, at times painful journey through a neurosurgeon's extraordinary career. As delicate as he can be brutal, Marsh's account of himself is always honest and moving. Human frailty at its strongest -- Jessie Burton, author of THE MINIATURISTA strikingly honest and humane account of what it means to hold the power of life and death in your hands . . . elegant, edifying and necessary -- Erica Wagner * NEW STATESMAN 'Books of the Year' *Marsh has written a book about a love affair, and one cannot help feeling similarly smitten . . . 'Elegant, delicate, dangerous and full of profound meaning'. All four of those epithets might describe this book -- Ed Caesar * THE SUNDAY TIMES *A fascinating look inside the head of a man whose job it is to fiddle around in ours. He acknowledges that surgeons are arrogant, that they play God, but that they are also afflicted by despair, sorrow and doubt. He is scathing on NHS bureaucracy and his picture of doctors doing their best but basically flailing in the dark made me respect the profession more -- Nick Curtis * EVENING STANDARD *

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Book SynopsisFeaturing more than 85 vibrant, fully annotated charts—19 new to this edition—this updated fourth edition of Diseases and Disorders: The World's Best Anatomical Charts is a perfect quick reference for medical and nursing students and an ideal visual aid for patient education. Printed on oversized, cardstock pages and compiled in a convenient, 10” x 12” spiral-bound volume with a laminated cover, these full-color charts created by some of the world's best medical illustrators illustrate and explain common diseases and disorders of the brain; heart; GI tract; eye and ear; endocrine, muscular, skeletal, reproductive, and respiratory systems; dental diseases; infectious diseases; healthy lifestyle issues; and cancer. Nineteen new charts cover Schizophrenia, Ovarian Cancer, Multiple Myeloma, Liver Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Heart Failure, Peripheral Artery Disease, UC/Crohn's Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Age-Related Macular Degeneration, and more. All charts have been reviewed and updated. Medical terminology and easy-to-understand supporting text are printed directly on each chart. Every chart depicts an aspect of human anatomy, physiology, and disease presented in a clear, visual presentation. The book is ideal as a review resource or quick reference for studying human anatomy or for patient consultation and education. Table of ContentsBRAIN DISEASES & DISORDERSUnderstanding Alzheimer’s DiseaseUnderstanding Major Depressive DisorderUnderstanding EpilepsyMigraines and HeadachesUnderstanding Multiple SclerosisUnderstanding PainUnderstanding Parkinson’s DiseaseUnderstanding Sleep DisordersUnderstanding StrokeUnderstanding SchizophreniaCANCER (ONCOLOGY)Understanding Breast CancerUnderstanding Cervical CancerUnderstanding Ovarian CancerUnderstanding Colorectal CancerUnderstanding LeukemiaUnderstanding Lung CancerNon–Small Cell Lung CancerMultiple MyelomaUnderstanding Liver CancerUnderstanding Kidney CancerUnderstanding Pancreatic CancerUnderstanding Prostate CancerUnderstanding Skin CancerCARDIOVASCULAR AND VENOUS DISEASES & DISORDERS Cardiovascular DiseaseUnderstanding High CholesterolDeep Vein ThrombosisHeart DiseaseUnderstanding HypertensionUnderstanding High Blood PressureHeart FailurePeripheral Artery DiseaseUnderstanding Valve StenosisDENTAL DISEASES & DISORDERSDisorders of the Teeth and JawTemporomandibular Joint (TMJ)DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES & DISORDERSGastroesophageal Disorders and Digestive AnatomyDiseases of the Digestive SystemUnderstanding UlcersUlcerative Colitis and Crohn’s DiseaseUnderstanding Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES & DISORDERSUnderstanding DiabetesUnderstanding Type 1 DiabetesUnderstanding Type 2 DiabetesMetabolic SyndromeThyroid DisordersEYE AND EAR DISEASES & DISORDERSMiddle Ear ConditionsDisorders of the EyeUnderstanding GlaucomaAge-Related Macular DegenerationINFECTIOUS DISEASES & DISORDERSUnderstanding the Common ColdUnderstanding HepatitisUnderstanding Bacterial InfectionsUnderstanding HIV and AIDSUnderstanding InfluenzaUnderstanding Viral InfectionsMUSCULAR AND SKELETAL DISEASES & DISORDERSUnderstanding ArthritisUnderstanding Carpal Tunnel SyndromeAnatomy and Injuries of the Foot and AnkleAnatomy and Injuries of the Hand and WristAnatomy and Injuries of the HipHip and Knee InflammationsKnee InjuriesAthletic Injuries of the KneeAnatomy and Injuries of the ShoulderHuman Spine DisordersAnatomy and Injuries of the SpineUnderstanding OsteoporosisAnatomy and Injuries of the Head and NeckWhiplash Injuries of the Head and NeckREPRODUCTIVE DISEASES & DISORDERSBenign Breast DiseaseCommon Gynecological DisordersInfertilityUnderstanding Erectile DysfunctionThe ProstateSexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)Diseases of the Urinary TractRESPIRATORY DISEASES & DISORDERSUnderstanding AllergiesUnderstanding AsthmaChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)Diseases of the LungHEALTHY LIFESTYLE ISSUESUnderstanding MenopauseDangers of AlcoholDangers of SmokingBMI and Waist CircumferenceKeys to Healthy EatingMaintaining a Healthy WeightRisks of ObesityUnderstanding Your Weight

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Book SynopsisEncouraging a broad, compassionate, humanistic approach to spirituality, this book shows how patients' spiritual needs can be communicated well within interdisciplinary teams, leading to better patient wellbeing.This book describes the art of charting patients' spiritual perspectives in an open way that will help physicians and nurses to better direct medical care. It includes practical information on how to distil spiritual needs into pragmatic language, helping to demystify spiritual experience. Drawing on his extensive practical experience, the author also suggests key points to emphasise that will enrich chart notes for medical records, including brief, relative narratives, trusting one's own impressions, reflecting holistically on the patient's life, patient attitudes towards treatment and recovery, and describing families' opinions on the health care situation of their loved one. The book shows healthcare professionals of all disciplines how to engage in a shared responsibility for the spiritual care of their patients.Trade ReviewHumanistic care is the result of a collaborative effort across all the disciplines including clinical chaplains. Gordon Hilsman in his book successfully makes a case and provides a practical framework for chaplains to document the state of the patient's human spirit in the face of uncertainty and adversity in the medical chart. This act of "humanizing" the medical chart creates the climate for spiritual care to complement medical care and therefore promote healing. This book is a must read for every member of the interdisciplinary medical team. -- Juan C. Iregui, MD Palliative Medicine & EthicsMagnificent work - a must-read for health care professionals. Hilsman's artful analysis of spirituality fills a gap in the caring professions' knowledge base. Providing insight into healing, Hilsman's theory draws the reader into recognizing what makes up the human spirit from surprising angles. -- Brenda Miller, MSN, RN, BC-NE, Nursing Director, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.Kudos for Spiritual Care in Common Terms, an inspiring and self-revealing look at the science and art of spiritual care. Hilsman reveals the best-kept secrets of professional chaplaincy and openly welcomes all who care for the body, mind and spirit of the human person. A must read! -- Tim Serban, Chief Mission Integration Officer at Providence Health & Services, Oregon, National Volunteer Lead at American Red Cross Disaster Spiritual Care, Author, and Board Certified ChaplainWeaving together a lifetime of experience with a growing body of research, Gordon Hilsman has crafted a guide that proves beneficial to both the novice clinical pastoral education student as well as the seasoned clinical spiritual care giver. This book, both expansive in breadth and thoughtful in depth, is warmly accessible yet never trite, making it also a significant resource for interdisciplinary teams interested in the practice of spiritual care. -- Trace Haythorn, Ph.D., M.Div., Executive Director, The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education Inc.I have had the privilege over recent years in diverse professional learning settings to experience Gordon examining this topic of capturing in common language the soul of another so that this vital knowledge can be understood by the multidisciplinary care team to inform goals and plans of care. Combining theory, cases, numerous examples of goals of care, and spiritual care wisdom honed from years of clinical education and practice, Gordon masterfully provides (using his criteria for quality chart notes) a very understandable, significantly substantive, and exceptionally readable volume that will serve very well the chaplains and health care professionals to whom he has devoted his life for the benefit of the care recipient's healing and wholeness. -- David A. Lichter, D.Min., Executive Director, NACCThis is a marvelous and important book. In lucid prose, Gordon Hilsman explains the importance of succinct, earthy spiritual assessment notes for the medical record. He shows us the how and the why, and reminds us how important it is to create an image in the chart of the entirety of a person. The patients we all serve, and our poor beleaguered healthcare system, will be the better for listening to his call, recounted with warmth, wisdom, empathy, and good humor. -- David K. Urion, M.D., FAAN, Director of Education and Residency Training Programs in Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Co-Chair, Ethics Advisory Committee, Boston Children's HospitalSpirituality of patients is an essential domain of whole-person care. Patients often suffer in silence; that suffering or spiritual distress must be recognized and treated. Professional chaplains are essential members of the healthcare team. It is critical that they communicate verbally and in the chart note the spiritual needs of the patient, how they are addressing that need and what outcomes the team should look for to help the patient heal. Spiritual Care in Common Terms offers the language and format for chaplains to communicate this clinical aspect of spiritual care that can be understood in the reductionist clinical framework but keeps the patient's inner narrative in the forefront of their care for all members to provide compassionate care for our patients. This is a must read for not only chaplains but for other members of the interdisciplinary team. -- Christina Puchalski, MD, FACP, FAAHPMTable of ContentsForeword by James H. Gunn, ACPE Supervisor, Retired. Preface: Common Language for Charting Spiritual Care. 1. Why Record the Intangible in Health Care Culture. 2. The Theory - A Humanist View of Spirituality: Universal Sources of Patient Stories. 3. The Content - Twenty-Two Spiritual Needs Common among Hospitalized People, and their Goals of Care. 4. The Format - A Shape for an Elegant Chart Note. 5. The Process - Extracting the Relevant. 6. The Outcomes - A Phenomenological Approach. Epilogue: Becoming and Remaining a Spiritual Clinician. Appendix: The Use of Chaplain Chart Notes by Interdisciplinary Team Members at a Leading U.S. Hospital. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Sixth Edition of Anatomy & Pathology: The World’s Best Anatomical Charts features 52 new and updated anatomical charts created by some of the world's best medical illustrators. This reference is an essential addition to every library, whether you are a health professional, student, or interested consumer. These anatomical charts show the human body in a format that provides a clear and visual understanding of human anatomy, physiology, and diseases. Medical terminology and easy-to-understand supporting text are printed directly on each chart so you never have to refer to a separate key card or manual. The convenient size and format make it ideal for studying, patient consultation or quick reference.Systems of the Body: 12Structures of the Body:16Diseases, Disorders and Conditions: 2458 pages52 full color chartssize 10' x 12'Spiral bound, soft coverTable of ContentsSYSTEMS OF THE BODYThe Digestive SystemThe Endocrine SystemThe Female Reproductive SystemThe Lymphatic SystemThe Male Reproductive SystemThe Muscular SystemThe Nervous SystemThe Respiratory SystemThe Skeletal SystemThe Spinal NervesThe Urinary TractThe Vascular System and VisceraSTRUCTURES OF THE BODYThe BrainThe Ear—Organs of Hearing and BalanceEar, Nose and ThroatThe EyeFoot and AnkleHand and WristAnatomy of the HeartHip and KneeLigaments of the JointsPregnancy and BirthThe ProstateShoulder and ElbowThe Skin and Common DisordersThe Human SkullAnatomy of the TeethThe Vertebral ColumnDISEASES, DISORDERS AND CONDITIONSDangers of AlcoholUnderstanding AllergiesUnderstanding ArthritisUnderstanding AsthmaUnderstanding High Blood PressureUnderstanding Breast CancerCardiovascular DiseaseUnderstanding High CholesterolUnderstanding Colorectal CancerUnderstanding the Common ColdUnderstanding DepressionUnderstanding DiabetesDiseases of the Digestive SystemGastroesophageal Disorders and Digestive AnatomyUnderstanding InfluenzaUnderstanding Lung CancerDiseases of the LungRisks of ObesityUnderstanding PainUnderstanding Prostate CancerSexually Transmitted InfectionsDangers of SmokingHuman Spine DisordersUnderstanding Stroke

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Book SynopsisSUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.Violence. Drugs. Suicide. Welcome to the world of a Prison Doctor.Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK's most infamous prisons first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe's largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.From miraculous pregnancies to dirty protests, and from violent attacks on prisoners to heartbreaking acts of self-harm, she has witnessed it all.In this eye-opening, inspirational memoir, Amanda reveals the stories, the patients and the cases that have shaped a career helping those most of us would rather forget.Despite their crimes, she is still their doctor.Trade Review‘Written with both humour and deep concern for the lives of her incarcerated patients. It’s a poignant, compassionate read, giving an insight into the complicated and damaged lives of some of the offenders … a thoroughly enlightening and engaging book.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A fascinating, sometimes funny, often gruelling account of working behind bars.’ Observer ‘Not only features startling anecdotes but also the more rewarding aspects of her job – the prisoners who sent her letters of thanks, the ones for whom there remains hope.’ i newspaper ‘eye-opening … harrowing … Though so many of the tales are unbearably sad, and some details quite difficult to read without flinching, frequent moments of hope and humanity mitigate what could otherwise be a bleak look at life on the lowest rung of society’s ladder.’ The Telegraph ‘All of the highs and lows of prison life, with heart-warming honesty and anecdotes to make your sides split and your jaw drop in equal measure … Amanda has filled her book full of funny tales that both she and the inmates have had a good giggle at.’ Sunday Express S Magazine ‘An enthralling account.’ The Sun

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Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown.Insights into the world of a Prison Doctor, this time taking us deeper into the walls of Bronzefield, the UK's biggest women's prison.From the drug addicts who call Amanda the mother I never had' to the women who've pushed back at domestic abuse, to women close to release in their 70s, who just want to stay in the place that they've always known, these are stories that are heartbreaking, harrowing and heart-warming. Amanda listens, prescribes, and does what she can. After all, she's their doctor.Trade Review‘both heart-rending and socially revealing’. The Bookseller ‘compassion and commitment shine through’ The Observer ‘Heart-breaking … Brown lays bare the health and social challenges facing these women with brutal honesty, shining particular light on mothers behind bars, as well as those trying to come off drugs.’ PRESS ASSOCIATION ‘her love for her job shines through this book, and so does her humility’ The Daily Telegraph ‘lays bare the health and social challenges facing these women with brutal honesty’ Press Journal ‘It gave me goosebumps and has changed my views’. Woman & Home Praise for the Prison Doctor: ‘Written with both humour and deep concern for the lives of her incarcerated patients. It’s a poignant, compassionate read, giving an insight into the complicated and damaged lives of some of the offenders … a thoroughly enlightening and engaging book.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A fascinating, sometimes funny, often gruelling account of working behind bars.’ Observer ‘Not only features startling anecdotes but also the more rewarding aspects of her job – the prisoners who sent her letters of thanks, the ones for whom there remains hope.’ i newspaper ‘eye-opening … harrowing … Though so many of the tales are unbearably sad, and some details quite difficult to read without flinching, frequent moments of hope and humanity mitigate what could otherwise be a bleak look at life on the lowest rung of society’s ladder.’ The Telegraph ‘All of the highs and lows of prison life, with heart-warming honesty and anecdotes to make your sides split and your jaw drop in equal measure … Amanda has filled her book full of funny tales that both she and the inmates have had a good giggle at.’ Sunday Express S Magazine

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Book SynopsisA young Jewish doctor prays to a coma patient's Blessed Mother on Christmas Eve, only to have the woman suddenly awakened; there is the voice that tells a too-busy ER doctor to stop a patient walking out, discovering an embolus that would have killed him. The late-night passing of a beloved aunt summons a childhood bully who shows up minutes later, after twenty-five years, to be forgiven and to heal a broken doctor. This ER doctor finds God's opposite in: a battered child's bruises covered over by make-up, a dying patient whose son finally shows up at the end to reclaim the man's high-top sneakers, the rich or celebrity patients loaded with prescription drugs from doctor friends who end up addicted. But, his real outrage is directed at our cavalier treatment of the elderly, If you put a G-tube in your 80-year-old mother with Alzheimer's because she's no longer eating, you will probably have a fast track to hell.Trade ReviewAn AMAZING book with lots of detail & description of a passionate ER doctor and his experiences! Wow! I couldn't put it down! An easy book to pick up and read a couple of chapters, or the entire book in one sitting! Looking for a good cry or laugh? Or just want to learn about a subject many of us don't ever encounter. This book is it! (J. Cline) It was excellent! You had me laughing and crying, and always entertained. I hope that this is the first of many books to come. Please keep writing! (S. Devol)

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Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda BrownIn The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners.DANGER. DEPORTATION. DEATH.These are just some of the fates facing the inmates atHuntercombe prison.Some have fled their homeland in fear of their lives.Others are being sent to a country they left decadesago. But Dr Amanda Brown is doing all she can for eachpatient stuck in no-man's land. They have little or no ideaof what awaits them outside, but she treats them withkindness and respect. Whatever their crime, and whatevertheir future holds, she is still their doctor.

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Book SynopsisShe is his doctor. He will be her downfall.The bestselling phenomenon returnsBeautifully paced' CARA HUNTERBeautifully written with an achingly real romance at its heart' SARAH HILARYA masterclass in upmarket thriller writing' CHARLOTTE PHILBYI raced through it!' EMMA CURTISWhen Rachel, a GP in Salisbury, meets Luc, the attraction between them is instant. But Rachel is married with a daughter and Luc isn't well.Despite themselves, a heady love affair begins one that threatens to risk everything Rachel has worked for. And when someone in the town is found dead, the spotlight turns to Luc. Torn between her career, her marriage and her heart, Rachel finds herself in the middle of something much darker than she could have imaginedA beautifully written domestic suspense story from the master of the what-if novel.PRAISE FOR THE PATIENT:This elegant, multi-layered story has taken my breath away. Much more than a murder mystery, it explores mental health, middle age, marriage and love, whileTrade Review PRAISE FOR THE PATIENT: ‘Constantly surprising’ The Sunday Times ‘A twisty- and sexy- tale’ Heat ‘Plenty of tension and atmospheric moments’ Candis ‘A gripping exploration of power, relationships and revenge’ My Weekly ‘Tingling…Beautifully written and paced’ CARA HUNTER ‘A powerful obsession turns dark in this gripping tale of desire, betrayal and murder’ T.M. LOGAN 'Engaging and masterful with a taut plot and intriguing characters.' ALEX DHAL ‘With plenty of tension and shocking moments, this atmospheric story is perfect for fans of Apple Tree Yard and Doctor Foster.’ CANDIS MAGAZINE ’A beautifully written thriller with satisfying twists and an achingly real romance at its heart’ SARAH HILARY ‘A multi-layered thriller. I raced through it!’ EMMA CURTIS ‘A spellbinding, twisty tale of love and lies – utterly absorbing. The Patient drew me in and kept me rapt until the very last word.’ MARION TODD ‘A beautifully written, suspenseful portrait of a settled life fracturing violently’ GILLY MACMILLAN ‘The Patient is magnificent: a masterclass in upmarket thriller-writing’ CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘Twisty and perfectly paced’ VICTORIA SELMAN ‘A compulsive, dark thriller that simmers with tension’ LUCY CLARKE ‘Beautifully written, The Patient is both a psychological thriller and a redemptive love story with twists galore’ SARAH VAUGHAN

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Patient comes another powerful novel about betrayal, family and the secrets of the past.Jane Shemilt is a mistress at skilfully weaving seemingly perfect family lives with deadly secrets from the past in stunning locations.' Jane CorryPAXOS, GREECEA young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again.LONDON, ENGLANDJulia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to her husband, James. But behind it all is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage. When she meets Laurel, a therapist who promises fulfilment, Julia opens herself up to the hope of a different future.BOUND BY THE PASTBut what happened in Greece all those years ago that binds these two women together? And will uncovering the truth destroy everything or set them free?THE QUEEN OF THE WHAT-IF NOVEL IS BACK WITH A TENSE, EMOTIONAL READ THAT WILL MAKE YOU QUESTION EVERYTHINGNetgalley readers LOVE All Her Secrets:Jane is one of mTrade Review Praise for Jane Shemilt: ‘Gave me goosebumps’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS ‘This elegant, multi-layered story has taken my breath away. Much more than a murder mystery . . . luring you to the edge of your seat’ JANICE HALLETT ‘A masterclass in upmarket thriller writing’ CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘[A] gripping tale of desire, betrayal and murder’ T.M. LOGAN ‘Constantly surprising’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Beautifully paced’ CARA HUNTER

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Book SynopsisMaking the right medical decisions is harder than ever. We are overwhelmed by information from all sides—whether our doctors’ recommendations, dissenting experts, confusing statistics, or testimonials on the Internet. Now Doctors Groopman and Hartzband reveal that each of us has a “medical mind,” a highly individual approach to weighing the risks and benefits of treatments.  Are you a minimalist or a maximalist, a believer or a doubter, do you look for natural healing or the latest technology?  The authors weave vivid narratives of real patients with insights from recent research to demonstrate the power of the medical mind. After reading this groundbreaking book, you will know how to arrive at choices that serve you best.

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Book SynopsisThe book proposes a new relationship between people and their doctors, fostering self-efficacy so that people can be empowered to manage their own health and live happier, healthier lives. It gives practical advice and provides an accessible, challenging, thought-provoking view of how medical practice needs to change to become person focused.Table of Contents1: David Beaumont: Doctor becomes patient 2: David Beaumont: There's something wrong 3: The art of medicine 4: What are 'health and wellbeing'? 5: Disability, chronic pain, and medically unexplained symptoms 6: Why should health and wellbeing matter to doctors? 7: How to reclaim your life 8: Physical health - Te Taha Tinana 9: Psychological health - Te Taha Hinengaro 10: Emotional Health - Te Taha Whanau 11: Existential health - Te Taha Hinengaro

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Book SynopsisCurrently and for centuries past, sickness has been understood to be primarily the physical result of bodily disease. Yet this definition of illness is out-of-date and untrue to life at a time when chronic illness and the problems of disability and aging are increasingly common. When persons are sick, it pervades their whole being. The Nature of Healing is based on a different definition of sickness, one that recognizes persons as sick when they cannot achieve their goals and purposes because of impairments of function, ranging from the molecular to the spiritual, which they believe to fall under the scope of medicine. Such impairments may result from disease, but certainly not all.As the sick person has increasingly become the focus of medicine, there have been repeated but mostly failed attempts to achieve both technological and humanistic goals in caring for patients. This approach is flawed because there is only one ultimate goal -- the well-being of the patient. Whether it involveTrade ReviewIt will make you think and reflect * IAHPC News *...Eric Cassell has been one of medicine's foremost thinkers about suffering. The Nature of Healing is full of insightfully presented and sometimes moving case histories that help Cassell make a case that practitioners need to hear patients' stories so they can understand them enough to help them move toward healing. * Christian Century *Cassell is a great listener and a natural storyteller. I hope that he will write a third volume in which he develops those stories more fully. * John D. Lantos, The Hastings Center *The Nature of Healing: The Modern Practice of Medicine offers effective and strategic ways to practice patient-centered medicine. [It] offers readers specific ways to reconsider the negative effects of reductionism in medicine, which can manifest as a distancing between clinician and patient as a patient disconnects from the world in descent into illness. * Adrianne Vincent, Journal of Palliative Medicine *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Sickness ; Chapter 2 The Person, Sick or Well ; Chapter 3 Functioning ; Chapter 4 What is Healing? ; Chapter 5 Listening: The Foundation of the Healing Relationship of Patient and Clinician ; Chapter 6 The Evaluation of the Patient ; Chapter 7 Knowing the Patient ; Chapter 8 The Patient's Reaction to Illness ; Chapter 9 The State of Illness ; Chapter 10 Healing the Sick Patient ; Chapter 11 Healing the Suffering Patient ; Chapter 12 Respect for Persons and Autonomy ; Chapter 13 Purposes, Goals, and Well-Being

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Book SynopsisThe best clinicians take into account the life challenges of their patients when planning their care, a process Drs. Weiner and Schwartz refer to as contextualizing care. Failures to contextualize care, when they results in care plans that seem appropriate from a narrowly clinical perspective but are nevertheless unlikely to achieve their intended aims represent contextual errors. Prescribing a medication a patient cannot afford when a less costly alternative is available would constitute such an error. Drawing on two decades of research including analysis of nearly 10,000 audio recorded medical encounters, the authors document an unmeasured dimension of quality: the extent to which clinicians attend to patient context, and its substantial implications for health care outcomes and costs. Listening for What Matters provides a comprehensive overview of research and quality improvement efforts to address the problem of contextual error. This second edition has been revamped and updated to include studies testing clinical decision support tools in the electronic medical record, medical student and resident trainee educational interventions, and an audio-recording based quality improvement program within the Department of Veterans Affairs. This book is a must-read for physicians, other health care professionals, policymakers and administrators, medical students, and medical educators.

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Book SynopsisNo one goes into healthcare with the intention of hurting people, or wanting to come off as callous, cold, or unfeeling. Fortunately, most people working in healthcare understand that kindness and compassion are key, even foundational to success in the care they provide to patients and families. And yet, all too often, there are instances when contact with healthcare is tainted by experiences ranging from vaguely annoying or abrasive to outright emotionally assaultive. Patients may confront experiences that chip away at their sense of pride and personhood; this can be as subtle as being kept waiting for an appointment, as insidious as being required to wear a plastic hospital bracelet that tracks them according to an institutional number or code, as jarring as being referred to as an aberrant body part - the proverbial GI bleed in room two or breast tumor in room three. Dignity in Care aims to provide readers with what they need to know about the humanity of care and the tone of careTrade ReviewThis is a book of profound humanity, wisdom, and insight. Chochinov calls clinicians to become aware not only of the patienthood of the people we serve, but also of the intrinsic dignity of their personhood-dignity that can be so easily lost in the busy-ness of healthcare. Using insights from patients' experiences and quoting the wisdom of esteemed colleagues across clinical disciplines, alongside reflections from his decades in research into the nuances of dignity, Chochinov's book is a masterclass in the art of clinical caring as a service to humanity. It should be required reading at the outset of training, and then again at regular intervals throughout clinicians' careers. * Dr Kathryn Mannix, retired consultant in palliative medicine and best-selling author of With the End in Mind and Listen: how to find the words for Tender Conversations *His latest book [is] a wonderful example of Dr. Harvey Chochinov's clear writing...Drawing on the ABCD's of Dignity-conserving Care (attitude, behavior, compassion, and dialogue), he moves into the Model of Optimal Therapeutic Communication, which was derived from focus groups with experienced psychosocial clinicians...The clinical examples are excellent, and he provides clear guidance, even when situations are not working out the way the clinician would hope...This book provides great wisdom for the experienced clinician, but if all health care undergraduate students could be guided to integrate the concepts in this wonderful book, into their care of themselves and their patients, health care could be radically transformed. * Mary L.S. Vachon, RN, RP, PhD, Psychotherapist in Private Practice; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto *The book provides students and clinicians with a master class on how to preserve patient dignity in the face of the tough tasks of health care professionals, including helping patients understand their treatment options and how to sensitively break the news, if need be, that their prognosis is poor. This book will be of interest primarily to students, trainees, and practitioners in the health professions. Its rich stories drawn from the author's experience are often moving and well told. It should be a required addition to hospital and medical libraries, and for schools with health professions programs. * Choice *This book serves as a strong reminder that genuine healthcare requires not only scientific knowledge but also a profound understanding of - and empathy for - the human experience; in particular the recognition, affirmation, and support of human dignity and vulnerability. Therefore, its reading would be advantageous for any healthcare professional, regardless of geographical location, specialty, or background. * Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Understanding Patienthood 2. The ABCDs of Dignity Conserving Care 3. The Model of Optimal Therapeutic Communication 4. Dignity in Care Epilogue

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Book SynopsisA philosopher who has experienced psychosis argues that recovery requires regaining agency and autonomy within a therapeutic relationship based on mutual trust.In Mental Patient, philosopher Abigail Gosselin uses her personal experiences with psychosis and the process of recovery to explore often overlooked psychiatric ethics. For many people who struggle with psychosis, she argues, psychosis impairs agency and autonomy. She shows how clinicians can help psychiatric patients regain agency and autonomy through a positive therapeutic relationship characterized by mutual trust. Patients, she says, need to take an active role in regaining their agency and autonomy—specifically, by giving testimony, constructing a narrative of their experience to instill meaning, making choices about treatment, and deciding to show up and participate in life activities. Gosselin examines how psychotic experience is medicalized and describes what it is like to be a pa

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Book SynopsisEdmund D Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. This volume offers a presentation of Pellegrino's thought and its development. Suitable for medical ethicists, students, scholars, and physicians, it offers insights into the emergence of a field and the work of one of its pioneers.Trade Review“This volume is composed of a selection from Dr. Pellegrino's corpus of writings on medical ethics. To date, these essays have been unavailable in one work. . . . This reader provides essays on philosophical foundations of medicine, the medical profession, physician-patient relationship, physician as moral agent, humanism and the Hippocratic tradition.” —Issues in Law & Medicine“Pellegrino believes bioethics should not be restricted to specific topics such as abortion, cloning, or physician-assisted suicide. In this collection of nineteen essays from across his career, Pellegrino describes the philosophical foundations of medicine and of the medical profession, the healing relationship, virtue and medical practice with the physician as moral agent, the humanities in medicine, and the Hippocratic tradition.” —Book News“This remarkable book summarizes Edmund Pellegrino's writings by extracting several meaningful essays from his voluminous bibliography. These point to the dearth of humanities requirements for medical training and highlight the poverty of ethical considerations in medical decision-making. . . . Agree or disagree, this book needs to be read by all physicians, especially those whose education was devoid of philosophy. The editors have done an excellent job of offering a sage's viewpoint in an accessible form.” —Journal of American Medical Association“Editors H. Tristam Engelhardt, Jr., and Fabrice Jotterand have carefully selected, organized, and interpreted the writings of Pellegrino, making them more accessible to students, scholars, physicians, and anyone generally interested in medical ethics. In almost a lecture style, the editors present an overview of each article, emphasizing the important developments in each, which will make this volume particularly useful as a teaching tool for a journal club or seminar course, or for anyone outside the field of bioethics looking for guidance on what to read.” —Quarterly Review of Biology

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Book SynopsisThis evidence-based guide provides the first comprehensive overview of patient engagement and participation in healthcare. It has been written for all those who want to understand the various ways in which patient and public engagement can contribute to better health outcomes.Angela Coulter explains the theories, models and policies at the heart of patient involvement as well as giving extensive practical examples to demonstrate the reality of involving patients. The book includes an examination of patientsâ roles in respect of: Improving care processes Building health literacy Selecting treatments Strengthening self-care Ensuring safer care Participating in research Training professionals Shaping services Clearly written by a leading author in the field and well illustrated with data, examples and evidence, the book includes practical descriptions of real patient engagement, together with critical reTable of ContentsThe policy context Improving care processes Building health literacy Selecting treatments Strengthening self-care Ensuring safer care Participating in research Training professionals Shaping services Patients - the greatest untapped resource?

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Book SynopsisResponding to families’ questions and fears with compassion.Trade Review"[A]n elegant, articulate handbook for families of Alzheimer’s victims. It should be among the first that they read as they educate themselves regarding the often difficult, but potentially reinforcing, journey ahead. For professionals in geriatrics, gerontology, and Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis and treatment, the book will further extend their repertoire for the conversations that should take place and suggests who should be at the table from the beginning." -- Activities, Adaptation & Aging"This book does an excellent job of highlighting the tasks of a primary caregiver and differentiates between passive, active, cognitive, and behavioral caregiving. . . . I would recommend this volume for physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, counselors, care managers, case workers, nurse practitioners, and staff at senior centers, senior care agencies, and long-term care facilities." -- Journal of Psychiatric Practice"[C]learly written, timely, useful…. Highly recommended." -- CHOICE"Dr. Santulli helps the clinician understand the family dynamics when one member of the family becomes ill with a life-changing illness such as Alzheimer’s. The clinician learns how to help the family cope, and pull together, and become a family of caregivers…. When the family truly understands their situation, knows what’s ahead for them, and has a clinician who understands their needs through all the stages of Alzheimer’s, everyone is better equipped to copy…. [W]ill help physicians and clinicians understand and become expert at coping and assisting families and loved ones as they face the crisis of Alzheimer’s." -- The Alzheimer’s Support blog"[A] powerful, top pick for any Alzheimer’s family and their friends, filled with keys to the assessment process and keys to coping both long-and short-term." -- Midwest Book Review"Santulli has beautifully captured the nature of families in all of their dynamic complexity, particularly when the disease of Alzheimer’s comes into their lives. There is a lot of practical information and wisdom in these pages from an experienced clinician. This book is essential reading for professionals of all backgrounds who help families face the inevitable challenges, as well as recognize the opportunities for growth and healing." -- Darby Morhardt, MSW, LCSW, Research Associate Professor and Director of Education, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine"Every family facing Alzheimer’s seeks a doctor who ‘gets it’—who has the capacity and willingness to become an expert on them. Dr. Santulli’s patient- and family-centered clinical expertise offers practical strategies to a broad range of health care professionals eager to offer genuinely helpful family-specific Alzheimer’s care." -- Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW, LCSW, Director, Duke Aging Center Family Support Program, and couthor of The Alzheimer’s Action Plan: A Family Guide

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Book SynopsisSomething is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patientâs experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre of practice. Caring and Well-Being opens by articulating Galvin and Todresâ innovative framework for humanising health care and closes with a synthesis of their argument and a discussion of how this can be applied in healthcare policy and practice. It: presents an innovative lifeworld-led approach to the humanisation of care; explores the concept of well-being and its relationship to suffering and outlines the rationale for a focus on them within this approach; discusses how the framework can be applied and how health and social practitioners can draw oTrade Review‘I congratulate Galvin and Todres for placing well-being and the person, with all of his or her complexities, at the center of our discipline. Caring and Well-being: A Lifeworld Approach is a milestone that will significantly shake nursing, moving our profession firmly into the domain of humanized health care. It is a must-read for every nurse academic, student and clinician.’ – Janice M. Morse, Professor and Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, USA; Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada; and Honorary Professor, Bournemouth University, UK. ‘This book is philosophically grounded, clinically relevant, informed by the best of qualitative research, and written with a genuine concern for the well-being of patients as well as the professionals who provide care for them. Galvin and Todres demonstrate how a solid understanding of patients as persons is both humane and eminently practical. Caring and Well-being is far more than a critique of how the relational and social aspects of care are overshadowed by the technical. It is a powerful guide for how we can move forward and create a healthier approach to treatment. The authors are practitioners and researchers who care deeply, have studied these issues thoroughly, and who in clear and eloquent prose remind us of what is at the heart of working in a caring and thoughtful way with patients.’ – Steen Halling, Professor of Psychology, Seattle University, USA. ‘Galvin and Todres offer a bold and passionately humane approach to healthcare. Their call to counterbalance the efficiency-driven, technology-based culture of healthcare with an emphasis on the experience of illness and suffering is timely and well-placed. Their approach is philosophically sophisticated, rooted in real-life healthcare practice, and genuinely innovative. In particular, their emphasis on seeing health as part of wellbeing and illness as part of the broader notion of suffering, demonstrates the philosophical innovation of their work. Their proposal to develop a "lifeworld-led healthcare" (contrasted with "patient-led care") and to understand illness in terms of existential homelessness turns attention to the pressing need to offer healthcare that is not just patient-centred, but one that is also engaged with the existential dimensions of illness and is authentically compassionate.’ – Havi Carel, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England, UK. ‘This book is a significant and scholarly contribution to the health sciences, founded on a theoretical treatise developed over several years by Galvin and Todres. The text presents a conceptual framework that articulates alternative ways to approach health-related caring and well-being in order to create a basis for more humanised forms of health-care delivery. The work derides the reductionist view of the body as dehumanising and instead offers an alternative view via a value-base that "does justice" to the breadth and depth of being human. The work draws extensively on epistemological and ontological tenets that are central to phenomenological and existential philosophy, as well as offering significant contributions from qualitative health and social science research, including that of the authors. In doing so, Galvin and Todres provide an eloquent model of life-world led care, one that involves conceptualising eight humanising dimensions that are meaningfully contrasted against those considered dehumanising. It is a lively and thought provoking exploration of what constitutes our notion of well-being and offers a critical analysis of our capacity to care. This book is designed to promote sensitivity to the human complexities of care among health professionals by providing a "helpful coherent value base for guiding practice". It does this in light of the more personalised dimensions of care that appear to be becoming less obvious in favour of economic imperatives. With this in mind, the book is acutely timely. It presents a world view that those of us who are phenomenological converts have known for a long time as one that is particularly relevant to caring practices. There is no doubt this book has readability and resonance. Based on some highly theoretical concepts Galvin and Todres make compelling arguments for an approach to care that is easily accessible and applicable.’ – Professor Sally Borbasi, Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Australia. 'In Caring and Well-being Kathleen Galvin and Les Todres present a creative, complex, and coherent investigation of philosophical and practice-based perspectives on caring for others in humane, holistic, and hopeful ways. With an emphasis on innovation, contemplation, and imagination, Galvin and Todres elucidate how experience, embodiment, empathy, emotions, and ethics are all inextricably connected to promoting caring and well-being in ways that honour the lived and living experiences of human beings who cannot be reduced to charts and statistics. In the spirit of contemporary hermeneutic inquiry, this book is nuanced and evocative, insightful and inspiring, philosophical and poetic. By carefully investigating the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, policy and practice, knowledge and discourse, empathy and action, Galvin and Todres have composed a remarkable book that exemplifies their commitment to nurturing integrated lifeworld approaches to well-being in the caring professions and disciplines.’ – Carl Leggo, poet and professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Need for Humanised Care Part 1: Humanising Healthcare: A Lifeworld Approach 1. A Value Framework for the Humanisation of Care 2. A Lifeworld Approach: Revisiting a Humanising Philosophy that Provides an Experiential Context for Considering Health and Illness 3. Lifeworld-led Healthcare is More than Patient-led Care 4. Caring for a Partner with Alzheimer’s: an Illustration of Research-based Knowledge for Lifeworld-led Care Part 2: Well-being and Suffering: the Focus of Care 5. An Existential Theory of Well-being: ‘Dwelling-Mobility’ 6. Kinds of Well-being: Eighteen Directions for Caring 7. Kinds of Suffering: Caring for Vulnerability 8. An Illustration of Well-being as Dwelling-Mobility: Older Peoples’ Experiences of Living in Rural Areas Part 3: Developing the Capacity to Care 9. The Creativity of ‘Unspecialisation’: Contemplative Knowledge and Practical Wisdom 10. Complex Knowledge to Underpin Caring: Embodied Relational Understanding 11. Embodied Interpretation: One Way of Re-presenting Research Findings that may Serve to Sensitise the Empathic Imagination 12. Embodying Nursing Openheartedness: An Illustration of a Core Capacity for Caring 13. Conclusion: Caring for Well-being

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Book SynopsisFirst person stories of patients who recovered from Alzheimer''s Disease--and how they did it.It has been said that everyone knows a cancer survivor, but no one has met an Alzheimer''s survivor – until now. In his first two books, Dr. Dale Bredesen outlined the revolutionary treatments that are changing what had previously seemed like the inevitable outcome of cognitive decline and dementia.  And in these moving narratives, you can hear directly from the first survivors of Alzheimer’s themselves--their own amazing stories of hope told in their own words. These first person accounts honestly detail the fear, struggle, and ultimate victory of each patient''s journey. They vividly describe what it is like to have Alzheimer''s. They also drill down on how each of these patients made the program work for them--the challenges, the workarounds, the encouraging results that are so motivating. Dr. Bredesen includes commentary following each story to

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Book SynopsisGus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surgeon at Harvard. Throughout his career he has witnessed unconscious bias against nonwhite patients. Seeing Patients shares these sobering stories and outlines concrete solutions to medical inequity.Trade ReviewWhite, noted professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard University, addresses the pervasive but hidden problem of prejudice in medicine in this revealing book. He uses extensive research to show how subconscious stereotyping of Blacks, women, and other minorities influences the doctor–patient relationship and how many people, therefore, receive substandard treatment. -- Clarence Waldron * Jet *As vital to medicine as mapping the rhythm of the heart and the firing of the nerves is an understanding of the diversity of the human family. Gus White takes us on a marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul. -- Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors ThinkSeeing Patients is a powerful and extraordinarily important book. Dr. White uses his own experience to enable us to take a close look at the sensitive issue of bias in health care, and the damage it does. He knows from the inside how good people can be negatively affected by historical and cultural forces they are not even aware of. He acknowledges the magnitude and complexity of the problem, and encourages medical schools and physicians to work together to solve it. -- James P. Comer, MD, author of Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s WorldGus White has written a tour de force—a compelling story about race, health and conquering inequality in medical care. Growing up in the segregated South, receiving medical training at all-white Stanford, caring for Americans and Vietnamese in Vietnam, Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care. He offers astute analysis and prescriptions for eliminating inequalities, and his journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down. -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate SpeedThis is first and foremost the immensely enjoyable story of Gus White’s astonishing life’s journey. With all his achievements, he has not lost sight of his roots. Recruiting minorities into medicine has been one of his life’s priorities, and he has been a leader in promoting cultural literacy in all physicians. Seeing Patients is both exciting and insightful. -- Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolThe intertwining journeys of both orthopaedics and civil and human rights are chronicled in Dr. White’s life and career. Despite the progress made in these areas, unequal medical treatment in this country still exists due to biases, stereotypes, generalizations, language differences, and cultural barriers. -- Steven L. Frick, MD * AAOS Now *White’s story—part autobiography, part call to action—is a compelling and often uncomfortable read about a hidden world where even the most compassionate and egalitarian caregivers often fail a basic command of the Hippocratic oath: to do no harm. -- Sean Silverthorne * Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin *Armed by the unique perspective afforded by being both within the American medical establishment and an African American whose grit and talent put him there, highly respected Harvard Medical School professor White is a crystal-clear visionary. The best means to improve health care for all, he says, is for medical schools to produce physicians who are not only scientifically competent but also equally culturally competent… Part stirring autobiography, part reasoned apology for egalitarian health care, White’s book makes a powerful case. -- Donna Chavez * Booklist *White uses his unique insights to discuss health care disparities, making it timeless and a must-read book that has the power to change the way we see the world…As the coronavirus pandemic brings racial, economic, and health care disparities into stark focus, Seeing Patients impresses upon us the need to see each other as fellow humans. -- Mary E. Arthur * Anesthesia & Analgesia *In this autobiography, White, Harvard’s first African American department chief, writing with Chanoff, chronicles his experiences growing up in Tennessee and his professional journey through medical school. Along the way, readers are shown how racism has impacted and still affects African Americans and others in the medical profession and in the medical system in general. -- A. W. Klink * Library Journal *White grew up in Memphis during the Jim Crow era. Affected deeply by the blatant racial prejudice he encountered in the South, as a student in Ivy League universities, as a physician during the Vietnam War, and as an orthopedic surgeon, White offers a deeply personal account. Part autobiography, and part sociological treatise on issues including race, the book chronicles how White’s epiphany in Vietnam (‘When I came out of that carnage in Vietnam, I came out with an even stronger sense that in the final analysis we are all so much more similar than different’) led to his realization that ‘the persistent derogation of out-groups’ results in unequal treatment of many categories of people. This understanding inspired him to become an activist dedicated to increasing knowledge and awareness of diversity issues. A fascinating account of how White became a professor of medical education/orthopedic surgery and the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospital, this book explains such sociological principles as race, class, and in-group/out-group processes in clear, uncomplicated prose. His a very enjoyable account of the remarkable life of an individual who did what a lot of people say they want to do: make a difference. -- C. Apt * Choice *When White attended Stanford in the late ’50s he was one of four students of color. A recommendation letter written by a mentor then included ‘this is a pale, colored boy’ to avoid misunderstanding. Now White recounts his ground-breaking life in an engaging, matter-of-fact manner… A chance encounter with a woman who felt doctors judged her by her full-body tattoo led White to consider disparities in health care. Challenges exist on both sides of the stethoscope, White argues, noting that the uncertainty felt by many African-American patients over how they will be perceived also impacts the medical encounter; the burden for alleviating racial and other disparities (such as those based in age, gender, and sexual orientation) falls on the medical and educational communities. Accessible, thought-provoking, and valuable. * Publishers Weekly *Gus White is many things—trailblazing physician, gifted surgeon, and freedom fighter. Seeing Patients demonstrates to the world what his colleagues and friends already knew—that he is also a compelling storyteller. This powerful memoir weaves personal experience, scientific research, and even political theory to reveal how the enduring legacy of social inequality shapes America’s medical field. Perfect for medical practitioners and patients alike, Dr. White offers both diagnosis and prescription. -- Jonathan L. 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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Principles 3. Getting started; rapport and agendas 4. Assessing importance, confidence and readiness 5. Exploring importance and building confidence 6. Exchanging information 7. Reducing resistance 8. Ending the consultation 9. Common clinical encounters 10. Learning to practice this approach 11. Calls from the consulting room 12. Example of a consultation Appendices: Practitioner and Patient Worksheets

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Book SynopsisA memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett’s startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Recounting before and after the discovery of her MS, she chronicles vexing symptoms while trying to be an attentive mother, wife, and a caring family doctor. 2024 Gold Winner, Benjamin Franklin Awards, Health & Fitness Category 2024 Silver Winner, Nautilus Book Awards, Medical Memoir Category 2024 Best of Austin in Austin Chronicle Readers Poll, Nonfiction Writer Category 2024 Winner, International Book Awards, Autobiography/Memoir Category and Health: Women''s Health Category 2024 Finalist, International Book Awards, Parenting and Family Category and Women''s Issues/Women''s Studies Category 2023 Finalist, IAN Book of the Year Awards, Non-Fiction: Health/Medicine/Fitness/Dietin

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a practical, step-by-step guide to every phase of assessment and therapy, from the initial interview to follow-up treatments aimed at preventing relapse once formal treatment is over.Table of ContentsPrefacePreface to the First EditionIntroductionChapter 1. Multimodal Therapy: Basic Rationale and Method Chapter 2. Basic Concepts for the Practice of Multimodal TherapyChapter 3. The Initial ReviewChapter 4. The Multimodal Assessment-Therapy ConnectionChapter 5. Determining BASIC I.D. InteractionsChapter 6. The Deserted Island Fantasy TechniqueChapter 7. Relationship Factors and Client-Therapist CompatibilityChapter 8. The Selection of TechniquesChapter 9. Multimodal Marriage TherapyChapter 10. Multimodal Sex TherapyChapter 11. Multimodal Therapy in Special Situations: Working with Children, Groups, and the Severely DisturbedEpilogue: 1989Appendix 1. Multimodal Life History QuestionnaireAppendix 2. Glossary of Principal Techniques Appendix 3. Marital Satisfaction QuestionnaireAppendix 4. Structural Profile InventoryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn a new foreword to this edition of The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, Alexander Morgan Capron outlines the changes in medical ethics practice that have occurred since the book was first published in 1984, paying particular attention to the hotly debated issues of physician-assisted suicide and informed consent in managed care.Trade ReviewA remarkable book... Goes a long way towards ending the silence that ultimately dehumanizes both doctor and patient. Business Week What gives this book unusual power is Dr. Katz's understanding of the historical origins of doctors' silence and his perceptive analysis of the relationship between doctor and patient that has led to this silent state. Wall Street Journal Jay Katz's poetic manifesto... will no doubt long be noted as a milestone on the rehumanization effort. New England Journal of Medicine A thoughtful analysis of the doctor-patient relationship and informed consent: clearly a labor of love based on years in medicine, law, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. New Physician As compelling and vital as it was when it appeared two decades ago. Tragically its critique of contemporary medicine still is right... A classic. It merits attention and discussion. -- Stanley J. Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD Journal of the American Medical Association A much-needed addition to the bioethical canon. -- Syd M. Johnson MetapsychologyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword to the Johns Hopkins Edition: The Once and Future Silent World, by Alexander Morgan Capron Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter I. Physicians and Patients: A History of Silence Chapter II. Physicians and Citizens: The Struggle for Freedom from Lay Control Chapter III. Judges, Physicians, and Patients: The Legal Doctrine of Informed Consent Chapter IV. Sharing Authority: The Willingness to Trust Chapter V. Respecting Autonomy: The Struggle over Rights and Capacities Chapter VI. Respecting Autonomy: The Obligation for Conversation Chapter VII. Acknowledging Uncertainty: The Confrontation of Knowledge and Ignorance Chapter VIII. The Abandonment of Patients: A Final Argument against Silence Appendix A. Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association (1847) Appendix B. American Medical Association Principles of Medical Ethics (1980)NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBased on sound, proven strategies and peppered throughout with illustrative examples, Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine provides the tools and knowledge necessary to start and sustain a genuine conversation at a moment when the first thought is I have no idea what to say now.Trade ReviewBuckman offers the tools and knowledge base to help a medical practitioner start and maintain a professional conversation during extremely sensitive times and circumstances... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations aims to ground its ideas firmly within the real world of clinical medicine. All of the examples are set in real situations and this is the book's main strength. Readers will recognise, immediately, the areas that do cause problems, and will be able to imagine themselves within each scenario. Times Educational Supplement 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Prescribing the Doctor as Part of the Treatment1. Some "Can't Go Wrong" Tips2. Breaking Bad News: The SPIKES Protocol3. Disclosing Error: The CONES Protocol4. Managing Conflict and Escalation: The HARD Protocol5. Giving Information Effectively: The SAFER Protocol6. Some Particularly Difficult ConversationsConclusion: Putting It All Together and Making a Difference in CommunicationAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Notes to Accompany the Scenarios on DVDNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBased on sound, proven strategies and peppered throughout with illustrative examples, Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations in Medicine provides the tools and knowledge necessary to start and sustain a genuine conversation at a moment when the first thought is I have no idea what to say now.Trade ReviewBuckman offers the tools and knowledge base to help a medical practitioner start and maintain a professional conversation during extremely sensitive times and circumstances... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations aims to ground its ideas firmly within the real world of clinical medicine. All of the examples are set in real situations and this is the book's main strength. Readers will recognise, immediately, the areas that do cause problems, and will be able to imagine themselves within each scenario. Times Educational Supplement 2011Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Prescribing the Doctor as Part of the Treatment1. Some "Can't Go Wrong" Tips2. Breaking Bad News: The SPIKES Protocol3. Disclosing Error: The CONES Protocol4. Managing Conflict and Escalation: The HARD Protocol5. Giving Information Effectively: The SAFER Protocol6. Some Particularly Difficult ConversationsConclusion: Putting It All Together and Making a Difference in CommunicationAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Notes to Accompany the Scenarios on DVDNotesIndex

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