Doctor / patient relationship Books

Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: Aging 101Chapter 1. It's Only Aging, Get a Grip! Chapter 2. What's Normal Aging? Or, 80 Isn't 60 Chapter 3. Better Living through Chemistry? Chapter 4. More or Less: What's Right for You When It Comes to Health Care Chapter 5. An Ounce of Prevention Part II: What Really Matters As You Grow OlderChapter 6. Mind MattersChapter 7. Energy CyclesChapter 8. Ups and DownsChapter 9. Balancing ActsChapter 10. Sleep CyclesChapter 11. Urine TroubleChapter 12. All Eyes and EarsChapter 13. Aches and Pains Chapter 14. Gut FeelingsChapter 15. Weighing InChapter 16. Sex TalkPart III: Difficult DecisionsChapter 17. Making Difficult DecisionsChapter 18. To Move or Not to Move Chapter 19. Do I Need to Stop Driving?Chapter 20. Who Will Speak for Me?Appendixes1. Personal Emergency Response Systems2. Assistive Devices3. Getting Ready to Meet with Your DoctorIndex

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Book SynopsisYour indispensable guide to taking charge of the second half of your life. From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than 35 years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an indispensable guide to the second half of life, describing what to expect physically, psychologically, functionally, and emotionally as you age. Leipzig, an expert in evidence-based geriatrics, highlights how 80-year-olds differ from 60-year-olds and why knowing this is important for your health. With candor, humor, and empathy, this book will provide you with the knowledge and practical advice to optimize aging. The book helps you recognize age-related changes in your body and mind and understand what's typical with aging and what's not; offers guidance for common health concerns, including problems with memory, energy, mood, sleep, incontinence, mobility and falls, hearing and vision, aches and pains, gastrointestinal problems, weight, and sex; shares advice on how to make decisions aTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: Aging 101Chapter 1. It's Only Aging, Get a Grip! Chapter 2. What's Normal Aging? Or, 80 Isn't 60 Chapter 3. Better Living through Chemistry? Chapter 4. More or Less: What's Right for You When It Comes to Health Care Chapter 5. An Ounce of Prevention Part II: What Really Matters As You Grow OlderChapter 6. Mind MattersChapter 7. Energy CyclesChapter 8. Ups and DownsChapter 9. Balancing ActsChapter 10. Sleep CyclesChapter 11. Urine TroubleChapter 12. All Eyes and EarsChapter 13. Aches and Pains Chapter 14. Gut FeelingsChapter 15. Weighing InChapter 16. Sex TalkPart III: Difficult DecisionsChapter 17. Making Difficult DecisionsChapter 18. To Move or Not to Move Chapter 19. Do I Need to Stop Driving?Chapter 20. Who Will Speak for Me?Appendixes1. Personal Emergency Response Systems2. Assistive Devices3. Getting Ready to Meet with Your DoctorIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing attachment theory, Maunder and Hunter provide a practical, clinically focused introduction to the influence of attachment styles on an individual's risk of disease and the effectiveness of their interactions with health care providers.Trade Review'This book is an excellent contribution to the literature on human attachment as it relates to health issues. Highly recommended.' -- M.C. Matteis Choice Magazine vol 53:10:2016 "Overall, this book is an engaging one that healthcare workers of all kinds will find interesting, informative and helpful. The rest of us, who sometimes are patients, will also find this book worthwhile, and in reading it may even recognize issues in ourselves and in those we know. " -- Keith Oatley The Literary Review of Canada, April, 2016 'Free from jargon, the text is easy to read, and each section provides several examples and a useful summary... The book could help healthcare workers to better meet their patients' needs and ultimately improve their health.' -- Angela Davis Nursing Standard February 2016 "This book is written to appeal to a wide clinical audience, including physicians, nurses and other care providers. The understanding this book promotes could go far in improving the care all clinicians offer to their patients." -- Barry Gilbert U of T Medicine Magazine, Winter 2015Table of ContentsIntroduction Section One: Vexing Health Care 1. What is Health Care? 2. Why Else Do We Get Sick? 3. Health Happens Between Us Summary of Part One Section Two: Attachment & Health Introduction to Section Two: What is Attachment? 4. Attachment Sculpts the Brain 5. All Grown Up and Still Attached 6. Feeling secure is Good For You 7. Depression 8. Attachment is a Response to Stress 9. Why Are So Many of Us Fat, Drunk, Stationary Smokers? 10. I Don't Know What You Have But I've Seen It Before and You Have It Bad 11. Trouble in the Patient-Provider Relationship Summary of Part Two Section Three: Relational Health Care Introduction to Section Three: Principles of Adaptation and Change 12. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Anxiety Interferes 13. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Attachment Avoidance Interferes 14. How Health Care Providers Can Adapt When Fearful Attachment Interferes 15. Changing the System 16. Becoming More Secure 17. Beyond Health Care Relationships: A Wider attachment Perspective on Health Afterword

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Book SynopsisLearn how to place communication and participation at the heart of evidence-based healthcare The Knowledgeable Patient: Communication and Participation in Health sits at the forefront of the challenging, changing 21st century landscape. The ''knowledgeable patient'' as an individual can take many forms: patient, family carer, consumer advocate, or member of the public interested in health issues. In each of these roles, knowledgeable patients interact with health professionals by asking questions about the evidence for treatment, seeking support, exchanging views, and contributing experiences and new ideas on how to improve the health system. Drawing from several research paradigms, The Knowledgeable Patient is an essential guide to a new era of complex healthcare. Integrating consumer stories and evidence from systematic reviews, it examines key communication and participation issues in a range of contexts, including: surgeTrade Review“Besides health professionals and users of health services, this book is an indispensable asset to healthcare librarians who endeavour to save the time of the reader by identifying systematic reviews and careful analysis of research studies on carefully selected themes. This Cochrane handbook will enrich the practice of all the partners in care and it needs to be widely available in clinicians’ practice rooms, college libraries and hospital wards.” (European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 23 January 2013) “I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in patient and public involvement within any health-related discipline.“ (Royal College of Pathologists, 2012) Table of ContentsList of contributors, vii Preface, ix Acknowledgements, xii Chapter 1 Does communication with consumers and carers need to improve? 1 Megan Prictor and Sophie Hill Chapter 2 A new conceptual framework for advancing evidence-informed communication and participation, 12 Sophie Hill and Mary Draper Chapter 3 Interventions for communication and participation: their purpose and practice, 27 Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Rebecca E. Ryan Chapter 4 Identifying outcomes of importance to communication and participation, 40 Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe and Joanne E. McKenzie Chapter 5 Communicating risk and risk statistics for preventing chronic disease, 54 Sophie Hill, Adrian G.K. Edwards and Dianne B. Lowe Chapter 6 What does participation mean? Reshaping our understanding of the meaning of surgery, 67 Sophie Hill and Jessica Kaufman Chapter 7 Disclosure: a case study of communication about medically acquired risk for a rare disease, 82 Rebecca E. Ryan, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill Chapter 8 How I used a systematic review from The Cochrane Library, 94 Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill Chapter 9 Evidence and resources for systems decision-making: improving the experience of health and treatment, 105 Dianne B. Lowe, Sophie Hill and Rebecca E. Ryan Chapter 10 Looking at online health information more critically, 115 John Kis-Rigo Chapter 11 Learning to communicate, 125 Megan Prictor, Simon Lewin, Brian McKinstry and Jessica Kaufman Chapter 12 Getting the most out of research: using what we know, 143 Dell Horey, Jessica Kaufman, Sophie Hill Chapter 13 Research agendas for knowledgeable patients, 151 Ruth Stewart and Sandy Oliver Chapter 14 Managing multiple health problems: is there evidence to support consumer-focused communication and participation? 161 Rebecca E. Ryan and Sophie Hill Chapter 15 Partners in care – an evidence-informed approach to improving communication with women in a hospital setting, 173 Sophie Hill, Maureen Johnson and Mary Draper Chapter 16 Building health-literate societies, 184 Sophie Hill, Dianne B. Lowe, Chaojie Liu and Nancy Santesso Chapter 17 Tools for building research capacity and knowledge transfer, 196 Helen Dilkes, Jessica Kaufman and Sophie Hill Chapter 18 Emerging technologies for health communication, 208 Yannis Pappas and Josip Car Index 218

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Book SynopsisCompassion draws physicians into medicine, but then they believe they must jettison that compassion to survive. Paradoxically, science has now shown that losing that compassion not only harms the patient, it also harms the doctor. How Doctors Care: The Science of Compassionate and Balanced Caring in Medicine explains what physicians and other clinicians can do to provide balanced and compassionate caring for patients without becoming emotionally detached or overwhelmed.The text provides a research-informed and non-sentimental description of physician/clinician compassion. Bringing together cutting-edge scientific research for practicing physicians and those in training, How Doctors Care provides the first full articulation of what constitutes optimal compassionate mental performance in the practice of medicine. It argues how maintaining this internal state is the key to physician resilience and fulfillment in a dysfunctional healthcare system. Rather than blaming clinicians for burnout, How Doctors Care argues that healthcare organizations must provide organizational protection and support to clinicians so that they are able to maintain the compassionate internal state they desire so much and that benefits patients the most.

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Book SynopsisWhat will you do… if colleagues covertly or overtly break protocols? if you need to give constructive feedback? if need to ask for help from these colleagues or seek alternative teachers? if you need to take the necessary time to follow protocols, but more experienced colleagues do not follow them or support you in your efforts? Explore all of the critical ways your ability to communicate successfully can positively impact not only nurse-client, nurse-family, and colleague-colleague relationships, but also your ability to make the work environment less stressful and to manage professional and personal challenges, even in a world still reeling from the impact of the pandemic. Step by step, you’ll build the essential communication skills you need, with an emphasis on developing the emotional intelligence necessary to speak assertively and listen respectfully in the high-stakes, high-pressure environments where nurses work.Five Stars!! Every nurse needs to read this!!!!!!!!“I was lacking in some essential communication skills and didn't know it until I read this book. It's easy to follow. I recommend this book to all of my coworkers. Highly recommend!!!”—Online Reviewer New! 4-color, contemporary design New! “Confident Voices: On Resilience” helps entry level nurses who are joining a workforce that is traumatized and/or burned out. Considers all aspects of communication, including emotional intelligence, group dynamics, organizational development, complex adaptive systems, and more. Focuses on self-awareness, self-esteem, and respect for others. Addresses real-world stressors, challenges, and workplace issues, bridging the gap between academia and professional nursing practice. Features case studies that use brief vignettes to explore a range of scenarios, followed by discussion questions. Table of Contents I.Developing Successful Nurse Communication 1.Communication and Behavior 2.Emotional Intelligence 3.Respectful and Effective Listening 4.Assertiveness II.Why Successful Nurse Communication is Critical 5.Patient Safety 6.Patient Experience 7.Respectful Workplaces 8.Managing Stress and Strategies for Self-Care III.Organizations and Successful Nurse Communication 9.Understanding Organizational Culture 10.Collaboration and Team Development 11.Complex Adaptive Systems 12.Change Agents, Quality Improvement, and the Learning Organization IV.Successful Nurse Communication in Action 13.Diversity, Inclusion, and Dignity 14.Health Information Technology and Digital Communication 15.Preparing for Leadership Epilogue: From Theory to Practice

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Book SynopsisInformed consent is the legal instrument that purports to protect an individual's autonomy and defends against medical arbitrariness. Informed Consent and Health highlights that possession of complete information about all relevant aspects of a proposed treatment is integral to the ability of a patient to make an informed choice. With patient choice at both legislative and judicial levels rising to greater levels of prominence, this timely book examines how the tensions between the rights of patients to make choices and the duties of doctors to provide health care are managed. This illuminating book investigates our evolving understanding of informed consent from a range of comparative and international perspectives, demonstrating the diversity of its interpretations around the world. Chapters offer a nuanced analysis of the problems that impede the understanding and implementation of the concept of informed consent and explore the contemporary challenges that continue to hinder both the patient and the medical community. Containing an in-depth discussion on this fundamental right, this thought-provoking book will be of value to academics and practitioners alike. Providing fascinating insight into new solutions and interpretations, this book will also prove a key resource for clinicians and health care workers. Contributors include: B. Buchner, S.C. Chima, I. Freckelton, R. Fretwell Wilson, N. Glover-Thomas, M. Hartlev, Y. Joly, V.G. Mammadov, G. Marrocco, Y.V. Pavlova, M. Pinkesz, S.I. Pospelova, V.L. Raposo, Y.D. Sergeyev, T. Vansweevelt, M.H. ZawatiTrade Review'Vansweevelt and Glover-Thomas have succeeded in providing a comprehensive picture of the principle of informed consent. This volume shows that despite many different levels of detail, and different interpretations, most countries have rooted the principle of informed consent within their national legislation.' --André den Exter, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands'Consent to health care and treatment is a cornerstone of ethical medical practice and any exceptions must be carefully justified. But what exactly is informed consent? This timely book will be of invaluable assistance to practitioners, students and researchers from a range of disciplines, who are interested in understanding what the doctrine of informed consent means across countries with diverse legal systems. This book provides a useful, comparative overview of the scope, interpretation and practical application of informed consent with a view to informing the development of this important doctrine.' --Bernadette McSherry, University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Thomas Noguchi ix 1 A general introduction 1 Thierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas PART I JURISDICTION FROM THE COMMON LAW 2 Informed consent: the Australian perspective 6 Ian Freckelton QC 3 Re-examining the Canadian law of informed consent to medical treatment in the age of informatics 32 Miriam Pinkesz, Gabriel Marrocco, Yann Joly, Ma’n H. Zawati 4 Informed consent: the UK perspective 74 Nicola Glover-Thomas 5 A critique of informed consent in the United States 101 Robin Fretwell Wilson PART II JURISDICTIONS FROM CIVIL LAW 6 Informed consent in Belgium and France 124 Thierry Vansweevelt 7 Informed consent in China and Macao 144 Vera Lúcia Raposo 8 Informed consent in the Nordic countries 163 Mette Hartlev 9 Informed consent in South Africa: a legal, ethical and cross-cultural perspective 183 Sylvester C. Chima PART III JURISDICTIONS IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLE OF INFORMED CONSENT IS ADOPTED IN THE CONSTITUTION 10 Informed consent in Germany 216 Benedikt Buchner 11 Legal regulation of voluntary informed consent in Russia 235 Svetlana I. Pospelova, Yulia V. Pavlova, Yuriy D. Sergeyev, Vugar G. Mammadov 12 Comparative conclusions: towards a global vision of informed consent? 256 Thierry Vansweevelt and Nicola Glover-Thomas Index 271

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive guide in understanding autism, formulating effective communication strategies, and developing best care practices for health care professionals. It covers sensory issues, pain tolerance, body awareness, communication challenges, legal and ethical issues, HIPPA compliance, Americans with Disabilities Act, and many more issues associated with dealing with a patient or others on the autism spectrum.It's important for healthcare professionals to realize that communication starts at the Admissions Desk and follows through to the patient's discharge. Whether the patient is simply going for a routine doctor's appointment or getting admitted for major surgery, the autism patient needs specialized care for optimal results. This book is geared for use in healthcare curriculum courses as well as use as a guidebook for all healthcare and allied healthcare providers.Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: What Is Autism? Chapter 2: Demonstration Activity of Being Autistic Chapter 3: Looking Through My Autistic Eyes at the Healthcare System Chapter 4: Thinking Outside the Box Chapter 5: Communicating with the Autistic Patient Chapter 6: Sensory Issues & Sensory Processing Disorder Chapter 7: Adaptation of the Environment Chapter 8: Meltdowns & Safety Chapter 9: Pain Perception of the Individual with Autism Chapter 10: Preparing the Autistic Patient for an Exam or Procedure Chapter 11: The Importance of Websites, Videos and Albums to Prep the Autistic Patient Chapter 12: Identification of Autistic Patients Chapter 13: Emergency Department Chapter 14: In-Patient Admissions of a Patient with ASD Chapter 15: Preparing for the Operating Room Chapter 16: Anesthesia for the Autistic Patient Chapter 17: Women’s Health Chapter 18: HIPPA Requirements Chapter 19: American’s with Disabilities Act Chapter 20: Putting All the Pieces Together Chapter 21: The Parents: The Unsung Heroes Conclusion References Links

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Book SynopsisDesigned as an aid to students in Genetics counseling classes and professionals interested in honing their skills, Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process will guide the reader through the why's and how's of assisting clients with these complex issues. The authors' collective years of both teaching students and counseling clients is reflected in the clear, practical approach of this manual.Trade Review“This book is a great tool for genetic counseling faculty members and should be included in the genetic counseling curriculum. … This is a well-planned book and it presents the information well.” (Luis F Escobar, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2019)​Table of ContentsGuidelines for Book Users: Instructors, Supervisors, and Students.- Overview of Genetic Counseling: History of the Profession and the Reciprocal Model of Practice.- Listening to Patients: Attending Skills.- Listening to Patients: Primary Empathy Skills.- Gathering Information: Asking Questions.- Structuring Genetic Counseling Sessions: Initiating, Contracting, Ending, and Referral.- Collaborating with Patients: Providing Information and Facilitating Patient Decision Making.- Responding to Patient Cues: Advanced Empathy and Confrontation Skills.- Patient Factors: Resistance, Coping, Affect, and Styles.- Providing Guidance: Advice and Influencing Skills.- Counselor Self-Reference: Self-Disclosure and Self-Involving Skills.- Genetic Counseling Dynamics: Transference, Countertransference, Distress, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue.- Professionalism: Ethically-Based Reflective Practice.- Appendix A: ACGC (2015) Practice-Based Competencies.- Appendix B: NSGC Code of Ethics (2017).

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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 SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary output of doctors, including Oliver Sacks, Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Louise Aronson, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese. Discussing issues of moral meaning in the works of contemporary doctor-writers, from memoir to poetry, this collection reflects some of the diversity of medicine today. A key reference for all students and scholars of medical and health humanities, the book will be especially useful for those interested in the relationship between literature and practising medicine.Trade Review"Contemporary Physicians-Authors demonstrates that most of today's writers speak in a self-aware, reflective voice that keeps them close to the ground, while they also retain the flexibility to take a more bird's-eye view to comment, report, and advocate. The book's primary audience is academic (e.g., students and professors of medical humanities), but anyone who has read a few or more of these authors is likely to find something of interest and perhaps discover a brand-new author to investi­gate."-Jack Coulehan, Journal of Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part One: Two Traditional Representatives. 1.Richard Selzer: Three Troubling Tales of Physicians’ Peculiar Behavior 2.Oliver Sacks: A Kind of Reminiscence. Part Two: Three Contemporary Favorites. 3.Perri Klass: Books Are Like Stethoscopes. 4.Abraham Verghese: The Power of Storytelling. 5.Atul Gawande: Doctoring, Dying, and the Pursuit of "Better". Part Three: Medicine, Meaning, and Identity. 6.Danielle Ofri: Offering Lessons for All. 7.Paul Kalanithi: Sometimes, They Break—Craft as a Window. 8.Joanna Cannon: Leaving Medicine to Pursue a Physician’s Calling. 9.Damon Tweedy: Stories on Being Black, Sick, and Marginalized. 10.Fady Joudah: An Exploration of Borders and Boundaries. 11.Louise Aronson: Using Facts and Stories to Improve Medical Care for Older Adults. 12.Marc Agronin: Into the Heart of Growing Old. Part Four: Alternative Models. 13.David Watts and Frank Huyler: A Tale of Two Patients, 14.Siddhartha Mukherjee: Tending and Extending—The Long and Short of Siddhartha Mukherjee. 15.Arthur Kleinman: Professional Caregiving Narratives Become Personal

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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 SynopsisNothing short of a call to rework the psychiatric profession, Narrative Psychiatry advocates taking the inherently narrative-centered patient-psychiatrist relationship to its logical conclusion: making the story a central aspect of treatment.Trade Review"Lewis has captured and articulated a method of working with patients that is at once intuitive to seasoned practitioners, while also directing them to novel areas of thinking about and working with patients." (John Z. Sadler, M.D., author of Values and Psychiatric Diagnosis)"Table of ContentsPreface1. Listening to Chekhov2. Narrative Medicine3. Narrative Approaches to Psychotherapy4. Narrative Approaches to Psychotherapy5. Mrs. Dutta and the Literary Case6. Mainstream Stories I: Biopsychiatry, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Psychoanalysis7. Mainstream Stories II: Interpersonal Therapy, Family Therapy, and Humanistic Therapy8. Alternative Stories: Spirtual Therapy, Expressive Therapy, and Cultural, Political, and Feminist Therapies9. Doing Narrative Psychiatry10. Critical ReflectionsAppendix: "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," by Chitra DivakaruniNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is a book for every one – doctors, patients and healthcare providers. Through THE ME IN MEDICINE: REVIVING THE LOST ART OF HEALING, the author reveals the approach that is critical for both the doctor and the patient to improve treatment, the healthcare system, reduce misdirection (and possible cost) as well as overtreatment by doctors.Trade Review"A passionate, incisive, fascinating behind-the-scenes exposé of today's flawed healthcare, The Me in Medicine reveals how doctors and patients have automatically bought into a 'system' that appears sound and yet disappoints. This is a must-read for doctors and patients alikeand everyone who cares about getting back to the heart of good medicine today." Alan R. Cohen, MD , Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Pediatrics Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Book SynopsisThe authors hope that their honest yet hopeful perspective will help all people with cancer and those who care about them.Trade ReviewAn authoritative manual of instructions... This book is highly recommended. -- M. G. Paregian Brief (at just 171 pages) but powerful, this straightforward book is both sobering and inspiring. Hopkins Medicine No matter how experienced a professional might be in dealing with patients with pancreatic cancer, it is refreshing to hear from the patient's perspective, reading how they navigate through the system before they land in our clinic and receive our care. Overall, I would recommend this book to all health professionals who care for patients with pancreatic cancer (both novice and seasoned), as well as those who are adjusting to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. -- Raymond Chan Cancer Forum This book is excellent. It is positive and compassionate... It would make a useful contribution to a library. Macmillan Cancer Support This book is a valuable source of intimate details about Pancreatic Disease and related problems... Highly recommended for the practicing instructions and frank discussions of personal and family preparation along with the current treatments that are available. M. G. ParegianTable of ContentsPreface1. The Gathering Clouds2. What Is Pancreatic Cancer and What Are Its Symptoms?3. The Fight Begins4. The Initial Treatment5. The Prospect of Death6. Balancing Hope and Truth7. Family and Friends8. Managing the Symptoms of Advanced Cancer9. A New Approach to Living10. Next Steps11. What We've Learned from Our ExperienceAppendix: Supplemental InformationNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis""People come to us for help. They come for health and strength." With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors--which is to say a book for everyone. In crisp, clear prose, he introduces readers to the craft of medicine and shows how to practice it. Discussing matters ranging from the most basic--how doctors should dress and how they should speak to patients--tothe taking of medical histories, the etiquette of examinations, and the difficulties of diagnosis, Mendel moves on to consider how the doctor can best serve patients who suffer from prolonged illness or face death. Throughout he keeps in sight the fundamental moral fact that the relationship between doctor and patient is a human one before it is a professional one. As he writes with characteristic concision, "The trained and experienced doctor puts himself, or his nearest and dearest, in the patient''s position, and asks himself what he would do if he were advising himself or his family. No other advice is acceptable; no other is justifiable." Proper Doctoring is a book that is admirably direct, as well as wise, witty, deeply humane, and, frankly, indispensable"--Provided by publisher.

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