The Best Physician & Patient Books 2024

1. The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error--mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it's readily available and we're entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it. The Patient's Playbook is a call to action. It will change the way you manage your health and the health of your family, and it will show you how to choose the right doctor, coordinate the best care, and get to the No-Mistake Zone in medical decision making. Leslie D. Michelson has devoted his life's work to helping people achieve superior medical outcomes at every stage of their lives. Michelson presents real-life stories that impart lessons and illuminate his easy-to-follow strategies for navigating complex situations and cases. The Patient's Playbook is an essential guide to the most effective techniques for getting the best from a broken system: sourcing excellent physicians, selecting the right treatment protocols, researching with precision, and structuring the ideal support team. Along the way you will learn: Why having the right primary care physician will change your life Three things you can do right now to be better prepared when illness strikes The ten must-ask questions at the end of a hospital stay How to protect yourself from unnecessary and dangerous treatments Ways to avoid the four most common mistakes in the first twenty-four hours of a medical emergency This book will enable you to become a smarter health care consumer--and to replace anxiety with confidence.

The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love, Pre-Owned (Hardcover)

2. Managing Patient Expectations : The Art of Finding and Keeping Loyal Patients, Used [Hardcover]

Strategies for Building Satisfying Patient Relationships New England Healthcare Assembly This book fills a huge void in the areas of medical education andthe delivery of patient service. The clear advice about how toidentify and respond to patient needs and preferences is essentialreading for physicians and those who work with them. If thepersonal rewards of medicine are important to you, read thisbook. --Joseph A. Lieberman, III, chairman, department of family andcommunity medicine, clinical professor of family medicine, ThomasJefferson University This important resource describes how to develop the qualities ofunderstanding, empathy, and compassion that help to meet and exceedpatient expectations. Managing Patient Expectations is filled withrealistic and cost-effective strategies for maintaining patientsatisfaction, creating loyalty, and increasing referrals. SusanKeane Baker explains how to find out what patients really think andhow physicians can best respond in a variety of situations.Co-published with the Healthcare Assembly Press.

Managing Patient Expectations : The Art of Finding and Keeping Loyal Patients, Used [Hardcover]

3. Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist: A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. An absorbing and touching read, this collection of true stories is the first book by a Canadian doctor on the topic of refugee health. Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees. An Iraqi journalist whose son has been been murdered develops post-traumatic stress disorder and mourns his loss of vocation. A Congolese woman refuses antiretroviral treatment for her new HIV diagnosis, and instead places her trust in Jesus. Two conservative Muslim Iraqi women are inadvertently exposed to pornography when a doctor uses Google Images to supplement a medical discussion. By turns humorous, distressing, and moving, these stories offer insight into the people seeking a new life while navigating poverty, language barriers, and neighbours who aren't always friendly. This riveting collection of true stories from Dr. Martina Scholtens is filled with hope and humour, and together make up a deeply moving portrait of how one doctor attempts to provide quality care and advocacy for patients while remaining culturally sensitive, even as she wrestles with guilt, awareness of her own privilege, the faith she was raised with, and vicarious trauma after hearing countless stories of brutality and suffering. In the spirit of Louise Aronson and Atul Gawande, Scholtens' writing is based on her personal experiences and explores the transformative moments in which a clinical doctor-patient relationship becomes a profound human-human connection.

Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist : A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic, Used [Paperback]

4. Don't Let Your Doctor Kill You: How to Beat Physician Arrogance, Corporate Greed and a Broken System [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Take charge of your health and stop turning over your life to our confusing and intimidating healthcare system-before it's too late. Dr. Erika Schwartz believes that today's patient is but a leaf blowing in the wind of group-think protocols, corrupt medical societies, insurance companies on the take, and a billion dollars in marketing and lobbying pressure from drug companies. What is the quick fix? The answers are here in the ten clear chapters, giving examples every step of the way. It's a simple process that takes you, the patient, from being a victim to being in charge. Developing personal self-confidence, choosing the right doctor for you, walking out on the wrong ones with impunity, and making the right choices will add up to great healthcare with you at the center. Follow the plan and the facts and change your life and those of your loved ones. Life is to be enjoyed not feared. This book will put enjoyment back into your life and remove the fear and intimidation from your healthcare.

Don't Let Your Doctor Kill You: How to Beat Physician Arrogance, Corporate Greed and a Broken System [Paperback - Used]

5. Inspiring and Supporting Behavior Change: A Food and Nutrition Professional's Counseling Guide, Used [Paperback]

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Inspiring and Supporting Behavior Change: A Food and Nutrition Professional's Counseling Guide, Used [Paperback]

6. Patient Teaching Made Incredibly Easy! [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This unique reference includes teaching guidelines for more than 100 disorders, memory joggers to strengthen recall, quick quizzes to measure knowledge, and an unforgettable, fun-filled approach to motivate learning. Contents include cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurologic, skin, endocrine, immune and hematologic, urinary, musculo-skeletal, and reproductive conditions; cancer; and index.

Patient Teaching, Used [Paperback]

7. Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists, Practice Workbook, Volume 1 [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists: Practice Workbook Series includes Molly Kellogg's Counseling Tips and much more: Case studies; Sample dialogues; Suggested language; Steps to incorporate new skills; More resources than you even knew you needed! "An excellent, must-have tool ... effectively bridges the tools of psychotherapy and nutrition." Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD; co-author, Intuitive Eating. "A valuable resource for those of us working with clients who are struggling to heal diet trauma and/or recover from eating disorders." Karin Kratina, PhD, RD, LD/N; co-author, Moving Away From Diets. "The pot of gold at the end of the dietitian rainbow! Filled with examples and practical solutions for the most demanding professional situations." Jessica Setnick, MS, RD; author, The Eating Disorders Clinical Pocket Guide, and founder, Eating Disorders Boot Camp: Training Workshop for Professionals.

Counseling Tips for Nutrition Therapists, Practice Workbook, Volume 1, Used [Paperback]

8. Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, Used [Hardcover]

In this riveting narrative, Barron H. Lerner offers a superb medical and cultural history of our century-long battle with breast cancer--in a tale that also illuminates the changing nature of medical practice in America.Writing with insight and compassion, Lerner tells a compelling story of influential surgeons, anxious patients and powerful advocates. There are colorful portraits of the leading figures, ranging from the acerbic Dr. William Halsted, who pioneered the disfiguring radical mastectomy at the turnof the century to George Crile, Jr., the Cleveland surgeon who shocked the medical establishment by "going public" with his doubts about mastectomy, to Rose Kushner, a brash journalist who relentlessly educated American women about breast cancer. Lerner offers a fascinating account of the breastcancer wars: the insistent efforts of physicians to vanquish the "enemy"; the fights waged by feminists and maverick doctors to combat a paternalistic legacy that discouraged decision-making by patients; and the struggles of statisticians and researchers to generate definitive data in the face ofthe great uncertainties raised by the disease. As easy as it is to demonize male physicians, the persistence of the radical mastectomy and other invasive treatments has had as much to do with the complicated scientific understandings of breast cancer as with sexism.In Lerner's hands, the fight against breast cancer opens a window on American medical practice over the last century: the pursuit of dramatic cures, the rise of patients' rights, the growing awareness of the complexities of medical decision-making, and the limited ability of scientific knowledgeto provide quick solutions. A searching and profound work on an emotionally charged issue, The Breast Cancer Wars recounts a historical saga that remains of vital importance to modern breast cancer patients and clinicians.

The Breast Cancer Wars : Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, Used [Hardcover]

9. Hysterectomy : Exploring Your Options, Used [Paperback]

Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity. Yet many disorders of the uterus--fibroid tumors, uterine and cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine prolapse--may require surgical treatment. In this thoroughly updated edition of Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options , gynecologists Edward E. Wallach, Esther Eisenberg, Isabel Green, and Stacey A. Scheib describe and explain every aspect of the procedure, including Symptoms of gynecological disorders that may require uterine fibroid removal or hysterectomy The full range of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging techniques, including MRI-focused ultrasound Thorough explanations of specific alternative measures that may be used to avoid the need for hysterectomy The various techniques for hysterectomy, including single-incision surgery and robotic hysterectomy How to prepare for surgery and what to expect while in the hospital Details on the surgery and postoperative recovery, including information about pain medications, when to resume daily activities, how sexual function may be affected, future reproductive possibilities, and the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy Included in this compassionate, comprehensive guide to treatment and recovery for women having--or deciding whether to have--a hysterectomy are stories of women whose own experiences with hysterectomy offer useful advice for anyone considering the procedure.

Hysterectomy : Exploring Your Options, Used [Paperback]

10. The Girl Who Died Twice [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. At ll:43 P.M. on Sunday, March 4, l984,??l8-year-old Libby Zion was admitted to New York Hospital??with a fever and minor flu symptoms. Eight hours??later she was dead and her father, New York writer??and luminary Sidney Zion, embarked on a fiery quest??for answers and retribution that has rocked the??foundations of medical education and practice in??America and has precipitated sweeping reforms in the??laws governing hospitals and residency programs.?? The Girl Who Died Twice , written??with the participation of both the Zion family and??New York Hospital, is the first in-depth??examination of this landmark case, which recently inspired a??new round of headlines as the bitter legal battle??between the family and the hospital came to a head??in court -- and on Court TV. But last February's??stunning jury verdict also raised troubling issues??of patient responsibility in the case, and it left??unresolved life and death issues about medical??care in this country that have yet to be fully??addressed. Here, from acclaimed??investigative writer Natalie Robins, is the impeccably??researched inside story of this compelling modern??tragedy, based on interviews with many of the??principals, their friends and associates, and hundreds??of medical experts and educators. Robins delivers??the disturbing truth about Libby Zion's life and??death and about how our hospitals really work. At??once gripping personal drama and fascinating??medical mystery, her report is vitally important??reading for anyone interested in a true understanding of??who's in charge of our health. From the Paperback edition.

The Girl Who Died Twice : Every Patient's Nightmare - The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals, Used [Hardcover]