A Not Entirely Benign Procedure

Author : Perri Klass
Publisher : Signet Book
ISBN 13 : 9780451153586
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Not Entirely Benign Procedure written by Perri Klass and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her four years at Harvard Medical School, Perri Klass wrote articles for The New York Times and also managed to have a baby. Her unusual experiences, combined with an insightful, witty prose style, create a fresh and compelling account of the making of a doctor.

Author : Perri Klass
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465037771
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatment Kind and Fair written by Perri Klass and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of letters written from a doctor to her son, who is just beginning medical school, reveal the side of medicine not appearing on the job application, including compassion, empathy, and stress, and offer advice to all young doctors.

Author : Martin Frederick Shapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Doctored written by Martin Frederick Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin M. Takakuwa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239369
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What I Learned in Medical School written by Kevin M. Takakuwa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of vivid, first-person stories of medical students who don't "fit the mold" and have had challenges completing conventional medical training.

Author : Joan Cassell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029275
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman in the Surgeon's Body written by Joan Cassell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. The combat with death is carried out in the operating room, where the intrepid surgeon challenges the forces of destruction and disease. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years. We follow these women through their grueling days: racing through corridors to make rounds, perform operations, hold office hours, and teach residents. We hear them, in their own words, discuss their training and their relations with patients, nurses, colleagues, husbands, and children. Do these women differ from their male colleagues? And if so, do such differences affect patient care? The answers Cassell uncovers are as complex and fascinating as the issues she considers. A unique portrait of the day-to-day reality of these remarkable women, The Woman in the Surgeon's Body is an insightful account of how being female influences the way the surgeon is perceived by colleagues, nurses, patients, and superiors--and by herself.

Author : Danielle Ofri, MD
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807037885
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When We Do Harm written by Danielle Ofri, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety. Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there’s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is—and always will be—imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.

Author : Meghan Weir
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439189092
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Expectations written by Meghan Weir and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dr. Meghan Weir first dons her scrubs and steps onto the floor of Children’s Hospital Boston as a newly minted resident, her head is packed with medical-school-textbook learning. She knows the ins and outs of the human body, has memorized the correct way to perform hundreds of complicated procedures, and can recite the symptoms of any number of diseases by rote. But none of that has truly prepared her for what she is about to experience. From the premature infants Dr. Weir is expected to care for on her very first day of residency to the frustrating teenagers who visit the ER at three in the morning for head colds, each day brings with it new challenges and new lessons. Dr. Weir learns that messiness, fear, and uncertainty live beneath the professional exterior of the doctor’s white coat. Yet, in addition to the hardships, the practice of medicine comes with enormous rewards of joy, camaraderie, and the triumph of healing. The three years of residency—when young doctors who have just graduated from medical school take on their own patients for the first time—are grueling in any specialty. But there is a unique challenge to dealing with patients too young to describe where it hurts, and it is not just having to handle their parents. In Between Expectations: Lessons from a Pediatric Residency, Dr. Weir takes readers into the nurseries, ICUs, and inpatient rooms of one of the country’s busiest hospitals for children, revealing a world many of us never get to see. With candor and humility, she explores the many humbling lessons that all residents must learn: that restraint is sometimes the right treatment option, no matter how much you want to act; that some patients, even young teenagers, aren’t interested in listening to the good advice that will make their lives easier; that parents ultimately know their own children far better than their doctors ever will. Dr. Weir’s thoughtful prose reveals how exhaustion and doubt define the residency experience just as much as confidence and action do. Yet the most important lesson that she learns through the months and years of residency is that having a good day on the floor does not always mean that a patient goes home miraculously healed—more often than not, success is about a steady, gradual discovery of strength. By observing the children, the parents, and other hospital staff who painstakingly provide care each day, Dr. Weir finds herself finally developing into the physician (and the parent) she hopes to become. These stories—sometimes funny, sometimes haunting—expose the humanity that is so often obscured by the doctor’s white coat.

Author : Herman Hover
Publisher : Price Stern Sloan
ISBN 13 : 9780843104080
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Many Three-Cent Stamps in a Dozen? Or How Logical Are You? written by Herman Hover and published by Price Stern Sloan. This book was released on 1976-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Perri Klass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618562077
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Breathing written by Perri Klass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533407
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down written by Anne Fadiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.