Bad Doctors

Author : Thomas Power Lowry
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781453810859
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Doctors written by Thomas Power Lowry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-hundred fifty years after the Civil War, there are still untold stories. Over 11,000 surgeons served in the Union army; 10,400 were well behaved. The other 600 were in trouble for embezzlement, insubordination, rape, AWOL, desertion, surliness, stealing food, and a host of other misdeeds. One man was deemed, "Drunk, but not too drunk to operate." Another was hopping into the beds of women in the VD hospital. Yet another forged his own performance reports, reporting his own excellent character. A statistical study compares their incidence of malpractice with one of today's mid-West states.These remarkable stories are accompanied by full citations and are indexed by regiment. An eye-opener and a much-needed reference work.

Author : Ian Williams
Publisher : Myriad Editions
ISBN 13 : 1908434678
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bad Doctor written by Ian Williams and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams introduces us to the troubled life of Dr Iwan James, as all humanity, it seems, passes through his surgery door. Incontinent old ladies, men with eagle tattoos, traumatised widowers - Iwan's patients cause him both empathy and dismay, as he tries to do his best in a world of limited time and budgetary constraints, and in which there are no easy answers. His feelings for his partners also cause him grief: something more than friendship for the sympathetic Dr Lois Pritchard, and not a little frustration at the prankish and obstructive Dr Robert Smith. Iwan's cycling trips with his friend Arthur provide some welcome relief, but even the landscape is imbued with his patients' distress. As we explore the phantoms from Iwan's past, we too begin to feel compassion for The Bad Doctor, and ask what is the dividing line between patient and provider? Wry, comic, graphic, from the humdrum to the tragic, his patients' stories are the spokes that make Iwan's wheels go round in this humane and eloquently drawn account of a doctor's life.

Author : Ben Goldacre
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478066
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Pharma written by Ben Goldacre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that doctors are deliberately misinformed by profit-seeking pharmaceutical companies that casually withhold information about drug efficacy and side effects, explaining the process of pharmaceutical data manipulation and its global consequences. By the best-selling author of Bad Science.

Author : Virna DePaul
Publisher : Books That Rock
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Hottie written by Virna DePaul and published by Books That Rock. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing doctor in paradise… Raegan Reynolds never realized just how hot the spotlight could burn until it nearly destroyed her surgical career. She knows who she is now, and she won’t let any man make her forget again. All she wants is to enjoy her vacation in the Dominican Republic before she lands the role of Denver’s Graton Gift Hospital’s newest chief surgeon. Thirty seconds. That’s all it takes for one perfect specimen of a man to take control of her passion. Under his rock-steady hands, her knees go too weak to do what she ought to do—walk away. Women don’t make Dr. Noah Alexander’s hands go clammy—until this one. One look at her freckled nose, crooked grin and intelligent eyes, and his pulse races. But she refuses to reveal her real name. Peeling away her layers won’t be easy, but he’s determined to make it happen. Just when he’s broken through her walls, however, Raegan’s reminded that giving into passion means sacrificing her career. Noah’s going to prove her wrong. He’s done playing games. For the first time where love is concerned, he’s playing for keeps.

Author : Dr. Leana Wen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312594917
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Doctors Don't Listen written by Dr. Leana Wen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to avoid harmful medical mistakes, offering advice on such topics as working with a busy doctor, communicating the full story of an illness, evaluating test risks, and obtaining a working diagnosis.

Author : Ross C. Dumoulin
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bubblegum, Bad Food, Bad Doctors written by Ross C. Dumoulin and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of almost completely true short stories spans six decades. Humor is the main ingredient, spiced up with a spirit of adventure, action and high-risk behavior often bordering on disaster. First, the stories delve into author Ross C. Dumoulin’s childhood experiences, firmly entrenched in 1960s mentality and culture. You will read about way too much bubblegum and Ross’s kid-jobs as Paladin and Zorro. And you will learn why he put greasy sausages in his pocket. There is also a confrontation with an evil killer plant and its nasty consequences. Later, the stories move on to family life and moments of panic, such as the day 85,000 L of water tried to make its way into Ross’s basement. We also have a tale of transporting a full can of paint inside his new car. What could possibly go wrong with that? As Ross slides into his 60s, he experiences a series of medical misadventures. You will learn about little gems of highly dubious advice from his doctor and find out why he was labelled as “borderline normal.” The last three stories are of the heart-warming variety, as they relate the author’s volunteer work with children and his efforts in making their lives better. These stories celebrate children, their desire to play and laugh, their joie-de-vivre and resilience. So, if you need a laughter-break from what the world has been going through over the last few years, if you want to escape into a funhouse of thrills and spills, then read on!

Author : Harvey Bigelsen, M.D.
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 155643958X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs written by Harvey Bigelsen, M.D. and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would consider a knife wound to the stomach a serious health risk, but a similar scalpel wound in an operating room is often shrugged off. In Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs, Dr. Harvey Bigelsen explains how today’s medical doctors overprescribe surgery and ignore its long-term health implications. Any invasive medical procedure, he argues—including colonoscopies and root canals—creates inflammation in the body, leading to serious and long-lasting health problems. Inflammation, according to Dr. Bigelsen, is the real cause of all chronic disease (persistent or long-lasting illness). Noting that Western medicine has yet to “cure” a single chronic disease, Bigelsen points to a new paradigm: one that treats each patient as an individual (rather than as a set of symptoms), avoids further damage to the body through surgery, and looks for the root cause of chronic disease in past damage done to the patient’s body—whether caused by a bad fall or a scalpel. Provocatively written and radical in its approach, Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs challenges readers to rethink everything they believe about illness and how to treat it.

Author : Imad Hassan
Publisher : Imad Hassan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Doctors Bad Doctors: Communication Mastery PLUS “What Patients Love or Hate about their Doctors” written by Imad Hassan and published by Imad Hassan. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering the "ART of Communication" is the theme and aim of this invaluable eBook! A must for becoming a loved clinician by your patients and enjoying a highly successful and fulfilling career in clinical Medicine. This eBook serves as a simple guide to essential Communication Styles for the most frequent patient-contact scenarios and clinical encounters. It is meant to be a “quick reference” guide. Reading through it should be quick and easy! Interested users may broaden their knowledge and understanding by exploring the literature on each specific topic. It will be most valuable to those front line clinicians in-training during their everyday routines whether in the medical wards, outpatient clinics, emergency rooms, etc. It will also be very useful for undergraduates, those sitting their clinical examinations e.g. OSCE, Long Case Presentations, etc. as well as faculty trainers and examiners. However, all healthcare professionals e.g. Pharmacists, Nurses, Social workers, etc. will also find it very beneficial.

Author : David Wootton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199212791
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Medicine written by David Wootton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today.

Author : Danielle Ofri
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807073334
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Doctors Feel written by Danielle Ofri and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on medical care. And while much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. In What Doctors Feel, Dr. Danielle Ofri has taken on the task of dissecting the hidden emotional responses of doctors, and how these directly influence patients. How do the stresses of medical life—from paperwork to grueling hours to lawsuits to facing death—affect the medical care that doctors can offer their patients? Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Danielle Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. With her renowned eye for dramatic detail, Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients and her forever fear of making another. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. But doctors don’t only feel fear, grief, and frustration. Ofri also reveals that doctors tell bad jokes about “toxic sock syndrome,” cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness. The stories here reveal the undeniable truth that emotions have a distinct effect on how doctors care for their patients. For both clinicians and patients, understanding what doctors feel can make all the difference in giving and getting the best medical care.