Doctors Recommend It

Author : H. Eric Bender
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250070570
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends written by H. Eric Bender and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through the ages.

Author : Les Irwig
Publisher : Judy Irwig
ISBN 13 : 1905140177
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Health Choices written by Les Irwig and published by Judy Irwig. This book was released on 2008 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we make decisions about our health - some big and some small. What we eat, how we live and even where we live can affect our health. But how can we be sure that the advice we are given about these important matters is right for us? This book will provide you with the right tools for assessing health advice.

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.

Author : H. Eric Bender, M.D., M.D.
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250073138
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends written by H. Eric Bender, M.D., M.D. and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what that 1 outlier would say when you see commercials and products boasting that 9 out of 10 doctors recommend something? Well here’s your answer.... Three doctors explore and explain the least recommended techniques and cures lurking in the darkest corners of medicine through the ages. Entertaining and informative, (and sometimes just plain gross), 1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends examines the strangest and most unusual medical practices, including drinking your own urine to fight infection, using live eels to relieve constipation, and licking a patient’s head to diagnose cystic fibrosis. As licensed medical physicians who believe that humor is the best medicine, the authors decode the methods behind the seemingly mad science. Fascinating examples include: * the use of bee venom to treat herpes * infecting yourself with intestinal parasites to relieve allergies * “natural” ways to make your genitalia larger * how the insertion of a potato reportedly stops post-delivery bleeding * the effects of salt pork on a sore throat * the supposed benefits of “vampire facials”

Author : Danielle Ofri, MD
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807062642
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear written by Danielle Ofri, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things. Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to “make their case” to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. Though the gulf between what patients say and what doctors hear is often wide, Dr. Danielle Ofri proves that it doesn’t have to be. Through the powerfully resonant human stories that Dr. Ofri’s writing is renowned for, she explores the high-stakes world of doctor-patient communication that we all must navigate. Reporting on the latest research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients, Dr. Ofri reveals how better communication can lead to better health for all of us.

Author : Selene Yeager
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1594866635
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctors Book of Food Remedies written by Selene Yeager and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tips to help you boost immunity, fight fatigue, ease arthritis, and protect your health.

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Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101757928
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration Thirty-eighth Report 2009 written by and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 38th report from the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists Remuneration (Cm. 7579, ISBN 9780101757928), The Review Body was appointed in 1971, and is an independent body which makes recommendations to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Health, the First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing of the Scottish Parliament, the First Minister and Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh Assembly Government and the First Minister, Deputy First Minister and Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety of the Northern Ireland Executive. The publication is divided into 9 chapters, with 8 appendices. Chapter 1: Economic and general considerations; Chapter 2: Main pay recommendations for 2009-10; Chapter 3: General medical practitioners; Chapter 4: General dental practitioners; Chapter 5: Salaried primary dental care services; Chapter 6: Ophthalmic medical practitioners; Chapter 7: Doctors and dentists in hospital training; Chapter 8: Consultants; Chapter 9: Specialty doctors and associate specialists. The recommendations include: 1.5% increase to the national salary scales for doctors and dentists; an increase in the budget for higher Clinical Excellence Awards should be increased in line with the increase in the number of consultants eligible for the award and that commitment awards, distinction awards and discretionary points be increased by 1.5%; an increase in general medical practitioners' net income of 1.5% after allowing for movement in their expenses; that the minimum and maximum of the salary range for salaried general medical practitioners be increased by 1.5%; that the supplement for general medical practitioner registrars entering training placements on or after 1 April 2009 be reduced from 50% to 45%; that the general medical practitioner trainers' grant be increased by 1,5%; that the supplements for London weighting remain at existing levels; that there be an increase in general dental practitioners' net income of 1.5%.

Author : Jerome Groopman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547348630
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Doctors Think written by Jerome Groopman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

Author : Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101673327
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration Thirty-fifth Report 2006 written by Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Review Body's annual report contains recommendations for the level of remuneration for doctors and dentists in the NHS with effect from 1 April 2006. Recommendations include: i) an increase of 2.2 per cent in national salary scales for salaried general medical practitioners (GMPs) and hospital medical staff, and for all grades of doctors and dentists in training, with the supplement for GMP registrars remaining at 65 per cent; ii) a staged 2.2 per cent increase in the national salary scales for pre-2003 and post-2003 consultants; iii) supplements for London weighting remaining at their existing levels for 2006-07; and iv) an increase of three per cent for general dental practitioners (GDPs) and an increase of 2.4 per cent on salaries and allowances for all dentists in the salaried primary dental care services.

Author : Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101732727
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration Thirty-seventh Report 2007 written by Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review covers 185,000 doctors and dentists in the United Kingdom. The Review Body does not see any major cause for concern in recruitment and retention. The economic background suggests a period of difficulty and restraint. The Consumer Prices Index will exceed the 2 per cent inflation target, and the Retail Prices Index stood at 4.1 per cent in January. The Review Body outlines the conflicting submissions made to it by the professional bodies and the health departments and the NHS. Following careful appraisal of the assumptions behind the spending plans, the main recommendation is that all salaried members of the Body's remit group should receive the same basic increase of 2.2 per cent. Other recommendations are made on: whether independent contractor general medical practitioners (GMPs) should be within the remit; GMP registrars entering training placements; GMP trainers' grant; doctors engaged in sessional work for community health services; London weighting; seniority payments.