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Practice of medicine. Medical practice economics

  • HEALING THE WOUNDSby David Md Hilfiker

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 14.95

    Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling information and high anxiety. Drawing on his... more...

  • After the Errorby Susan McIver; Robin Wyndham

    ECW Press 2013; US$ 14.99

    In a series of true stories from across Canada, this collection seeks to point out the considerable human toll that medical errors cause. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their harrowing stories has helped to lay the... more...

  • Ayurveda For Dummiesby Angela Hope Murray

    Wiley 2013; US$ 19.99

    Rebalance your mind, body and spirit—the natural way! Ayurveda is an ancient system of prevention and treatment of illness by maintaining balance in the body, mind, and spirit according to your individual body type. Ayurveda For Dummies provides you with a comprehensive introduction to this area of complementary medicine, considering the... more...

  • Planet Medicine: Modalities, Revised Editionby Richard Grossinger; Peter A. Levine

    North Atlantic Books 2013; US$ 21.99

    Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative medicines actually work. Illustrated... more...

  • Planet Medicine: Origins, Revised Editionby Richard Grossinger; John E. Upledger

    North Atlantic Books 2013; US$ 24.99

    Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative medicines actually work. Illustrated... more...

  • Improving Patient Careby Richard Grol; Michel Wensing; Martin Eccles; David Davis

    Wiley 2013; US$ 65.95

    As innovations are constantly being developed within health care, it can be difficult both to select appropriate new practices and technologies and to successfully adopt them within complex organizations. It is necessary to understand the consequences of introducing change, how to best implement new procedures and techniques, how to evaluate success... more...

  • Las medicinas naturales de la abuelaby Diana Calcagno

    De Vecchi Ediciones 2013; US$ 3.97

    A lo largo de sus páginas podrá conocer las 55 plantas más eficaces y más fáciles de obtener: el ajo, la albahaca, la manzanilla, la zanahoria, la achicoria, la cebolla, el limón, la menta, la nuez, el tomillo, la valeriana, etc. También se presta especial atención a la miel y al resto de productos de la colmena: el polen, el propóleo, la jalea real,... more...

  • Introduction to Alternative and Complementary Therapiesby Terry S Trepper; Anne Strozier; Joyce E Carpenter; Lorna L Hecker

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95

    Discover creative new ways to facilitate the therapeutic process Therapeutic modalities that psychotherapists usually rely on--such as psychodynamic, humanistic, systems, cognitive, narrative, analytic and solution focused--are all verbal interventions. Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies presents a comprehensive overview... more...

  • Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europeby Marijke Gijswit-Hofstra; Hilary Marland; Hans de Waardt

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00

    Despite the recent upsurge in interest in alternative medicine and unorthodox healers, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe is the first book to focus closely on the relationship between belief, culture, and healing in the past. In essays on France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and England, from the sixteenth century to the present... more...

  • Malpractice in Surgeryby Michael Imhof; Constantijn Blondel

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 91.00

    The intensive care units record 1.7 medical errors per patient and day. The most affected disciplines are the operative disciplines, particularly surgery. Medical errors mainly occur when the indication for surgery is being made, during surgery and post-surgery. Suspicious oncological diagnostic results and post-operative complications are also often... more...