The Leading eBooks Store Online

for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...

New to eBooks.com?

Learn more
Browse our categories
  • Bestsellers - This Week
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Pets
  • Bestsellers - Last 6 months
  • Games
  • Philosophy
  • Archaeology
  • Gardening
  • Photography
  • Architecture
  • Graphic Books
  • Poetry
  • Art
  • Health & Fitness
  • Political Science
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • History
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Body Mind & Spirit
  • House & Home
  • Reference
  • Business & Economics
  • Humor
  • Religion
  • Children's & Young Adult Fiction
  • Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Computers
  • Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Science
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Law
  • Science Fiction
  • Current Events
  • Literary Collections
  • Self-Help
  • Drama
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Literary Fiction
  • Social Science
  • The Environment
  • Mathematics
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Family & Relationships
  • Media
  • Study Aids
  • Fantasy
  • Medical
  • Technology
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Transportation
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Food and Wine
  • Performing Arts
  • True Crime
  • Foreign Language Books
Physician & Patient

Most popular at the top

  • The Lonely Patientby Michael Stein

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99

    When someone is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she is taking the first step on a challenging and confusing journey. For many, it is as if they are traveling alone to someplace entirely new, with only faded directions back to their old lives. Often, even their loved ones can only guess at what they must be experiencing. Michael Stein, M.D.,... more...

  • The Most Unhealthy Relationship of Allby Mark A. Hertzberg

    Electronic & Database Publishing, Inc. 1900; US$ 15.95

    A simple guide to improving doctor patient dialogue by understanding each other's point of view. This book reads like a proverbial “Close Encounters of the Medical Kind.” The entire health care system should be overhauled to encourage communication. In the real world, any doctor or patient can learn to communicate with almost anybody... more...

  • Problems with Patientsby Kingsley Norton; Samuel Peter Smith; Paul Freeling

    Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 56.00

    Helps doctors to manage their interaction with patients, thereby avoiding many unnecessary professional relationship problems. more...

  • Improving Medical Outcomesby Jessica Leavitt; Fred Leavitt

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 33.99

    The ability of doctors to properly diagnose and treat patients is often colored by non-specific factors that can affect outcomes in profound ways. Communication between doctors and patients is key, but often what is left unsaid is just as important, and messages from outside sources such as medical journals, drug companies, and other patients can affect... more...

  • Il medico, il paziente e i familiariby Anna Maria De Santi; Iole Simeoni

    SEEd Srl 2009; US$ 14.51

    Attraverso l?analisi di raccomandazioni, linee guida, questionari e griglie di valutazione relative ai diversi casi che si possono incontrare quotidianamente, il libro aiuta il medico ad accostarsi al tema della comunicazione efficace e del counselling, fornendogli suggerimenti e strumenti di pratica applicazione. more...

  • What Doctors Feelby Danielle Ofri

    Beacon Press 2013; US$ 24.95

    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... more...

  • The Patient in Room Nine Says He's Godby Louis Profeta

    John Hunt Publishing 2010; US$ 9.99

    A young Jewish doctor prays to a coma patient's Blessed Mother on Christmas Eve, only to have the woman suddenly awakened; there is the voice that tells a too-busy ER doctor to stop a patient walking out, discovering an embolus that would have killed him. The late-night passing of a beloved aunt summons a childhood bully who shows up minutes later,... more...

  • The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationshipby Pierre Mallia

    Springer 2012; US$ 39.99

    This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches. more...

  • New Challenges in Communication with Cancer Patientsby Antonella Surbone; Matjaz Zwitter; Mirjana Rajer

    Springer 2012; US$ 189.99

    The relationship between oncologists and their cancer patients is rapidly evolving. Oncologists and other cancer professionals master new anticancer and supportive treatment options, while working under increasing economic pressure and time constraints, and are often unprepared to deal with all the challenges of their new position in a therapeutic... more...

  • Caring and Well-beingby Kathleen Galvin; Les Todres

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00

    Something is missing in contemporary health and social care. Health and illness is often measured in policy documents in economic terms, and clinical outcomes are enmeshed in statistical data, with the patient?s experience left to one side. This stimulating book is concerned with how to humanise health and social care and keep the person at the centre... more...