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Talking about Health
Wiley 2009; US$ 103.95Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all. Organized around six key questions about health and communication: How ‘Normal’ am I?... more...
Doctors Talking with Patients/Patients Talking with Doctors
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 29.95Medical visits are often less effective and satisfying than they would be if doctors and patients better understood the communication most needed for attainment of mutual health goals. Here, professors and Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Medical School join forces to help us understand this vital issue, and the means to best facilitate communication... more...
Making the Patient Your Partner
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 35.00Health professionals need to learn the communication skills that will create collaborative and mutually satisfying relationships with patients. The failure of doctors to relate effectively to patients results in noncompliance, malpractice suits, longer stays in hospitals and other negative outcomes. Interpersonal skills can be easily learned by studying... more...
User Involvement in Health Care
Wiley 2010; US$ 54.95How can the needs and perspective of patients be incorporated in the design and redesign of health services? Health organizations are focusing more and more on patients – and requiring their employees to practise patient focused care. The Modernisation Initiative described in this book explores in three health service areas (kidney, stroke... more...
Medical Decision Making
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 54.00Translates the theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles. more...
Incidental Findings
Beacon Press 2005; US$ 15.00In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the "essence of becoming and being a doctor," Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of big-city medicine. In Incidental Findings, she's finished her training and is learning through practice to become a more rounded healer. The book opens... more...
The Perils of Patient Government
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 34.95In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that "once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration," a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting... more...
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat
ECW Press 2011; US$ 10.95At times humorous and at times terrifying, these unusual case studies of seemingly unbelievable injuries and illnesses have one thing in common: they are all entirely true. Dr. Rob Myers’ firsthand medical knowledge allows him to see past thin excuses to uncover the outrageously dangerous conditions that people have gotten themselves into.... more...
What Patients Taught Me
Sasquatch Books 2009; US$ 15.95Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as... more...
Comunicazione in medicina
SEEd Srl 2009; US$ 14.51Il testo desidera fornire strategie e suggerimenti per migliorare la comunicazione tra professionisti sanitari, fornendo esempi relativi alle pił comuni situazioni che si possono presentare nella pratica clinica, quali la richiesta di una consulenza specialistica da parte del medico di base, la relazione tra medico e infermiere, le informazioni da... more...









