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How to Present at Meetings
Wiley 2011; US$ 29.95Does the thought of presenting a paper make you go cold? There are so many things to consider: getting your message across clearly, making the PowerPoint easy to read, keeping to the right length and keeping the audience riveted – enough to induce nerves even without the thought of standing up in front of a crowd and delivering your talk... more...
The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor?s Office
University of Iowa Press 2009; US$ 25.00Western literature has had a long tradition of physician-writers. From Mikhail Bulgakov to William Carlos Williams to Richard Selzer to Ethan Canin, exposure to human beings at their most vulnerable has inspired fine writing. In his own inimitable and unpretentious style, David Watts is also a master storyteller. Whether recounting the decline and... more...
How to Talk to Your Doctor
Linden Publishing 2006; US$ 9.95Showing patients how to take control of their own health care, this guide reveals how to navigate the maze of prescriptions and tests and offers advice for those who act as medical advocates for their children, aging parents, or others. more...
Worried Sick
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 22.00Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common... more...
The Cancer Experience
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 58.99The Cancer Experience instructs doctors, medical students, and health care workers involved in cancer care on the proper role of medicine, the role of doctors, and the opportunities for connecting with patients as they make treatment and end of life decisions. It helps patients understand the issues facing doctors as they assist and care for them.... more...
Bio-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis jüdischer Doktoren im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
De Gruyter 1991; US$ 126.00Bio-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis J Discher Doktoren Im 17. Und 18. Jahrhundert (Bibliographien Zur Deutsch-J Dischen Geschichte) more...
When Doctors Don't Listen
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 25.99In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, Drs. Wen and Kosowsky argue that diagnosis, once the cornerstone of medicine, is fast becoming a lost art, with grave consequences. Using real-life stories of cookbook-diagnoses-gone-bad, the doctors illustrate how active patient participation can prevent these mistakes. Wen and Kosowsky offer... more...
Shared decision-making in health care
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 51.99When the first edition of this book came out in 2001 (under the title Evidence-based Patient Choice: Inevitable or Impossible?), it examined the emerging themes of patient choice and clinical decision-making, and looked at how these might develop in the future. Since then, these issues have become even more topical. Evidence-based medicine is deeply... more...
Practical Patient Safety
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 58.99Following recent high profile cases of surgical error in the UK and USA, patient safety has become a key issue in healthcare, now placed at heart of junior doctor's training. Errors made by doctors are very similar to those made in other high risk organisations, such as aviation, nuclear and petrochemical industries. Practical Patient Safety aims... more...
101 Questions to Ask Your Doctor
SPCK 2012; US$ 13.11Questions that people want to ask their doctors vary tremendously! Sometimes they don?t even get asked as people are afraid of wasting the doctor?s time ? or they may end up as the ?hand on the doorknob? or the ?while I?m here? type of question that gets popped out just as the patient leaves the surgery. Embarrassing, awkward, or trivial ? whatever... more...









