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Coaching Standardized Patients
Springer Publishing Company 2006; US$ 85.00In today's medical education curriculum, it is necessary for students to learn the proper technique for taking medical histories, performing physical exams, and finding the appropriate way to educate and inform patients. The best way for a student to learn these skills is through hands-on training with a Standardized Patient (SP)--an actor who... more...
Achieving Cultural Competency
Wiley 2009; US$ 82.95Achieving Cultural Competency: A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals provides the necessary tools to meet the ever-growing need for culturally competent practitioners and trainees. Twenty-five self-study cases cover a variety of medical topics, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurology, oncology, hematology, immunology, and... more...
Mediating Health Information
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00Examining health information seeking and the roles of human and technical actors that intermediate this process, this book uses new empirical data from a number of clinical and community settings. Unique insights are offered into the positioning of health information seekers within the service framework of various professions. more...
Surviving Your Doctors
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 31.99Surviving Your Doctors , with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong... more...
Humanizing Health Care
PuddleDancer Press 2010; US$ 9.95The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the workplace, the classroom, and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery, and application. Focusing on the... more...
When Sickness Heals
Templeton Press 2008; US$ 9.99In When Sickness Heals , Dr. Siroj Sorajjakool draws on more than ten years of studies on health benefits in relation to spirituality, especially focusing on the function of "meaning." He expounds on his theory that healing is primarily the function of meaning, and meaning transcends sickness and even death itself. He concludes that what... more...
Artrosi, artrite e attività fisica
SEEd Srl 2008; US$ 7.91Il testo illustra quali sono gli sport da evitare e quelli consigliati per i pazienti reumatologici. È un supporto per il medico di medicina generale e per il reumatologo che desiderino studiare, con i propri assistiti, un insieme di attività volte a diminuire gli effetti negativi delle affezioni reumatologiche e a migliorare la qualità della vita. more...
Listening to Pain
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 17.99In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Fishman shows how communicating better with patients about their pain can help physicians create safer and more effective treatment strategies. Listening to Pain offers physicians a wealth of practical guidance about asking the right questions and assessing patient responses, including: -What questions to ask pain patients... more...
Malpractice in Surgery
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 91.00The 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...









