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“karen minster”

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  • What I've Learned from You

    The Lessons of Life Taught to a Doctor by His Patients

    by Scott Kelly, Karen Minster ...
    What I've Learned from You is the story of the lessons of life taught to a doctor by his patients. It takes us on a journey from an inner-city trauma center to the bedside of a dying cancer patient. It explores human relationships and gives an intimate view into the window of the human condition. On the road to becoming a physician, Dr. Kelly longed to find serenity in a world of conflicting ideas ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Living with Cancer

    A Journey

    by Andrew Griffith ...
    In June 2009, Andrew Griffith’s life turned upside down with his diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma. Join Andrew through his treatment, recovery, relapse and further treatment over a three year period, as he is faced with numerous physical, emotional and relationship challenges.This book recounts one man’s experience, reactions and reflections on how he ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

    by Danielle Ofri MD ...
    Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Ultimate Health

    Finding It

    by Clarence A Guenter ...
    Western health related industries employ more people, consume more money, and have more dependent adherents than any other activity involving the entire population. Since the early 1900s, life expectancy at birth has increased from about 50 years to the low 80s. However, not all interventions have been effective, and many have caused harm. Trendy dogmas commonly drive health practices. We are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Alabama and the Borderlands

    From Prehistory To Statehood

    by Bruce D. Smith, Richard A. Krause, Eugene Lyon, Charles Hudson, Jeffrey P. Brain, Chester B. DePratter, Hazel P. Coker, William S. Coker, Michale C. Scardaville, Wilcomb Washburn, James B. Griffin, Dr. Marvin T. Smith ...
    Brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern USThis fascinating collection was born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, so often hidden by the veils of time, ignorance, or misunderstanding. In 1981 The University of Alabama celebrated its 150th anniversary, and each College ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Shared Decision Making in Health Care

    Achieving evidence-based patient choice

    Edited by Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards, Rachel Thompson ...
    Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making. In the years since the publication of the second edition of Shared Decision Making in Health Care, there have been significant new developments in the field, most notably in the US where 'Obamacare' puts shared decision making (SDM) at ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Osteoporosis and physical activity

    by Gian Pasquale Ganzit, Luca Stefanini ...
    Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by reduced bone strength leading to an increased risk of fractures. It can strike at any age, although the risk for developing the disease increases consistently with age, and can affect women and men of all races and ethnic groups. A comprehensive treatment program includes not only proper nutrition, and prevention of falls, but also exercise. In fact, it ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dimensions of Culture: Cross-Cultural Communications for Healthcare Professionals

    by Marcia Carteret ...
    In cross-cultural health care interactions, there are many situations where communication is challenging because patients and their families exhibit different values, beliefs, and behaviors from those of their American physicians. Physicians educated in western medicine, who work in the health care system in the United States, operate within a highly specific medical culture though they may not ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quality Playbook

    A Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Leaders

    by John Byrnes, MD ...
    The Quality Playbook and the companion Workbook (which you can purchase separately on the publisher's website www.SecondRiverHealthcare.com) are about creating great clinical outcomes and safer care for patients, families, and communities; creating healthcare organizations that rank at the top of the nation’s rating lists; and doing what most organizations have been unable to do: deliver top ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Clowns on the Bus

    by Judy Fisk Lucas ...
    Whether you have already been, or want to go, on a Humanitarian Clowning Tour, this day-by-day trip journal will entertain and enlighten you with its informal, conversational and silly style. Clowns from many countries, aged 3 to 74, spent two weeks traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, meeting Russians. Our two missions on this 24th annual Russian tour were to become a close-knit troupe, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Talking with Doctors

    by David Newman ...
    Without any warning, in September 1999, David Newman was told he had a rare and life-threatening tumor in the base of his skull. In the compressed space of five weeks, he consulted with leading physicians and surgeons at four major medical centers. The doctors offered drastically differing opinions; several pronounced the tumor inoperable and voiced skepticism about the effectiveness of any ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Patient's Guide to Surgery

    by Edward L. Bradley III, Editors of Consumer Reports Books ...
    In a Patient's Guide to Surgery, Dr. Edward L. Bradley III explains all you need to know to prepare yourself for the surgical experience. This book describes how you can actively participate in the decision-making process and, as a result, improve your chances for successful surgery and recovery.A Patient's Guide to Surgery also lists specific questions you should consider when evaluating a doctor ... Read more

    $28.49 USD