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Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"This comprehensive and dynamic guide to patient assessment gives you the foundation needed to master these critical skills. Through detailed descriptions of physical examinations and history-taking methods, web activities, and case scenarios that tie all of the concepts together, Principles of Patient Assessment in EMS gives you the tools and hands-on experience to develop your patient assessment skills. The first chapter presents an overview of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Human interaction between patient and caregiver is the essential foundation of healing. This inspiring personal narrative from the patient's perspective, filled with practical advice and packed with humor, encourages heath care professionals to practice compassionate communication in all its forms.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. These medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in need of their help.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emotions influence the way physicians treat their patients both medically and interpersonally. Exploring the full range of human emotion--from the fear of making a fatal mistake to the pride and elation of triumphing over death, What Doctors Feel allows patients...
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In this penultimate season of the powerful, award-winning series, personal tragedies threaten, and sometimes strengthen, relationships among the staff. And the patients bring their own compelling stories. A boy genius diagnoses his mysterious illness, a cancer-ridden prison doctor is haunted by the men he put to death, a woman arrives in the ER expecting her 13th baby. Triumph, loss, tears, joy, next!
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