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"As a medical professional, you operate in a more disconnected environment than your predecessors. Compliance standards and excessive documentation keep you in front of computers instead of patients, and low reimbursement rates mean packing the day with appointments and sacrificing quality of care. Dr. Larry Benz is finding ways to humanize healthcare again. In this book, he shows you how to ignore constraints and build quality connections by treating...
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Told in fast-paced, stand-alone chapters that recall unforgettable medical cases, Patient Care offers the fascination of medical mysteries, wrapped in the drama of living and dying. A snap judgment about a child nearly kills him, and a priest who may be having a heart attack refuses treatment. An asthmatic man develops air bubbles in his shoulders, and a pharmacist is haunted by a decision he makes. But the book goes beyond these stories. Each chapter...
4) Nurses
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Nurses spend more time with patients than any other medical professional, and act as a liaison between the patient and the rest of the health care team. There are an estimated 6.2 million nurses worldwide, making it one of the most popular professions in the healthcare field, with the number of people earning bachelor s degrees in nursing at an all-time high. What does it take to be a nurse? Readers will discover the profession: from the educational...
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"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers--the...
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Today we are experiencing extraordinary technological advances in the diagnosis and treatment of illness while at the same time learning to take more responsibility for our own health and well-being. In this book, Saki Santorelli, director of the nationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic, explores the ancient roots of medicine, and shows us how to introduce mindfulness into the crucible of the healing relationship. His approach revolutionizes the...
9) The call
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After receiving a call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, a veteran 911 operator realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl.
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"Eventually, most people need to visit or stay in a hospital. This can be a scary event, especially for children and people who've never been in a hospital. This guidance title shows readers what goes on in a hospital, the people who work there, and most importantly, what will happen if and when they need to go to a hospital. The photographs in this volume were specifically selected to help young readers comprehend and feel comfortable reading about...
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Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it's a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there's no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and...
13) The 5th horseman
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When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at San Francisco Medical Center, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace, possibly the most terrifying situation they have encountered.
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"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, #1 bestselling coauthors of Walk in My Combat Boots, powerfully present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. Nurses. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From...
19) Dr. Death
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Based on the hit podcast from Wondery, Dr. Death tells the shocking true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a seemingly bright, young neurosurgeon with a thriving medical practice. But all is not as it seems. When a growing number of Dr. Duntsch's defenseless patients end up permanently maimed or worse, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeons Robert Henderson and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby, attempt to stop him before he causes any more harm.
20) Life flight
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""A heart-stopping, breath-stealing masterpiece of romantic suspense!"-- Colleen Coble, USA Today bestselling author ***EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a mountain in a raging storm with a critical patient--and a serial killer on the loose--tests her skills and her nerve to the limit. She survives with FBI Special Agent Holt Satterfield's help. But she's not out of the woods yet.In the...
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