Download or read book How Not to be A Doctor written by John Launer and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Humorous, poignant, provocative and educational,” this essay collection by a doctor “offer[s] fresh takes on the ever-changing field of medicine.” (Kirkus Reviews) Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. How Not to be a Doctor includes over fifty of his essays covering a range of topics including music, poetry, literature, and psychoanalysis, as well as contemporary medical politics and the personal experiences of being a doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor—a real doctor—should mean being able to draw on every aspect of yourself, your interests, and your experiences, however remote these may seem from the medical task of the moment. From lessons on what they don't teach you in medical school to the author's poignant account of being a patient himself as he received treatment for a life-threatening illness, the essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humor, candor, and the human touch that will inform and entertain readers on both ends of the stethoscope. “Witty and wise. Shows how important it is that doctors are allowed to be human.” —Kit Wharton, author of Emergency Admissions: Memoirs of an Ambulance Driver

Download or read book Your Doctor Is Not God written by Aanchal Bhatia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Doctor Is Not God is a self-help book to empower and bring balance into the patient-doctor relationship. It accomplishes this by providing awareness, knowledge and support around healthcare decision making, making each party more open, honest, and communicative. Based on personal experiences, case studies and research, Your Doctor is Not God urges people to live superconscious lives and to become the CEO of their own health. Better yet, each reader will find practical tips and techniques for getting the best care for themselves, family members and friends.

Download or read book War Doctor written by David Nott and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller: A frontline trauma surgeon tells his “riveting” true story of operating in the world’s most dangerous war zones (The Times). For more than twenty-five years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most perilous conflict zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out lifesaving operations in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major metropolitan hospital. He is now widely acknowledged as the most experienced trauma surgeon in the world. War Doctor is his extraordinary story, encompassing his surgeries in nearly every major conflict zone since the end of the Cold War, as well as his struggles to return to a “normal” life and routine after each trip. Culminating in his recent trips to war-torn Syria—and the untold story of his efforts to help secure a humanitarian corridor out of besieged Aleppo to evacuate some 50,000 people—War Doctor is a heart-stopping and moving blend of medical memoir, personal journey, and nonfiction thriller that provides unforgettable, at times raw, insight into the human toll of war. “Superb . . . You are constantly amazed that men such as Nott can witness the extraordinary cruelties of the human race, so many and so foul, yet keep going.” —Sunday Times “Gripping and fascinating medical stories.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Mr and Mrs Doctor written by Julie Iromuanya and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator—that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act. Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.

Download or read book The Little Ouch written by Katherine Picarde and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to getting her flu shot, Penelope is NOT amused. It makes her SCARED and NERVOUS and QUEASY and SICK and SWEATY! Will she be able to overcome her fear of The Little Ouch?

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not written by Christopher Sequeira and published by Ifwg Publishing International. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes truly trusted but one person - Doctor John H. Watson - but in an ocean of infinite realities it must be possible that in some of them Holmes's fellow tenant at 221B Baker Street could be some other doctor, from any page of history or the annals of literature! Come with us now as we peer into the bizarre and sometimes terrifying fates that await the Master Sleuth when his cases, his reputation, and his very fate rests in the hands, or claws, of some very different medicos! 12 tales of mind-bending multi-versal mayhem by Philip Cornell Julie Ditrich Ron Fortier Nancy Holder Rafe McGregor Brad Mengel Will Murray Dennis O'Neil Andrew Salmon J. Scherpenhuizen Christopher Sequeira I. A. Watson Foreword by Leslie S. Klinger

Download or read book Let Me Not Be Mad written by A. K. Benjamin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Dr. A. K. Benjamin's years working as a clinical neuropsychologist at a London hospital, this multilayered narrative interweaves Benjamin's own sometimes shocking personal experiences with those of his mentally disordered patients. What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head? Every day for ten years--even while his hospital became the set for a reality television series--clinical neuropsychologist A. K. Benjamin confronted these questions, and this book is his attempt to tell the truth about what happens in these rooms in hospitals the world over. What begins as a series of exquisitely observed case studies examining personalities on the brink of collapse soon morphs into a unique work of nonfiction as Benjamin's own psyche begins to twist the story in surprising ways. Blazingly original, Let Me Not Be Mad undermines the authority we so willingly hand over to clinical psychologists as it bears witness to the self-obsession of Western society, and ultimately offers a glimpse of what it might mean to be sane and truly empathetic. Fractured, sad, playful, brilliant, and confrontational, this is a confession by a professional that delves into the heart of the patient-doctor relationship and ultimately finds love. This twisting psychological journey will be read and reread.

Download or read book Who Buried Achilles written by Jeff O'Driscoll and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prometheus is a skilled but troubled assassin who is forced to confront his childhood demons when he receives a contract to kill the abusive father he has not seen in thirty years. When he learns his father's secret, he is forced to reconsider his entire life.

Download or read book The Making of Doctor Who written by Terrance Dicks and published by Pan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who Says Women Can t Be Doctors written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s, when a brave and curious girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Some women could be teachers or seamstresses, but career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women weren't smart enough to be doctors, or that they were too weak for such hard work. And she would not take no for an answer. Although she faced much opposition, she worked hard and finally—when she graduated from medical school and went on to have a brilliant career—proved her detractors wrong. This inspiring story of the first female doctor shows how one strong-willed woman opened the doors for all the female doctors to come. Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone is an NPR Best Book of 2013 This title has common core connections.

Download or read book The Doctor Won t See You Now written by Sunita Passi and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctor Won't See You Now: Advocating now is the time to heal healthcare, new book offers wakeup call to the power of Ayurveda Award-winning entrepreneur, acclaimed healer, Tedx speaker, journalist and author, Sunita Passi demystifies the practice of Ayurveda in her new book, The Doctor Won't See You Now, and makes the teachings and practices of this 5,000-year-old Indian system of healing accessible to all ... With the healthcare system and access to mental health support both currently ravaged by the impact of the Covid Pandemic, the publication of The Doctor Won't See You Know couldn't be timelier. Offering an accessible entrée into the 5,000-year-old world of this Indian healing system, author Sunita Passi brings over 20 years' experience of training Ayurvedic practitioners, as well as a multitude of insights gained from launching her own highly successful skincare range to this compelling and potentially life changing book. Accessible, informative and written in celebration of the amazing bodies, minds and immune systems we all possess, the author will find an instant readership in those keen to keep themselves and their loved ones healthy, as well as those whose blind trust in 21st century healthcare is waning. As a journalist and broadcaster, Sunita Passi understands how to keep her readers engaged. With her passion for her subject shining through as much as the wisdom she is imparting, The Doctor Won't See You Now, is destined to become a cherished 'friend' that is sought out time and time again.

Download or read book Not All of Us Are Saints written by David Hilfiker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of what it means for a middle-class white male physician to confront the health problems of ravaged ghetto communities.

Download or read book The Doctor Next Door written by Elaine Holt and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Elaine Holt is not your average doctor. Her medical practice is small, while her heart for her patients is huge. The Doctor Next Door is a collection of extraordinary stories about ordinary people. The stories spotlight the physician as a down-to-earth person, sometimes flawed and unnervingly close to her patient's suffering.

Download or read book Not Yet written by Jeff O'Driscoll and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOT YET follows an experienced emergency physician, Jeff O'Driscoll, MD FACEP, through a series of shared-death experiences and his efforts to help others through the most harrowing challenges of their lives. NOT YET focuses particularly on Dr. O'Driscoll's twenty-year friendship with Jeff Olsen, a man who had a powerful near-death experience (NDE) at the time of the car accident that took his wife, his son and his leg. While Olsen passed through his NDE, Dr. O'Driscoll saw and communicated with Olsen's deceased wife, Tamara. The first year of Jeff & Jeff's friendship was filled with challenges and powerful lessons. O'Driscoll's candor and vulnerability are compelling. His story is transformative.

Download or read book WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT TM HEART DISEASE written by Mark Houston and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking program that reveals what really causes heart disease-- and what can be done to prevent and treat its devastating effects on long-term health. Coronary heart disease has long been the number one killer in this country, and for decades, we have been told about five basic risk factors: elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and smoking. But the truth is that heart disease is much more complex-- with close to 400 risk factors! In this innovative guide, Dr. Mark Houston helps readers discover the causes of heart disease, how to prevent and treat its debilitating effects via nutrition, nutritional supplements, exercise, weight management, and lays to rest to various myths (cholesterol is not the primary cause) based on scientific studies and medical publications. Readers will also learn how to identify the risk factors most likely to endanger them and construct an arsenal of non-pharmacological preventative strategies that can counteract this most deadly disease.

Download or read book Deemed Unworthy written by Robert Leroy Butler, III and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the color of your skin is the only thing society sees, even being a doctor is not enough. In this compelling book, Dr. Robert Butler shares his experiences growing up Black in America. From his time as a young boy in the Bronx - up until present day - Dr. Butler has experienced racism in all aspects of his life. The incidents will shock you, but his resilience will inspire you! We have a long way to go when it comes to healing the divide, but Dr. Butler is living proof that with the support of a strong family and the determination to succeed no matter the barriers...we CAN achieve anything!

Download or read book Where There is No Doctor written by David Werner and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: