Download or read book Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them written by Joe Graedon and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary care doctor is skeptical of his patient’s concerns. A hospital nurse or intern is unaware of a drug’s potential side effects. A physician makes the most “common” diagnosis while overlooking the signs of a rarer and more serious illness, and the patient doesn’t see the necessary specialist until it’s too late. A pharmacist dispenses the wrong drug and a patient dies as a result. Sadly, these kinds of mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors. And new research from the University of Utah, HealthGrades of Denver, and elsewhere suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates and bestselling authors Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with the tragic consequences of doctors’ screwups when Joe’s mother died in Duke Hospital—one of the best in the world—due to a disastrous series of entirely preventable errors. In Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them, the Graedons expose the most common medical mistakes, from doctor’s offices and hospitals to the pharmacy counters and nursing homes. Patients across the country shared their riveting horror stories, and doctors recounted the disastrous—and sometimes deadly—consequences of their colleagues’ oversights and errors. While many patients feel vulnerable and dependent on their health care providers, this book is a startling wake-up call to how wrong doctors can be. The good news is that we can protect ourselves, and our loved ones, by being educated and vigilant medical consumers. The Graedons give patients the specific, practical steps they need to take to ensure their safety: the questions to ask a specialist before getting a final diagnosis, tips for promoting good communication with your doctor, presurgery checklists, how to avoid deadly drug interactions, and much more. Whether you’re sick or healthy, young or old, a parent of a young child, or caring for an elderly loved one, Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them is an eye-opening look at the medical mistakes that can truly affect any of us—and an empowering guide that explains what we can do about it.
Download or read book The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats written by Prevention Magazine Editors and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1997-08-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this practical and entertaining guide, the top veterinarians and animal experts in the country offer more than 1,000 effective tips for treating common pet problems, such as: allergies, bad breath, ear mites, fleas, itchy skin, paw problems, teething pain, weepy eyes, and wounds. But, much more than a guide to the physical and emotional problems of pets, The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats also provides solutions to some of the toughest behavior problems, letting pet owners know when it is necessary to visit the vet--and what they can do until they get there. Since the health needs of dogs and cats are often entirely different, there are also specific tips for both cats and dogs, along with more than 75 easy-to-follow illustrations. Having this ultimate do-it-yourself pet-care book is like having a veterinarian on call 24 hours a day.
Download or read book The 21st Century Man Advice from 50 Top Doctors and Men s Health Experts So You Can Feel Great Look Good and Have Better Sex written by Judson Brandeis and published by Affirm Science Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 21st Century Man" reveals insider secrets that men in midlife and beyond need to recover, rebuild, and maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and sexual health. This is the book that all men will want after turning 40 to feel great, look good, and have better physical intimacy for the rest of their lives. Contributors include specialists from all fields of medicine and men's health. Authors include experts and board-certified physicians in cardiology, oncology and cancer genetics, vascular health, orthopedics, chiropractic, pain medicine, an infectious disease specialist, an ear-nose-and throat-physician, a podiatrist, a hand surgeon (writing on how to protect your hands), and a physician in sleep medicine, as well as experts in the emerging fields of sexual health and rejuvenation medicine.Lifestyle takes center stage in six chapters with practical options on weight loss and improving the quality of nutrition. Another six chapters focus on re-engaging in exercise without injury through strategies that begin with low-impact workouts or sports, stretching, yoga, or high-tech interventions. In terms of quality of life and mental health, the book offers practical, actionable steps from professionals on life coaching, family therapy, psychology, and parenting, as well as sexual healing and intimate wellness. The book also provides a clear recap of the latest research on reversing early dementia and protecting brain health. For midlife men working in a highly competitive job market, there are chapters on antiaging, rejuvenation medicine, hormone therapy, and plastic surgery.
Download or read book The Doctors Book of Food Remedies written by Selene Yeager and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tips to help you boost immunity, fight fatigue, ease arthritis, and protect your health.
Download or read book How Doctors Think written by Jerome Groopman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses. How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
Download or read book Treating the Brain written by Walter George Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in this information age, people dealing with often serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable information, the essential medical facts. Using case histories as examples, the author, one of the world's leading neurologists, explains the neurological examinations, tests, clinical features, causes and treatments available for Alzheimer's disease, migraines, stroke, epilepsy, Parkinson's and other frequently diagnosed neurological disorders. Known by medical students and physicians across the globe as the editor of the leading neurology textbook, Neurology in Clinical Practice, the author now provides a definitive resource for patients, caregivers and other health practitioners. This book is for anyone who has ever had a neurological symptom, from a headache to tingling hands, and for anyone with a personal interest in how the brain works in health and disease.
Download or read book World s Best Doctors written by Victoria Soto Jd and published by 9781599326320. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER STRATEGIES TO SHELTER YOUR CAREER AND YOUR LIFE You've heard the horror stories of malpractice--of doctors who lost their license and were forced to close their practice. With so much time, energy, and money on the line, it only makes sense to protect your livelihood. World's best Doctors shows how you can safely practice medicine and protect your business from legal trouble. With over a decade of experience representing and protecting doctors, Victoria Soto knows that the threat is very real. To become the subject of a lawsuit, you don't need to be at fault, but you can take steps to reduce and survive such an assault. Sometimes it just takes some good manners. Inside, you'll learn: - the importance of telling the truth - how to take responsibility and apologize - to assess your behavior and how it impacts others - how to make a better impression Who knew that the manners you learned as a kid could save your career?
Download or read book Learn how the Top 20 Alternative Doctors in America Can Improve Your Health written by Edward Kondrot and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These top Alternative Doctors can help you improve your health: Abram Ber, MD (H) - Dennis Courtney, MD - Gabriel Cousens, MD, MD (H) - Lee Cowden, MD, MD (H) - Garry Gordon, DO, MD, MD (H) - Edward C. Kondrot, MD, MD (H) - James Lemire, MD - Ruth Tan Lim, MD, MD (H) - Michael Margolis, DDS - Dorothy Merritt, MD - Nicholas J. Meyer, DDS - David Nebbeling, DO - Karl Robinson, MD - Robert Rowen, MD - Charles Schwengel, DO, Do (H) - Frank Shallenberger, MD, HMD - Bruce Shelton, MD, MD (H) - Mark Starr, MD, MD (H) - David Steenblock, DO - Jerald Tennant, MD, MD (H)
Download or read book The Doctors Blackwell How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine written by Janice P. Nimura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."
Download or read book Campbell s Operative Orthopaedics written by Willis Cohoon Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference in orthopedic surgery is back... totally revised and updated to encompass over 1,800 procedures, including 90 that are new to this edition! Dr. S. Terry Canale and 33 other leading authorities from the Campbell Clinic present encyclopedic, in-depth coverage of the field, superbly organized for efficient access. This landmark 4-volume set now includes a CD-ROM containing video clips that demonstrate key surgical procedures.
Download or read book Primary Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-09-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are health care professionals in your survey. Primary Care fills this gap with a detailed definition already adopted by professional organizations and praised at recent conferences. This volume makes recommendations for improving primary care, building its organization, financing, infrastructure, and knowledge baseâ€"as well as developing a way of thinking and acting for primary care clinicians. Are there enough primary care doctors? Are they merely gatekeepers? Is the traditional relationship between patient and doctor outmoded? The committee draws conclusions about these and other controversies in a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion that covers: The scope of primary care. Its philosophical underpinnings. Its value to the patient and the community. Its impact on cost, access, and quality. This volume discusses the needs of special populations, the role of the capitation method of payment, and more. Recommendations are offered for achieving a more multidisciplinary education for primary care clinicians. Research priorities are identified. Primary Care provides a forward-thinking view of primary care as it should be practiced in the new integrated health care delivery systemsâ€"important to health care clinicians and those who train and employ them, policymakers at all levels, health care managers, payers, and interested individuals.
Download or read book New Paradigms in Lyme Disease Treatment written by Connie Strasheim and published by Biomed Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new Lyme book, Connie Strasheim interviewed 10 leading Lyme specialists: one from Germany, one from Canada and eight from the USA. They all agree that certain treatment steps are essential for recovery, but all have a unique treatment approach and provide their own pearls of wisdom. Read the book to get inside the minds of 10 top doctors!
Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Download or read book The Doctors Book of Herbal Home Remedies written by Prevention Health Books and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advice of experts is applied to over 100 health problems, from everyday complaints, such as back pain and toothaches, to more serious disorders, including arrhythmia and depression.
Download or read book Atlanta Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Download or read book Indianapolis Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.
