Making Sense Of Doctor Talk

Author : Maxine Morris Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798608050459

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Making Sense of Doctor Talk by Maxine Morris Stewart Pdf

Chronic health conditions are kicking our collective butts! Instead of providing health care we've become obsessed with sick care. It's a 10-trillion dollar global industry that feeds on patients like parasites. Sadly, sickness is a cash-cow: it's a gift that keeps on giving! Despite cutting-edge technology, doctor-patient miscommunication continues to be a significant cause of failed treatments, poorly managed chronic conditions, and patient demise. Medical jargon and doctor-ese have created a wall of partition between those who have the knowledge (health care providers), and those who don't (patients). Making Sense of Doctor Talk explains doctor-ese, and shows that, with a little bit of decoding help, patients can take charge of their health and achieve better outcomes. After reading this book, patients will be able to say "goodbye" to confusion and frustration with medical "blah, blah, blah" because they'll be able to decipher it! This book provides real answers for adults who are struggling with weight, smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. This book also has 16 fill-in tables that readers can use to keep track of up to 3 years' worth of pertinent health details: medications and supplements, surgeries and procedures, diagnostic and lab test results, vaccines, appointments, and more!Patients can take this book to all health appointments, and quickly locate significant health details at the turn of a page!If bringing both sides (patients and doctors) to the hypothetical table is what's needed to close the knowledge gap, Dr. Maxine Morris Stewart is the perfect mediator to get the job done! As an educator, chiropractor, and nurse practitioner, she knows how to make things make sense. Weaving humor, candor, and provider-experiences throughout the book's chapters, Dr. Stewart explains and clarifies conditions and issues that are commonly encountered in adult primary care practice. She shows the reader how to prevent or manage these conditions, and how to run as far away from sickness care as possible.

Author : Martin Fischer,Gill Ereaut
Publisher : The Health Foundation
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9781906461416

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When doctors and patients talk by Martin Fischer,Gill Ereaut Pdf

Author : Zackary Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781442242333

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Making Sense of Medicine by Zackary Berger Pdf

The more we know about medicine, the more we realize that many health questions have no one true answer. Realizing this, and thinking carefully about how medicine asks patients to treat their conditions, leads us to some questions. How reliable are the guidelines that might form the basis of doctors’ advice? Is it wrong, after all, to base an approach to medicine on patients’ preferences? And, given that there is often a distance between the treatment a doctor advises and what a patient would like to do, how do we bridge the gap—especially in a health culture of inequality, technical proficiency, and increasing costs? In practical, engaging, narrative-driven chapters about common health conditions that millions of Americans are familiar with—depression and high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes—Dr. Zackary Berger of Johns Hopkins demystifies the often bewildering disconnect between patients and doctors and asks us all to think more clearly about how best to protect and cure the human body.

Author : Brian E. Lacy
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421411163

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Making Sense of IBS by Brian E. Lacy Pdf

Important new information in the second edition includes; The roles of fiber, gluten, lactose, and fructose in the development and treatment of IBS; The use of probiotics and antibiotics to treat IBS; Similarities and differences between IBS and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); The relationship between small intestine bacterial overgrowth and IBS; How to make the most of your visits to a gastroenterologist; Lifestyle modifications that can improve symptoms of IBSMaking Sense of IBS is an essential resource for anyone who has symptoms or a diagnosis of IBS as well as for health professionals who treat people with this complex disorder.

Author : Daniel J. Wallace MD,Janice Brock Wallace MPA
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780199321780

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Making Sense of Fibromyalgia by Daniel J. Wallace MD,Janice Brock Wallace MPA Pdf

Six million people in the United States meet the criteria for fibromyalgia, which is a disorder characterized by a combination of pain, fatigue, and related symptoms. On average, these patients see about four doctors before they are correctly diagnosed, and many are convinced they have a life-threatening illness such as an advanced stage of cancer. About $600 billion is spent annually in the United States to diagnose or manage chronic pain, including litigation fees, and it is estimated that fibromyalgia patients run up $20 billion in medical expenses annually. Despite these alarming numbers, there is a lack of understanding and a dearth of reliable information about fibromyalgia for patients. This fully updated edition of Making Sense of Fibromyalgia distills complex concepts and symptoms into an easily understandable narrative. Daniel J. Wallace, a leading rheumatologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Janice Brock Wallace, an expert medical writer, have updated the original classic resource, which has sold over 100,000 copies since 1999. Making Sense of Fibromyalgia provides clear answers to common questions, explains findings from the latest research, and discusses treatment options for complex symptoms. Detailed information is provided about topics such as who gets fibromyalgia and why; how stress, hormones, and your immune system interact and relate to fibromyalgia; what conditions are associated with it; why and how you might be misdiagnosed; how to overcome fibromyalgia; and how to understand your prognosis. The authors share all there is to know about the syndrome as well as how our understanding of it has changed over time. This comprehensive companion covers the entire spectrum of issues for those suffering from fibromyalgia, as well as their families, friends, caretakers, primary care physicians, and other health professionals.

Author : Anne Reff Pedersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429638862

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Making Sense of Organizational Change and Innovation in Health Care by Anne Reff Pedersen Pdf

This book explores the hospital via organisational ethnography (OE), an approach that involves a mix of fieldwork methods designed to analyse the hospital which also includes participatory observation, qualitative interviews and shadowing. One way to define a hospital is by its high level of formal organisation, resulting in written or digital communication as the main source of communication in patient journals, minutes and medical and quality guidelines. In contrast, in this book, the aspects of the informal organisation will be the focus. In spite of the many formal regulations of healthcare, hospitals are also chaotic organising places where many different groups of people interact in order to negotiate, to practice and to make sense of daily work tasks. The underlying argument is that, in the mundane everyday life of hospitals, frontline workers and their interactions with patients and local managers remain at the core of organising hospitals. The overall purpose of this book is to report stories back from the field of healthcare, demonstrating how people, spaces and work (as examples of events) become important elements of organising hospitals. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in and across healthcare management, organisation studies, ethnography, sociology, qualitative methods, anthropology, service management and cultural studies.

Author : Nancy M.P. King
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1589018605

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Making Sense of Advance Directives by Nancy M.P. King Pdf

Advance directives—such as living wills and health care proxies—are documents intended to declare and preserve the health care choices of patients if they become unable to make their own decisions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of advance directives and clear, practical directions for writing and interpreting them. Nancy M.P. King provides a legal, philosophical, and historical analysis of the moral and legal force of advance directives. She explains the types and models of advance directives currently in use and offers guidelines for individuals seeking to write, read, and use directives to promote individuals' health care choices within the laws of their own states. King emphasizes that advance directives are not orders given by patients to their doctors; instead, they are documents that invite conversation between doctors and patients about health care decisions of great importance. The purpose of advance directives is to support patients' health care choices, and the book promotes a thoughtful use of advance directives that is best calculated to achieve that purpose, whatever form individual advance directives may take. This new edition has been updated to reflect the many changes in advance directive statutes since 1991, including expanded discussions of health care proxy statutes, the impact of the Patient Self-Determination Act and the Supreme Court's Cruzan decision. King also has extended her analysis of the implications for advance directives of managed care, resource allocation, resource scarcity, and the debate over futile treatment at the end of life. Making Sense of Advance Directives is a valuable handbook for patients, health care providers and administrators, patient counselors, lawyers, policymakers, and any individual interested in advance directives.

Author : Alan Radley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781446265185

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Making Sense of Illness by Alan Radley Pdf

`This book is a "must read" for all students of health psychology, and will be of considerable interest and value to others interested in the field. The discipline has not involved itself with the central issues of this book so far, but Radley has now brought this material together in an accessible way, offering important new perspectives, and directions for the discipline. This book goes a long way towards making sense for, and of, health psychology′ - Journal of Health Psychology What are people′s beliefs about health? What do they do when they feel ill? Why do they go to the doctor? How do they live with chronic disease? This introduction to the social psychology of health and illness addresses these and other questions about how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others. Alan Radley reviews findings from medical sociology, health psychology and medical anthropology to demonstrate the relevance of social and psychological explanations to questions about disease and its treatment. Topics covered include: illness, the patient and society; ideas about health and staying healthy; recognizing symptoms and falling ill; and the healing relationship: patients, nurses and doctors. The author also presents a critical account of related issues - stress, health promotion and gender differences.

Author : Alan G Johnson,Paul R. V. Johnson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781444113594

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Making Sense of Medical Ethics: A hands-on guide by Alan G Johnson,Paul R. V. Johnson Pdf

The practice of clinical medicine is inextricably linked with the need for moral values and ethical principles. The study of medical ethics is, therefore, rightly assuming an increasingly significant place in undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses and in allied health curricula.Making Sense of Medical Ethics offers a no-nonsense introductio

Author : Federica Raia,Mario Deng
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789814579704

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Relational Medicine: Personalizing Modern Healthcare by Federica Raia,Mario Deng Pdf

In this book, we present a novel framework of high-tech modern medicine. Patients going through major high-tech medical interventions, e.g. Advanced Heart Failure (AdHF) patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation and heart transplantation, must integrate scientific and technological advances into personal life, including strong emotional experiences unthinkable thirty years ago, novel to themselves and their caregivers and unknown to healthcare professionals. Our book provides a theoretical framework for the person-centered vision to “heal humankind by improving health, alleviating suffering and delivering acts of kindness, one person at a time”, we develop the theoretical as well as practical concept of the “RelationalAct (RA) ” as core concept to engage and participate in modern medicine. This book will be used as a recommended textbook for the following UCLA Fall 2014 course: Course Director: Professor Federica Raia / Co-Director: Professor Mario Deng Course Title: Educational Perspectives of Relational Practices in Modern Medicine Course Summary: This UCLA course systematically discusses Personhood & Body Concepts in the context of asymmetric Person/Person-relationships in High-Tech Modern Medicine and the diverse implications for building of theories of Relational Practice. Course Topics: Personhood/Body Concepts; Asymmetric Person/Person-relationships; Theories of Relational Practice Contents:Status QuoThe Roots for PersoncareThe RelationalActProtecting the Dyad in PracticePersonalizing Biomedical Research Readership: Medical students, health professionals and general public. Key Features:Starts at the core challenge of high tech modern medicine: Personhood and bodyBroad concept (from clinical vignettes to theoretical concepts)Universal applicability in medicineIncorporating western and eastern philosophical foundationsBroad audience including healthcare professionals and lay publicKeywords:Personalized Medicine;Encounter;Personhood;High Tech Medicine;Modern Medicine

Author : Felicia D. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195352825

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Talking About Treatment by Felicia D. Roberts Pdf

Clear and accessible, this book is the first qualitative analysis of the complex conversations that occur between breast cancer patients and their oncologists. Roberts focuses on discussions about possible avenues of treatment, and shows them to be an active and mutual collaboration of information on the one hand, and a subtle delineation of the roles of "expert" and "novice" on the other. Her work highlights how doctors achieve a delicate balance between promoting one particular treatment option while not guaranteeing a cure.

Author : Elizabeth L. Bewley
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9781608443963

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Killer Cure by Elizabeth L. Bewley Pdf

Killer Cure will change forever how you think about your health and health care. Leaving conventional wisdom in the dust, Killer Cure reveals startling and unforgettable insights: -Why health care in America accidentally kills 12,000 people each week -- even though every doctor and nurse you know is terrific -Why health care's hidden assumptions about you are almost certain to damage your health -- and what you can do about it -Why health care's focus on solving yesterday's problems may reduce life expectancy in the U.S. -- by as much as five years -Why you might want to become CEO of your own health and health care -- and how to go about it The root cause of America's health care crisis is that health care is not about you. Health care is not designed to help you enjoy good health. It is designed to help doctors take action: write prescriptions, perform surgery, etc. That focus hurts you in two ways: -First, those actions are likely to damage you nearly as often as they help you because of side effects, complications, and other problems with care delivery. For example, hospital ICUs (Intensive Care Units) have a remarkable number of characteristics in common with prison camps for terrorist suspects. People die needless deaths as a result. -Second, the focus on actions the doctor takes crowds out actions you could take that would often get you better outcomes. For example, more than 100,000 people a year get a foot or leg amputated instead of learning simple ways to prevent foot infections in the first place. To get better results, the health care system first needs to embrace a new purpose: to enable people to lead the lives they want. Three further changes are necessary: -The first is a social revolution akin to freeing the slaves or granting women the right to vote. With this revolution, the health care system will no longer treat the people it serves as if they were second-class citizens whose intelligence, values, priorities, and needs can safely be ignored while others call the shots. -The second is more realistic expectations about what health care can deliver. -The third is management of health care as a process -- connecting the dots among actions that are uncoordinated today. Killer Cure provides a tool kit to help you safeguard your life until these changes take place. Before closing, the book makes surprising predictions concerning a future in which health care is about you. At the end of Killer Cure is a Readers' Discussion Guide. It is offered to aid you in thinking about and discussing both the book and your own health care experiences.

Author : Abigale Beecher
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781449750923

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Life and Death of a Brave Man by Abigale Beecher Pdf

My dream is for all families, patients, and especially healthcare workers to read this book for knowledge and encouragement. Our prayers are not always answered the way we want them to be answered, but God does listen and decides our fate. Rick was a born-again Christian. He was brought back to life and near death many times. He touched so many lives during his yearlong battle. Rick died in Jesus name and with Gods promises.

Author : Malcolm Shuman,M. S. Karl
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049980016

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Deerslayer by Malcolm Shuman,M. S. Karl Pdf

When a young boy is implicated in a murder, Brady goes hunting for the real killer In Pete Brady’s new hometown, hunting is a religion, and he is expected to convert if he’s to run the local newspaper. When Sheriff Garitty takes his son out for his first hunt, he invites Pete to join them in the deer stand—a drafty, miserable place that would be unbearable if young Scotty weren’t so excited. Pete is staring down his rifle barrel, trying to decide if he has the nerve to kill a deer, when a shot rings out. The boy has hit his target. But when they go to retrieve the kill, they find it isn’t a deer, but a man. Scotty has trained his whole life for this moment, and Pete can’t believe he would have mistaken a man—even a drunk like Dwayne Elkins—for an animal. To clear the boy’s name, Brady goes in search of an ingenious killer, and soon finds himself in the crosshairs.

Author : Marge Blanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Autistic children
ISBN : 0615696104

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Natural Language Acquisition on the Autism Spectrum by Marge Blanc Pdf