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Playing Doctor

Author : john lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735507210

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John's medical memoir was born from chaotic, disjointed, funny and frightening late-night letters to friends over email (any recipients of which all those years ago will likely walk away now). Those manic blogs from the hospital wards during under-slept call nights (which left a few friends wondering if he had invaded the hospital pharmacy) were the genesis for this book, Playing Doctor. This is a journey through medical training as interpreted by someone who told their college career advisor that the only thing they did not want to be was a doctor-not that medical schools want you believing their training was interpretive, like a modern dance company's version of Grey's Anatomy-and started school with a traumatic brain injury. This entertaining, heartfelt demystification of medical school via the confusion and chaos that seemed to litter John's medical trail, takes readers along the studies and clinical wards that miraculously teach students how to care for patients. The follow up books cover residency.

Playing Doctor

Author : Joseph Turow
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780472034277

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"Joe Turow's Playing Doctor disquiets and challenges the reader's intellect with cogent analysis of the forces that have shaped television's portrayal of doctors and the medical world. For that alone, it is a fantastic read. But Dr. Turow also pleases the mind with well written and amusing stories, interviews, and behind the scenes anecdotes that bring to life, in an eminently readable style, the fascinating world of TV medicine." ---David Foster, M.D., supervising producer, writer, and medical consultant for House "Joseph Turow takes us behind the scenes of such hit television series as ER, Grey's Anatomy, and House to reveal the complex relationship viewers have with their beloved fictional caregivers. Turow carefully probes the history of TV medical series and presents a compelling argument for telling more truthful medical stories in the future to reflect---and address---the precarious state of our health-care system today." ---Neal Baer, M.D., executive producer of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "The great contribution of Turow's book, in addition to providing a highly readable and smart overview of medical shows over the years, is to examine the consequences of the gap between the reality of medical care and the often romanticized, heroic depictions on television. This would be a very good book for professors to use in teaching a range of courses in communications studies, from introductory courses to more specialized classes on health and the media." ---Susan Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Communications Studies Department Chair, University of Michigan Playing Doctor is an engaging and highly perceptive history of the medical TV series from its inception to the present day. Turow offers an inside look at the creation of iconic doctor shows as well as a detailed history of the programs, an analysis of changing public perceptions of doctors and medicine, and an insightful commentary on how medical dramas have both exploited and shaped these perceptions. Drawing on extensive interviews with creators, directors, and producers, Playing Doctor is a classic in the field of communications studies. This expanded edition includes a new introduction placing the book in the contemporary context of the health care crisis, as well as new chapters covering the intervening twenty years of television programming. Turow uses recent research and interviews with principals in contemporary television doctor shows such as ER, Grey's Anatomy, House, and Scrubs to illuminate the extraordinary ongoing cultural influence of medical shows. Playing Doctor situates the television vision of medicine as a limitless high-tech resource against the realities underlying the health care debate, both yesterday and today. Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He was named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association and a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2010. He has authored eight books, edited five, and written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. He has also produced a DVD titled Prime Time Doctors: Why Should You Care? that has been distributed to all first-year medical students with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Praise for the first edition of Playing Doctor: "With Playing Doctor, Joseph Turow has established himself as one of the foremost analytic historians of the interplay between television, its audiences, and other American institutions." ---George Comstock, S.I. Newhouse Professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, in Health Affairs Cover image: Eric Dane, Kate Walsh, Sara Ramirez, and crew members on the set of Grey's Anatomy © American Broadcasting Company, Inc.

Playing Doctor

Author : William Van Zandt,Jane Milmore
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573619352

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Farce / 5m, 3f / Int. Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decid

Let's Play Doctor

Author : Mark Leyner,Billy Goldberg, M.D.
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307450074

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CONGRATULATIONS! Your purchase of this book means that the admissions committee has thoroughly reviewed your application and we are pleased to welcome you to the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine.* *A not quite fully accredited institution Let’s Play Doctor is your instant guide to becoming a Real Fake Doctor. At the Why Do Men Have Nipples School of Medicine, we offer an informative, immersive, and incredibly entertaining course of study that will give you the special skills needed to get your M.D. on! By following the lessons in Let’s Play Doctor, you’ll learn: • Special mental exercises to give yourself that buff, bulging Doctor brain • How to impress your peers with big, polysyllabic, esoteric medical lingo (can you say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis?) • Easy ways to diagnose your girlfriend’s goiter or your father’s fistula • Do-it-yourself surgeries from hemorrhoidectomy to breast enlargement • And, most important, how to craft a completely believable, official-sounding get-out-of-work-for-medical-reasons note Tuition? Just $14.95. Enroll today! It’s time to play doctor!

The Rape of Innocence

Author : Patricia Robinett
Publisher : Aesculapius Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 9781878411044

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Children at Play : Clinical and Developmental Approaches to Meaning and Representation

Author : Arietta Slade Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the City College and Graduate Center City University of New York,Dennie Palmer Wolf Senior Research Associate Harvard Graduate School of Education
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198021339

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As they play, children do more than imagine--they also invent life-long approaches to thinking, feeling, and relating to other people. For nearly a century, clinical psychologists have been concerned with the content and interpersonal meaning of play. More recently, developmental psychologists have concentrated on the links between the emergence of symbolic play and evolving thought and language. At last, this volume bridges the gap between the two disciplines by defining their common interests and by developing areas of interface and interrelatedness. The editors have brought together original chapters by distinguished psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, social workers, and developmental psychologists who shed light on topics outside the traditional confines of their respective domains. Thus the book features clinicians exploring subjects such as play representation, narrative, metaphor, and symbolization, and developmentalists examining questions regarding affect, social development, conflict, and psychopathology. Taken together, the contributors offer a rich, integrative view of the many dimensions of early play as it occurs among peers, between parent and child, and in the context of therapy.

The Doctor

Author : Robert Icke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350382558

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First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality. After a critically acclaimed run at London's Almeida Theatre, The Doctor transferred to the West End in September 2022. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the new production.

Playing Doctor

Author : Kathia
Publisher : Firelight and Fairy Dust Unlimited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781944560256

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A quirky romance about sisters… And coming home. “So funny, yet very romantic as well.” — Goodreads Reviewer After catching her research partner-slash-fiancé with the intern, Dr. Daphne Donovan returns home to lick her wounds and figure out how to fix her life. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out: being an uber-brilliant Doogie Howser has made her life miserable while all the normal people she knows are happy and content. There's only one thing to do: become normal. No more being the wunderkind of childhood disease research. All she wants is a regular nine to five job, two-point-five children, a white picket fence, and a blue collar husband. Except normal isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially after she meets Ulysses Gray. Gray is everything she doesn't want: smart, incredibly handsome, and a doctor--just like her ex-fiancé. She wants to deny him--and herself--but she can't resist playing doctor... If you love books by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Lauren Blakely, Elle Kennedy, Vi Keeland, Corinne Michaels, Lauren Landish, Susan Mallery, Violet Duke, Kristan Higgans, Jill Shalvis, Roisin Meaney, Melody Grace, Melissa Foster, Addison Cole, Bella Andre, Lucy Kevin, Brenda Novak, Catherine Bybee, Kendall Ryan, Emma Chase, Meghan March, Sawyer Bennett, Carly Phillips, Lori Foster, Jennifer Probst, Melissa Foster, Rachel Van Dyken, Layla Hagan, Sheila O'Flanagan, Cathy Kelly, Ruth Hogan, Jenny Colgan, Shari Low, Sophie Cousens, Portia MacIntosh. Perfect for fans of Sophie Ranald, Mhairi McFarlane and Zara Stoneley, and Holly Martin, try Kathia’s! For readers who enjoyed series like The Boyfriend Material, First to Score, The Guys Who Got Away, Chicago Stars, Off-Campus, Briar U, Irresistible Bachelor Series, and more! Keywords: romantic comedy, rom com, sexy romance, friendship, free romance, free ebook, family saga, small town romance series, romance series, romantic women’s fiction, contemporary romance, happily ever after, HEA romance, funny romance, modern romance, lighthearted romance, light romance, romance for adults, contemporary romance, swoonworthy, beach reads, good characters, LOL romance, romantic comedy books free, romance books free, love books, long series, long romance series, beach romance, beach reads for women, books for summer, Hello Sunshine Book Club, books for the beach, love and friendship, vacation romance, second chance romance, second chance romance with baby, best friend romance, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, medical romance, doctor and nurse romance, doctor romance, Christmas romance, holiday romance, montana romance, romance novels for teens, mountain town romance, forbidden romance, falling for the wrong man romance, secret baby romance, secret pregnancy romance, Valentine’s Day romance, short romance, short story romance books, romance anthologies, romance collections, waitress romance, love triangle sweet romance, workplace romance, workplace romantic comedy, family romance, free romance, contemporary romance, new adult, free new adult romance, free sports romance, free small town romance, standalone romance, free romance series starter.

Innovations in Play Therapy

Author : Garry L. Landreth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1560328819

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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Playing With The Doctor

Author : Piper James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798586247599

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It's nothing but a casual hookup. Temporary, with no strings attached. It'll be over in a few weeks, and we'll go our separate ways. What could go wrong?JessaHave you ever wished you could turn back time and do things differently? Like that one time you decided to use your ratty bra as a weapon and almost took out the eye of your dad's hot doctor? Yeah? Me, too. But my nylon ninja skills must've impressed him, because he kept coming around, heating my blood with those tight jeans and sexy smiles.As hard as I tried, I couldn't resist him. So I decided to make a deal. A few weeks of fun, then we'd go our separate ways.RafeMy life was perfect-just the way I wanted it. Or at least it was until the day I met Jessa Maddox. Beautiful and feisty, I couldn't get her out of my head, and I kept making excuses just to be near her. When neither of us could deny our attraction for another moment, we made a bargain.No strings. No commitments. Just a cool and casual fling that would run its course before Jessa headed back home and out of my life, for good.It was the perfect situation...until it wasn't.And I needed to figure out what I really wanted, because Jessa Maddox was no "here today, gone tomorrow" hookup. She was just what the doctor ordered.Playing with the Doctor is book one in the Milestone Mischief Series. It is a hot standalone novel with no cliffhanger.

The Safe Child Book

Author : Sherryll Kraizer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780684814230

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Covers bullies, staying alone, the Internet, child care decisions, school safety, and saying "no."

When Life Gives You Lululemons

Author : Lauren Weisberger
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476778457

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“The Devil Wears Prada’s Emily Charlton gets the spin-off she deserves” (Cosmopolitan) in the months-long New York Times bestseller from Lauren Weisberger in which three women team up to bring a bad man down in the tony suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut. Welcome to Greenwich, Connecticut, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito’s and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor. Let’s be clear: Emily Charlton does not do the suburbs. After leaving Miranda Priestly, she’s been working in Hollywood as an image consultant to the stars, but recently, Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s hopeless with social media. The new guard is nipping at her heels. She needs a big opportunity, and she needs it now. When Karolina Hartwell, a gorgeous former supermodel, is arrested, her fall from grace is merciless. Her senator-husband leaves her, her Beltway friends disappear, and the tabloids pounce. In Karolina, Emily finds her comeback opportunity. But she quickly learns Greenwich is a world apart and that this comeback needs a team approach. So it is that Emily, the scorned Karolina, and their mutual friend Miriam, a powerful attorney turned stay-at-home mom, band together to navigate the social land mines of suburban Greenwich and win back the hearts of the American public. Along the way, an unexpected ally emerges in one Miranda Priestly. With her signature wit, Lauren Weisberger offers an alluring look into a sexy, over-the-top world—and proves it’s style and substance together that gets the job done. “A delicious sequel to The Devil Wears Prada…exploring what it’s like to be a woman buffeted by conflicting messages about career, relationships, and motherhood” (The Washington Post), When Life Gives You Lululemons is “amazing novel about…truth, lies and how everyone is a little bit insecure” (Associated Press). “Fast-paced, funny, and gossipy, this is the must-have accessory for your beach bag” (PopSugar).

Pooh Plays Doctor

Author : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld,Alan Alexander Milne
Publisher : Random House Disney
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0786843411

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Winnie-the-Pooh and friends use a doctor's kit to show what to expect at a doctor's office

Playing Doctor

Author : Emilee K. Sandsmark
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530393086

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There is no shortage of published work centered on the medical profession, but there is a reason why much of it is not written by medical students during medical school-it's a bit hectic...or more like completely crazy, really. It is not the case that Dr. Sandsmark is smarter than her peers, that she uses her time more efficiently, or that she had totally different experiences than the average medical student. No, it is more that she found her experiences in medical school so personally influential and transformative that she felt compelled to share them with the rest of the world in an honest, and often exceptionally vulnerable, personal narrative. While there is plenty to say about all four years of medical school, her memoir primarily focuses on the third year, when students are busy with clinical rotations. It is during this time that medical students transition from rigorous (but predictable) coursework to tumultuous (and unpredictable) clinical work. Medical textbooks can teach students many things, but they cannot prepare them to comfort a panicked family member, manage a frustrated and disruptive patient, or witness their first death. Readers will accompany Dr. Sandsmark as she attempts to counsel patients and families she is not yet ready to counsel and treat patients she is not yet fully trained to treat. Her drive to gain her new patients' trust, and the situations this places her in, will have readers turning page after page. While medical details are not skirted, the book is largely an account of a medical student's life, one that offers the type of fresh outlook on medicine that only a doctor in training can provide. Her narrative is crafted through colorful descriptions of her hopes, fears, dreams, and struggles. It is sincere and insightful throughout, although frequently humorous and light-hearted. Join her to discover why medical students feel as if they are just "playing doctor" and why the transition from the "boards to the wards" is a life-changing experience. Although of particular interest to medical students, past, present, and future, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the challenges required to succeed in a high-pressure field like medicine.

Play

Author : Sandra Heidemann,Deborah Hewitt
Publisher : Redleaf Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781605541716

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Play skills are life skills; as children develop them, they also learn important social skills that they will use throughout their lives. Teachers will find successful strategies for implementing changes in the classroom to enhance the environment for play and techniques to help support children’s development. This is the revised edition of the well-respected and relied-upon handbook Pathways to Play. Play contains activity ideas that encourage play skills, checklists to help identify where children are having problems, specific teaching strategies, and assessment options. This new edition also examines how play theory translates into practice.