The Good Doctor S Downfall

Author : Wint Capel
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Murder
ISBN : 9780595338252

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The Good Doctor's Downfall by Wint Capel Pdf

What really happened before, during and just after the sensational, Prohibition era murder of the police chief by the town's most admired physician has been saved from oblivion by this book by retired newspaper editor Wint Capel, The Good Doctor's Downfall. The author dug up the facts and has arranged them to show in great detail how brilliant Dr. J. W. Peacock ambushed the young, arrogant police chief, John Taylor, on a busy downtown street in Thomasville, a small North Carolina factory town. The doctor finished him off with a World War I souvenir, a German Luger. The doctor, also a city councilman, and the chief began feuding after the chief decided to crackdown on those, like the doctor, who ignored the laws against gambling and drinking. The feud became unbelievably bitter and explosive. By the time of the attack downtown, the doctor had been convinced, "It's either him or me." In a trial that featured the best legal minds in North Carolina, the doctor barely escaped the electric chair. Then, a year later, he escaped a prison for the criminally insane. He managed to outrun them all. Only a horrible accident in California could rob him of his freedom.

Author : Charles Rees
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781665583602

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Life and Decline of the Family Doctor by Charles Rees Pdf

This book comes from my experiences as a family doctor in a small town in Dorset England for 38 years covering 1972 to 2010. During most of that time being a Family Doctor was more than being a General Practitioner. I have tried to explain the changes that occurred without trying to extol the virtues of a golden age which never existed. The process of computerisation, advances in medicine, change in the family, de-skilling of the doctor, training of GPs and the rise of the ‘portfolio’ doctor are covered hopefully without over-doing it. I hope I have explained how doctor and patient became distanced and why. All through this period the control by Government extended. The Doctor now works for the Government and not the patient. Since I retired from the Practice 10 years ago the concept of a patient having their own Doctor for decades or generations has largely gone. What I have tried to do is to explain the changes and why they happened and to do it through the people I lived along side and cared for. They were sometimes hard work, sometimes irritating, often chaotic and occasionally terribly funny. But in the end they were my patients and I was their Doctor.

Author : Ron Paterson
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781775581864

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The Good Doctor by Ron Paterson Pdf

Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of checking doctors' competence, and by ensuring that medical watchdogs protect the public—this discussion offers an expert's perspective on health care.

Author : GVG Mavoor
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945497278

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Fall of The Nation by GVG Mavoor Pdf

A kaleidoscopic view of Indian society as seen by a lower middle class person through the years gone by, observing the changes, from a nascent independent nation with hopes to a nation propped up on unfounded claims of greatness to be attained. A nation slowly slithering back into the future, unbothered and unnoticed by anyone! The book begins with some simple incidents from the life of the author comically depicted and leads to more pertinent issues. Funny, serious and agitating! The author points out the ironic nature of society in his inimitable comic style erupting laughter and serious thoughts among the readers. A book for all ages! A must read for all!

Author : Michael Rosenblum
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : 9780595284191

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The Decline of American Medicine by Michael Rosenblum Pdf

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429931113

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

Author : James F. Drane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1556122098

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Becoming a Good Doctor by James F. Drane Pdf

Becoming a Good Doctor focuses on medical ethics in basic sense: the character traits and styles of practice we look for when we seek a doctor's help. This book will appeal to doctors and medical students for its sound application of the venerable tradition of virtue ethics to modern medical practice.

Author : Kenneth Brigham,Michael M. E. Johns
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781609809973

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The Good Doctor by Kenneth Brigham,Michael M. E. Johns Pdf

What makes a good doctor? It's not what you think. A doctor willing to face their own uncertainty in the face of illness and treatment might just be the best medicine. Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want to be the healthiest we can be. Counterintuitive as it may seem, uncertainty is integral to medicine, and you want a doctor who knows that: someone who sees you as the unique case you are, someone who knows that data isn't everything, someone who is able to change her mind as the information changes. For too long we've clung to the myth of the infallible doctor--one who assuredly tells us this is what's wrong and here is how I will cure you--and our health has suffered for it. Brigham and Johns propose a new model of medicine, one that is comfortable with ambiguity and that centers on an equal partnership between patient and doctor. Uncertainty, properly embraced, opens a new universe of possibilities.

Author : Sabena Jameel,Andrew Peterson,James Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000478877

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Ethics and the Good Doctor by Sabena Jameel,Andrew Peterson,James Arthur Pdf

Ethics and the Good Doctor brings together existing literature and an analysis of empirical research conducted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues to examine the ethical nature of medical practice and explore medicine as a virtuous profession. The book is based on the idea that medical practice is an inherently moral profession, in which notions of trust, care and meaningful relationships form the foundations of being a good doctor. By taking into account the ethical dimensions of medical practice that have come under greater scrutiny and pressure over recent years, this book explores how personal and professional character is understood, enacted, and experienced by medical practitioners at various stages of their career. Ethics and the Good Doctor situates and presents the empirical data in a way that is accessible to practicing doctors, medical students, and medical educators. Clear implications for policy, practice, and research are offered, ensuring this book will be of great interest to a range of stakeholders involved in medical practice, including those working in medical policy.

Author : Robert H. Coombs,Bernard Virshup
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0761905294

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Surviving Medical School by Robert H. Coombs,Bernard Virshup Pdf

Robert H. Coombs's Surviving Medical School offers both an orientation to the hectic, anxious realm of medical education and a resource for coping with and succeeding in that environment. Coombs begins with questions regarding expectations and intellectual and emotional capacities. The author then examines matters related to career doubt and alienation often experienced by medical students. Following an orientation to the clinical experience, the book concludes with discussions about physician fallibility, residency, and professional practice. Surviving Medical School is for medical students at all levels and provides excellent preparation for baccalaureate students anticipating medical school. It also serves as a shelf reference for medical school instructors, advisors, and counselors.

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781312333000

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Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten by Martin Avery Pdf

"You're going to die," the doctor said. But Canadian author Martin Avery laughed and walked away. Fall Down Nine Times, Get Up Ten tells the story of a man who was told he would never work or walk again, in Canada, but lived to get a better diagnosis of "jing-chi-shen" in China.

Author : Wayne Arthurson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429968614

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Fall from Grace by Wayne Arthurson Pdf

Leo Desroches goes straight—off the streets, into the newsroom, and up to his neck in murder Marking the debut of Leo Desroches, one of the most unusual amateur detectives ever to appear in Canada or points south, this fast-paced, enthralling mystery is the story of a man who had everything, lost it all, and is trying to get it back. Leo Desroches doesn't look like a native, but his mother was Cree, and he understands the problems of indigenous Canadians of the First Nations. Which is probably why the Edmonton newspaper he writes for decides he should be their Aboriginal Issues reporter. He has his own issues to deal with: his compulsive gambling that he couldn't stop even after it cost him his wife and children; his alcoholism; the risk-taking that threatens to derail him every time he starts to get his life back together. When he's assigned to cover the murder of a young native prostitute, it's just one more story...until the cop in charge lets him view the corpse, something the Edmonton police never do. When Leo writes his article, it starts a chain of events that leads him to discover a much, much bigger story, one that could bring down the entire police department...if it doesn't get him killed.

Author : Robert Hardy Barnes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children of suicide victims
ISBN : 9780595315758

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The Good Doctor is Naked by Robert Hardy Barnes Pdf

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781466820715

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The Good Doctor by Wensley Clarkson Pdf

Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman has a noble dedication to his profession, winning the trust of his patients with ingratiating charm and an old-school bedside manner. In fact, he even made house calls--but his unsuspecting patients has no idea of the evil that lurked behind the friendly facade of the kindly doctor... After thirty years of practice, Dr. Shipman's true nature was finally exposed--that of a calculating killer who delivered his own prescription for death. Authorities eventually unearthed the shocking possibility that the fatherly physician had killed as many as 297 people. As body after body was exhumed from the local graveyard, the question grew more disturbing. How could such a prolific killer remain undetected for so long? What motive drove this seemingly "good" doctor to his deadly obsession with murder? And just how many people did Harold Shipman kill? The search for answers would take investigators into the life of a man who forever changed the stereotype of the sweet country doctor...

Author : H.N. Mandell,H.M. Spiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781489920010

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When Doctors Get Sick by H.N. Mandell,H.M. Spiro Pdf

When a doctor gets sick, his status changes. No longer is his role de fined as deriving from doctus, i. e. , learned, but as from patiens, the present participle of the deponent verb, patior, i. e. , to suffer, with all the passive acceptance of pain the verb implies. From pass us, the past participle, we get the word passion, with its wide gamut of emotional allusions, ranging from animal lust to the sufferings of martyrs. It is the connotation, not the denotation, of the word that defines the change of status. When a doctor is sick enough to be admitted to a hospital, he can no longer write orders; orders are written about him, removing him from control of his own situation. One recalls a sonnet from W. H. Auden's sequence, The Quest, which closes with the lines: Unluckily they were their situation: One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjuror fine apparatus, Nor a rifle to a melancholic bore. That is a reasonable expression of twentieth-century skepticism and ra tionalism. Almost all medical literature is written from the doctor's point of view. Only a few medically trained writers-one thinks of Chekhov's Ward Six-manage to incorporate the patient's response to his situa tion. Patients' voices were not much in evidence until well into the twentieth century, but an early example is John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624).