What Doctors Cannot Tell You

Author : Kevin B. Jones
Publisher : Tallow Book LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0985245476

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Almost 20 billion times each year, a person walks into a doctor's office. The person becomes a patient. Everyone becomes this patient at some point. How will you talk to your physicians? What will you tell them? What will they tell you in return? They can't tell you what they don't know. They can tell you when they don't know. Will they? What Doctors Cannot Tell You explores the uncertainty that pervades medicine. It breaks the code of silence within which too many physician-patient conversations take place. The patients' stories in its pages will empower you to ask questions of your physicians, with a firm belief that healing and hope begin from honesty in those critical conversations. This book marries surgically precise medical narrative to thinking and perspective that will throw the curtains wide on what medicine knows, what it doesn't know, and how it tries to tell the difference between the two. This book is Outliers meets Patch Adams, only with an added how-to twist beyond the instructive and powerfully human narratives. At every chapter's end, the reader will find a list of principles, one for each vignette, and questions to ask his or her physician. A few books in the last decade have focused on human errors and complications in medicine. Each has suggested ways to improve medicine by the application of checklists and protocols. This book adds a unique and important angle to these considerations: How firmly do we know what should go on the checklist or protocol in the first place? How clear has medicine been with its patients about what it cannot know or does not yet know?

Author : Kevin B. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Physician and patient
ISBN : 098524545X

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"Almost 20 billion times each year, a person walks into a doctor's office. The person becomes a patient. Everyone becomes this patient at some point. How will you talk to your physicians? What will you tell them? What will they tell you in return? They can't tell you what they don't know. They can tell you when they don't know. Will they? What Doctors Cannot Tell You explores the uncertainty that pervades medicine. It breaks the code of silence within which too many physician-patient conversations take place. The patients' stories in its pages will empower you to ask questions of your physicians, with a firm belief that healing and hope begin from honesty in those critical conversations."--Publisher description.

Author : Kevin B. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Physician and patient
ISBN : 0985245433

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What Doctors Cannot Tell You explores the uncertainty that pervades medicine. It breaks the code of silence within which too many physician-patient conversations take place. The patients' stories in its pages will empower you to ask questions of your physicians, with a firm belief that healing and hope begin from honesty in those critical conversations. This book marries surgically precise medical narrative to thinking and perspective that will throw the curtains wide on what medicine knows, what it doesn't know, and how it tries to tell the difference between the two.

Author : Lynne McTaggart
Publisher : Thorsons Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Consumer education
ISBN : 0007176279

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What Doctors Don't Tell You by Lynne McTaggart Pdf

New edition of this highly controversial and campaigning book that reveals the truth about the pills and procedures your doctor prescribes and offers proven alternatives for diagnosing, preventing and treating many illnesses. Includes updated information on all the most recent health issues - vaccination, HRT, Viagra, IVF and more. Every year, 1.17 million British people - a population the size of Birmingham - are put in a hospital bed by a medical procedure gone wrong. And 80% of most of the treatments we take for granted have never been scientifically proven to work. In this groundbreaking book, leading health campaigner Lynne McTaggart reveals the real secrets of modern medicine. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition tackles some of the most worrying health issues of recent years. For example, did you know: * Statin drugs, the new miracle cure for high cholesterol, are causing a heart failure epidemic? * SSRI drugs - now come with a black box warning about suicide risk to children * HRT, touted as the most important preventative treatment for all the diseases of female old age, actually causes heart disease, dementia, strokes and cancer? * IVF could be causing cases of breast cancer? * The statistics about illnesses prevented by vaccination are vastly overplayed? * Viagra, the great white hope of male impotence, has caused a rash of sudden deaths and is effective, at most, only half the time. What Doctors Don't Tell You gives you all the information you need to take your health into your own hands, exposing the true dangers of conventional medicine and offering up-to-the-minute, scientifically proven alternatives for diagnosing, preventing and treating many illnesses.

Author : John R. Lee,Virginia Hopkins
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780759510043

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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Menopause by John R. Lee,Virginia Hopkins Pdf

Arguing that giving estrogen replacement therapy to women after menopause is medically the wrong thing to do, Lee suggests that natural progesterone can prevent most of the unpleasant side effects of menopause, including osteoporosis and weight gain.

Author : Lynne Mctaggart
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0380796074

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What Doctors Don't Tell You by Lynne Mctaggart Pdf

Discusses the potential dangers of cholesterol-lowering medications, steroids, antibiotics, and Ritalin, and reveals the potentially life-threatening risks of certain medical procedures and tests

Author : Evan Scott Levine
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0425200086

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What Your Doctor Won't (Or Can't) Tell You by Evan Scott Levine Pdf

A practicing internist and cardiologist reveals the failures of American medicine and shows readers how they can avoid becoming a statistic.

Author : Jerome Groopman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780547348636

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How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman Pdf

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.

Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466831797

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Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? by Tanya Lee Stone Pdf

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.

Author : Dr. Leana Wen,Dr. Joshua Kosowsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781250013576

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When Doctors Don't Listen by Dr. Leana Wen,Dr. Joshua Kosowsky Pdf

In this examination of the doctor-patient relationship, Drs. Wen and Kosowsky argue that diagnosis, once the cornerstone of medicine, is fast becoming a lost art, with grave consequences. Using real-life stories of cookbook-diagnoses-gone-bad, the doctors illustrate how active patient participation can prevent these mistakes. Wen and Kosowsky offer tangible follow-up questions patients can easily incorporate into every doctor's visit to avoid counterproductive and even potentially harmful tests. In the pursuit for the best medical care available, readers can't afford to miss out on these inside-tips and more: - How to deal with a doctor who seems too busy to listen to you - 8-Pillars to a Better Diagnosis - How to tell the whole story of your illness - Learning test risks and evaluating whether they're worth it - How to get a working diagnosis at the end of every doctor's visit By empowering patients to engage with their doctors as partners in their diagnosis, When Doctors Don't Listen is an essential guide that enables patients to speak up and take back control of their health care.

Author : Stephen B. Edelson,Deborah Mitchell
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780759527560

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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Autoimmune Disorders by Stephen B. Edelson,Deborah Mitchell Pdf

Dr. Edelson discusses the most common types of autoimmune diseases, outlining their symptoms, causes, and risk factors. He describes his own revolutionary program for treating the root of all autoimmune disorders--without drugs--providing readers with new hope for getting back on the road to better health.

Author : Theres Errante-Parrino
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781620238196

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What Dumbass Doctors Tell You: A Patient's Perspective by Theres Errante-Parrino Pdf

From a young age we are taught to seek guidance from those who are more knowledgeable than ourselves. Doctors, surgeons, and nurses have all been educated in their specific fields, but this doesn’t always make them experts. Over the past five years, Theresa Errante-Parrino has dealt with cancer. Here she records her breast cancer story, sharing behind-the-scenes details of her personal experiences. From dealing with difficult doctors to adjusting to a new lifestyle and new routines, the author gives insight into what having cancer is really like. Having learned from her own trials, Errante-Parrino hopes to encourage others to take control of their medical situations as their own advocate, speaking out when they believe something isn’t going to help them. With formal medical training as a certified medical assistant, pharmacy technician, paramedic, and X-ray technician, Theresa has the knowledge to recognize when medical conclusions are not truthful or correct. Educate yourself and raise your voice, because no one knows your body like you do.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112105560517

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Kathleen McDougall,Leslie Swartz,Amelia Van der Merwe
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0796921598

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Zip Zip My Brain Harts by Kathleen McDougall,Leslie Swartz,Amelia Van der Merwe Pdf

Taking its title from the wordplay of a child who has cerebral palsy, this book spotlights the world of disability - a world that tends to be secret, a source of stigma, shame and disgrace. The subtle and sensitive photography of Angela Buckland records her journey through this world from when she first suspected that her son was disabled to her decision to record the experiences of seven families with disabled children. This is not a book of easy answers, yet it provides families and healthcare professionals with a compassionate, understanding and inspiring guide to ordinary people's real experiences.

Author : Danielle Ofri
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807073339

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What Doctors Feel by Danielle Ofri Pdf

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on medical care. And while much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. In What Doctors Feel, Dr. Danielle Ofri has taken on the task of dissecting the hidden emotional responses of doctors, and how these directly influence patients. How do the stresses of medical life—from paperwork to grueling hours to lawsuits to facing death—affect the medical care that doctors can offer their patients? Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Danielle Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. With her renowned eye for dramatic detail, Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients and her forever fear of making another. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. But doctors don’t only feel fear, grief, and frustration. Ofri also reveals that doctors tell bad jokes about “toxic sock syndrome,” cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness. The stories here reveal the undeniable truth that emotions have a distinct effect on how doctors care for their patients. For both clinicians and patients, understanding what doctors feel can make all the difference in giving and getting the best medical care.