Talk To Your Doc is the definitive guide for patients looking for the best possible health outcome. Author Mary F. Hawkins provides practical communication strategies to help you ask the smart questions and develop the best relationship with health care providers and health care system.
Remember, doctors are busier than ever, so your time ......
A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being ......
Narrative Medicine: New and Selected Essays, by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, contains the thoughtful curation of the author's best work alongside new contributions. Ten vibrant essays comprising the first section serve as a bridge between reflection and the future of the medical profession. They focus on themes that have emerged since the Covid-19 ......
How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, ......
Safe Care, Healthy Workplaces, & Rewarding Careers
What will you do... if colleagues covertly or overtly break protocols? if you need to give constructive feedback? if need to ask for help from these colleagues or seek alternative teachers? if you need to take the necessary time to follow protocols, but more experienced colleagues do not follow them or support you in your efforts? Explore all ......
We have a problem in healthcare. That problem is this: in today's healthcare environment, especially in the United States, people take a back seat to the numbers in almost every aspect of healthcare service delivery. Productivity, utilization, and other business metrics rule the roost. If it's not calculatable, spreadsheet-able, or measurable, ......
Guiding us to better communication about illness, treatment, and health through simple art practicesLiving at the intersection of medicine and art, medical illustration is a field that is not well understood by most-especially by physicians and other healthcare practitioners. In this comprehensive and practical guide to medical illustration, ......
Mr. Ito's children act as his informal translators, but his doctor isn't sure their translations are accurate or complete. Is Mr. Ito getting the medical information he needs? Ten-year-old Hannah arrives for her checkup with a bruised nose and an irritable father. Med student Melanie is concerned for Hannah's safety but wary of making ......
Mr. Ito's children act as his informal translators, but his doctor isn't sure their translations are accurate or complete. Is Mr. Ito getting the medical information he needs? Ten-year-old Hannah arrives for her checkup with a bruised nose and an irritable father. Med student Melanie is concerned for Hannah's safety but wary of making ......
