America's most trusted doctor team and the authors of "You: An Owner's Manual" now give patients at all stages of diagnosis and treatment an empowering handbook for taking charge of their health care. The authors show readers how to choose doctors and hospitals, how to ask questions, and much more.
"Mosby's Handbook of Patient Teaching, Second Edition", is a unique and comprehensive handbook of information for patient teaching. Approximately 175 of the most common diseases, disorders, and treatments are presented in alphabetical order for quick reference and ease of use. An outline format provides the definition, a listing of signs and ...
Strong communication skills are vital for dietetics professionals. Building on the success of prior editions, this Fifth Edition shows how to take advantage of scientific models, theories, and strategies to communicate with clients, convincing them to make more healthful food choices. Moreover, the text offers plenty of activities and case studies ...
Hypothyroidism primarily strikes women, and heart disease is the leading cause of death for American women. Pratt illuminates important new developments in the areas of thyroid disease and cardiac involvement. This revised edition also explores the link between environmental factors and hypothyroidism and the role of thyroid disease in iron ...
This is an essential guide to the first step of patient evaluation interviewing medical students. Section I is a basic guide to the medical interview and to oral and written case presentation. Section II provides interview strategies for example, treating distraught patients, ways to share bad news, and how to elicit sensitive information on ...
Every year millions of Americans are diagnosed with cancer, stroke, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and other life-threatening or life-altering diseases. When faced with a devastating diagnosis people must quickly understand the diagnosis, prognosis, and choose from several treatment options--while still in shock." AfterShock" identifies the ...
Written by Dr. David Orenstein, director of one of the nation's leading CF centers, this one-of-a-kind guide offers clear explanations and real-world advice on cystic fibrosis and its management. Here you'll find practical and reassuring information on day-to-day concerns - school, travel, exercise, nutrition, medication - as well as on ...
This unique reference includes teaching guidelines for more than 100 disorders, memory joggers to strengthen recall, quick quizzes to measure knowledge, and an unforgettable, fun-filled approach to motivate learning. The contents include cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurologic, skin, endocrine, immune and hematologic, urinary, ...
"Managing Chronic Disorders" provides practical, authoritative guidance on day-to-day management of more than 100 chronic disorders and includes over 300 reproducible patient-teaching aids. Part 1 presents complete information on each disorder, including causes, pathophysiology, assessment findings, diagnosis, treatment, special considerations, ...
Most people have back surgery to relieve pain, but all too often it doesn't help. For the half million people who undergo back surgery each year, and the additional million who are seriously contemplating it, Do You Really Need Back Surgery? is a godsend--an informed, reliable guide to when you should consider surgery and when you should not. ...
With the rapid advances in diagnostic medicine, it is more important than ever for consumers to have access to up-to-date, objective information about the tools commonly used by physicians, hospitals and commercial labs. This second edition provides a basic understanding of these diagnostic procedures. Organized alphabetically, this comprehensive ...
This volume is a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program.Chapters focus on conducting a needs assessment, developing and evaluating a program-based upon that assessment, generating marketing strategies and selecting or preparing patient ...
"Nurse's 5-Minute Clinical Consult: Diseases" covers more than 400 diseases - from Alzheimer's disease to West Nile encephalitis - in a format that is ideal for rapid reference. Diseases and disorders are arranged alphabetically, and each disease/disorder is presented on a two-page spread with consistent headings, including pathophysiology, causes ...
Lupus affects an estimated 1. 5 million people in the U. S. 90 percent of whom are womenbut due to the diversity of its symptoms and severity, it remains one of the most difficult conditions to identify and diagnose. In the tradition of the other titles in the First Year series, The First YearLupus uses a unique approachguiding readers through ...
Now available in bound format, this widely used OTC drug reference offers the most current facts on conditions patients may choose to self-treat and appropriate nonprescription pharmacotherapy. Condition-oriented and organised by body system, this quick reference is an excellent tool for point-of-care patient counseling on OTC products. Chapters ...
This innovative text equips pharmacists and pharmacy students with the skills to assist patients in managing existing conditions and controlling the development of preventable disorders. The text demonstrates how important lifestyle modification strategies - including nutrition, physical activity, weight control, and smoking cessation - can be ...
The third edition of Book Two in the Intelligent Patient Guide series, a series of comprehensive, illustrated, self-help books for cancer patients and their families. Providing a clear step by step explanation of every aspect of prostate cancer, this book equips patients with the knowledge needed to take an active part in their treatment. Topics ...
Providing prospective patients with an understandable account of the diagnosis and treatment of cataracts, this book thoroughly explores the issues surrounding this condition. Surgical treatment and postoperative processes are described in detail, including the risks and possible complications. The emotional side of sight loss and its effect on ...
Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2003 The 5-Minute Patient Advisor offers busy clinicians much-needed assistance in counseling patients about their illnesses and treatments. The book contains concise, complete patient information sheets about medical/surgical conditions ...
Using the award-winning "Incredibly Easy!" style, "Nutrition Made Incredibly Easy! Second Edition" presents essential information on nutrition in a light-hearted and appetizing way. Coverage includes the physiologic processes that transform food into energy, nutrient metabolism and recommended allowances, assessment of nutritional status, and the ...
This text has been admired for as long as Family Medicine has been a recognized specialty, and, edited by the legendary Robert E. Rakel,MD. This superb seventh edition continues to break new ground and push at the boundaries of knowledge.
This book is written for the reception, nurse, and physician who has to complete office forms. It is a book of forms for various procedures performed in a doctor's office and is designed to be photocopied. It is a great companion to the Office Procedures book
Hospital patient care is becoming hazardous to the patient's health. There must be someone - a family member - to act as sentinel to prevent medical errors. The large number of preventable deaths in hospitals nation-wide has been highly publicised. "Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive" by Martine ...
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