What to Expect When You Go to the Doctor

What to Expect When You Go to the Doctor

Author: Heidi Murkoff

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780732269678

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Everyone needs to go to the doctor for checkups. But for a child, a visit to the doctor can be a bewildering experience. This guide aims to help you answer your child's questions about who doctors are, what they do, and why we go to them for checkups.


It's Time for Your Checkup

It's Time for Your Checkup

Author: Shani Thornton MS CCLS

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781490406053

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Colorful photographs illustrate what happens during a visit to the doctor's office. Includes coping strategies for children of different age groups.


Before You Call the Doctor

Before You Call the Doctor

Author: Anne Simons

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 1993-03-16

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13:

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Written in understandable language by a family physician and two experienced health writers and organized for easy reference, this is the first comprehensive guide to providing effective at-home health care. Hundreds of illnesses--from the common (allergies and vomiting) to the most serious (ulcers and AIDS) are covered, in addition to other health concerns, first aid, and more.


Usborne First Experiences

Usborne First Experiences

Author: Anne Civardi

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 9780746046043

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Designed to introduce very young children, in an amusing and friendly way, to situations they might find themselves in for the first time, this text deals with: moving home, going to the doctor, the new baby and going to school.


What Doctors Feel

What Doctors Feel

Author: Danielle Ofri, MD

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0807073334

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“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) 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. 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 understanding doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice can make all the difference on giving and getting the best medical care. Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle 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. Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. 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. 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. Ofri also reveals that doctors cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.


When We Do Harm

When We Do Harm

Author: Danielle Ofri, MD

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0807037885

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Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety. Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there’s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is—and always will be—imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.


What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

Author: Danielle Ofri, MD

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0807062642

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Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things. Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to “make their case” to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. Though the gulf between what patients say and what doctors hear is often wide, Dr. Danielle Ofri proves that it doesn’t have to be. Through the powerfully resonant human stories that Dr. Ofri’s writing is renowned for, she explores the high-stakes world of doctor-patient communication that we all must navigate. Reporting on the latest research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients, Dr. Ofri reveals how better communication can lead to better health for all of us.


Going to the Doctor

Going to the Doctor

Author: Anne Civardi

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9780746049242

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This text is designed to introduce young children to the new situation of going to the doctors in an amusing and friendly way. It is a good starting point for children and adults to discuss the experience, and can also be used by slightly older children to read for themselves.


How We Do Harm

How We Do Harm

Author: Otis Webb Brawley, MD

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1429941502

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A startling and important exposé on the state of medicine, research, and healthcare today by the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer Society How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm. Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based on payment they will receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results; hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based, scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the peddling of hot new drugs. Brawley's personal history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today. How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.