Author: Brian Goldman
Publisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 1629370924
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television. In The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient. What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of "incarceritis"? What are "blocking" and "turfing"? And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma"? Dr. Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients, situations, and medical conditions—including those they don't want you to know. Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture.
The Secret Language of Doctors
Author: Brian Goldman
Publisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 1629370924
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television. In The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient. What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of "incarceritis"? What are "blocking" and "turfing"? And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma"? Dr. Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients, situations, and medical conditions—including those they don't want you to know. Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture.
Publisher: Triumph Books
ISBN: 1629370924
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. Doctors and nurses use a kind of secret language, comprised of words unlikely to be found in a medical textbook or heard on television. In The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman decodes those code words for the average patient. What does it mean when a patient has the symptoms of "incarceritis"? What are "blocking" and "turfing"? And why do you never want to be diagnosed with a "horrendoma"? Dr. Goldman reveals the meaning behind the colorful and secret expressions doctors use to describe difficult patients, situations, and medical conditions—including those they don't want you to know. Gain profound insight into what doctors really think about patients in this funny and biting examination of modern medical culture.
Secret Doctors
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313064849
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American indigenous traditions, and the French migration and Black Haitian freed and enslaved population influx during the 1700s and 1800s. Fontenot finds strong ties between rural Louisiana practices and Haitian and West African medicine. The ethnographer, a native of the region where she did her research, is respected among local practicing secret doctors and is able to give a unique insider's view. Aside from documenting a rare treasure of our American cultural diversity, this study has a wider purpose in the field of health practices and policy. The high cost of Western medicine, lack of access to quality care, and the patient-doctor ratio are areas of major national concern, and rural residents and people of color are recognized to be the most at-risk populations. The alternative health-care system presented here can strengthen mainstream medicine's understanding of such patient populations while preserving valuable knowledge of healing plants and culturally sensitive therapies.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313064849
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American indigenous traditions, and the French migration and Black Haitian freed and enslaved population influx during the 1700s and 1800s. Fontenot finds strong ties between rural Louisiana practices and Haitian and West African medicine. The ethnographer, a native of the region where she did her research, is respected among local practicing secret doctors and is able to give a unique insider's view. Aside from documenting a rare treasure of our American cultural diversity, this study has a wider purpose in the field of health practices and policy. The high cost of Western medicine, lack of access to quality care, and the patient-doctor ratio are areas of major national concern, and rural residents and people of color are recognized to be the most at-risk populations. The alternative health-care system presented here can strengthen mainstream medicine's understanding of such patient populations while preserving valuable knowledge of healing plants and culturally sensitive therapies.
A Doctor's Secret
Author: Marie Ferrarella
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426814135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
He just might heal—and steal—a doctor’s wounded heart. A touching medical romance from the USA Today–bestselling author of Her Sworn Protector. One long-ago night changed Dr. Tania Pulaski’s life forever. Now the fourth-year resident depended on the frantic pace of the ER to keep her focused when those secret nightmares resurfaced. But hiding in the confines of the antiseptic hospital seemed impossible once Jesse Steele—a local hero more handsome than any living man ought to be—was wheeled into her trauma room. Though experience had taught Tania to keep men like Jesse at arm’s length, his steamy kisses soon awakened the woman inside the shapeless scrubs. For the first time, Tania longed for someone special—but would the past ever release its grip on her?
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426814135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
He just might heal—and steal—a doctor’s wounded heart. A touching medical romance from the USA Today–bestselling author of Her Sworn Protector. One long-ago night changed Dr. Tania Pulaski’s life forever. Now the fourth-year resident depended on the frantic pace of the ER to keep her focused when those secret nightmares resurfaced. But hiding in the confines of the antiseptic hospital seemed impossible once Jesse Steele—a local hero more handsome than any living man ought to be—was wheeled into her trauma room. Though experience had taught Tania to keep men like Jesse at arm’s length, his steamy kisses soon awakened the woman inside the shapeless scrubs. For the first time, Tania longed for someone special—but would the past ever release its grip on her?
Doctor's Secret
Author: K. C. Crowne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
What would you do if the man of your wildest dreams...Turns out to be your evil ex's long lost brother?A doctor.Millionaire.Sexy. And charismatic. Duncan is everything I ever wanted - but never had.The sexual tension is unlike anything I've ever experienced.And boy does the talented doctor know how to treat all my body parts.But I discover the most shocking news.A secret he's kept hidden all this time.And I vow never to see him again.But, months later, guess who shows up ready to deliver my baby...And he's in for a big surprise!Because he's not the only one that can keep a big secret.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
What would you do if the man of your wildest dreams...Turns out to be your evil ex's long lost brother?A doctor.Millionaire.Sexy. And charismatic. Duncan is everything I ever wanted - but never had.The sexual tension is unlike anything I've ever experienced.And boy does the talented doctor know how to treat all my body parts.But I discover the most shocking news.A secret he's kept hidden all this time.And I vow never to see him again.But, months later, guess who shows up ready to deliver my baby...And he's in for a big surprise!Because he's not the only one that can keep a big secret.
Good Housekeeping Doctors' Secrets
Author: Sari Harrar
Publisher: Hearst
ISBN: 9781618372260
Category : HEALTH & FITNESS
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
According to a study by Emory University, doctors live an average of five years longer than the rest of us. They know what it takes to keep themselves healthy--and this book shows you how to think and act like one of them. Award-winning journalist Sari Harrar checks in with more than 100 top medical practitioners to learn their science-based daily strategies . . . and puts them right at your fingertips. Find out what experts in everything from gastroenterology, endocrinology, and dermatology to sleep medicine, nutrition, obstetrics, and surgery do, from treating emergencies quickly and getting the right tests to taking supplements and becoming smart healthcare consumers. See how they stay slim (even enjoying dessert), what they think about juice cleanses, which foods they feel fight disease, how they double a nap's energy rewards, what they do to beat colds and flu, why they mix regular and alternative medicine, and so much more. Fun and useful self-diagnostic tests begin each chapter, and the information is beautifully organized for easy use.
Publisher: Hearst
ISBN: 9781618372260
Category : HEALTH & FITNESS
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
According to a study by Emory University, doctors live an average of five years longer than the rest of us. They know what it takes to keep themselves healthy--and this book shows you how to think and act like one of them. Award-winning journalist Sari Harrar checks in with more than 100 top medical practitioners to learn their science-based daily strategies . . . and puts them right at your fingertips. Find out what experts in everything from gastroenterology, endocrinology, and dermatology to sleep medicine, nutrition, obstetrics, and surgery do, from treating emergencies quickly and getting the right tests to taking supplements and becoming smart healthcare consumers. See how they stay slim (even enjoying dessert), what they think about juice cleanses, which foods they feel fight disease, how they double a nap's energy rewards, what they do to beat colds and flu, why they mix regular and alternative medicine, and so much more. Fun and useful self-diagnostic tests begin each chapter, and the information is beautifully organized for easy use.
What Doctors Don't Know
Author: Ron Garner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
BREAKING FREEWhat if everything you have been told about disease is not true?This book can change your life because it shatters what we have been taught about health and disease for generations.Learn why: Understanding health is simple Disease has only one basic cause The autoimmune theory is false Your kidneys and adrenal glands must be strong You are the only one who can make yourself healthyRead this book and take back your power to be healthy!Author Ron Garner, BEd, MSc, writes from personal experience how and why these health principles work. He collaborated with Dr. Robert Morse, who discovered them, to help more people know the truth about health and disease.Robert Morse, ND, departed from conventional medical thinking to discover how the human body really works to generate health. He has been helping people around the world for almost fifty years to reverse serious health problems and live vibrant lives.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
BREAKING FREEWhat if everything you have been told about disease is not true?This book can change your life because it shatters what we have been taught about health and disease for generations.Learn why: Understanding health is simple Disease has only one basic cause The autoimmune theory is false Your kidneys and adrenal glands must be strong You are the only one who can make yourself healthyRead this book and take back your power to be healthy!Author Ron Garner, BEd, MSc, writes from personal experience how and why these health principles work. He collaborated with Dr. Robert Morse, who discovered them, to help more people know the truth about health and disease.Robert Morse, ND, departed from conventional medical thinking to discover how the human body really works to generate health. He has been helping people around the world for almost fifty years to reverse serious health problems and live vibrant lives.
The Doctors' Secrets to a Lifetime of Clear Skin
Author: Katie Rodan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615335247
Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
"30 doses of skin-care wisdom from the Stanford-trained dermatologists who revolutionized the treatment of acne"--Cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615335247
Category : Face
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
"30 doses of skin-care wisdom from the Stanford-trained dermatologists who revolutionized the treatment of acne"--Cover.
This Is Going to Hurt
Author: Adam Kay
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316426733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316426733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.
THE DOCTOR'S SECRET BABY
Author: Teresa Southwick
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596097836
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Emily has an eleven-month-old daughter. The father is her ex, a doctor named Cal. He never wanted to get married, so she never told him about the baby. However, after a health scare, Emily decides she must tell Cal about his daughter’s existence. Though he is shocked, he wants to meet his child. Emily’s heart is shaken when she sees the way Cal looks at their daughter. Is it possible that they could be a family…together?
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596097836
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Emily has an eleven-month-old daughter. The father is her ex, a doctor named Cal. He never wanted to get married, so she never told him about the baby. However, after a health scare, Emily decides she must tell Cal about his daughter’s existence. Though he is shocked, he wants to meet his child. Emily’s heart is shaken when she sees the way Cal looks at their daughter. Is it possible that they could be a family…together?
How Doctors Think
Author: Jerome Groopman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547348630
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547348630
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.