Author: Ting Tiongco
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715425585
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Surgeons Do Not Cry
Author: Ting Tiongco
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715425585
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715425585
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Singular Intimacies
Author: Danielle Ofri, MD
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807072516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, and overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the feverish intensity of a big-city hospital. Yet the emphasis of Singular Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical training (which certainly exist here), but on the evolution of an instinct for healing. In a hospital without the luxury of private physicians, where patients lack resources both financial and societal, where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. In each memorable chapter, Ofri’s progress toward becoming an experienced healer introduces not just a patient in medical crisis, but a human being with an intricate and compelling history. Ofri learns to navigate the tangled vulnerabilities of doctor and patient—not to simply battle the disease.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807072516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, and overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the feverish intensity of a big-city hospital. Yet the emphasis of Singular Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical training (which certainly exist here), but on the evolution of an instinct for healing. In a hospital without the luxury of private physicians, where patients lack resources both financial and societal, where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. In each memorable chapter, Ofri’s progress toward becoming an experienced healer introduces not just a patient in medical crisis, but a human being with an intricate and compelling history. Ofri learns to navigate the tangled vulnerabilities of doctor and patient—not to simply battle the disease.
The Cost of Cutting
Author: Paul A. Ruggieri M.D.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698143817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Why is surgery so expensive? Surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri reveals little-known truths about his profession—and the hidden flaws of our healthcare system—in this compelling and troubling account of real patients, real doctors, and how money influences medical decisions behind the scenes. Even many well-informed patients have no idea what may be contributing to the cost of their surgery. With up-to-date research and stories from his practice, Ruggieri shows how business arrangements among hospitals, insurance companies, and surgeons affect who gets treatment—and whether they get the right treatment. Pulling back the curtain from the hospital bed, he explains how to safeguard one’s own health (and finances), and how America can make surgery more affordable for all without sacrificing quality care.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698143817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Why is surgery so expensive? Surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri reveals little-known truths about his profession—and the hidden flaws of our healthcare system—in this compelling and troubling account of real patients, real doctors, and how money influences medical decisions behind the scenes. Even many well-informed patients have no idea what may be contributing to the cost of their surgery. With up-to-date research and stories from his practice, Ruggieri shows how business arrangements among hospitals, insurance companies, and surgeons affect who gets treatment—and whether they get the right treatment. Pulling back the curtain from the hospital bed, he explains how to safeguard one’s own health (and finances), and how America can make surgery more affordable for all without sacrificing quality care.
Are You Kidding Me?
Author: Lucy Morrison
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493169114
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
"My book is about being diagnosed with breast cancer and all the wonderful games I got to play. It starts out with the mammogram and further testing and continues with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. I was fortunate to have a less-invasive type of cancer and didn't need the kind of chemotherapy that makes your hair fall out, but I still had problems. I am a nurse, but I was unaware of most of the processes involved in the treatment of breast cancer. I did learn a lot about diagnosis, testing, and prognosis of different types of breast cancer. I also learned a lot about being the patient and how easy it is to get lost in the shuffle. The treatment has become routine for some of the caregivers, and it is easy to get treated like a disease and not a person. I wanted to share my experience to hopefully help others be able to fight for and demand the best treatment for themselves" --
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493169114
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
"My book is about being diagnosed with breast cancer and all the wonderful games I got to play. It starts out with the mammogram and further testing and continues with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. I was fortunate to have a less-invasive type of cancer and didn't need the kind of chemotherapy that makes your hair fall out, but I still had problems. I am a nurse, but I was unaware of most of the processes involved in the treatment of breast cancer. I did learn a lot about diagnosis, testing, and prognosis of different types of breast cancer. I also learned a lot about being the patient and how easy it is to get lost in the shuffle. The treatment has become routine for some of the caregivers, and it is easy to get treated like a disease and not a person. I wanted to share my experience to hopefully help others be able to fight for and demand the best treatment for themselves" --
Becoming Dr. Q
Author: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520949609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story—from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School. Packed with adventure and adversity—including a few terrifying brushes with death—Becoming Dr. Q is a testament to persistence, hard work, the power of hope and imagination, and the pursuit of excellence. It’s also a story about the importance of family, of mentors, and of giving people a chance.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520949609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story—from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School. Packed with adventure and adversity—including a few terrifying brushes with death—Becoming Dr. Q is a testament to persistence, hard work, the power of hope and imagination, and the pursuit of excellence. It’s also a story about the importance of family, of mentors, and of giving people a chance.
The International Encyclopaedia of Surgery
Author: John Ashhurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
The International Encyclopedia of Surgery
Author: John Ashhurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Dear Nicholas Sparks
Author: Dawn Torrence Ireland
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387528920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
On January 1, 2015 an open letter blog was created in high hopes that one mom, along with other determined parents and friends, could implore author Nicholas Sparks to write a book about a family dealing with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) to raise awareness of this birth defect 1 year, 365 letters, 1 goal - to save these invisible children. The save the cherubs.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387528920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
On January 1, 2015 an open letter blog was created in high hopes that one mom, along with other determined parents and friends, could implore author Nicholas Sparks to write a book about a family dealing with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) to raise awareness of this birth defect 1 year, 365 letters, 1 goal - to save these invisible children. The save the cherubs.
The Ascendant Trilogy
Author: K Arsenault Rivera
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250800870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1279
Book Description
The Ascendant Trilogy ebundle collects all three books in K Arsenault Rivera's epic fantasy--The Tiger's Daughter, The Phoenix Empress, and The Warrior Moon... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250800870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1279
Book Description
The Ascendant Trilogy ebundle collects all three books in K Arsenault Rivera's epic fantasy--The Tiger's Daughter, The Phoenix Empress, and The Warrior Moon... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Chronicle of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Author: Piet Meiring
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162564714X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
For two-and-a-half years South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was on everybody's lips. Newspapers and radio programs reported daily on the work of the Commission, and the faces of victims and offenders alike appeared on millions of television screens. In Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Pieter Meiring sheds light on the work of the Truth Commission: the stories and testimonies of victims, the applications for amnesty by offenders guilty of violating human rights, the necessary confrontations with the past, and the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. Meiring presents the course of the Truth Commission as a symbolic quest, an epic journey back into the past and onwards to the new future, a great trek that would leave not a single South African unaffected.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162564714X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
For two-and-a-half years South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was on everybody's lips. Newspapers and radio programs reported daily on the work of the Commission, and the faces of victims and offenders alike appeared on millions of television screens. In Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Pieter Meiring sheds light on the work of the Truth Commission: the stories and testimonies of victims, the applications for amnesty by offenders guilty of violating human rights, the necessary confrontations with the past, and the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. Meiring presents the course of the Truth Commission as a symbolic quest, an epic journey back into the past and onwards to the new future, a great trek that would leave not a single South African unaffected.