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"By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emotions influence the way physicians treat their patients both medically and interpersonally. Exploring the full range of human emotion--from the fear of making a fatal mistake to the pride and elation of triumphing over death, What Doctors Feel allows patients...
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"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....
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Medi-Sign: an Introductory Course in American Sign Language for Medical Practitioners combines practical daily health care communication with a systematic introduction to ASL grammar and structure. The DVD and recommended accompanying text is designed to help health care providers learn occupational specific ASL by offering the type of language found in daily routine health care communication.
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This DVD focuses on issues specific to mental health interpreting including linguistic issues, content issues, client resistance, confidentiality, transference, and information and referral. Demonstrated are vignettes of individual clients working with therapists in diagnostic interviews and in therapy. It stresses that even though interpreting in this specific area is situationally unique, the basic function of the interpreter remains the same...
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Former paramedic, now intern Dr. Tony Gates arrives with a straightforward attitude and a complicated personal life. Except for his devotion to healing, he's Gallant's opposite: brash, cocksure, with a bad-boy past, and maybe he's the right prescription for Neela's broken heart. Really shaking things up, Weaver leaves County General for a career move you wouldn't expect.
13) Helping patients outsmart overeating: psychological strategies for doctors and health care providers
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This book offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers treating patients with eating and weight concerns that replaces a failed, moralistic focus on weight and weight-loss with one of fostering health, pride, self-efficacy, and effective self-care. --Publisher.
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An instructional set intended as an educational tool for interpreters and interpreter trainees in the medical setting. It explains, in general terms, certain tests, procedures, pre- and post-operative instructions, admission forms, patient advocate roles, and powers of attorney. These tapes were originally designed to assist medical personnel in obtaining the necessary information to admit and diagnose problems affecting their deaf patients, before...