Medical Practice in Modern England: The Impact of Specialization and State Medicine
November 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Psychiatry in Medical Practice
November 9, 2008 | Comments Off
This fully updated and revised edition of Psychiatry in Medical Practice provides students and young doctors in training with a reliable framework within which to understand the psychiatric illnesses they are likely to encounter in general medical settings and clear guidelines for good meidical practice. Written in a straightforward and practical language, the book provides an excellent introduction to the subject for all medical students and particularly those who intend to enter psychiatry or general practice.
Medical Practice Business Plan Workbook, Second Edition
November 9, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s the definitive guide through the business-planning process, whether you’re starting a group, adding a new service or just looking to improve operations. This updated text covers all aspects of business planning, including organization, management, personnel, key relationships and contacts, demographics and putting it all together. The second edition has been revised to improve the process and to include HIPAA privacy regulations and disaster recovery planning. Includes a CD-ROM with all of the worksheets.
Instructor’s Manual for Polaski and Tatro Luckmann’s "Core Principles and Practice of Medical-Surgical Nursing" (Polaski & Tatro)
November 8, 2008 | Comments Off
Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices
November 6, 2008 | Comments Off
Put forth in this book is the assertion that medicine is actually ruled by a set of beliefs, myths, and rites of Christianity it has never freed itself from. Supporting this claim are discussions about the ways in which physicians have taken the place of priests, vaccination plays the same role as baptism, the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation, and the hope of physical immortality (cloning and genetic engineering) takes priority over eternal life. This book argues that the medical establishment has become the government’s ally, as the Catholic Church has in the past. “Charlatans” are prosecuted today, as “heretics” were in the past, and dogmatism rules out promising medical theories. It contends that only by becoming aware of how religious beliefs and primitive fears unconsciously influence one’s relationships with medicine can people start walking on the path of freedom, personal responsibility, and individual sovereignty.
Customer Review: Very fine book that belongs on shelf of every concerned citizen right along side ‘Death By Modern Medicine’ by Carolyn Dean
The abuse of medications, suppression of
dietary supplements, and the medical mon-
opoly, is the way to bad health and early
death. Reading this book, Tom Valentine’s,
Lorraine Day’s, Miss Dean’s and those by
Pete Duesberg & the late, great John Yia-
mouyiannis are a vital step to solving a
lot of our healthy problems!
Customer Review: A must-read eye-opener
In simple, every-day language, Olivier Clerc challenges the dogma of Modern Medicine, and our often “religious” respect for it. As a Swiss-born popular philosopher and writer (now a long-time resident of France), Clerc offers a perspective an American writer might not be able to. Although sympathetic to Robert S. Mendelson’s “Confessions of a Medical Heretic,” Clerc approaches the question of medicine from a different angle. He explains how Louis Pasteur-commonly credited as the father of Modern Medicine-compromised his research and conclusions in order to accommodate his ardent Catholic faith, and then deliberately designed a medical practice that would parallel the Catholic Church structure, with Doctors acting as priests, nurses acting as “sisters,” the check-up acting as the “confessional” etc. For an American readership, I think Clerc’s arguments would have been stronger had he addressed the financially-driven aspects of the multi-billion dollar medical complex. But Clerc doesn’t go there–probably because European socialized medicine is less influenced by the bottom line than in the States-but also because he is avoiding easy blame and criticism. Instead, Clerc is interested in challenging paradigms. He wants us to examine our own attitudes toward medicine, and so he puts the responsibility on each of us to be more aware and independent regarding health-care choices. The book is written as an extended “essay,” and reads almost as if Clerc is writing a letter to a friend. As he states clearly, it is not intended as a comprehensive anlysis of today’s medical practices, nor an expose of its shortcomings. Rather, it exposes the social and psychological contradiction of why we don’t think of modern medicine as a religion but we treat it like one, and what we need to do differently. This book opened my eyes to facts I had never read or even heard about before. A must read for all those interested in alternative and holistic health-care and the right to practice it.
Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice
November 6, 2008 | Comments Off
This practical guide to electronic health records (EHR) in the medical practice setting helps you implement EHR correctly and efficiently. It will allow you to transform your medical practice and improve patient care. The book covers: External and internal environments Needs assessment Organization and planning Vendor selection Practice implementation Ongoing maintenance and enhancement The book comes complete with tools, checklists, case studies and exhibits.
Customer Review: this is the best
I have now purchased and read six books on evaluating and purchasing EMR systems in preparation for my practice going electronic. This book is the best of the bunch. It begins with a concise explanation of the concept of EMR and then gives you the tools to evaluate your NEEDS before you jump in and start to see all the dog and pony shows of the various system manufacturers. I fine book, But I unfortunately read it last (maybe it was a good idea I read several other books first)
The Total Service Medical Practice: 17 Steps to Satisfying Your Internal and External Customers
November 4, 2008 | Comments Off
Customer Review: A Practical Tool for Practioners and Staff
The Total Service Medical Practice is a practical, easy- to-use roadmap for keeping focused on the customer! Definitely not just a book on theory, but a manual chocked-full of concrete examples on how to mobilize your team around identifying and enhancing the critical ‘moments of truth’ for your medical practice. Dr. Bradford provides us with numerous tools and take-aways from her experiences in the industry - a great read for providers, practice managers, and office staff.
Customer Review: Practical Insights for Health Care Providers and Patients
Unique in its perspective and insight, The Total Service Medical Practice offers an easy-to-read seventeen step method of critically analyzing service delivery in the ambulatory health care setting. Drawing on in-depth interviews with customers, physicians, practice managers, and communication experts, Vicky Bradford shares specific examples of what distinguishes the best practices and the best employees. Although the easy-to-read, comprehensive text easily can serve as a primer for effective communication in health care, the specific service examples, anecdotes, quotations, charts, and lists provide insight and ideas to even the most experienced practice administrator. The organization of the text makes it useful as a reference tool for problem solving as well as an instructional tool for in-services. In a time when everyone declares himself to be a service expert, it is refreshing to read the perceptions and insights of patients, family members, physicians, and staff members presented side-by-side. Resources in the text include insights into organizing a mentoring program for new employee orientation, guidelines on professional perceptions, informal and formal systems analysis, and managing the critical “moments of truth” with customers. Specific examples also are included of Focus Group Interview Questions, a Service-Quality Questionnaire, problem solving techniques, team composition, conflict management, collection / billing timetables, financial agreements, and developing personal service statements. For the new health care employee or administrator, the text provides rich explanations of ambulatory health care settings, expectations, and terminology. For the seasoned professional, it provides gentle reminders and fresh ideas. This text not only is practical, it is practically indispensable.
Going Into Medical Practice
November 3, 2008 | Comments Off
Customer Review: Smart yet practical
Crisp and to the point yet encompasses many of the concerns and misunderstandings about the transition from training to “real life”.
Dr. Campen nicely breaks things down. She goes into great detail with specific issues such as office equipment and furnishings, dealing with insurance, and even more philosophical subjects such as avoiding liability and enjoying your practice.
My favorite part of the book is Chapter 5 where Dr. Campen literally goes step-by-step (from 1-31) on opening an office.
This is a practical, well-written and up-to-date text that is indispensable in opening a practice for the first time.
The most important recommendation I can make, however, is to read it very early during training as it will serve as an excellent guide for learning things during training that are frequently looked over.
Customer Review: A necessity for anyone going into practice….
I would recommend this book to anyone going into medical practice, private or academic. This book is very practical and covers a wide range of topics, including choosing a practice location, designing your practice, malpractice issues, and complying with federal & health care regulations. I really enjoyed reading this book & wish that it had been available earlier in my career. This book would make an excellent gift for medical students as well as those already with established practices.
Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World (Pennsylvania German History and Culture)
November 3, 2008 | Comments Off
Known in Pennsylvania Dutch as brauche or braucherei, the folk-healing practice of powwowing was thought to draw upon the power of God to heal all manner of physical and spiritual ills. Yet some people believed, and still believe today, that this power to heal came not from God, but from the devil. Controversy over powwowing came to a climax in 1929 with the York Hex Murder Trial, in which one powwower from York County, Pennsylvania, killed another powwower (who, he believed, had placed a hex on him).
In Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch, David Kriebel examines the practice of powwowing in a scholarly light and shows that, contrary to popular belief, the practice of powwowing is still active today. Because powwowing lacks extensive scholarly documentation, David Kriebel’s research is both a groundbreaking inquiry and a necessity for the scholar of Pennsylvania German history and culture.
The fact that powwowing is still practiced may come as a surprise to some readers, but included in this book are the interviews Kriebel had with living powwowers during his seven years of fieldwork in southeastern and central Pennsylvania. Along with these interviews, Kriebel includes biographical sketches of seven living powwowers; descriptions of powwowing as it was practiced in years past, compared with the practice today; a discussion of the belief of powwowing as healing; and a discussion of the future, if any, of powwowing, and what it will take for powwowing to continue to survive.
Customer Review: Excellent!
I have almost finished Mr. Kriebel’s book and have found it to be scholarly and yet quite readable. His examination of this American shamanic tradition in it’s Pennsylvania setting is accurate and respectful to the tradition and its practioners.
How do I know? I have read about, studied and practiced Powwow for over thirty years and have written on the subject myself for academic and popular sources. If you really want to understand the history, social culture and practice of Powwow, read this book. Especially interesting are the interviews with actual Powwows and others involved in the practice. The research is well-documented for those of us who enjoy reading and checking the footnotes. Every library should have a copy.
This book is destined to becomne a classic! Well done!
The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)
November 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Fredrik Svenaeus’ book is a delight to read. Not only does he exhibit keen understanding of a wide range of topics and figures in both medicine and philosophy, but he manages to bring them together in an innovative manner that convincingly demonstrates how deeply these two significant fields can be and, in the end, must be mutually enlightening. Medicine, Svenaeus suggests, reveals deep but rarely explicit themes whose proper comprehension invites a careful phenomenological and hermeneutical explication. Certain philosophical approaches, on the other hand - specifically, Heidegger’s phenomenology and Gadamer’s hermeneutics - are shown to have a hitherto unrealized potential for making sense of those themes long buried within Western medicine.
Richard M. Zaner, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University