Risk Assessment and Management Guide: for the Medical Practice
April 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Understand, asses and manage risk with practical guidance for your medical office. This resource provides key examples and methodologies that enable you to conduct a risk assessment in your medical office. Contains a CD-ROM of risk assessment tools and compliance resources.
Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot
April 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The beginning of the twentieth century marked the rise of advanced medical technologies, allowing doctors to diagnose and treat diseases in new ways. Although American physicians accepted the validity of the new science of medicine, they were sometimes reluctant to trust technology over their professional judgment or intuition. Likewise, patients raised their own suspicions about the new scientific tools, sometimes resisting or contradicting the advice of their physicians.
Here Christopher Crenner examines a critical period in medical history, focusing on the office practice of Boston physician Richard Cabot. Intimate epistolary exchanges between Cabot and his patients shed light on the challenges presented by the new technologies — especially their impact on the personal relationships between doctor and patient — providing insight into a time of expanding science and radical change.
Medical Practices in the Civil War
April 5, 2009 | Comments Off
Customer Review: Medical Practices in the Civil War
This book is full of information on the medical practices that were used before and during the Civil War, and how the war affected the medical field. However, it is written for a younger audience, and at times is very repetitive. I recommend this book for people who want a brief overview of the practices used in the Civil War.
Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision Support Techniques and Medical Practices (Inside Technology)
April 4, 2009 | Comments Off
One response to the current crisis in medicine–indicated by large variations in practice and skyrocketing costs–has been a call for the rationalizing of medical practice through decision-support techniques. These tools, which include protocols, decision analysis, and expert systems, have generated much debate. Advocates argue that the tools will make medical practice more rational, uniform, and efficient: that they will transform the “art” of medical work into a “science.” Critics within medicine, as well as those in philosophy and science studies, question the feasibility and desirability of the tools. They argue that formal tools cannot and should not supplant humans in most real-life tasks.
Marc Berg takes the issues raised by advocates and critics as points of departure for investigation, rather than as positions to choose from. Drawing on insights and methodologies from science and technology studies, he attempts to understand what “rationalizing medical practices” means: what these tools do and how they work in concrete medical practices. Rather than take a stand for or against decision-support techniques, he shows how medical practices are transformed through these tools; this helps the reader to see what is gained and what is lost.
The book investigates how new discourses on medical work and its problems are linked to the development of these tools, and it studies the construction of several individual technologies. It looks at what medical work consists of and how these new technologies figure in and transform the work. Although the book focuses on decision-support techniques in the field of medicine, the issues raised are relevant wherever rationalizing techniques are being debated or constructed. Touching upon broader issues of standardization, universality, localization, and the politics of technology, the book addresses core problems in medical sociology, technology studies, and tool design.
Customer Review: Highly recommended
This was a book waiting to be written. Marc Berg discusses the turn to rationalization in medicine with exciting case-studies. The theoretical arguments are subtle and require a close reading but highly influential. Part of the intellectual off-spring of Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway. I use this book in my medical sociology and technology course.
Customer Review: Must be read with a shovel.
I’m no slouch, but this book is really tough to get through. The author makes a difficult subject even more so with his overly erudite writing style, long sentences, and obscure references. A good editor might have helped a lot.
Medical Practice Accounting & Finance: A Practical Guide for Physicians, Dentists & Other Medical Practitioners
April 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Bulletproofing Your Medical Practice : Risk Management Techniques For Physicians That Work
April 2, 2009 | Comments Off
The definitive work on risk reduction for practicing physicians. The practicing physician has worked long and hard to build up a medical practice. Why risk it all if it’s not necessary? This concise and easy to read text contains simple techniques for the physician to use to reduce/avoid costly potential malpractice and insurance pitfalls.
You will learn how to: Avoid medical malpractice risk; shift risk to another party; avoid the most common insurance pitfalls; get the best insurance coverage for your individual situation; use indemnification and joint-defense agreements; manage non-professional risk including automotive, defamation, advertising injury, general liability, workers’ compensation, and unfair trade practices; and avoid costly mistakes during the investigation of a claim against you.
Customer Review: Succinct Treatment of Malpractice Issues For Physicians
The focus of the book is on the “administrative” end of the medical risk management spectrum. A book like this is a must for a physician facing a first time medical malpractice claim. My only desire is for a more substantial treatment of physician practices that mitigate risk prior to a claim being made.
Medical Economics Encyclopedia of Practice and Financial Management
April 1, 2009 | Comments Off
Luckmann’s Core Principles & Practice of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Pocket Companion
March 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Images of Healing: A Portfolio of American Medical & Pharmaceutical Practice in the 18th, 19th, & early 20th Centuries
March 31, 2009 | Comments Off
Useful Procedures in Medical Practice
March 30, 2009 | Comments Off