What Patients Taught Me

What Patients Taught Me
Author: Audrey Young
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1570616582

A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training. Author Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In What Patients Taught Me, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor—from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients.

What My Patients Taught Me

What My Patients Taught Me
Author: Lakshmi Gavini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2018-05-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781732116702

This book offers vignettes of my patients' life's experiences, describes.how women: -Changed the course of the childbirth in 1970's; dealt with the devastating effect of loss of a baby, faced the diagnosis of cancer; met the challenges mental illness, and moved from denial to acceptance with hope and determination. -

Things My Sponsor Taught Me

Things My Sponsor Taught Me
Author: Paul H.
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1987-06-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780894864445

A sensible, effective, and practical recovery tool featuring the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous, quotes, slogans, and down-to-earth sponsor advice.

Life of the Clinician

Life of the Clinician
Author: Michael J. Lepore
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781580461160

The autobiography of one of America's most important gastroenterologists. Michael Lepore [1910-2000] was a pioneer in the field of gastroenterology. He was a member of one of the first graduating classes of the University of Rochester Medical School, and went on to a distinguished career at Columbia University, New York University, and St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. This autobiography tells of his experiences as an Italian-American who overcame prejudices to become the personal physician to such notablesas Greta Garbo and President Herbert Hoover. His story is witty and cleverly written, and details the way the medical profession changed from the Great Depression to the late 1990s. Michael Lepore was an alumnus of Duke University Medical School and the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and was the Director, Gastroenterology Section, Departments of Medicine and Surgery Emeritus, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York.

For the Living

For the Living
Author: Mark Golubow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351844326

Rarely heard about in our society are caregivers' thoughts and feelings about life, death, and dying and how they act on those feelings. "For the Living: Coping, Caring and Communicating with the Terminally Ill" provides an in-depth, qualitative look at the experiences of oncology healthcare professionals as they work with terminally ill patients. Through a series of recorded and edited interviews, the author explores the social and cultural dynamics that affect physicians, nurses, and social workers routinely encountering mortality and loss. What death and the prospect of dying mean to these individuals should not be taken lightly.

Voices from the Field

Voices from the Field
Author: Michelle Trotter-Mathison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135844151

All professional counselors and therapists can identify a number of turning points in their careers – moments, interactions, or processes – that led to key realizations regarding their practice with clients, work with students, or self-understanding. This book is a collection of such turning points, which the editors term defining moments, contributed by professionals in different stages of their counseling careers. You’ll find personal stories, lessons learned, and unique insights in their narratives that will impact your own development as a practitioner, regardless of whether you are a graduate student or a senior professional.

What the Dying Have Taught Me about Living

What the Dying Have Taught Me about Living
Author: Grewe Fred
Publisher: The Pilgrim Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2014-08-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0829820256

Grewe states he was afraid of dying, so he became a hospice chaplain. He figured if he made friends with Death at a safe distance he would get used to the idea. For the past nine years he's had the privilege to journey with more than a thousand folks who have gone on to the other side. He shares their stories here, in The Awful Grace of God: What the Dying Have Taught Me About Living.

Beyond a Shadow of a Diet

Beyond a Shadow of a Diet
Author: Judith Matz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-05-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1040020194

Now in its third edition, Beyond a Shadow of a Diet is the most comprehensive book available for professionals working with clients who struggle with binge and emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image. Divided into three sections—The Problem, The Treatment, and The Solution—this book is filled with compelling clinical examples, visualizations, and exercises that professionals can use to deepen their knowledge and skills as they help clients find freedom from preoccupation with food and weight. New research on diet failure, health, weight, and weight stigma makes a case for why clinicians must reflect on their own attitudes and biases to understand how a weight loss focus can harm clients. In addition to addressing the symptoms, dynamics, and treatment of eating problems, this book presents a holistic framework that includes topics such as cultural, ethical, and social justice issues, the role of self-compassion, and promoting physical and emotional well-being for people of all shapes and sizes. Drawing from the attuned eating and weight inclusive frameworks, this book serves as an essential resource for both new clinicians and those interested in shifting their clinical approach. Trauma-informed and filled with compelling client stories and step-by-step strategies, Beyond a Shadow of a Diet offers professionals and their clients a positive, evidence-based model for making peace with food, their bodies, and themselves.

Effective Psychotherapy for Individuals with Brain Injury

Effective Psychotherapy for Individuals with Brain Injury
Author: Ronald M. Ruff
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462516912

Combining scientific expertise with psychotherapeutic acumen, this book is highly accessible and packed with clinical tools. Part I provides essential information on how acquired brain injury affects emotional functioning. Part II describes practical, specially tailored ways to treat anxiety, depression, and anger related to brain damage, and to help patients regain a sense of meaning and value in their lives. The book shows how standard psychotherapeutic interventions can be adapted for the brain-injured population, as well as which approaches may be contraindicated. It presents a biopsychosocial framework for assessment and treatment that integrates emotional support, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and acceptance- and mindfulness-based strategies.

Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet

Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet
Author: Robert F. Kushner
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004-01-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780312325824

Dr. Kushner has already helped thousands of his patients lose weight with the Personality Type Diet. Now he tells readers how to craft a program to suit their individual style and needs. After taking the personality profile quiz, readers figure out what patterns are causing unconscious weight gain. Dieters are then able to successfully work within their individual profile to shed weight forever. So, whether you're an Unguided Grazer and Persistent Procrastinator or a Hearty Portioner and a Hate To Move Struggler, the book has a diet plan that will work for you