A Critical History of Health Films in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
Becoming and Being a Physician
Structured around personal stories, this book provides a rigorous review of current thinking and research on the physician life cycle. It considers the trajectories and factors that influence a doctor's development over decades of a medical career.Taking an integrated approach, the authors consider the formal stages of a physician's training including medical school, residency training and practice, and review discourses around professionalism, competency-based education, lifelong learning, expertise development, reflection, and narrative that merge into the construct of medical professional identity formation.
Health Cooperatives
This book explores the potential of health cooperatives as influential entities in transforming healthcare systems, delving into their historical development, contemporary relevance, and the need for healthcare systems transformation due to emerging challenges.
Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis
This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain's ageing society. With informal care, from family members and friends, now the dominant form of adult social care in the UK, this precarious system is struggling to provide enough support. Exploring the relationship between formal and informal care, this book develops ideas for a 'caring economy', showing the potential to integrate paid-for and unpaid care within a framework of solidarity based on the strengths of the community, working to improve the quality and quantity of state-funded care provision while sharing unpaid support more widely as a community responsibility.
The Candy Striper
Join the extraordinary journey of Vera Henson, a compassionate and resilient home health care aide whose life becomes a tapestry woven with the threads of love, sacrifice, and the unpredictable challenges of caregiving. Vera steps into the homes of her diverse clientele, armed with an unwavering dedication to bringing comfort and joy to those in need.From the unexpected joys found in the smallest victories to the difficulties of having to say goodbye, Vera's story unfolds with grace and authenticity. As Vera faces the challenges of balancing her personal life with the demands of caregiving, readers will be drawn into a world where the human spirit triumphs over adversity. "The Candy Striper" is a celebration of resilience, kindness, and the transformative power of one individual's commitment to making a difference in the lives of others.Prepare to be captivated by Vera Henson's journey, where the highs and lows of being a caregiver are painted with the vibrant colors of compassion, illustrating that sometimes, in the quiet moments of care, true heroism is found.
Peer Interventions for Health and Wellbeing
This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and well-being as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations. It is strongly evidence-based, with chapters discussing reviews of the evidence, followed by important papers with key messages for implementation. Furthermore, it describes implementation and evaluation procedures, both in resource-rich environments and in developing countries.Key Features: Bridges the traditional gap between professional clinical advice and the "real world", reaching where professionals cannot go. Brings together information about those interventions that are well evidenced. Distils information about how to implement interventions for medical professionals and paraprofessionals and charitable agencies and researchers. Presents a fine balance between research and implementation, with evidence-driven guidance.
Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Relief
Focusing on emergency medical humanitarian assistance, this accessible new text provides practical clinical guidance for those working in emergency medicine, critical care, and military medicine. There has been great progress over the last 30 years in establishing standards and training programmes to ensure that those who respond to major emergencies are appropriately trained, adequately equipped, qualified to do this work, and accountable for the work that they do. These developments together with insights into current requirements for healthcare and emergency responses are reflected in this book.
Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity, Spring 2024
The Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy is an open access journal published by Winston-Salem State University with support from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Visit www.uncpress.org for open access links and more information. Articles in Volume 17, Number 1 (Spring 2024) are: - Preparatory Program for Students Underrepresented in Medicine Promotes Self-Efficacy in the Medical School Application Process: Novel Insights from a Qualitative Analysis- Current State of Combined Baccalaureate-MD Programs: A Scoping Review- Assessing Concepts of Diversity, Inclusion, Cultural Competence, and Cultural Humility in Healthcare Curricula- Understanding the Experiences of Black Medical Students- The Wake Forest University School of Medicine Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Program (PREP): A Stepping Stone to Matriculation and Success in Biomedical Science Graduate Programs- Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Nursing Faculty- So Hard to be a Ram: A Student Perspective
Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications
Designed to help you comprehend and retain the challenging material you need to know, Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, Sixth Edition, covers the essential neuroscience information needed for coursework, exams, and beyond. Using a rigorous yet clinically-focused approach, it integrates neuroanatomy, pharmacology, and physiology, with separate sections devoted to essential concepts, regional neurobiology, and systems neurobiology.Begins with the basic concepts that are needed to understand neuroscience at a fundamental level, followed by regional coverage designed to help prepare you for examinations, and ending with a full section on systems neurobiology as you enter the clinical phase of your educationContains new end-of-chapter review questions, as well as thoroughly updated information in every chapter, with an emphasis on new clinical thinking as related to the brain and systems neurobiologyFeatures hundreds of correlated state-of-the-art imaging examples, anatomical diagrams, and histology photosPays special attention to the correct use of clinical and anatomical terminology, and provides clinical text and clinical-anatomical correlationsAn eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloudEvolve Instructor site with an image collection and test bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https: //evolve.elsevier.com
SACKRED Birth
Hospitals, health plans, and quality organizations generally define safety as the absence of a preventable harm and subsequently interpret decreasing trends in adverse physical outcomes as indicators of reducing harm and improving quality. Karen Antoinette Scott situates the contemporary provision of obstetric care and evaluation of obstetric quality in a broader historical context to illuminate a culture of neutral apathy and detached concern towards the lives of Black women, men, and children, dating back to antebellum era ideologies and practices of anti-Black racism and anti-Black misogyny. Scott challenges conventional obstetric quality ethics, leadership, theories, measures, and methodologies that primarily focus on adverse outcomes, effectively excluding patient experiences and community wisdom. SACKRED Birth argues the need for a more culturally and scientifically responsive, relevant, and rigorous obstetric quality paradigm defined, valued, and shaped for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people. Using community-based focus groups and consensus dialogue, Scott establishes new obstetric quality norms and methodologies to guide scholars, professionals, and advocates in understanding, investigating, and interpreting clinical practice, decision-making, and care delivery during childbirth in a manner that affirms the humanity, power, and potential, not pathology, of Blackness, Black reproducing bodies, and Black births in hospital settings.
It's Not What You're Thinking
It's Not What You're Thinking by Dr. Rick van Pelt addresses the deep-rooted crises in healthcare--escalating costs, persistent safety issues, and the overwhelming burnout of caregivers. In this groundbreaking work, van Pelt introduces "Precision Problem Solving," a fresh, no-hypothesis approach that reveals how entrenched problem-solving methods have failed to transform the healthcare landscape. His methodology rejects conventional thinking and instead focuses on addressing conflict to create safe learning conditions, objective observation, and sustained solutions through comprehensive understanding of core functional problems.With over thirty years of clinical experience, van Pelt outlines practical solutions for navigating the chaotic intricacies of healthcare. For example, he discusses how misaligned approaches to patient safety have hindered progress and why fragmented management systems continue to exacerbate burnout. He also explores the importance of interprofessional collaboration, offering insights into how healthcare systems can foster empowerment and ownership by eliminating conflict and focusing on comprehensive understanding.This book offers a much-needed alternative for healthcare leaders, professionals, and administrators seeking to enact lasting, transformative change. It provides a methodology along with tools designed for practical implementation in complex environments where the stakes are high. It's Not What You're Thinking is essential reading for anyone ready to challenge the status quo and build a more reliable, sustainable system.
General Medicine and Surgery, MLA Edition
Totally revised and updated edition now mapped to the MLA (Medical Licensing Assessment) curriculum "I like the unique style ... It is simple, engaging and easy to read, whatever your learning preferences (I particularly like the colour coding!). It also covers topics comprehensively, making it not only a great aide-memoire but also a very useful everyday book on the ward." From the Foreword by Professor Farah Bhatti OBE, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon All the core knowledge you need at medical school in one place! General Medicine and Surgery: Medical Student Revision Guide contains the core information you need on: Cardiology; Endocrinology; Gastroenterology; Hepato-pancreato-biliary; Haematology; Immunology & Allergy; Neurology; Renal; Respiratory; General surgical principles; The acute abdomen; Gastrointestinal surgery; The breast; Vascular surgery; Urology; Critical illness; Emergency presentations; Rheumatology; Trauma & orthopaedics. Throughout medical school, and the years thereafter, a huge volume of knowledge must be acquired and retained, to achieve the standards expected of a safe and successful doctor. This is a mammoth task. General Medicine and Surgery: Medical Student Revision Guide is designed to make accessing and remembering core knowledge as easy as possible: each topic is presented in a colourful, revision-ready note format, with extensive use of diagrams, tables and flowcharts key points are highlighted and core concepts summarised, making the information easier to digest, assimilate and memorise a consistent structure means you always have access to clinical presentation, investigations and management, risk factors and complications. Every chapter has been peer-reviewed by a specialist in the field, to ensure it is accurate and reflects the most up-to-date guidelines. In addition, these specialists have also used their own personal experience of studying for medical exams to ensure that the books focus on the most important conditions, concepts and vocabulary needed to pass finals. General Medicine and Surgery: Medical Student Revision Guide is the perfect companion for your medicine degree, exam revision, medical finals and your early career as a foundation doctor.
Caregiving Reimagined
Claudia Cassidy Bennett, an occupational therapist with a career spent treating patients with neurological disorders, discovered the profound power of emotions when she began caring for her mother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In Caregiving Reimagined: A Practical and Spiritual Guide for Family Caregivers, Dr. Bennett offers a deeply personal and heartwarming account of her own caregiving journey, candidly sharing both her struggles and triumphs. Through her reflections, insights, and expertise she provides a blend of practical advice and spiritual wisdom, empowering others to navigate their caregiving roles with confidence and compassion. In this book, you will discover: - Practical strategies to make caregiving tasks more manageable - A spiritual practice program designed to nurture your soul while caring for others - Effective self-care techniques to recharge and stay balanced - Simple ways to integrate spiritual practices into your daily caregiving routine - Guidance on assisting with activities-of-daily-living (ADLs) with proficiency and kindness - Crucial safety tips for performing caregiving tasks with care and efficiency Dr. Bennett encourages caregivers to see this role as an opportunity to strengthen relationships with loved ones, deepen their spirituality, and enhance their self-awareness through introspective questioning.
Conversations in Medical Spanish
Conversations in Medical Spanish offers a dialogue-based approach to studying vocabulary and conversational skills for medical settings. Students engage in interactive and realistic medical conversations covering topics like clinical visit introductions, presenting illnesses, chief complaints, physical therapy, and mental health. Each chapter includes sight translation, cultural readings, and improvisational role-play activities. The dialogues and activities are designed with a learner-centered approach, utilizing various language-learning methods to enhance students' professionalism and readiness for effective communication, research, and language practice in the community.
Routledge Handbook of Health and Media
The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies.
Reading and Understanding Health Research
This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.
Socially Determined: The Healthcare Executive's Role in Health Equity
While federal regulators and accrediting bodies have championed national health equity initiatives, the COVID-19 pandemic further underscored systemic health disparities and inspired action. Socially Determined explores how healthcare and public health organizations continue to work toward equitable, person-centered care. This book provides healthcare executives with an overview of the essential elements of health equity and explains the relationship between value-based care, healthcare quality, and health equity. The book's core themes are the crucial role of community investments in improving the economic, social, and environmental realities of marginalized populations and the need for public-private partnerships to tackle issues at scale. Topics covered include new efforts to collect reliable data on social determinants of health and build a health analytics infrastructure to benchmark, monitor, and track progress toward health equity Mandates and accreditation requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Public Health Accreditation Board are woven throughout the chapters.
Recent Updates in Intensive Care Medicine
Recent Updates in Intensive Care Medicine consists of six chapters, each addressing key topics in the daily practice of critical care. It covers the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and peripartum hemorrhage, as well as the role of intensivists in managing patients through outreach team coverage beyond the intensive care unit. Written by experts in their respective fields, this book is designed to support critical care physicians, surgeons, general practitioners, and paramedical and technical staff in critical, intensive, and acute care settings.
Neurology Clerkship Manual
This manual contains the hard-core of the basic information required by the neurology clerkship. Medical students have to incorporate this information during the fourth year when they are overwhelmed by the rigorousness of the last year of medical school study already overstrained by grades, matching program, graduation preparedness and future residency plans.There must be a way to make this information interesting and easy to assimilate. We have been educating medical students successfully in the Texas Tech Neurology Clerkship for 30 years. These lectures include several original ideas and analogies that make complex subjects very easy to understand and to remember. This manual provides the student the master key concepts of all aspects of clinical neurology.Notwithstanding, the conceptual framework outlines the steps in the diagnostic workup as described by expert clinicians. We hope these lectures will continue to serve medical students as well as physicians and even non-physicians individuals interested in the nervous system. We are sure this manual will sale well among medical students and physicians in general, not only from Texas Tech but also from other medical schools.
Marino's the ICU Book: Print + eBook with Updates
Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2025! NOTICE: A small number of books were mistakenly delivered to customers with missing eBook activation codes. This has been addressed and is no longer an issue. If you received a copy with a missing activation code, contact WK at the phone number or email address listed below the activation instructions. Dr. Paul L. Marino's concise, engaging writing style is just one of many reasons that Marino's The ICU Book is the best-selling reference in critical care. This highly regarded, full-color resource contains the essential information needed to care for patients in any ICU, regardless of the specialty designation of the unit. The newly revised Fifth Edition continues the focus on practical aspects of patient care and will appeal to anyone with an interest in the care of critically ill patients. The intended audience incudes medical students, interns and residents in medicine, surgery, and anesthesiology, critical care physicians and nurses, physician's assistants, respiratory therapists, and paramedics. Dr. Marino has been a practicing critical care specialist for 44 years, and the material in his book is a reflection of this vast experience. The text has been completely rewritten and incorporates the latest concepts and most recent clinical practice guidelines. Because this is a single-author text, the writing and style are consistent from chapter to chapter, and redundancies are held to a minimum. New chapters have been added on fluid management, approaches to clinical shock, acute pulmonary embolism, liver failure, and acute pancreatitis. As in prior editions, there are numerous illustrations and tables that highlight the material in the text, and each chapter ends with a section called "A Final Word" that presents a take-home message from the chapter. The text will be updated quarterly to include recently published guidelines and pertinent clinical studies. Enrich your eBook reading experienceRead directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.
An Introduction to Compassion in Healthcare Practice
Explore the concept of compassion as it applies to the field of healthcare and improving patient outcomes An Introduction to Compassion in Healthcare Practice identifies the core components of being compassionate and self-compassionate, so that we may be in a better position to attend to our health and to engage in helping others. The foundation of this book is that if we have an intention to help, we are best served by understanding what 'helping' really means. This is addressed by reviewing compassion in a range of contexts and environments, including through an evolutionary science perspective. In this view, we are 'programmed' to be compassionate--but social forces may throw challenges or obstacles in our way. Also covered in this text are the challenges associated with being compassionate to the self, as well as care encounters with individuals in a clinical context and working in a clinical team. Some of the ideas explored in An Introduction to Compassion in Healthcare Practice include: Artificial intelligence (AI) and compassion, covering ethical theories for AI alongside considerations surrounding consent and the role of touch The role of mindfulness in self-compassion, the challenges and benefits of self-compassion, perfectionism, our 'inner critic', and shame Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) in teamwork, lessons in developing compassionate teams, and the theory of Values-Based Practice Components of compassion-focused leadership and supervision, and the development of self-efficacy and competence Providing a core conceptual framework for compassion in healthcare with guidance on how to explore various topics in greater depth, An Introduction to Compassion in Healthcare Practice is an essential reference for undergraduate nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, medical practitioners, and students in related programs of study.
Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Policy and Practice
This accessible text presents a comparative analysis of health and social care policy and practice from around the world, with learning points drawn out for the UK. It supports readers to improve practice by reflecting on differences and similarities in the policies of other OECD countries.
Caring in an Age of Reform
Guy's and St Thomas' are two of the UK's oldest and most distinguished medical centres and key players in the local and global landscape of healthcare. This book offers a rich and holistic account of the history of the hospitals and associated institutions from 1948 to 2010. Caring in an Age of Reform presents the revealing and fascinating story of the impact of the wider social, political and economic frameworks on the institutions over the period. It shows how change has been complex, persistent, and unpredictable, reshaping the everyday work of caring for the sick, training health professionals, and pursuing scientific and medical research. Over the decades, generations of staff and alumni have remained steadfast in caring for patients and this constancy has enabled Guy's and St Thomas' to survive and thrive and look forward to the future with hope and optimism.
A Little Book of Self-Care for Caregivers
Being responsible for another person's well-being is a challenge, an honor, and a breathtaking act of commitment. It is also at turns mundane and complex, demanding and rewarding, heartbreaking and joyful. Caregiving for loved ones is something nearly everyone will experience during their lifetime--for aging parents, partners, family, and friends. Yet, all those who care for others face moments of uncertainty, unable to find the space or strength to care for themselves, too. Caregivers need and deserve the chance to process their feelings and find moments of peace and calm. This volume of inspiration and support is rooted in empathy and experience, offering caregivers strategies for self-care and ways to find patience and acceptance in themselves so they can keep going--doing the beautiful work of loving and supporting the people they care for.
Breakthrough
Meet the doctors, scientists and patients patients fighting the world's worst diseases 'A must read.' Siddhartha Mukherjee, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies What does it take to create a new medicine? The trajectory from laboratory to your neighbourhood pharmacy rarely runs smooth. Drug hunting demands radical leaps of imagination, the expertise of many... and a hefty dollop of luck. Unsurprisingly, 'eureka' moments come few and far between - but, when they do, they change lives. Charting the discovery of eight revolutionary drugs, Dr William Pao cuts to the innovative heart of biomedical research and celebrates the tireless work of the scientists, doctors, patients and families fighting for better medical care. For each of these medicines, whether a potentially life-saving new treatment for cancer, or something as commonplace as paracetamol, there stands a cast of characters and a wealth of stories. Documenting these fascinating journeys, Breakthrough grants a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the medicines that improve - and very often save - our lives. Foreword by Nobel Prize-Winner Harold Varmus *** 'Utterly compelling.' Dame Kate Bingham, author of The Long Shot 'A celebration of medical innovation.' Guardian 'Captivating... An essential read.' Art Levinson, former CEO of Genentech
