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Book Synopsis Responsibility in Health Care by : G.J. Agich
Download or read book Responsibility in Health Care written by G.J. Agich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine is a complex social institution which includes biomedical research, clinical practice, and the administration and organization of health care delivery. As such, it is amenable to analysis from a number of disciplines and directions. The present volume is composed of revised papers on the theme of "Responsibility in Health Care" presented at the Eleventh Trans Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, which was held in Springfield, illinois on March 16-18, 1981. The collective focus of these essays is the clinical practice of medicine and the themes and issues related to questions of responsibility in that setting. Responsibility has three related dimensions which make it a suitable theme for an inquiry into clinical medicine: (a) an external dimension in legal and political analysis in which the State imposes penalties on individuals and groups and in which officials and governments are held accountable for policies; (b) an internal dimension in moral and ethical analysis in which individuals take into account the consequences of their actions and the criteria which bear upon their choices; and (c) a comprehensive dimension in social and cultural analysis in which values are ordered in the structure of a civilization ([8], p. 5). The title "Responsibility in Health Care" thus signifies a broad inquiry not only into the ethics of individual character and actions, but the moral foundations of the cultural, legal, political, and social context of health care generally.
Book Synopsis Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management by : Liam Donaldson
Download or read book Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management written by Liam Donaldson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Download or read book Keep Listening written by L. V. Hannah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keep Listening is a compelling patient memoir, charting the writer's journey to ""hell and back"" following the birth of her second child. It describes in candid detail the negligent care afforded to her by the medics involved in that birth, her subsequent ill health and near death and the impact of that on the writer, her family, her career and her finances. The writer dedicates the book to her late father, an eminent surgeon, whose mantra was to tell his medical students to ""always listen to the patient."" The book reads more like a suspense ridden novel than a memoir and is a frank and emotionally charged account of her journey which exposes the failings of both the public and private health care systems in the UK. The author is donating 10% of her profits from sales of this book to medicins sans frontieres."
Book Synopsis A Patient’S Point of View by : Jennifer Binish
Download or read book A Patient’S Point of View written by Jennifer Binish and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is my story of experiences I endured going through 19 major operations. From my tonsils being removed at age 17 to having a 4 level back fusion at age 50 with many in-between, and after. Some of them brought me close to death, and some were not so traumatic. However dealing with doctors is another story!
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Book Synopsis The Patient's View of the Patient's Role by : Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital. Department of Patient Care Research
Download or read book The Patient's View of the Patient's Role written by Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital. Department of Patient Care Research and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Patient's View of Nurses and Doctors by : John Sueta
Download or read book A Patient's View of Nurses and Doctors written by John Sueta and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following story is about human beings joined together in one of the most complex human interactions possible, that intense relationship that occurs between hospital patients and medical personnel. The story of my fight against a paralyzing illness is merely the vehicle for telling the more important underlying story of the compassion of medical personnel and the great work they do under incredibly difficult conditions. The journey is a path that wends its way through dozens of medical and interpersonal situations. On the path, the attitudes, behaviors, and skills of medical people are described from a patient's point of view. Conversely, my own feelings and behavior, both good and bad, are revealed as I interact with my caregivers. Many important issues are covered along the way. They are serious topics, but I tried to explain them simply, with a light-hearted touch. Medical issues: An explanation of stress, its causes, effects, and ways to cope with it. An update of what's being done in paralysis research and treatment. Common hospital errors and what can be done about them. The method of weaning a patient off a ventilator. Nursing issues: Examples of good and bad nursing. The benefits of having a primary nurse rather than team nursing. The value of tough love. How to remain professional while being compassionate. Doctoring issues: The "doctor's dilemma" of what to tell a patient about the patient's recovery prospects. Allowing the patient to be a partner in the healing process. Patient issues: The "patient's dilemma" of whether to try for the next level of recovery or remain at the existing level. What is a "good" patient according to nurses and the patient himself? On becoming psychologically institutionalized. Life inside a totally paralyzed body while on a ventilator. The importance of family, friends, and other visitors. Illusions can be useful for mental well-being. A look at the irrational behavior that we all have at times. Determining the correct amount of physical therapy. Psychological issues: Psycho-babble vs a common sense, pragmatic method of counseling. The harmful psychiatric method of too much, too soon. Understanding the "demons" inside one's head and what they really are. What it's like to die, and the "dying experience" explained medically. Philosophical issues: The meaning of "handicapped" and what a patient must accept. Does altruism really exist? Examining the "real self" and why we try to hide it. This story is not always uplifting. It is impossible to fight for survival and mental well-being for almost three years in a hospital without experiencing tremendous highs and lows and I share them with you. Come along and experience with me, the fears, frustrations and triumphs that unfold along the way.
Book Synopsis Patients and Practitioners by : Roy Porter
Download or read book Patients and Practitioners written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself.
Book Synopsis People, Patients, and Nurses by : Jennie Wilting
Download or read book People, Patients, and Nurses written by Jennie Wilting and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1980 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide assists both student and graduate nurses in establishing and maintaining improved interpersonal relationships with their patients and with each other. Jennie Wilting, a psychiatric nurse, describes many actual situations where nurses are faced with misunderstandings or conflicts of interest.
Book Synopsis When Doctors Become Patients by : Robert Klitzman
Download or read book When Doctors Become Patients written by Robert Klitzman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many doctors, their role as powerful healer precludes thoughts of ever getting sick themselves. When they do, it initiates a profound shift of awareness-- not only in their sense of their selves, which is invariably bound up with the "invincible doctor" role, but in the way that they view their patients and the doctor-patient relationship. While some books have been written from first-person perspectives on doctors who get sick-- by Oliver Sacks among them-- and TV shows like "House" touch on the topic, never has there been a "systematic, integrated look" at what the experience is like for doctors who get sick, and what it can teach us about our current health care system and more broadly, the experience of becoming ill.The psychiatrist Robert Klitzman here weaves together gripping first-person accounts of the experience of doctors who fall ill and see the other side of the coin, as a patient. The accounts reveal how dramatic this transformation can be-- a spiritual journey for some, a radical change of identity for others, and for some a new way of looking at the risks and benefits of treatment options. For most however it forever changes the way they treat their own patients. These questions are important not just on a human interest level, but for what they teach us about medicine in America today. While medical technology advances, the health care system itself has become more complex and frustrating, and physician-patient trust is at an all-time low. The experiences offered here are unique resource that point the way to a more humane future.
Book Synopsis A Patient's Perspective by : Patricia Cyr
Download or read book A Patient's Perspective written by Patricia Cyr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has valuable tips that get you the high-quality medical care you deserve. It reveals obstacles patients confront when making appointments, arriving at facilities, sitting in waiting rooms, meeting with nurses, and talking with doctors. This book also examines the consequences of clerical errors, the emotional and social aspects of living with a medical condition, invisible illness, disability insurance, and much more. Whether you have a temporary or chronic ailment, this book will empower and inspire you.
Book Synopsis Advancing the understanding of surgical management for degenerative spine conditions by : Lingxiao Chen
Download or read book Advancing the understanding of surgical management for degenerative spine conditions written by Lingxiao Chen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine by : James A. Marcum
Download or read book An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine written by James A. Marcum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author explores the shifting philosophical boundaries of modern medical knowledge and practice occasioned by the crisis of quality-of-care, especially in terms of the various humanistic adjustments to the biomedical model. To that end he examines the metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical boundaries of these medical models. He begins with their metaphysics, analyzing the metaphysical positions and presuppositions and ontological commitments upon which medical knowledge and practice is founded. Next, he considers the epistemological issues that face these medical models, particularly those driven by methodological procedures undertaken by epistemic agents to constitute medical knowledge and practice. Finally, he examines the axiological boundaries and the ethical implications of each model, especially in terms of the physician-patient relationship. In a concluding Epilogue, he discusses how the philosophical analysis of the humanization of modern medicine helps to address the crisis-of-care, as well as the question of “What is medicine?” The book’s unique features include a comprehensive coverage of the various topics in the philosophy of medicine that have emerged over the past several decades and a philosophical context for embedding bioethical discussions. The book’s target audiences include both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as healthcare professionals and professional philosophers. “This book is the 99th issue of the Series Philosophy and Medicine...and it can be considered a crown of thirty years of intensive and dynamic discussion in the field. We are completely convinced that after its publication, it can be finally said that undoubtedly the philosophy of medicine exists as a special field of inquiry.”
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Book Synopsis Novel Developments in Stem Cell Mobilization by : Stefan Fruehauf
Download or read book Novel Developments in Stem Cell Mobilization written by Stefan Fruehauf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently the CXCR4/CXCL12-axis has been recognized as one of the pivotal adhesion pathways by which hematopoietic stem cells are retained in the bone marrow. CXCR4 antagonists with different chemical specification are being developed. Pharmacology research guides the way to the rational development effective antagonists. One antagonist, plerixafor, is clinically approved now for stem cell mobilization of lymphoma and myeloma patients. This allows patients to receive potentially life-saving treatment which could not have been administered otherwise. Through early clinical studies it was recognized that CXCR4 antagonists also mobilize malignant hematopoetic cells, i.e. leukemia cells. In preclinical studies a sensitization of mobilized leukemic cells to standard cytotoxic chemotherapy could be shown. Clinical studies are under way. CXCR4 antagonists are an exciting new class of compounds which are also employed for the mobilization of angiogenic cells or for the treatment of solid tumors. In this book a concise review of the current status of knowledge and future developments will be presented.
Book Synopsis Triple Customer Complaints by : James G. Shaw
Download or read book Triple Customer Complaints written by James G. Shaw and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A customer who complains is saying, "If only you will correct the situation, I will continue doing business with you." Seeing our organizations as our customers do is critical to achieving excellence. "Triple Customer Complaints" helps determine how customers define excellence and establishes quantifiable ways to improve processes in order to meet - and exceed - customer expectations. Written for executives and process owners facing the real-world challenge of creating and keeping customers, it shows readers: 1) How to walk in the customers' shoes to identify which quality and operational performance measures should be tracked. 2) How to define all aspects of a process as perceived by customers using a structured roadmap. 3) How to use process qualification to achieve early, measurable results. 4) How to create a complaint management system that vacuums up all valid customer complaints. 5) How to identify and map an organization's processes to ensure that the customer's point of view is primary.
Book Synopsis Anxiety and Depression from a Patient's Perspective by : Richard Wyrabkiewicz
Download or read book Anxiety and Depression from a Patient's Perspective written by Richard Wyrabkiewicz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you understand anxiety and depression .There are many helpful remedies that really work.There are millions of people with this problem. This book describes what causes anxiety and depression. If you have this problem you need to read this book, It is a patient's point of view.
Book Synopsis The American Journal of Nursing by :
Download or read book The American Journal of Nursing written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
