Germs sometimes make us sick, and sometimes we get hurt. Where do you go when that happens? The doctor! Find out how a doctor's visit keeps you healthy.

The first book for the general public about the importance of mindfulness in medical practice, Attending is a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors approach their work with patients. From his early days as a Harvard Medical School student, Epstein saw what made good doctors great-more accurate diagnoses, fewer errors, and stronger connections with their patients. This made a lasting impression on him and set the stage for his life's...

With so many medical tests and treatments and so much scientific and medical information--some of it contradictory--how can people make the best medical decisions? Most medical decisions, it turns out, are based on common sense. In this short and easy-to-read book, Dr. Phillip K. Peterson explains the ten rules of internal medicine. Using real case examples he shows how following the rules will help consumers make good decisions about their medical...

Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Ted Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it's not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices...

Step by step guide in selecting a doctor and participating in health care decisions.

Dr. Finlay survived World War II and now in the aftermath is has been serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returns to the small town of Tannochbrae in Scotland expecting to resume life as it was. However, while his irascible colleague Dr. Cameron is unchanged, everything else has been affected by the war. His fiancee has decided not to wait for him, he must deal with new colleagues and even the arrangements of the practice are overturned as...

"This book is an epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine. One doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician. In riveting first-person prose, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes us to the front lines of medicine today. Whipsawed by daily crises and frustrations, Reilly must deal with several daunting challenges simultaneously: the extraordinary patients under his care on the teeming wards of a renowned teaching...

This book offers advice on making medical decisions inspite of confusing and conflicting information, provides insight into the personal beliefs influencing how choices are made while citing the marketing practices that complicate the process. Making the right medical choices is harder than ever. Whether deciding on a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors' recommendations, dissenting...