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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Combining medical sociology and anthropology to create a new perspective on the health sciences, Patientology: Toward the Study of Patients will revolutionize how health professionals and educators and their students view patient care and the patient?s place in the health care system. Patients are critical to health care delivery, yet their concerns and perspective are frequently lost in translation or, at worst, blatantly ignored. Patients don?t...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Combining medical sociology and anthropology to create a new perspective on the health sciences, Patientology: Toward the Study of Patients will revolutionize how health professionals and educators and their students view patient care and the patient?s place in the health care system. -From author's website
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Looking back, author Pamela J. Brink never really wanted to be a nurse, but when she was in high school, she couldn't think of any other career for women she felt drawn to. She was expected to go to college, but she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. In An Academic Nurse's Tale, Brink narrates her story, telling how her choice turned out to be a perfect one. She began her nursing career in the 1950s, and it spanned the most turbulent...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic...