Medical study and revision guides and reference material

This book explores the controversial dilemmas which meet at the intersection of medicine philosphy and law - questions concerning killing and not killing which are faced daily in health care.

If you are reading this, it is likely that you have accepted, or may be considering responsibility for a relative or friend who has cancer.

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted.

Specialists drawn from industry, agency and academia explain the role of the various elements in the marketing communications process, and show how a reassessment of the marketing mix can result in a positive response to challenges imposed by a changing commercial environment.

Many refugees and asylum seekers now in the United Kingdom have trained and worked as doctors nurses midwives and other professionals allied to medicine in the countries from which they have departed.

'Across Canada efforts have been made to introduce information technology solutions into the health care sector for the past two decades.

This unique and controversial book puts professional practice in the spotlight.

'This book provides the background and practical guidance for all those of us who face challenges for the way we handle medical records.

This extraordinary and practical book examines neuro linguistic programming (NLP) - the knowledge and skills to detect and affect thinking patterns - and applies it to each phase of the medical consultation.

This is a wonderful collection of stories about doctors and patients, including many by world-famous authors who were also physicians, such as Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Jewish patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare.

Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition.

Higher Professional Education for General Practitioners is a practical guide on the best ways to plan educational and vocational training needs throughout professional practice.

The Healing Tradition argues that Western medicine is fundamentally flawed because it fails to provide a healing environment for both individuals and society, and indicates potential ways to correct this through an integration model of medical humanities.

This unique and practical book provides a clear introduction to clinical supervision and support in primary care.

The introduction of the new General Medical Services contract for the payment and reward of general practice and GP practices will inevitably change the way in which primary care is delivered.

This book is designed to enable and encourage health professionals and family support workers to include fathers in the process of their work.

Healthcare Performance and Organisational Culture examines the evidence for a relationship between organisational culture and organisational performance in the health care sector.

What Makes a Good Health Care System?

Healthcare has suffered from a series of scandals where trust and patient confidence has been questioned.

People from different cultural backgrounds prefer adhering to their own religious beliefs which could restrict treatment options leading to the detriment of health especially if it involves the health of a disabled child.

Increasing concern about clinical negligence demands the provision of more detailed patient information about the complications and risks of treatment and the agreement of patients to any intervention from a simple physical examination to the most complex surgical procedure.

This new edition of a classic text interprets normal and abnormal laboratory results for the wide range of tests that have become part of everyday clinical practice.

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted.

Gone are the days when you present to colleagues with hand-drawn overheads.

Doctors, as strong, clever, resourceful professionals, are heir to human frailty and illness, like anyone else.

A key text for doctors, this revised, expanded and updated edition now includes a section on understanding one's own attitudes and empathy, and greatly enhanced material on communication strategies and skills.

The impressive progress of medical science over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has tended to overshadow the art of caring for the patient and their families.

'When I want to know the real rock-bottom truth about what happens all the time in this doctoring life, what happens to us, and to the folks who bring us their hearts and worries to be heard, that's when I turn, every time, to the novelists, the playwrights, the poets, the essayists, who have given us the sights and sounds, the feel, of all that goes on, minute by minute.

This book explores the Care Trust concept promoted by central government for improving partnership working between health and social care.

Dentists and members of the dental practice team increasingly need to know how to deal with potential risks to patients dentists staff and premises; and how to manage risk with common sense procedures.

This fascinating and illuminating study brings together a wealth of information gained from individuals who reveal how music has had an effect on their lives.

Statistics and evidence-based medicine are assessed in most postgraduate and undergraduate medical examinations and degrees in health sciences.

Vocational training is the preferred method for developing practical and other workplace dental skills.

How can a doctor best understand the emotions and behaviour of his or her patients?

This is a practical guide to successfully achieving a fully computerised system in primary care.

The NHS is currently in the middle of the biggest information technology project in Western Europe, which will fundamentally change the working practices of all NHS staff over the next five years.

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NUFFIELD TRUST Quality is an issue of central importance in the NHS and yet, despite a considerable number of initiatives, programmes and organisation that have focussed on improving quality in the NHS over recent years, there's no comprehensive, reliable balance and rigorous account of the strengths and weaknesses in healthcare delivery.

Focusing on the personal lives of doctors, this annotated indexed anthology explores personality, behavior and doctor-patient relationships as portrayed in novels, short stories and plays.

This book explores the link between the 'corridors of power' where healthcare policy is made and the hospital, health center or clinic where it is carried out.

Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK.

This work is intended for those already in working in community care, including nurses, nursing students and social workers.

Life After Darkness is the remarkable and moving story of a doctor and mother of four who endured seven years of severe depression.

This best-selling classic has now been fully revised, expanded and updated.

The daily work of General Practitioners can seem at once simple and immensely complicated.

Information is a key resource to primary health care and is increasingly required in individual practices.

This stimulating series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Allied Health Professions (AHP).

Recent changes to the health service including new structures and ways of working at both local and national levels are having major influences on the working lives of every health visitor and community nurse and on their professional opportunities.

This book combines models, theory and practical advice that guides clinicians, managers and facilitators to lead integrated primary health care.

Evidence-based medicine draws on terminology used in biostatistics epidemiology health economics philosophy ethics logic and the social sciences.