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Pharmacist Cory Jenks had all the elements to make a competent healthcare professional. Good looks, academic accolades, multiple board certifications, and a competitive residency. However, none of these items prepared him for truly caring for his patients in a chaotic healthcare environment, and he was struggling. After implementing lessons he learned as an improv comedian, Cory’s perspective began to shift. In this audiobook, Cory takes you through the comical and powerful tools needed to create a memorable, humanizing experience for your patients and colleagues.

Transform your relationship with anxiety and take charge of your mental well-being with "Mastering Anxiety: Through Calming Mindfulness Techniques." This comprehensive guide offers practical strategies to help you understand the root causes of anxiety and build effective habits to manage it. Whether you’re facing occasional stress or chronic anxiety, this book combines mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, and actionable exercises to empower you to regain control. From identifying triggers to developing personalized coping mechanisms, each chapter provides clear, step-...

-Extraordinary encounters. Unexpected humor. Endless challenges. Life-threatening diseases. Unthinkable trauma.- Welcome to STAT: Crazy Medical Stories as told by the healthcare professionals themselves. From peculiar conditions and mysterious ailments to remarkable recoveries and perplexing medical mysteries, Stat: Crazy Medical Stories, draws from real-life accounts. Each chapter unveils crazy medical cases as narrated by the healthcare professionals themselves. The stories take you on a captivating journey across various disciplines, including general medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and ...

Dressing Well in Medicine is a short guide for dressing well in medical school and beyond. You will need to look like a professional from the beginning of your medical school interview trail, to the whirlwind of clerkships and rotations, through your residency interviews and residency training, and eventually through your day-to-day clinical practice. Dressing professionally is important because the trust and confidence of your patients depends in large part on your appearance, and professional attire greatly improves your appearance. A smartly-dressed, polished, and tasteful physician ...

Physicians enter their professions with the highest of hopes and ideals for compassionate and efficient patient care. Along the way, however, recurring problems arise in their interactions with some patients that lead physicians to label them as "difficult." Some studies indicate that physicians identify 15 percent or more of their patients as "difficult." The negative feelings that physicians have toward these patients may lead to frustration, cynicism, and burnout.

Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their families, and their caretakers. Dr. Frank empowers patients by unlocking the mysteries of the disease and explaining in plain language the ways to confront and combat it. An award-winning medical oncologist recognized for his humanitarian approach as well as his research accomplishments, Dr. Frank understands that cancer patients and their families need insight into the disease.

Transforming Healthcare with AI: The Emergence of ChatGPT-4 Powered Clinics Discover the groundbreaking impact of ChatGPT-4 on the healthcare industry! Explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing patient care, diagnostics, and medical research in this comprehensive guide. In this cutting-edge book, Dr. Harvey Castro and Philippe Gerwill take you on a journey through the world of AI-powered healthcare, uncovering the transformative potential of ChatGPT-4 in clinics and hospitals worldwide. Drawing from expert insights, case studies, and real-world examples, this book is a must-...

This book focuses on the intersection of clinical practice and legal aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). It provides information on the diagnosis, treatment, and legal challenges related to TBI, aimed at clinicians and attorneys. The content emphasizes how advances in neuropsychiatric care, particularly through Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) and neurofeedback, can be applied to better understand and treat TBI.The book begins with an overview of the anatomy and physiology of TBI and explains how different types of brain injuries affect cognitive, behavioral, and emotional ...

Half a world away from home in 1976, 18-year old Anne B. Thomas awakens on the side of a two-lane road paralyzed from the chest down. Fast forward through a rigorous year of physical therapy to when her doctor gives her an ominous warning: “You will live a long time and be a burden on your family for the rest of your life unless you check yourself into a nursing home”.

All across America, doctors are being forced to close due to the steady decline of insurance reimbursements. Opt-Out is a prescription for struggling private practice owners who want to turn their business around without relying on insurance networks. Dr. TJ Ahn, a Korean-born podiatrist, enrolled in podiatry school, inspired by the “Golden Era” of private practice surgery.

Death exposes the dangerous state of affairs in our "sick-care system" and the dangers of the current medical/pharmaceutical complex. Doctors causes over 800,000 deaths and millions of life-threatening complications each year. Or, as Harvard Professor Lucian Leape testified before Congress, it’s equivalent to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day!

There are three major healing traditions in the world: Western biomedicine, supernatural healing, and holistic healing. In a world of increasingly blended cultures, languages, and traditions, what happens when these contrasting healing practices clash? In "A Case of Culture", author Snigdha Nandipati delves into the unspoken challenges that immigrant patients face when seeking healthcare in the West, exploring how we can bridge these cultural divides in our healthcare system. The solution? Cultural brokers.

Direct Primary Care is an affordable and highly efficient primary care delivery model that promises unrestricted access to your personal doctor with same-day appointments and 24/7 remote access for a flat monthly fee. No deductibles. No copayments. No office visit charges. No insurance required.

In this moving memoir, Joy Clausen Soto vividly brings us into her world. We see her go from her dream job to fighting for her life, and how she is able to come back from it all. You can't avoid falling in love with her quirks, indomitable spirit, and wry sense of humor. Soto takes listeners on a compelling journey as she faces cancer and the challenges she encounters while re-entering "normal" life.

An autobiographical narrative about how a middle-class youth endured personal turmoil and family crisis to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming a physician. He rose to become one of the outstanding eye physician-scientists of his generation...only to be disheartened and disillusioned by the ongoing tainting of medicine by bureaucrats, bungling administrators, and federal prosecutors - including the tragic scapegoating of three physicians during the whistle-blower initiated federal Medicare/Medicaid fraud investigation at the University of Washington.

The premise of Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures is simple. Given that relationships permeate every atom of health care, it follows quite naturally that everything in health care will work better when relationships are healthy. This audiobook, while focusing most often on the people portion of the care equation, also addresses the processes and structures that can and must contribute to the ability of all people in health care to provide compassionate care through the four relational practices: attuning, wondering, following, and holding.

We are pleased to offer dentists all over the world our latest book: Unlimited New Patients: Volume 3. This is the latest in our Unlimited New Patients series, and we think it’s the best. We’ve packed this audiobook with virtually everything we’ve learned over 28 years about attracting high-quality new patients into your dental practice.

How can you protect your right to a balanced life, in a profession that demands perfection? Medical life is challenging. The culture is competitive, the environment intense, the machinery complex and unwieldy, and the expectations high. Under such constant stress, many doctors sacrifice their own wellbeing to try and provide the best possible care for their patients. Coaching offers a way to immediately start bridging this known gap. You are a whole human, and it's time to treat yourself like it.

The information needed to obtain a better and more appropriate treatment is not secret, it is hiding in plain sight and is available to everybody who wishes to take the time to listen, compile, interpret, and draw conclusions from it. This book connects the dots for the listen and helps patients to navigate the maze of decisions that they have to make in the present-day medical system.

If you are an accomplished dentist who wonders why patients continually miss appointments and don’t follow your recommendations, know that you’re not the only one plagued with these questions. In The Well-Referred Dentist, Dr. Bita Saleh addresses the missing factor essential to patient compliance in all stages of dental treatment by identifying and resolving the patient’s “triad” of obstacles - fears, anxieties, and limiting beliefs.