Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of checking doctors' competence, and by ensuring that medical watchdogs protect the public—this discussion offers an expert's perspective on health care.

In recent years the medical profession has been revolutionised in the fields of research, of technology and of practice. At the same time, while community attitudes themselves change, group practices have taken some weight from doctors but perhaps have diminished the doctor/ patient relationship of previous years. Another change in the oversight of the medical profession has been the growth of what is called medical ethics. What, for example, is the amount of information a doctor should give a patient prior to performing an experimental procedure? Amongst all these changes there are still fundamental issues where doctors have to use their personal judgment as to what to do or what to say.

This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poignant insights gleaned from 30 years of general practice--while never taking himself (or his profession) too seriously. The classic book on the art and humor of practicing medicine, celebrating its 20th anniversary in a new gift edition with updates throughout. Previous editions have sold more than 200,000 copies. The perfect gift for med students and grads as well as new and practicing physicians. Approximately 17,000 students graduate from med school each spring in North America.

12 Traits of the Best DoctorYou went into medicine to help people, to be kind, to give solace, and to alleviate suffering. You were going to use your amazing brain and great caring heart to help people at their lowest point in their existence.But then medical school ground you down, residency happened, then employment occurred -- and you've now been molded and torqued into something and someone you hardly recognize.You personally might need, or maybe your office manager says you need 12 Traits of the Best Doctor because now you find yourself seeing forty plus patients a day, before noon each day life pile-drives you to your knees, you almost always miss lunch, you love stressed beyond your capabilities, caught up in the sheer nightmare of the complexities of the insurance model of making money, dealing with potentially devastating HIPAA issues, and wondering how your life got so twisted by the harsh economics of medicine.Let me untwist you.Who am I? My name is Dan Purser, I'm an MD who wrote a well received textbook on preventive medicine a few years back, and from that has spread twelve #1 bestselling books on Amazon. Also, while waiting for my books to rise to #1, I started and continue to operate seven successful companies (we do nutritional and supplement product development and manufacturing), plus I've had the incredible opportunity to speak to fans all over the planet (and am lucky enough now to get paid more for an eight hour day of speaking than most docs earn in a month), plus many other crazy successes. It might help to check out my website to learn more about me -- www.danpursermd.comBut save your mind, and your heart, and possibly your future, or maybe one of your children who are going into health care, or your spouse who's a physician, or the doctor you work for when you purchase and (let them) read this paradigm shifting little book -- 12 Traits of the Best DoctorPLEASE ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

“People come to us for help. They come for health and strength.” With these simple words David Mendel begins Proper Doctoring, a book about what it means (and takes) to be a good doctor, and for that reason very much a book for patients as well as doctors—which is to say a book for everyone. In crisp, clear prose, he introduces readers to the craft of medicine and shows how to practice it. Discussing matters ranging from the most basic—how doctors should dress and how they should speak to patients—to the taking of medical histories, the etiquette of examinations, and the difficulties of diagnosis, Mendel moves on to consider how the doctor can best serve patients who suffer from prolonged illness or face death. Throughout he keeps in sight the fundamental moral fact that the relationship between doctor and patient is a human one before it is a professional one. As he writes with characteristic concision, “The trained and experienced doctor puts himself, or his nearest and dearest, in the patient’s position, and asks himself what he would do if he were advising himself or his family. No other advice is acceptable; no other is justifiable.” Proper Doctoring is a book that is admirably direct, as well as wise, witty, deeply humane, and, frankly, indispensable.

What makes a good doctor? It's not what you think. A doctor willing to face their own uncertainty in the face of illness and treatment might just be the best medicine. Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want to be the healthiest we can be. Counterintuitive as it may seem, uncertainty is integral to medicine, and you want a doctor who knows that: someone who sees you as the unique case you are, someone who knows that data isn't everything, someone who is able to change her mind as the information changes. For too long we've clung to the myth of the infallible doctor--one who assuredly tells us this is what's wrong and here is how I will cure you--and our health has suffered for it. Brigham and Johns propose a new model of medicine, one that is comfortable with ambiguity and that centers on an equal partnership between patient and doctor. Uncertainty, properly embraced, opens a new universe of possibilities.

Mastering the "ART of Communication" is the theme and aim of this invaluable eBook! A must for becoming a loved clinician by your patients and enjoying a highly successful and fulfilling career in clinical Medicine. This eBook serves as a simple guide to essential Communication Styles for the most frequent patient-contact scenarios and clinical encounters. It is meant to be a “quick reference” guide. Reading through it should be quick and easy! Interested users may broaden their knowledge and understanding by exploring the literature on each specific topic. It will be most valuable to those front line clinicians in-training during their everyday routines whether in the medical wards, outpatient clinics, emergency rooms, etc. It will also be very useful for undergraduates, those sitting their clinical examinations e.g. OSCE, Long Case Presentations, etc. as well as faculty trainers and examiners. However, all healthcare professionals e.g. Pharmacists, Nurses, Social workers, etc. will also find it very beneficial.

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health? Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things. Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to “make their case” to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. Though the gulf between what patients say and what doctors hear is often wide, Dr. Danielle Ofri proves that it doesn’t have to be. Through the powerfully resonant human stories that Dr. Ofri’s writing is renowned for, she explores the high-stakes world of doctor-patient communication that we all must navigate. Reporting on the latest research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients, Dr. Ofri reveals how better communication can lead to better health for all of us.