Doctor De Soto"Doctor De Soto, the dentist, did very good work." With the aid of his able assistant, Mrs. De Soto, he copes with the toothaches of animals large and small. His expertise is so great that his fortunate patients never feel any pain.
Critical Conversations provides direction and solutions for deficits in healthcare that exist in verbal and non-verbal communication as well as scripting tool kits that can be applied in various situations and health care settings between nurses and colleagues and nurses and patients.
The Addiction Casebook presents 12 patients with DSM-5 addiction diagnoses -- plus one experiencing problematic Internet use -- and illustrates practical and successful strategies for diagnosing and treating these patients. The book's cases are analogous to those that clinicians commonly encounter in their everyday practice and effectively demonstrate the intersection of addiction with other psychiatric diagnoses.
Today, one patient in four seeking medical aid does so solely with a locomotor system complaint. Many of the remaining three-quarters of all patients seeking medical aid primarily for other reasons also complain of stiffness, aches, and painful movement. The muscular-skeletal disorders of patients in these two categories comprise the greatest single cause of sick leave.
Being a patient is a unique interpersonal experience but it is also a universal human experience. The relationships formed when we are patients can also teach some of life's most important lessons, and these relationships provide a special window into ethics, especially the ethics of healthcare professionals. This book answers two basic questions: As patients see it, what things allow relationships with healthcare providers to become therapeutic? What can this teach us about healthcare ethics? This volume presents detailed descriptions and analyses of 50 interviews with 58 patients, representing a wide spectrum of illnesses and clinician specialties.
