Language exercises a powerful impact on medical care as the words that physicians use with patients have the power to heal or harm. The practice of medicine is shaped by the potent metaphors that are prevalent in clinical care, especially military metaphors and the words of war that bring with them unfortunate consequences for patients and physicians alike. Physicians who fight disease turn the patient into a passive battlefield. Patients are encouraged to remain stoic, blamed for "failing" chemotherapy and sadly remembered in heroic obituaries of lost battles.
This educational CD-ROM includes the most important clinical information on lung sounds that physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, students and other physicians need to know. It has audio, text, illustrations and synchronized waveform displays. The multimedia presentation shows students the principles of lung auscultation with examples of a number of normal and abnormal lung sounds. this product also introduces the concepts of acoustic analysis.
The textbook that has defined the field of immunology since 1984 is now in its thoroughly revised and updated Sixth Edition. This comprehensive, up-to-date text will be of interest to graduate students,post-doctoral fellows, basic and clinical immunologists, microbiologists and infectious disease physicians, and any physician treating diseases in which immunologic mechanisms play a role.
Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century
Through ninety-five in-depth interviews with primary care physicians (PCPs) working in different settings, as well as medical students and residents, Practice Under Pressure provides rich insight into the everyday lives of generalist physicians in the early twenty-first century--their work, stresses, hopes, expectations, and values Hoff uses secondary data and capture the changing face of primary care medicine--larger numbers of younger, female, and foreign-born physicians
Medicine Today: 2000 to the PresentMany people take for granted that physicians know what they are doing, but every day scientists must make very difficult decisions. Just because scientists can harvest stem cells, doesn't mean that they should; and while one day nanotechnology might mean a little 'nanobot' can be turned into a blood vessel to clean out the arteries, there are some ethical and environmental issues that must be considered first.
