Navigating Your Surgical Career


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A career in surgery is immensely rewarding and challenging at the same time. This helpful and practical guide written by leaders in surgery is meant to inspire young surgeons and make their career journey a bit easier. All proceeds will go to support the Association of Women Surgeons.




Building a Sports Medicine Practice: Guide to Navigating the First Five Years, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine


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In this issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, guest editor Dr. James B. Carr II brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Building a Sports Medicine Practice: Guide to Navigating the First Five Years. Top experts offer practical advice to help readers navigate the crucial initial years of their sports medicine career, with guidance on how to search for and select the right job in private practice or academic institution, strategies for growing and developing a clinical practice, and tips for success in the operating room. - Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including building a strong local reputation; how to succeed in the operating room; how to manage complications and poor outcomes, passing ABOS; developing a work life balance; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews on building a sports medicine practice, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.







The Business of Plastic Surgery


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Plastic surgeons go through extensive training to become excellent clinicians, but they often end up learning how to practice the business of plastic surgery through trial and error. This unique book, targeted specifically at plastic surgeons and other physicians, seeks to address this glaring oversight and provide guidance from career selection through retirement. It offers many different perspectives, while covering a multitude of topics including the latest know-how on building and maintaining one's website, marketing and monitoring a practice for increased productivity, asset protection, building a surgical suite, and the development of medical inventions. The Business of Plastic Surgery features notable authors in the fields of medicine, law, finance and technology who provide valuable wisdom and expertise




Letters from Pharmacy Residents: Navigating Your Career


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Today’s new pharmacy school graduates are eager to find ways to set themselves apart from the crowd and land a coveted residency position, although no one really knows what to expect from their experience. Is this the right choice for me? What is the value of a residency? What is the process for selecting and applying to various positions? These questions, and many more, are tackled in Letters from Pharmacy Residents: Navigating Your Career, a collection of 33 inspiring letters from young practitioners who have recently completed their own PGY1 or PGY2 residency. Edited by Sara J. White, MS, FASHP, Harold N. Godwin, MS, FASHP, FAPhA, and Susan Teil Boyer, MS, FASHP, this book is the latest addition to ASHP’s Letters series, a one of a kind road map to the pharmacy experience. Letters from Pharmacy Residents joins Letters to a Young Pharmacist: Sage Advice on Life and Career from Extraordinary Pharmacists and Letters from Rising Pharmacy Stars: Advice on Creating and Advancing Your Career in a Changing Profession, as part of a growing collection of personal letters created to inspire and comfort pharmacists through all stages of their professional journey. Each chapter is a personal letter to the reader, filled with practical advice and insight on a wide range of experiences. More than a book, Letters from Pharmacy Residents is an essential guide to navigating your life and pharmacy journey.




Navigating Your Career as a Clinical Medical Assistant: Skills, Strategies, and Success


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Navigating Your Career as a Clinical Medical Assistant: Skills, Strategies, and Success is a comprehensive guide for aspiring and practicing clinical medical assistants. The book covers essential skills, practical strategies, and insider tips for excelling in the fast-paced healthcare environment. From mastering clinical procedures to building strong patient relationships and advancing your career, this guide offers valuable insights to help medical assistants achieve success in their roles while providing compassionate, high-quality care.




Principles of Health Navigation


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This text provides an overview of the content and knowledge competencies expected as part of health navigation education including health services delivery and health insurance, care of the individual, and accessing and analyzing health information competencies.




When Breath Becomes Air


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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson




The Soul of a Doctor


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By the time most of us meet our doctors, they’ve been in practice for a number of years. Often they seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. Of course, they’re not all like that, and most didn’t start out that way. Here are voices of third-year students just as they begin to take on clinical responsibilities. Their words focus on the odd transition students face when they must deal with real people in real time and in real crises and when they must learn to put aside their emotions to make quick, accurate, and sensitive decisions. Their decisions aren’t always right, and the consequences can be life-altering—for all involved. Moving, disturbing, and candid, their true stories show us a side of the profession that few ever see, or could even imagine. They show, often painfully, how medical students grow up, right at the bedside.




Open Heart


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In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. With astonishing compassion, he recounts harrowing and sometimes hopeful stories from his operating room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a heart transplant-only to die once it's in place. For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Open Heart offers a soul-baring account of a life spent in constant confrontation with death.