Staying Human During Residency Training


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The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident's life - from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships. Allan D. Peterkin, MD, provides hundreds of tips on how to cope with sleep deprivation, time pressures, and ethical and legal issues. This fifth edition features new, leading-edge information on enhancing personal resilience, planning one's career, pursuing leadership roles, and using new technologies to maximize learning. Presenting practical antidotes to cynicism, careerism, and burnout, Peterkin also offers guidance on fostering more empathic connection with patients and deepening relationships with colleagues, friends, and family. Acknowledged by thousands of doctors across North America as an invaluable resource, Staying Human during Residency Training has helped to shape notions of trainee well-being for medical educators worldwide. Informative, compassionate, and professional, this new edition will again show why it is required reading for medical students and new physicians pursuing postgraduate training.




Stay in Medicine


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Stay in Medicine


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We Can Save More Lives If We Save Each OtherDoctors, we know all about long hours, overwhelming workloads, lack of support from the healthcare system, and the loss of control in many aspects of our lives. Physicians and healthcare systems are at a precipice. It's time we have a serious conversation about where we want to go together. Stay in Medicine is a boots-on-the-ground guide full of practical tips to help you improve day-to-day life in your clinic and begin the conversation to change healthcare as an industry. Here are some of the tools you'll find to help you breathe again:?How to identify and handle burnout, both for yourself and for your colleagues?Strategies to help you regain a sense of control?Simple methods to reduce time-killers ?Proven team-building and leadership tactics improve collaboration in your clinic?Talking points to begin the larger conversation to change healthcare as a wholeSave Yourself, Save Your Patients, Save Medicine.




Life After Medicine


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This book helps and motivates doctors facing or contemplating leaving the profession. It offers simple but comprehensive strategies, resources and reflections to explore where they are, where they want to be, how to get there, and how to lead a content and fulfilling life if and when they do leave medicine.




How to Survive a Stay in the Hospital Without Getting Killed


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How to Survive a Stay in the Hospital Without Getting Killed is an easy-to-understand hospital-survival guide. This handbook explains what kinds of mistakes can and do happen in the hospital and how to prevent them from happening to you. It contains inside information and secrets as told by a nurse who has worked in various hospitals and healthcare facilities in different nursing departments, in two different states, and has "been there and done that." This book will teach you how to protect yourself, from the time you arrive at the Hospital Admissions Office to the time you leave the hospital. The subjects covered include what personal information you'll be asked to provide the hospital, what a routine day in the hospital is like, the importance of not assuming anything, how to prevent being mistaken for another patient, how to talk to the doctor(s) and other healthcare workers, how to prevent medication errors, how to protect yourself from surgical mistakes, and much more. The book also contains an Index, a Glossary of Medical Terms, a Bibliography, and a list of Useful Organizations that can help you with specific problems. This street-smart guide will be useful to patients, would-be patients, and anyone with family, friends or acquaintances they want to protect from medical mistakes or errors.




Staying Human during Residency Training


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The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents, and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident's life - from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care, and protecting personal and professional relationships. Allan D. Peterkin, MD, provides hundreds of tips on how to cope with sleep deprivation, time pressures, and ethical and legal issues. This sixth edition is not only updated to reflect the latest research and resources, but also features new material on the latest issues in residency training, including social media use, patient-centred care, the medical humanities, and the "hidden curriculum" of residency. Presenting practical antidotes to cynicism, careerism, and burnout, Peterkin also offers guidance on fostering more empathic connection with patients and deepening relationships with colleagues, friends, and family. Acknowledged by thousands of doctors across North America as an invaluable resource, Staying Human during Residency Training has helped to shape notions of trainee well-being for medical educators worldwide. Offering wise, compassionate, and professional counsel, this new edition again shows why it is required reading for medical students and new physicians pursuing postgraduate training.




Doctor, Stay By Me


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The all-important doctor-patient relationship has been fractured. Can it be saved? Can patients once again think that, no matter what, "My doctor will stay by me." That's what Dr. Stafford Cohen's new book is about. DOCTOR, STAY BY ME is a medical memoir about his 51 years as a practicing cardiologist in Boston. Through a series of 44 humorous, tragic, and ultimately uplifting short stories about his patients and experiences, Dr. Cohen depicts how medicine has changed over the years. "In today's world," Dr. Cohen says, "It would be next to impossible for me to have the hands-on, day-to-day, year-to-year relationship with patients that I enjoyed during my career. That is a terrible shame." Dr. Cohen's book chronicles how today's environment robs doctors of the reason they became doctors in the first place-to help people. It deprives patients of certainty and trust that their doctors know who they are and will always be there for them.




Physician Crisis


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This book is the first volume to individually dissect and explore the reasons physicians are leaving medicine. It lays out potential solutions to many of the problems, which will result in a happier practicing physician. Chapters begin with the nature of the problem, and go through a physician's life cycle on the job, from medical school through post-grad and onwards. Chapters will also cover issues as a practicing physician and how to help alleviate these problems. The book ends with potential solutions to the issue of physician burnout. Physician Burnout: Why Doctors Are Leaving Medicine and How to Fix It is a must-have resource for practicing physicians, healthcare providers, and healthcare management. It is also a great resource for medical school students and those looking to get into the healthcare field. .




The Informed Patient


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Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused sections with step-by-step instructions, insights, and tips to illustrate what patients and their families can expect during a hospital stay. Anyone who will experience a hospital stay—or friends or family who may be in charge of a patient’s care—will find all the help and advice they could need in the detailed sections that cover every aspect of what they can expect. Karen A. Friedman, MD, and Sara L. Merwin, MPH, offer hands-on advice about how patients, health care providers, and medical staff can work together to achieve good outcomes. Through anecdotes, tips, sidebars, and clinical scenario vignettes, The Informed Patient presents ways to enhance and optimize a hospital stay, from practical advice on obtaining the best care to dealing with the emotional experience of being in the hospital.




Your Hospital Stay


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A brief guide for patients and caregivers that explains how a hospitalization works, addressing both emergent and elective admissions, and what patients need to do to optimize their care. Written by an Internal Medicine Hospital Physician, Your Hospital Stay covers the different care-giving personnel in a hospital, what happens during a hospital stay, and discharge planning. Special emphasis is placed on instructing patients on how to take charge of their personal health information, thereby empowering them to facilitate better care with fewer errors and greater efficiency. Jerome M Kong, MD, is a board-certified hospitalist and internal medicine physician. He attended Rice University as an undergraduate (with a BA in Economics), completed medical and specialty training at Baylor College of Medicine and Mount Carmel Health System, and actively practices in the central Ohio region.