Talking about Health pdf

Author: Roxanne Parrott
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 140517756X

Talking about Health: Why Communication Matters

Written by an award-winning researcher and professor whose work straddles the fields of communication and healthcare, Talking About Health explores the importance of health communication in the 21st century, and how it affects us all. Medical books Talking about Health. Medical books .

Medical Book Talking about Health

• Organized around six key questions about health and communication:  How ‘Normal’ am I? What are My ‘Risk’ Factors? Why Don’t We Get ‘Care’? Is the Public Good ‘Good’ for Me? Who Profits from My Health? and What’s Politics Got to Do with It?
• Provides readers with specific tools which which to better navigate the healthcare system
• Translates what we know about communication and health into useful guidelines for everyday practice
• Includes discussions of politics and healthcare, genetic testing, and alternative care
• The author's blog http://whyhealthcommunication.com/whc_blog/ focuses on why communicating about health can make a difference in our health and our quality of life

Talking With Patients About the Personal Impact of Illness pdf

Author: Lenore M., M.D. Buckley
Edition: 1
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1846192897

Talking With Patients About the Personal Impact of Illness: The Doctor's Role

Explores the psychosocial impact of serious illness its effect on a person's identity and relationships and the doctor's role in counseling patients. Medical books Talking With Patients About the Personal Impact of Illness. Medical books Talking With Patients About The Personal Impact Of Illness: The Doctor's Role, L. Writing for medical students and trainees and physicians, Buckley (internal medicine and pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth U.) explains the role of the doctor in counseling patients about illnesses and how illness impacts them on a psychosocial level. She outlines the patient's emotional responses, coping mechanisms, and the aftereffects of illness, and how doctors can develop empathy and compassion and learn to talk to patients. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Writing for medical students and trainees and physicians, Buckley (internal medicine and pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth U.) explains the role of the doctor in counseling patients about illnesses and how illness impacts them on a psychosocial level. She outlines the patient's emotional responses, coping mechanisms, and the aftereffects of illness, and how doctors can develop empathy and compassion and learn to talk to patients. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Writing for medical students and trainees and physicians, Buckley (internal medicine and pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth U.) explains the role of the doctor in counseling patients about illnesses and how illness impacts them on a psychosocial level. She outlines the patient's emotional responses, coping mechanisms, and the aftereffects of illness, and how doctors can develop empathy and compassion and learn to talk to patients. Published by Radcliffe Publishing, UK, and distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contributors: Lenore Buckley - Author. Format: Paperback

Medical Book Talking With Patients About the Personal Impact of Illness

Includes first-hand experiences and reflections on serious illness by physicians and patients, advice on how to initiate discussions of difficult psychosocial issues, topics for organizing discussion, suggested readings, and guides for patient interviews.