Dear Doctor (416 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. "You are just like all my other nurse patients. Nurses are horrible patients. You think you have to tell us what to do. I am the doctor, and you are the patient. You are supposed to tell me how you feel, not what to do. I decide that."In response, this nurse/patient/author sends a poignant reminder: "Dear Doctor, I am your teacher." laced with many "Lessons Learned" that will benefit you and yours, perhaps even save your life.The author states:"The extensive personal medical history which I share is one reason I have held back on publishing this story for nearly 20 years. Many details are shared reluctantly, but shared nevertheless, because it will give you a glimpse of what nurses deal with every single day. "Doctors usually admit patients to the hospital for their present-day chief complaint and with a focus on the diagnosis or procedure of the hour. Nurses then coordinate total care for the whole person behind that need of the hour and they must consider complex past histories as they do so. "I think it is important for us to understand this and to know that many a nurse has saved many a doctor's ass (and license) time and time again! "After I recovered from the complications of my colectomy, my primary care doctor suggested that I lecture at medical schools when I was stronger. He said there was much that doctors could learn from me. That was and is true, but not just true of me. "Every patient has a history and is a story. Many of those stories are riddled with much more anguish and pain, and far more daily struggle than I have experienced. I have dedicated my life to helping them tell their stories. So now I tell mine."As "Dear Doctor, I am your teacher" chronicles a nurse's personal fight to restore her health, the reader is drawn into its metaphorical similarities to life in general: first the regret, sorrow, anger, pain, and futility, followed by healing, forgiveness, faith, love, and the iron-clad will to survive.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. "You are just like all my other nurse patients. Nurses are horrible patients. You think you have to tell us what to do. I am the doctor, and you are the patient. You are supposed to tell me how you feel, not what to do. I decide that."In response, this nurse/patient/author sends a poignant reminder: "Dear Doctor, I am your teacher." laced with many "Lessons Learned" that will benefit you and yours, perhaps even save your life.The author states:"The extensive personal medical history which I share is one reason I have held back on publishing this story for nearly 20 years. Many details are shared reluctantly, but shared nevertheless, because it will give you a glimpse of what nurses deal with every single day. "Doctors usually admit patients to the hospital for their present-day chief complaint and with a focus on the diagnosis or procedure of the hour. Nurses then coordinate total care for the whole person behind that need of the hour and they must consider complex past histories as they do so. "I think it is important for us to understand this and to know that many a nurse has saved many a doctor's ass (and license) time and time again! "After I recovered from the complications of my colectomy, my primary care doctor suggested that I lecture at medical schools when I was stronger. He said there was much that doctors could learn from me. That was and is true, but not just true of me. "Every patient has a history and is a story. Many of those stories are riddled with much more anguish and pain, and far more daily struggle than I have experienced. I have dedicated my life to helping them tell their stories. So now I tell mine."As "Dear Doctor, I am your teacher" chronicles a nurse's personal fight to restore her health, the reader is drawn into its metaphorical similarities to life in general: first the regret, sorrow, anger, pain, and futility, followed by healing, forgiveness, faith, love, and the iron-clad will to survive.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter. Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand--as a child, as a doctor, as a human being--how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He'd inspired her to become a doctor, and the stories he had told her as a child proved formative when it came to deciding what sort of medicine she would practice. But for all her professional exposure to dying, she remained a grieving daughter. Dear Life follows how Rachel came to understand--as a child, as a doctor, as a human being--how best to help patients in the final stages of life, and what that might mean in practice.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. In the form of an open letter from patients to their doctors, spiritual writer and professor of medical humanities Marilyn McEntyre brings to light the hidden fears, desperate needs, deepest hopes, and heartfelt truths that many feel doctors overlook in their approach to health care. It's a clarion call for doctors to attend to the whole person and listen deeply, rather than rush to assess a set of symptoms. And it's a letter that informs doctors of the many things that patients already know about themselves and their health. Engaging and candid, Dear Doctorcovers the basics of how patients view their time with doctors, how they want doctors to collaborate on health issues, and even how patients bring their faith and spirituality to their view of their health and their bodies. Ultimately, this book is an important first step to begin a dialogue between two communities that often have a very large disconnect.…

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