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Palliative Care for Care Homes: A Practical Handbook מאת Christine Reddall Care home workers increasingly work with people nearing the end of their lives, including people with medically complex conditions. However, many do not have a medical background and find that practical advice on how to address these people's very specific needs is scarce. In this book, Christine Re...

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Skills Training in Communication and Related Topics Part 2: Communicating With Patients, Colleagues, and Communities (Training Tools for Health Professionals) מאת Ellen J Belzer Quality communication contributes to smoother running practices, better care and services, greater efficiencies, fewer unhealthy conflicts, more satisfied staff and patients, and an improved ability to meet the challenges of an evolving and increasingly complex health care environment - With packed ...

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Winning the Publications Game: How to Write a Scientific Paper Without Neglecting Your Patients מאת Tim Albert The publications game can seem tricky: knowing where to start, how to plan and draft a paper, who to pitch it to and how to present it can appear difficult enough. With advent of e-publishing and ever-tougher regulatory frameworks surrounding research, the picture can seem even more intimidating and...

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Creating Effective Conference Abstracts and Posters in Biomedicine: 500 Tips for Success מאת Jane Fraser For most biomedical researchers and academics, preparing conference abstracts and posters is an important part of professional life. With good preparation and practice, all scientists can produce abstracts that act as effective ambassadors for their research. A well designed poster can help you to e...

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Keeping the Blues Away: The Ten-Step Guide to Reducing the Relapse of Depression מאת Cate Howell Keeping the Blues Away is a clinically tested programme to help prevent depression from returning: it has also shown efficacy in reducing depression severity. It includes information and exercises to teach coping, cognitive-behavioural and interpersonal skills and strategies to prevent relapses, dra...

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The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry מאת Johanna, Ph.D. Shapiro ' - A passerby may marvel And admire my molded form. My every branch and twig and leaf Has learned how to conform - ' Why are some medical students drawn to creative writing? What issues does this writing address, and what needs, fears and experiences does it give expression to? What can we learn...

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The Green Bookshop: Recommended Reading for Doctors and Others from the Medical Journal Education for Primary Care מאת John Salinsky The collection includes: * The best novels by living writers * Books which have something new to say about primary care * Books which might help us doctors look after our patients better * Almost anything that is really well written * Classics, which come up fresh however often you read them * Some...

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Professionalism in Medicine מאת Jill Thwistlethwaite This book examines medical professionalism, dissecting the concept into various components while providing both an evidence-based and personal approach. In recent years professionalism has come under intense scrutiny and stimulated wide-ranging and far-reaching debate. The big issues include teachin...

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On the Death of a Child מאת Celia Hindmarch The death of a child - whether during or following birth, through illness, through accident, or through suicide - is one of the greatest challenges families, carers, friends, and the health and social care professionals who support them can face. This book provides professionals with practical advic...

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A Guide to Laboratory Investigations מאת Michael McGhee This classic guide to the interpretation of normal and abnormal laboratory results is now fully revised and expanded, including updates on established and familiar tests, as well as interpretations on recent developments. It outlines new guidelines on specific clinical conditions such as heart failu...

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Clinical Responsibility: Medico-legal Essentials (Medico-Legal Essentials Series) מאת Jane Lynch Clinical Responsibility provides practical legal advice by highlighting real-life healthcare case studies and workplace examples. It looks specifically at the areas of accountability, the legal process, what constitutes a legal claim brought by the patient, and the duty of care and how it is measure...

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Health Records in Court (Medico-Legal Essentials) מאת Jane Lynch This book is an essential tool for all healthcare professionals. An understanding of the law and the way in which it impacts upon roles, responsibilities and care is a vital component in everyday healthcare. Written in a clear and concise style, Health Records in Court provides practical legal advic...

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MRCP Best of Five Practice Questions: With Explanatory Answers (Masterpass Series) מאת Shibley Rahman This book provides a bank of multiple-choice questions for candidates preparing for Part 2 of the Membership examination of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, the MRCP. The questions are arranged by subject area to enable structured revision and allow candidates to focus on particular areas where the...