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En effet, le diabète équivaut à des histoires de luttes. Le premier combat était de traiter le fait que vous êtes dans la phase prédiabétique. Ce n'est jamais facile. Plus vous pensez à la maladie, plus vous pensez à "et si". Une réalité que les personnes vivant avec le diabète doivent faire face est de savoir comment parvenir à un accord avec le quotidien de cette maladie.

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear symptoms but no discernible disease, he concluded that his own assumptions were too narrow and, indeed, that the underlying basis for much of clinical medicine was severely limited.

If you are an accomplished dentist who wonders why patients continually miss appointments and don’t follow your recommendations, know that you’re not the only one plagued with these questions. In The Well-Referred Dentist, Dr. Bita Saleh addresses the missing factor essential to patient compliance in all stages of dental treatment by identifying and resolving the patient’s “triad” of obstacles - fears, anxieties, and limiting beliefs.

Over the past several years, there has been an overwhelming amount of patients coming to the emergency department for medical care. It is essential for all emergency departments to improve patient flow by identifying barriers that slow the patient flow down and improve and revise these areas.

Would you like to be free of stress, anxiety, all types of physical discomfort, and start enjoying life way more than you do now? Or maybe you want to gain more knowledge about Vagus Nerve and your nerve system in general? Stress, anxiety, and depression have a big impact while accelerating diseases and making people sick. This audiobook is going to be like a tool for people so they can use it to learn how to control and heal their nerve system and explain the importance of Vagus Nerve which has the biggest impact on the health in our inner body.

Atif Zafar is a neurologist, researcher, entrepreneur, advocate, mentor, coach, and a life-long student of science and leadership. In Why Doctors Need to Be Leaders, he shares his insights and perspective on physician leadership and why the evolution of physician mind-set in the current healthcare system is crucial. In this book, he wishes to converse with medical students, trainees, early career physicians, and other stakeholders to stimulate a transformative discussion and to instigate leadership.

Por Qué Nos Rebelamos describe lo que está mal con la medicina industrializada, como ha corrompido su misión y ha dejado de cuidar del paciente. Montori rescata el lenguaje del cuidado del paciente y propone una revolución de compasión y solidaridad, de conversaciones sin prisa, y de una atención cuidadosa y gentil.

Offering both doctor and patient perspectives, 100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Cancer provides authoritative and practical answers to the most commonly asked questions by patients and their loved ones. Along with the answers to these and other questions, this book provides information on the different types of kidney cancer, signs and symptoms, treatment options, and more.

The Confident Patient is your road map and key to truly understanding and navigating your healthcare situation. This powerful guide provides you with real answers, specific questions to gain clarity, information you can use immediately, and gives you concrete ways to partner with your medical team. Healthcare is intensely personal and intimate, and The Confident Patient honors you and your family’s individual situation like a trusted friend, in a supportive, compassionate way.

It has never been more confusing for Americans to navigate their health care. Juggling the complexities of insurance, coordination of care and treatments from various providers and specialists, and skyrocketing medical costs leave most of us confused and frustrated. In this audiobook, Dominic Gaziano, director of the Body and Mind Medical Center in Chicago, offers practical strategies to keep yourself healthy and, when necessary, engage effectively and efficiently with the health-care providers and systems you need.

Financial Boot Camp will teach you what you need to know to joint the ranks of these financially secure doctors. It starts at the very beginning and is filled with straight talk and clear explanations. Although appropriate for the financial novice, it also contains advanced concepts unknown to many financial advisors. Besides giving you the information you need, the included anecdotes from real doctors will also inspire you to finally take action and get control of your financial life.

Medical student Seth Levine faces escalating stress and gallows humor as he struggles with the collapse of his romantic relationships and all preconceived notions of what it means to be a doctor. It doesn’t take long before he realizes not getting frazzled is the least of his problems. Didn’t Get Frazzled captures with distressing accuracy the gauntlet idealistic college grads must face to secure an MD and, against the odds, come out of it a better human being.

In this eye-opening audiobook, Jason Reed exposes the symbiotic relationship between Big Pharma, insurance companies, and health-care providers where profits, not the medical needs and financial well-being of patients, are the primary industry motivators. He explains how they trick unsuspecting patients with low up-front co-pays, only to cost you big time in the long run. In Prescription for Maximum Savings, you're going to learn why it doesn't have to cost you a fortune to be in good health.

Do you wish you understood others better? Do you want to master your own emotions? In recent years, it’s become increasingly obvious that emotional intelligence just as important, if not more so, than simply possessing a high IQ. Research suggests that people with higher emotional intelligence lead more successful, productive lives. They are happier, healthier, and generally better at achieving their goals. But what is emotional intelligence? How does it differ from IQ? And how can you learn to improve yours?

Dr. Edward Creagan has been treating very sick patients for more than 35 years. This audiobook is not just about lifestyle choices, although these are important aspects of Dr. Creagan’s healthy living plan. It is about using your precious minutes in the exam room (the average doctor visit is about 16 minutes), forging the right kind of relationship with your care providers (because that world is changing quickly), and understanding and using the health care system - instead of having the system use (and often abuse) you.

The premise of Advancing Relationship-Based Cultures is simple. Given that relationships permeate every atom of health care, it follows quite naturally that everything in health care will work better when relationships are healthy. This audiobook, while focusing most often on the people portion of the care equation, also addresses the processes and structures that can and must contribute to the ability of all people in health care to provide compassionate care through the four relational practices: attuning, wondering, following, and holding.

Discover how you can get more from your healthcare appointments. Whatever your reason, you can learn how to get more from your healthcare appointments. While working as a registered nurse, I was diagnosed with a degenerative autoimmune disease. The one thing that helped me the most was my experience of sitting on both sides of the desk. Just because you haven't had that experience firsthand, it doesn't mean you can't learn how to make your healthcare appointments work for you, too.

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the tools and confidence to compare and contrast their healthcare options.

Many of the patients at Mother of Mercy walk for days in order to arrive at the hospital's gates. Others are carried by friends, or survive the jarring ride over dirt paths in the back of the rare pickup that exists in the Nuba Mountain region of southern Sudan. Most are victims of the war that has been waged from the air against the people of Nuba by the Sudanese government for years. All Nubans know to seek refuge in a foxhole when they hear the drone of the bombers overhead; and they all know, in the aftermath, is to bring the maimed to Dr. Tom Catena, the only surgeon for thousands of square miles.

This is a book about physician burnout. It's also a book about physician engagement. Why? Because these two concepts are deeply connected. When physicians team up with the organizations they work for to pursue mutual goals, they are far less likely to burn out. And when organizations seek to prevent and treat physician burnout, they go a long way toward getting everyone, physicians included, working together to meet the same goals.