A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately.

Harm Potential Profile is an adjunct to the therapeutic process and is designed to help psychiatrists, other physicians and licensed mental health professionals to identify persons who are thinking of killing themselves, persons who are thinking of killing family members or others along with themselves, and potential terrorists who are thinking of killing others. The Harm Potential Profile provides an insight into the patient's subconscious mind and...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the use of patient-/person-centred communication in providing healthcare for ageing populations through an ethnographic approach to physician in-home medical consultations in Tokyo, Japan, alongside interviews with physicians. It focuses on illustrating how linguistic dimensions of person-centred communication work by citing examples of case studies, as well as the sociocultural differences between the...

Relation patients-médecins : des professionnels de la santé racontent Une parole autour de ce que l'auteur - un médecin généraliste - a de plus intime : l'amour de la vie, l'amour des hommes et des femmes qu'il croise, un certain point de vue sur le bonheur... Par petites touches, ce récit tendre, émouvant, drle, réaliste, nous ouvre à l'humanité de l'autre, qu'il soit soignant ou patient. Il nous raconte l'essence même d'un métier...

Macy Sorensen works hard as a new pediatrics resident, plans a wedding to an older, financially secure man, and keeps her heart tucked away. When she runs into Elliot Petropoulos, the first and only love of her life, the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. As teenagers, Elliot and Macy spent lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and...

After her daughter contracts a fatal disease, Charlotte O'Keefe must confront some serious questions that ultimately lead to one final epiphany: what constitutes a valuable life.

"She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she€s searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can€t begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she€s newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend€s dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer herself up she goes in search of her birth mother....

"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where...