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Archives: Books
Labor Day Gift:”You’re Getting Older…And Smarter,” Expert Says
By Cheree Cleghorn, Editor
Just in time for Labor Day, there is great news for all adults.
A noted aging expert says we will be healthier, happier and smarter if keep working our whole lives — whether paid, volunteer or part-time.
“Life is so much about the choices you make,” he also says.
We are not all doomed to [...]
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, News, You, the Patient
When The Doctor Gives A Patient Devastating News
AfterShock: What to Do When The Doctor Gives You—-or Someone You Love—-a Devastating Diagnosis, by Jessie Gruman, Ph.D.
This is an A+ book.
The Patient Report’s Basic Book List is purposely kept small, focusing on books which we believe are worth your time and enable you go right to work on your concern. AfterShock is only the [...]
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, How To Speak Doctor, News, Patient's Own Decision-Maker, You, the Patient
Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of American Medicine, by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Why second (or additional) medical opinions save lives or improve care.
Jerome Groopman, M.D., is a Harvard medical professor, New Yorker staff writer and author.
Groopman tells stories of patients and patient’ family members under terrible pressure to make decisions about treatment who manage to get other medical opinions first. He shares a story about himself [...]
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, You, the Patient
Learn from Doctor’s Sad Loss
Even a physician did not swing into action fast enough to save her husband. This book is her advice about what people need to do now.
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, You, the Patient
Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness, by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Harvard professor explains why true hope is important to every patient. Note. True hope.
Jerome Groopman, M.D., is a Harvard medical professor, New Yorker staff writer and author.
The New England Journal of Medicine gave it an outstanding review.
There is a television series in the works.
Groopman may be one of only a handful of doctors who [...]
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, You, the Patient
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life, By Ira Byock, M.D.
Do you worry about having some say about how your life ends? Book and website info here.
Paging Dr. Byock.
Go along with him as he sees patients. You will get a firm grasp on how dying well is possible with the right medical care.
He loves his patients. You can tell. He may love them best when [...]
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, You, the Patient
How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Jerome Groopman, M.D., is a Harvard medical professor, New Yorker staff writer and author.
This is an A+ book for patients who want to work with their doctors.
Michael Crichton, a novelist and an M.D. who does not practice, has done your book notes for you in this review. You can read without worrying about underlining the [...]
Topics: Books, Friends & Families, How To Speak Doctor, You, the Patient
Train Your Brain, Change Your Brain: How New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, by Sharon Begley
Important brain research made easy. Wish we had had this during our struggles with algebra.
Overview
Alert ! This book does not apply to current brain-injured patients. This is too new for treatments to have been developed. Your brain isn’t hardware. It is software.
This new book will grab you and not let you go. The new [...]
Topics: Books, You, the Patient
