Medical Ethics For Dummies

A comprehensive, evidence-based introduction to the principles and practices of patient communication in a clinical setting

Endorsed by the American Academy on Communication for Healthcare

Updated and expanded by a multidisciplinary team of medical experts, Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing, Third Edition presents a step-by-step methodology for mastering every aspect of the medical interview. You will learn how to confidently obtain from patients accurate biomedical facts, as well as critical personal, social, and emotional information, allowing you to make precise diagnoses, develop effective treatment plans, and forge strong clinician-patient relationships.

The most evidence-based guide available on this topic, Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing applies the proven 5-Step approach, which integrates patient- and clinician-centered skills to improve effectiveness without adding extra time to the interview’s duration.

Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing covers everything from patient-centered and clinician-centered interviewing skills, such as:

• Patient education
• Motivating for behavior change
• Breaking bad news
• Managing different personality styles
• Increasing personal awareness in mindful practice
• Nonverbal communication
• Using computers in the exam room
• Reporting and presenting evaluations

Companion video and teaching supplement are available online. Read details inside the book.

Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care—yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good.

Instead, startling new evidence suggests that one out of every three of our health care dollars is squandered on unnecessary or redundant tests; unproven, sometimes unwanted procedures; and overpriced drugs and devices that, too often, are no better than the less expensive products they have replaced.

How did this happen? In Money-Driven Medicine, Maggie Mahar takes the reader behind the scenes of a $2 trillion industry to witness how billions of dollars are wasted in a Hobbesian marketplace that pits the industry's players against each other. In remarkably candid interviews, doctors, hospital administrators, patients, health care economists, corporate executives, and Wall Street analysts describe a war of "all against all" that can turn physicians, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers, and device makers into blood rivals. Rather than collaborating, doctors and hospitals compete. Rather than sharing knowledge, drugmakers and device makers divide value. Rather than thinking about long-term collective goals, the imperatives of an impatient marketplace force health care providers to focus on short-term fiscal imperatives. And so investments in untested bleeding-edge medical technologies crowd out investments in information technology that might, in the long run, not only reduce errors but contain costs.

In theory, free market competition should tame health care inflation. In fact, Mahar demonstrates, when it comes to medicine, the traditional laws of supply and demand do not apply. Normally, when supply expands, prices fall. But in the health care industry, as the number and variety of drugs, devices, and treatments multiplies, demand rises to absorb the excess, and prices climb. Meanwhile, the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service system reward health care providers for doing more, not less.

In this superbly written book, Mahar shows why doctors must take responsibility for the future of our health care industry. Today, she observes, "physicians have been stripped of their standing as professionals: Insurers address them as vendors ('Dear Health Care Provider'), drugmakers and device makers see them as customers (someone you might take to lunch or a strip club), while . . . consumers (aka patients) are encouraged to see their doctors as overpaid retailers. . . . Before patients can reclaim their rightful place as the center—and indeed as the raison d'être—of our health care system," Mahar suggests, "we must once again empower doctors . . . to practice patient-centered medicine—based not on corporate imperatives, doctors' druthers, or even patients' demands," but on the best scientific research available.

The most thorough and up-to-date psychiatry review available for the USMLE Step 2 CK and psychiatry clerkship exam

800+ board-style questions cover the clerkship’s core competencies

Covering all of the clerkship's core competencies, LANGE Q&A Psychiatry delivers more than 800 exam-style questions and answers with concise but comprehensive explanations of correct and incorrect answer options. The 10th edition of this this trusted review simulates the USMLE Step 2 CK test-taking experience by including 100% clinical vignette questions and updates on the latest therapies for psychiatric diseases and disorders. Questions are carefully selected to match the style and difficulty level of what students will face on the test.

• Build confidence and assess your knowledge with 800+ USMLE-style questions
• Thoroughly updated to match the difficulty level and content of the actual exam
• Review one subject at a time to pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses
• Bolster your preparation with 2 comprehensive practice exams with over 100 questions each
• Keep current with updated content, including coverage of the latest therapies for psychiatric diseases and disorders

Everything you need to excel:

• Clinical vignette questions simulate what you will see on the actual exam
• Student and resident reviewed to make sure you are studying the most relevant material possible
• Questions focus on high-yield material, allowing you to maximize your study time
• Contributions from Psychiatry faculty and residents

Features:

• Instruction on developing a curriculum for Residency training, teaching interviewing skills, teaching psychotherapy and using new technology
• Innovative ways of engaging medical students in psychiatry and developing their interest in the specialty, including experience with new types of elective and research options and development of roles for students in patient care
• Focuses throughout on how to teach rather than what to teach
• Includes descriptions of workplace-based assessments
• Discussions of both theoretical and practical perspectives and examples of particular innovations in the field using case studies

Bysolidifying readers’ conviction of the Bible’s truth, this study helps build solid,personal relationships with God. Today’s believers will be strengthened by crucialPaul’s instructions in the areas of deeds, morality, leadership, and attitude.

PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it!

500 USMLE-type questions and answers!

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Great for course review and the USMLE Step 1, Pharmacology PreTest asks the right questions so you’ll know the right answers. You’ll find 500 clinical-vignette style questions and answers along with complete explanations of correct and incorrect answers. The content has been reviewed by students who recently passed their exams, so you know you are studying the most relevant and up-to-date material possible. No other study guide targets what you really need to know in order to pass like PreTest!

Content that covers all the must-know topics:
General Principles, The Peripheral Nervous System: Autonomic and Somatic, The Central Nervous System, The Cardiovascular System, The Renal System and Diuretics, The Respiratory System: Asthma and COPD, Local Control Substances: Autacoids and Drugs for Inflammatory Processes, The Gastrointestinal System and Nutrition, The Endocrine System, Uterine Stimulants and Relaxants, Anti-Infectives, Cancer Chemotherapy and Immunosuppressants, Toxicology