Slow Medicine

2017 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Victoria Sweet
Release : 2017
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 592/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Slow Medicine written by Victoria Sweet. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quarter-century that Victoria Sweet has been a doctor, 'healthcare' has replaced medicine, 'providers' look at their laptops more than at their patients, and the ruthless pursuit of efficiency has vanquished the effectiveness of treatment. Victoria Sweet knows that there is an alternative way, because she has lived and practised it. In her new book, she reflects with compassion, wit, and profound insight on experiences drawn from her time in medical school, internship, and residencies, the path to the 'slow medicine' in which she has been pioneer and inspiration.

God's Hotel

2013-04-02 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Victoria Sweet
Release : 2013-04-02
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 549/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book God's Hotel written by Victoria Sweet. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—“anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God’s Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern “health care facility,” revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.

My Mother, Your Mother

2009-10-13 Family & Relationships

Author : Dennis McCullough
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Download or read book My Mother, Your Mother written by Dennis McCullough. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] geriatrician’s guide to stepping in as escort, caregiver and advocate for your parent’s final journey . . . comforting in its compassion and detail.” —St. Petersburg Times Geriatrician Dennis McCullough has spent his life helping families to cope with their parents’ aging and eventual final passage, experiences he faced with his own mother. In this comforting and much-needed book, he recommends a new approach, which he terms “Slow Medicine.” Shaped by common sense and kindness, grounded in traditional medicine yet receptive to alternative therapies, Slow Medicine advocates for careful anticipatory “attending” to an elder’s changing needs rather than waiting for crises that force acute medical interventions—an approach that improves the quality of elders’ extended late lives without bankrupting their families financially or emotionally. As Dr. McCullough argues, we need to learn that time and kindness are sometimes more important and humane at these late stages than state-of-the-art medical interventions. My Mother, Your Mother will help you learn how to: Form an early and strong partnership with your parents and siblings Strategize on connecting with doctors and other care providers Navigate medical crises Create a committed Advocacy Team Reach out with greater empathy and awareness Face the end-of-life time with confidence and skill Although taking care of those who have always cared for us is not an easily navigated time of life, My Mother, Your Mother will help you and your family to prepare for this complex journey. This is not a plan for getting ready to die; it is a plan for understanding, for caring, and for helping those you love live well during their final years. And the time to start is now.

Slow Medicine

2015-01-27 Cooking

Author : Michael Finkelstein
Release : 2015-01-27
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 830/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Slow Medicine written by Michael Finkelstein. This book was released on 2015-01-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dr. Michael Finkelstein masterfully guides us through the 77 questions that connect the dots of our lives.” — Dr. Mehmet Oz, Vice Chair and Professor of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Columbia “Everyone should read Slow Medicine.... Dr. Finkelstein is a visionary practitioner, with decades of experience combining a scientist’s perspective with common sense and wisdom. Slow Medicine represents a superbly insightful advancement in the literature of Integrative Health. It is important, fun to read, and potentially life changing.” — Andrew Weil, MD “Living a life of unthinking habit can lead to unhealthy outcomes, emotionally and spiritually as well as physically...Finkelstein’s queries reflect an approach that may start with one’s physical habits...but then go much deeper. Answering [them] may lead the way to a healthier, more aware life.” — Energy Times

Incurable and Intolerable

2009-05-08 Medical

Author : Jason Szabo
Release : 2009-05-08
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 107/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Incurable and Intolerable written by Jason Szabo. This book was released on 2009-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace? Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those of doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented and well-written history illuminates the physical, emotional, social, and existential consequences of chronic disease and terminal illness, and offers an original look at the world of palliative medicine, politics, religion, and charity. Revealing the ways in which history can shed new light on contemporary thinking, Jason Szabo encourages a more careful scrutiny of today's attitudes, policies, and practices surrounding "imminent death" and its effects on society.

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