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Books of interest to conference attendees;
carried by the STFM Bookstore. Contact
Mary Ruhl for more information,
800-274-2237, ext 5404 or mruhl@stfm.org.
The Shared Experience of Illness: Stories of Patients, Families, and Their Therapists
Susan McDaniel, PhD; Jeri Hepworth, PhD; William Doherty, PhD
This book, a companion to Medical Family Therapy, grew out of the authors desire to document and learn from that work. Linking the therapists experience with that of the patient and family opens up a new dimension to the case stories. This book courageously breaks down traditional hierarchies and barriers that have separated healthy professionals from patients and their families. Trainees, seasoned clinicians, and lay readers will be deeply moved and inspired by this text. [$42.00]
Understanding and Interpreting Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
Michael Wolkomir, MD
This text is intended to help medical students and residents understand the basic principles of reading electronic fetal monitor strips. The handbook briefly discusses auscultatory techniques, followed by five common and important fetal heart rate abnormalities and diagrammatic description of their physiology and a decision protocol. This handbook could serve as an immediate reference in the labor suite and as an aid to developing the habit of organized interpretation of the electronic monitoring record, based on pattern recognition and an understanding of basic physiology. [$6.00]
Effective Patient Education: A Guide to Increased Compliance, Second Edition
Donna Falvo, RN, PhD
This publication fills the need for a comprehensive text focusing on clinician's skills in implementing patient education. This book offers concrete assistance in a unique approach to patient education, based on the author's experiences as a nurse, psychologist, and faculty member in a family practice residency program. [$30.00]
Patients and Doctors. Life-changing Stories From Primary Care
Jeffrey Borkan, MD, PhD; Shmuel Reis, MD; Dov Steinmetz, MD; and Jack Medalie, MD, MPH
Physicians from around the world share stories of the patients theyll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. The authors thoughtful reflections on a variety of themesfrom suffering to humor to deathhelp us understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. 1999221 pages. ISBN Price: $24.95; order no.: [$24.95]
Patients Are a Virtue
Henry Wentz, MD
This book is a collection of adventures that occurred between 1943 and 1988 during the author's medical training at Jefferson Medical College, internship at Lancaster, Pa. General Hospital, and family practice in Strasburg, Pa and vicinity. Strasburg is a borough of approximately 2,000 persons in suburban Lancaster County with Amish farms dotting the countryside. The experiences are human interest stories demonstrating the response of the physician to the sad and happy times of his patients and their loved ones. These experiences explain some of the benefits, concessions, and feelings of a country family doctor. Unique insights into the Amish and Mennonite culture are portrayed. [$6.00]
Power Eating
Frances Berkoff, Barbara J. Lauer, and Yves Talbot, MD
This book focuses on nutritional regimens for aerobic sports and contains recipes for eating to enhance physical performance and well-being. Useful as a personal reference as well as a reference for sophisticated patients, since the approach is geared to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. [$10.00]
Symptom Management Algorithms. A Handbook for Palliative Care, Second Edition
Linda Wrede-Seaman, MD
A commitment to creating a quality life for our dying patients, or any patient requiring palliative care, has led to the development of the enclosed standing orders. The algorithmic model provides guidelines that allow pharmacists with prescriptive authority to expedite timely costeffective relief of pain and other distressing symptoms. This booklet reflects the content of Providence Hospice of Yakimas standing orders and serves as an educational tool. These algorithms are useful to professionals working in long-term care, home care, outpatient care, or hospital care, oncology, and hospice care. In many cases, these algorithms can benefit patients in general medicine who are not enrolled in hospice care. [$29.50]
Counselling in Health Care Settings
Robert Bor; Riva Miller; Martha Latz, PhD; Heather Salt
Counselling in Health Care Settings conveys a message of hope: that everyone can find a positive aspect to their life, even when facing illness and death. It describes the theory and practice of counselling in this field and addresses the issues that confront individuals, couples, families, and multidisciplinary professional teams. [$24.95]
Integrative Health Care: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for the Whole Person
Victor Sierpina, MD
Patients and health care professionals alike are discovering that often drugs and surgery cant do the job alone. This book will teach you how to talk to your patients intelligently about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), recommend safe and cost-effective treatments for common disorders, maintain your own health using CAM principles, warn patients about unsafe or ineffective regimens, and understand the major CAM modalities and their relationship to conventional therapies. [$29.95]
Improving End-of-Life Care: A Resource Guide for Physician Education
David Weissman, MD
This book is designed to assist medical educators in developing and implementing educational programs in key end-of-life learning domains. Modules include: System Control Modulespain, dyspnea, delirium, nausea, constipation; and Communication Skills Modulesbreaking bad news, setting treatment goals, discussing do not resuscitate orders, conducting a family conference, discussing spiritual issues, cross-cultural care, self-care, and hospice care. [$59.00]
Faith, Spirituality, and Medicine: Toward the Making of the Healing Practitioner
Dana King, MD
This book explores the connection between patient health and traditional religious beliefs and practices. This useful guide emphasizes basic, easily understood principles that will help health professionals apply current research findings linking religion, spirituality, and health. [$15.95]
Family Practice Obstetrics, Second Edition
Stephen Ratcliffe, MD, MSPH; Elizabeth Baxley, MD; Janis Byrd, MD; Ellen Sakornbut, MD
Although it sports a different title this book is an update to the popular text, Handbook of Pregnancy and Perinatal Care in Family Practice. This second edition was written to assist family physicians in providing comprehensive care for their pregnant patients, this exciting new edition covers all aspects of birth care, from preconception counseling and prenatal care, through labor and delivery (both low risk and complicated), to postpartum care and the first month of life. Special emphasis is placed on presenting the latest information using an evidence-based approach. The book presents information that is patientcentered, prevention-oriented, educational, and sensitive to the care of the whole woman and her family. [$59.00]
Physicians Curriculum in Clinical Nutrition, Second Edition
Developed by the STFM Group on Nutrition Education
"In a society where nutritional deficiencies and excesses are common, a competency in nutritional evaluation and counseling should be a core competency of all practicing physicians." This text is a guideline to the most important and basic nutritional objectives. Its easily modified core information provides assistance to faculty in developing curricula for their own programs. [$25.00]
Medical Readers' Theater
Todd Savitt
Physician-patient relationships, organ donation, chronic illness, race and ethnicity, death and dying, and aging are just a few of the topics covered in this text. Consisting of fourteen readers? theater scripts, a step-by-step guide to performing readers? theater, and questions for postperformance discussions, Medical Readers' Theater provides health care professionals, patients, and families an interactive way to explore the context in which health care services are provided. [$22.95]
Motivational Practice: Promoting Health Habits and Self-care of Chronic Diseases
Rick Botelho, MD
Giving health information and advice about changing unhealthy habits works for only a minority of patients. Most patients resist and/or lack motivation to change. Learning when and how to change from a health adviser to a motivational guide can help you accrue a cascade of positive benefits. Use the wealth of ideas in this process textbook to enhance your motivational skills. [$35.00]
Yoga Rx A Step-by-Step Program to Promote Health, Wellness, and Healing for Common Ailments
Larry Payne, PhD; Richard Usatine, MD
Yoga Rx distills an array of postures into an easy-to-use regimen for anyone seeking relief for everything from back pain to the common cold. The book outlines a core program based on research into the science of yoga. With step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations, Yoga Rx provides the ultimate prescription for healing body, mind, and soul [$17.95]
Caring for the Country--Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns
Howard Rabinowitz, MD
This distinct book profiles 10 graduates from the Physician Shortage Area Program of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, who are now practicing family medicine in small rural towns. The author invites pre-med undergraduates, medical students, residents, and family physicians to read the compelling stories of these doctors, who enjoy rich and fulfilling relationships with their patients and their communities. The test brings into focus the true calling of medicine--making a difference by helping others. [$29.95]
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