Physician & Patient

This updated and expanded edition of Dr. Berry’s best seller Lies My Doctor Told Me exposes the truth behind all kinds of “lies” told by well-meaning but misinformed medical practitioners....

Physician burnout annually costs the medical industry—run by insurance companies, administrators, and electronic record systems—$5 billion. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 70 percent of physicians said they would not recommend a medical career to their families....

The two best-selling memoirs (London Call-Out and Doctor in the House) from London GP Alex Rudd, brought together in one hilarious and touching set....

How Do You Feel? follows one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others.

In Neurology Rounds with the Maverick, clinical neurologist Dr. Bernard M. Patten recounts his most profound, entertaining, and uncommon experiences with patients throughout his 34-year medical career....

Every weekend, in Holland’s most popular newspaper, de Volkskrant, renowned science-journalist Ellen de Visser asks a different medical professional to tell her about ‘that one patient’; the patient who changed everything for them....

Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients to illustrate larger societal issues....

How can you protect your right to a balanced life, in a profession that demands perfection? Under constant stress, many doctors sacrifice their own wellbeing to try and provide the best possible care for their patients. Coaching offers a way to immediately start bridging this known gap....

In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor - the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Also Human by Caroline Elton, read by Rachel Bavidge....

This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate who seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and PhD, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona.

The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most....

This book builds on the person-centered medicine movement to promote a shift in the philosophy of care of distress. It discusses the vital importance of whole person health, healing, and growth.

The White Coat Investor is a manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar professionals....

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult patients. People whom, despite all of their patience and persistence and the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven't helped....

While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach....

All Bleeding Stops gives listeners an intimate look at what goes on inside a trauma center, highlighting injuries sustained in car crashes, shootings, and stabbings—basically anything bleeding, obstructed, or perforated....

Despite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses....

While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. This riveting audiobook offers the prescription for getting it right....

A 'textbook with passion', Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence....

Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it's a profound and painful breach....

A world-class oncologist's devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer....

The Inner Consultation, Second Edition sets out the author’s thoughts on how consulting skills, and methods of teaching them, have evolved in the 17 years since the book’s first publication....

Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves.

Author and spine surgeon Dr. David Hanscom has observed that in this era of corporate medicine, surgical decisions are often made quickly, without a complete evaluation or attempt at nonsurgical rehabilitation before proceeding....