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Selection and recruitment in the healthcare professions : research, theory and practice
How we recruit future healthcare professionals is critically important, as the demand for high quality healthcare increases across the globe. This book questions what the evidence tells us about how best to select those most suited to a career in healthcare, ensuring that the approaches used are relevant and fair to all who apply.
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The paradox of hope
Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions. Cheryl Mattingly proposes a narrative phenomenology of practice as she explores case stories in this highly readable study. Depicting the multicultural urban hospital as a border zone where race, class, and chronic disease intersect, this theoretically innovative study illuminates communities of care that span both clinic and family and shows how hope is created as an everyday reality amid trying circumstances.
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Medicine
Explores careers in the medical field, discusses a typical work environment, and describes the educational requirements for each.
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Fixing the Image
Traces affective and aesthetic dimensions of medical imaging
technologies
Introduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of
socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval,
ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine.
Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information
and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image
Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to
theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban
landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology
as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled
diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers
stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly
for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of \"fixing\"-which
invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one
is addicted-to illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with
practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the
Image thus provides a method for studying technological practice in
terms of specific materialities and capacities of technologies-in
this case, image production and the permeability of the
body-illuminating how images are a material form of engagement
between patients, between patients and their doctors, and between
patients and their bodies.
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From Detached Concern to Empathy
Physicians recognize the importance of patients' emotions in healing yet believe their own emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are too detached. The book argues that by empathizing with patients, rather than detaching, physicians can best help them. Yet there is no consistent view of what, precisely, clinical empathy involves. This book challenges the traditional assumption that empathy is either purely intellectual or an expression of sympathy. Sympathy, according to many physicians, involves over-identifying with patients, threatening objectivity and respect for patient autonomy. How can doctors use empathy in diagnosing and treating patients without jeopardizing objectivity or projecting their values onto patients? The book develops an account of emotional reasoning as the core of clinical empathy. It argues that empathy cannot be based on detached reasoning because it involves emotional skills, including associating with another person's images and spontaneously following another's mood shifts. Yet it argues that these emotional links need not lead to over-identifying with patients or other lapses in rationality but rather can inform medical judgement in ways that detached reasoning cannot. For reflective physicians and discerning patients, this book provides a road map for cultivating empathy in medical practice. For a more general audience, it addresses a basic human question: how can one person's emotions lead to an understanding of how another person is feeling?
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Medical education during pandemics: a UK perspective
Keywords: COVID-19, Medical education, Pandemics, Teleteaching, Telemedicine
Journal Article
Healing Together
Kaiser Permanente is the largest managed care organization in the country. It also happens to have the largest and most complex labor-management partnership ever created in the United States. This book tells the story of that partnership-how it started, how it grew, who made it happen, and the lessons to be learned from its successes and complications. With twenty-seven unions and an organization as complex as 8.6-million-member Kaiser Permanente, establishing the partnership was not a simple task and maintaining it has proven to be extraordinarily challenging.
Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie, and Paul S. Adler are among a team of researchers who have been tracking the evolution of the partnership between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions ever since 2001. They review the history of health care labor relations and present a profile of Kaiser Permanente as it has developed over the years. They then delve into the partnership, discussing its achievements and struggles, including the negotiation of the most innovative collective bargaining agreements in the history of American labor relations.Healing Togetherconcludes with an assessment of the Kaiser partnership's effect on the larger health care system and its implications for labor-management relations in other industries.
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