The doctor's office becomes a fear-free, tear-free place of fun and fantasy with this book. Endorsed by pediatricians, nurses, and child life specialists, use this book to prepare for your visit, then celebrate that the doctor's office is NOT SCARY! Beautifully illustrated with bright, stimulating colors and adorable characters. Great for all ages!

(NOT) Scary Stuff at the Doctor's Office is bursting with ways to ensure your little one a tear-free, fear-free adventure into healthcare. This gentle introduction to a child's first experience at the pediatrician makes complex equipment and treatment into whimsical analogies and magical thinking. Empowered little ones can approach medicine with courage and curiosity rather than anxious worry. Endorsed by pediatric healthcare heroes, these reassuring tips and informative ideas will be appreciated by parents and healthcare practitioners alike.

From the parking lot to the exam room, doctors can improve the physical surroundings for their patients, yet often they do not. Given the numerous and varied duties doctors must perform, it may fall to the design profession to implement changes, many based on research, to improve healthcare experiences. From location and layout to furnishings and positive distractions, this book provides evidence-based information about the physical environment to help doctors and those who design medical workspaces improve the experience of health care. Along with its research base, a special aspect of this book is the integration of relevant historical material about the office practice of physicians at the beginning of the twentieth century. Many of their design solutions are viable today. In addition to improving the physical design of healthcare facilities, author Ann Sloan Devlin is the granddaughter, daughter, and niece of physicians, as well as the granddaughter and daughter of nurses. She worked in a hospital during college, and has visited a good many practitioners’ offices in medical office buildings and ambulatory care settings. This book addresses an overlooked location of care: the doctor’s office suite.

Picture this: San Fernando, Trinidad, 1920. Longing for the tropics, the young medicus Dr. Vincent Tothill signs up with the Colonial Service and comes to southern Trinidad, where he first works in the oilfields, then in the sugar factory, and eventually sets up private practice. With Scottish wit and a subtle feel for the local parlance, he describes the people he meets and the events that mark the highlights of his sojourn. Tothill will make you laugh out loud with his sometimes picaresque adventures, but his diary is also a valuable anthropological and historical document, describing the language and customs of Trinidadians in that period and the shortcomings that of the medical service of the Colonial Government. This book was first published by Blackie & Sons in Scotland and is lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, some taken by Dr. Tothill himself, and others added from Paria Publishing's extensive archives.

Fiction.In Spring, 1967, Jenny Havener, a young newlywed in Washington, DC, finds herself deserted by her husband. Her parents, ashamed and eager to find him, take Jenny on a search through the Virginia countryside. Their travels lead them to the rural community of Glen Allen. Jenny doesn't find her husband, but she meets a disabled African-American baby with whom she falls in love on sight. She abandons her search for her husband, parts way with her parents (who worry she is becoming unhinged) and settles in Glen Allen for the purpose of spending as much time as possible with the child. She settles into an abandoned furniture store and defies the community's growing suspicions about her reasons for being there. As her obsession about the baby grows, a battle of wills erupts between Jenny and the child's guardians--his elderly, impoverished great-grandparents--leading to Jenny's attempts to claim the baby as her own.

This activity book accompanies everyone's favorite first experience book "(NOT) Scary Stuff at the Doctor's Office." Complex equipment and treatment are explained as analogies, and with magical thinking. This empowers little ones to approach medicine with courage and curiosity rather than fear and anxiety. It is bursting with reassuring tips and informative ideas that will be appreciated by parents and healthcare practitioners alike. Read the book and have your little one color along!

Invisible Visits analyzes why Black middle-class women continue to face inequities in securing fair, equitable, and high-quality healthcare. Unlike other works on health disparities, it integrates social science, public health, and the humanities to better understand why Black women do not receive a proper standard of care at the doctor.