You will have partners when you practice medicine but now you have a partner to help you negotiate for that job and enhance your career! This unique book will help new physicians put those years of medical education and training to work and discover. Keys to selecting a job How to evaluate a job offer How to read a contract and what to expect in one Credentialing, licensing and applications tips Negotiating skills Avoiding hidden traps, risks, and agendas that could cost thousands of dollars and affect your career Avoiding and dealing with lawsuits and disciplinary actions If you start your medical practice without paying attention to the business aspects it might cost you tens of thousands of dollars, take years off your career, and jeopardize your marketability and reputation. Avoid those pitfalls with this superb resource. Written by a former chief of Radiology with 17 years of experience in 6 states, there are dozens of invaluable tips in here for optimizing your practice decisions. Getting Down to Business: The New Doctor's Guide is arguably the most valuable book you'll buy during your medical training. Destined to become a classic along with Harrison's, The Washington Manual, and The House of God, Getting Down to Business: The New Doctor's Guide finally fills a critical vacancy in the medical training literature. This easy to read and lighthearted compendium of tips will pay for itself hundreds of times over throughout the new physician's career.

Do you feel that your doctor doesn't pay attention to what you say? Does your doctor cut you off when you try to explain how you feel? Do you think your doctor could remember your name without referring to your chart? Does your doctor seem to be in such a hurry that you don't even get a chance to ask your most important questions? Do you spend more time waiting than actually talking to your doctor? Do you understand what your doctor says? At one time or another, we have all had these complaints. This book will teach you how to ask the right questions, understand the answers, and show you how to take more control of your visits to the doctor and your own health. This is the first book in which communication pioneer Barbara M. Korsch, M.D., reveals what she has learned about the doctor-patient relationship dilemma during almost half a century of investigation. In clear, simple language, Dr. Korsch answers most of our common questions: How do I know when I'm sick enough to go to the doctor? How do I know if it's serious enough to go to the emergency room? What do I do if I can't follow the advice my doctor gives me? She walks us through a typical visit to the doctor, showing us how to prepare ourselves so we don't forget the question that has been worrying us for weeks as soon as we walk through the doctor's door. She gives important tips on how to survive the dreaded hospital experience. And she offers insight into the doctor's side of the relationship, showing how doctors are trained to be task-oriented and how their natural human sympathy is discouraged throughout their careers. Finally, she offers patients useful strategies for humanizing the relationship. Korsch's helpful, commonsense recommendations are extensively illustrated with real-life doctor-patient conversations which she recorded on audio and video tape over the course of the last thirty years. She was one of the first medical professionals to emphasize the importance of teaching doctors how to talk to patients as part of their medical training. She serves as consultant and lecturer to medical schools, hospitals, and medical practices throughout the world to help the next generation of doctors communicate with their patients. Above all, after years of research, she has found abundant evidence that the relationship patients form with their doctors directly determines the quality of the care they receive. This is a vital book for anyone who is concerned about their health and who wants to take control of their medical care. So much depends upon asking the right questions and on finding a doctor who will listen to you. This book gives you the tools and the confidence to do just that.

You're no idiot, of course. Sometimes you just want to relax, clear your head, rest your aching muscles, and rejuvenate your weary soul. You've heard meditation is a great stress reliever, but sometimes it seems so complicated it makes you downright uptight. Relax! Meditation is easy to learn--especially if you rely on The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meditation, Second Edition, as you follow the path to inner peace. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: --Zen techniques, including guided imagery and mindfulness, to help you meditate effectively. --Tips for learning how to use meditation in daily life, including stressful situations, exercise, and fatigue. --An easy-to-understand explanation of the connections between meditation, sleep, and dreams. --Expert advice on how and when to meditate and detailed drawings and diagrams for breathing, positions, and more. --Techniques for meditating to music or modern chants.

You're no idiot, of course. Sometimes you just want to relax, clear your head, rest your aching muscles, and rejuvenate your weary soul. You've heard meditation is a great stress reliever, but sometimes it seems so complicated it makes you downright uptight. Relax! Meditation is easy to learn-especially if you rely on The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Meditation, second edition, as you follow the path to inner peace. In this Complete Idiot's Guide®, you get: - Zen techniques, including guided imagery and mindfulness, to help you meditate effectively. - Tips for learning how to use meditation in daily life, including stressful situations, exercise, and fatigue. - An easy-to-understand explanation of the connections between meditation, sleep, and dreams. - Expert advice on how and when to meditate and detailed drawings and diagrams for breathing, positions, and more. - Techniques for meditating to music or modern chants.

As we enter the second year of COVID in the United States, many of you may think we'll never get a grasp on the pandemic. With a constant barrage of scary COVID news, some of which is misinformation, many people are disillusioned or suffer from downright paralysis and worry that we'll never get back to normal. Director of Body and Mind Medical Center in Chicago, Dr. Dominic Gaziano provides you with the well-researched information you need to protect you and your loved ones in the waning pandemic as well as a pathway to achieve a new normal. With a true understanding of what we're up against, communal persistence and timely action, he knows we can and will defeat COVID. In A Doctor's Guide from Pandemic to New Normal, Dr. G goes over: - 19 reasons you should get the COVID-19 vaccination - What is immunity and why herd immunity is so important - The vaccine development process, specifically for COVID-19 - How COVID affects our bodies - Tip on COVID prevention strategies and embracing a COVID prevention lifestyle - A pathway towards a better and healthier post-COVID world We must practice new health habits to continue the process of rebuilding our communities, businesses, and lives. By understanding these key concepts in this book and sharing this newfound knowledge with your loved ones, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, we can evolve to a new normal which is better informed, safer, and healthier.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The Handbook is divided into three sections: Individuals’ everyday health communication Health professionals’ communicative practices Patient-provider communication in interaction Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication, narrative, and observations of authentic, naturally-occurring contexts. The chapters are written by international authorities representing a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Building on established work with cutting-edge studies on the changing health communication landscape, this volume will be an essential reference for all those involved in health communication and applied linguistics research and practice.