So You Want to Be a Doctor?

Author: Kerry J Breen
Publisher: ACER Press
ISBN: 1742860702
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
So You Want to Be a Doctor? is written specifically for young people who are considering embarking on a medical degree, as well as for those already enrolled. This essential guide covers: Prerequisites for admission into medical school at both undergraduate and graduate-entry level. What to expect as a qualified doctor in Australia today - and what the Australian community expects in its doctors. Life as a student, from the application, selection and interview process, to the pressures of study, advice on managing stress and distress, and where to get help if needed. The 18 medical schools in Australia, their similarities and differences and particular focus or strengths. The Australian health care system and career paths for medical graduates. It includes advice about study methods, financial support, and balancing study with part-time work and a social life, as well as information that is relevant to specific groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, international students and students with a disability. So You Want to Be a Doctor? provides all the information a prospective medical student might need to decide on pursuing a career in medicine and to survive and thrive during the course of their study.

Doctors, Patients, and Society

Author: Martin S. Staum
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205949
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
What moral and legal issues are involved in the physician-patient relationship? What is bioethics? What social and environmental factors are involved in health and disease? An interdisciplinary workshop of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities in May 1980 considered these issues, as well as health care delivery, the history of public health in Canada, conflicting "health cultures," and responsibilities of professionals on the health care team. Participating in the conference were prominent scholars and professionals in social edicine, community health, nursing, law, medical research, medical education, and various academic disciplines. They included Dr. Thomas McKeown, Dr. David Roy, Professor Hazel Weidman, Professor Benjamin Freedman, Dr. Anthony Lam, and Dr. Robert Hatfield.

Doctor's Careers

Author: James Parkhouse
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415046497
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
A unique record of the aspirations, feelings and experiences of a large group of doctors, during a time of considerable changes in emigration, training for general practice, and the position of women doctors.

A Study of Doctors

Author: Michael Balint
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136426973
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Doctor

Author: Andrew Bomback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501338188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability to provide a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine. In sorting through how patients, insurance companies, advertising agencies, filmmakers, and comedians misconstrue a doctor's role, Andrew Bomback, M.D., realizes that even doctors struggle to define their profession. As the author attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing, he examines the career of his father, a legendary pediatrician on the verge of retirement, and the health of his infant son, who is suffering from a vague assortment of gastrointestinal symptoms. At turns serious, comedic, analytical, and confessional, Doctor offers an unflinching look at what it means to be a physician today. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

The Doctor in the Victorian Novel

Author: Dr Tabitha Sparks
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475409
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel. As Victorians came to terms with the scientific revolution in medicine of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the novel's progressive distance from the conventions of the marriage plot can be indexed through a rising identification of the doctor with scientific empiricism. A narrative's stance towards scientific reason, Sparks argues, is revealed by the fictional doctor's relationship to the marriage plot. Thus, novels that feature romantic doctors almost invariably deny the authority of empiricism, as is the case in George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart. In contrast, works such as Wilkie Collins's Heart and Science, which highlight clinically minded or even sinister doctors, uphold the determining logic of science and, in turn, threaten the novel's romantic plot. By focusing on the figure of the doctor rather than on a scientific theme or medical field, Sparks emulates the Victorian novel's personalization of tropes and belief systems, using the realism associated with the doctor to chart the sustainability of the Victorian novel's central imaginative structure, the marriage plot. As the doctors Sparks examines increasingly stand in for the encroachment of empirical knowledge on a morally formulated artistic genre, their alienation from the marriage plot and its interrelated decline succinctly herald the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of Modernism.

Who Is the Doctor

Author: Graeme Burk
Publisher: ECW/ORIM
ISBN: 1770902392
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 559

Book Description
“A joyful celebration of fan love. Unofficial episode guides don’t come much more engaging than this” (Benjamin Cook, co-author of Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale). Doctor Who was already the world’s longest-running science fiction series when it returned in 2005 to huge success. Enormously popular, the BBC show encompasses multiple other genres, from horror to comedy to action and historical adventure, and is loved for its uniquely British wit and clever scripting. Its hero, its monsters, and even its theme song have become pop culture icons. In this volume covering six seasons of the new series, two Doctor Who experts provide insights into everything from the history of the show, including Daleks, Cybermen, and the eight Classic Series Doctors, to a detailed episode guide. As Neil Gaiman complained to the authors, “I have just lost four hours to your blasted book. And I only meant to glance at it.” Allons-y!

When A Doctor Hates A Patient

Author: Enid Rhodes Peschel
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520369564
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

How to Talk to Your Child's Doctor

Author: Christopher M. Johnson
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615923225
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
In this illuminating guide to communicating with your childs doctor, pediatrician Christopher M. Johnson shows parents how to talk more effectively to their doctors about their childrens health.

Essays in Good Practice: Lecture notes in contemporary General Practice - Second Edition

Author: Chris Heath
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
ISBN: 178222971X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1200

Book Description
This is a text book for all doctors but especially GPs, appraisers and registrars. It is written by a 40 year plus front line NHS doctor who for most of his career worked twice to three times the current doctors’ Working Time Directive limited week. Chris Heath has been a Paediatric Lecturer in a teaching hospital, an Anaesthetist, various junior specialists and a GP over 30 years in 3 different practices. He has been a GP Trainer and Appraiser and has seen politics and political correctness harm patients’ interests constantly over the last half of his career. From the way it selects young doctors to the way they are educated and assessed, the best interests of the patient are largely ignored. This is a text book but it also contains home truths, insights and a warts and all appraisal of how to be a good doctor as well as an unbiased assessment of what is wrong with today’s NHS. It also explains why today’s politicians, medical schools and doctors will resist the changes that are needed to put the patients’ needs first again.