I Will Never Forget

Author: Elaine C. Pereira
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1938908589
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
It is painfully difficult to watch a loved one decline as dementia ravages their mind, destroying memories, rational thinking, and judgment. In her touching memoir, I Will Never Forget, Elaine Pereira shares the heartbreaking and humorous story of her mother’s incredible journey through dementia. Pereira begins with entertaining glimpses into her own childhood and feisty teenage years, demonstrating her mother’s strength of character. Years later, as Betty Ward started to exhibit bizarre behaviors and paranoia, Pereira was mystified by her mom’s amazing ability to mask the truth. Not until a revealing incident over an innocuous drapery rod did Pereira recognize the extent of her mother’s Alzheimer’s. As their roles shifted and a new paradigm emerged, Pereira transformed into a caregiver blindly navigating dementia’s unpredictable haze. But before Betty’s passing, she orchestrated a stunning rally to control her own destiny via a masterful, Houdini-like escape. I Will Never Forget is a powerful heartwarming story that helps others know that they are not alone in their journey. “Poignant, shocking, and honest … far more than just words on paper. If you or someone you know is living through the hell of dementia, you need this book!” —Ionia Martin, developer of Readful Things Reviews and Alzheimer’s caregiver

Patients I Will Never Forget

Author: Sally Burbank
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940262352
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of hilarious, inspiring, and touching stories about the most unforgettable patients of internist Sally Burbank. Cartoons and quotations add to the fun.

Animals You Will Never Forget

Author: Reader's Digest
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780895770493
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
A collection of 72 animal stories.

Patients and Doctors

Author: Jeffrey M. Borkan
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299163402
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
How patients heal doctors In Patients and Doctors, physicians from around the world share stories of the patients they'll never forget, patients who have changed the way they practice medicine. Their thoughtful reflections on a variety of themes--from suffering to humor to death--help us to understand the experience of doctoring, in all its ordinary and extraordinary aspects. In settings as diverse as Slovenia and Sweden, Cambodia and New Jersey, we learn what makes the healer feel graced with insight or scarred with misadventure. In Washington State, we anguish with patient and doctor alike when a young resident removes a screw from a little boy's foot; on the Israeli-Jordanian border, a woman goes into labor just as the air-raid sirens signal the beginning of the Gulf War. These compelling accounts remind us what is at stake in doctoring, reinforcing the value of stories in the teaching and practice of medicine: to calm, to validate, and to illuminate the human experience. "These stories illustrate humane physicians at their best."--Sharon Kaufman, author of The Healer's Tale

Behind the Screens

Author: Jocalyn Lawler
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1920898255
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Behind the Screens sheds light on the fundamental aspects of basic nursing that have previously been hidden, or taken for granted. The essence of these practices has not been regarded as formal knowledge, partly because there has been no formal language to describe them. Experienced and beginning practitioners will identify with many aspects of this discussion. Professor Jocalyn Lawler argues that the body is a problem in our society, and she examines the intellectual background to the problem. She describes the pattern of relationships between the theoretical concepts of the body, body care, privacy, dirty work, women's work and sexuality. The invisibility of nursing is linked with these concepts and with the lack of an academic discourse on the body as a whole. Drawing on the words of nurses themselves, Lawler describes how they deal with the problem of the body. From the interviews, she articulates the complexity and sophistication at the heart of the way nurses manage the bodies of others. And she coins a term, somology, that provides nursing with a language to describe the crucial social components of skilled nursing care. Readable and important, Behind the Screens adds to knowledge about knowledge and to knowledge about nursing. The work was first published in 1991. It has since been translated into Norwegian as Bak skjermbrettene: sykepleie, og kroppslige problemer, and French as La Face Cachée des Soins: Soins au corps, intimité et pratique.

I Patient

Author: John Cotugno
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642140651
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 59

Book Description
I, Patient is a true account of my experience in our health-care system. The book can help serve as a guide to anyone who is or will become a patient. When I was going through my journey, I received the prayers from many people that helped to heal and change my life. As you read through my book, I hope you will experience the feeling of the Holy Spirit as I did. May God bless you.

Nurses in War

Author: Elizabeth Scannell-Desch
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826193838
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
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Patient boys; and how by patience they become great men

Author: Pamphilius (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patience
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description

Transactions of the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description

The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1931-1937

Author: Alfred Adler
Publisher: Alfred Adler Institute
ISBN: 0971564582
Category : Adlerian psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Adler's journal articles, written between 1931 and 1937, encapsulate the most mature expression of his ideas on theory and practice. Of the twenty-eight articles included in this volume, five are devoted to child development: selection of symptoms, consequences of pampering, prevention of delinquency, and education. Another five cover theoretical issues: self-consistent unity of personality, structures of psychic activity, striving for superiority, and social interest. In three articles about psychopathology, he addresses the neurotic's character, symptoms, and picture of the world, as well as the prevention of neurosis; five more articles contain his ideas on compulsion neurosis, fear of women, alcohol and drug abuse, the mind-body connection, and psychosomatic disturbances. He offers practical diagnostic guidance in two articles about family constellation and earliest recollections. Finally, he provides a dramatic comparison to psychoanalysis, and then a rare insight into the technique of psychotherapy. This volume is an essential resource for anyone wishing to gain an in-depth understanding of Adler's remarkable, timeless insights into human nature and their yet-to-be-realized potential. -- Provided by publisher.