Saturday, June 29, 2013

When Doctors Don't Know What's Wrong

There's a stimulating article that includes a description by a neurologist of his approach when the workup doesn't point to a specific disease.
See What Doctors Do When They Don't Know What to Do in the blog by Allen Frances, M.D.

Friday, June 28, 2013

Finally got the book up on Kindle and sent announcements. Here's the copy:


To health professionals, their programs, and their families:
I'm a retired psychiatrist in the US.
I hope my Kindle e-book on stress and suicide within the health professions can reach all levels, from student to retiree. The title is
Intravenous Hope, Stat!
We Need to Help Stressed or Suicidal Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Therapists and Their Relatives. 

In this book I emphasize support and prevention, while recognizing the despair of those reaching the end of their coping abilities. The "We" in the above subtitle implies that all of us share a responsibility for health professionals' wellbeing.
This responsibility needs to be borne not only by us as professionals, but also by our patients, our family members, and the general public.
Many thanks for distributing this note to those concerned about stress levels in your profession.

Intravenous Hope, Stat! is on this Kindle page.
Sincerely,
William R. Taylor, M.D. wrbftaylor1@comast.net

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Fascinating look inside a doctor's mind!

This link is to a fascinating post that shows how docs and other health professionals ought to think.
http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/05/30/the-doctors-mind-map/
A whole lot of steps you wouldn't be aware of unless you could read your doctor's mind next time you visit. Dr. Rob Lambert's mind map has a huge number of lines of reasoning, for the care of just one patient.



Saturday, June 15, 2013

Intravenous Hope, Stat! now available


Intravenous Hope, Stat!
We Need to Help Stressed or Suicidal Doctors,
Nurses, Psychologists, Therapists And Their Relatives

You can read excerpts on that site, or on earlier posts here, 
I will be sending email announcements of the book in the next few days.