Home Visits: A Return to the Classical Role of the Physician - Couverture souple

Stillman, Alfred E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846190746 ISBN 13 : 9781846190742

Editeur : Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

This book exposes the realities of life for home-bound patients and their doctors. Offering personal reflections and experiences, case studies and research, it paints a very powerful and human picture of this often ignored sector of the community. The result is a call to action for policy making, funding and support for healthcare workers doing home visits. "Home Visits" is enlightening reading for all health and social care professionals from Alfred E Stillman, MD, co-founder of Home Visit Doctors in Philadelphia, and Master of the American College of Physicians. It is also invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students, healthcare policy makers and shapers and patient rights groups. "I need to write this book to make people (the public and even my own colleagues in healthcare) aware of what I and a small group of geriatricians dedicated to home care practice, do to take care of and bring comfort to a large group of anonymous people. These patients, due to physical ailments, cognitive disability or lack of social support would not be able to obtain medical care today. This is not due to lack of insurance but because they simply cannot get to a doctor's office and the doctor can't or won't come to them" - Alfred E Stillman, in the Preface.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Master of the American College of Physicians, Private medical practitioner, 'Home Visit Doctors', Philadelphia

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846190746
• ISBN 13: 9781846190742
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible