Doctors and other healthcare professionals need to be able to impart bad news well. This book provides practical guidance to create a framework for discussions with the patient and their relatives, and will help doctors learn how to handle what is perceived as a particularly stressful part of the job.
Breaking bad news is a common cause of anxiety for healthcare professionals. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide that will help you fulfil this difficult task as well as possible. This book will introduce you to a new model and mnemonic: S Set the scene U Understand your patient's perspective P Prepare your patient P Pass on the ......
This new edition has been completely revised to take in all the NICE, ESV and ESVS guidelines that have been updated over the last 5 years. It covers all the cardiology a medical student needs to know.
Authentic cases to help prepare students for clinical practice! The cases presented in this updated edition cover the fields of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and psychiatry. They will help to improve clinical decision-making, clinical knowledgeand patient management.
Building on the success of Catch Up Chemistry and Catch Up Maths & Stats, this title, now in its second edition, is an invaluable primer for any student wishing to get up to speed with the biology required for their degree.
This second edition of Catch up Chemistry is essential reading for anyone starting a life or medical sciences degree. It will help you become comfortable with chemical terms and principles, and offers lots of questions (and answers) to test your understanding.
Catch Up Compendium, 3rd edition, contains well over 600 pages of the core background material essential for any student studying courses in the biological and biomedical sciences.
Many students now begin life and medical science degrees with far less mathematical knowledge than they need - and they struggle as a result. This second edition of Catch Up Maths & Stats brings students up to speed with the subject quickly and easily.
This book covers the key techniques that can be employed in any lab with access to cell imaging equipment, even if it does not currently specialize in imaging. It focuses on live cell imaging and light microscopy applications, but is equally relevant to the imaging of fixed specimens.
