Reality Stories of Medicine : Things About Patient Care You Don't Learn at School

This e-book is intended for healthcare providers at any level, students orpractitioners. It contains six chapters of "e;real life"e; medical stories withover 300 observations learned from the day to day life of a practicinginternist and subspecialist. Dr. Gullberg is a physician who has beenaccumulating knowledge about patient care for three decades and spends allof his time daily taking care of patients in the office and hospital, aswell as teaching medical students at all levels. The chapters include: 1)Office or Hospital: Patient observations 2) Views on family members ofpatients 3) Views on the healthcare provider 4) General views on healthcare5) Patient and provider interaction, and 6) Paramedical observations. Someof the viewpoints are sobering, some are humorous, some are soul searching,and some are downright surprising. Many of the stories just give plain,sound advice. With short and easily readable vignettes, this book will helpyou navigate for the years ahead. This e-book is meant to be a pragmaticlook at patient care. It represents a best effort to provide a much-neededbook on the realities of patient care and issues in day to day medical life. The genuine day to day practice of medicine is a long way from medicalschool, PA/NP school, and internship or residency. Some students may say,"e;Why should I read this? How will this book help me run a code blue? Don't Ineed to just read medical journals?"e; That attitude misses the point. Soonafter one starts their career in patient care, one will find that thepractice of medicine is far more than an academic pursuit. A generalunderstanding of these real life observations will serve medical studentsand healthcare providers well for the future. Robert M. Gullberg, M.D., F.A.C.P.