The Bedside Manifesto Healing the Heart of Healthcare edition by Jeff Kane MD Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
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“When I was in the hospital I was poked and probed and ultraviolated, but never touched,” a patient told Dr. Jeff Kane.
Over the past forty years he's heard thousands of such stories from patients and their families. They appreciate medicine’s awesome technology, but yearn for low-tech contact. They want their suffering treated as well as their illness.
Dr. Kane shows that our current “healthcare crisis” isn’t fundamentally economic, but social where we’d benefit from skilled doctor-patient contact, we’ve been seduced into overusing expensive, invasive, and often hazardous technologies. The venerable “bedside manner” isn’t simply Marcus Welby congeniality; it’s powerfully therapeutic medicine. Dr. Kane describes it, shows how we lost it, and how we’ll regain it.
The Bedside Manifesto Healing the Heart of Healthcare edition by Jeff Kane MD Health Fitness Dieting eBooks
Thank you for the book, which I just finished...plain common-sense-from-the-heart, that at which you excel. I bought two copies so I can loan them out...anyone needs to read soon, just message me directly or via Jeff. We need just what you advocate: a complete revolution in health care, in healing the split between body and mind, in learning to commune with one another as human beings first and foremost...♥ The wit and humour add greatly to the discussion, as it derails irrational arguments that contradict the heart's common sense and wisdom. The emphasis on the importance of nurturing and paying attention to the value of community--human intimacy ("the sharing of the within")--is missing in almost all other conversations about "health care". Health care involves every part of a person, as Jeff so rightly points out.Product details
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The Bedside Manifesto Healing the Heart of Healthcare edition by Jeff Kane MD Health Fitness Dieting eBooks Reviews
Bravo to Jeff Kane, M.D., author of his newly published ethnography "The Bedside Manifesto Healing the Heart of Healthcare," for illuminating the gradual loss of a therapeutic--"almost sacred"--bond between patients and physicians, largely due to the focus on technology in medical care. As an empathetic and keen participant-observer of his cancer support group member's frustrations and observations, along with the pressures of his medical colleagues, the author sheds important light on a critical barrier to extant American healthcare, the devaluation of the therapeutic bond. Kane puts a human face on this barrier to care through patient and physician narratives and anecdotes, at times quite humorously (I laughed out loud several times). As a cultural anthropologist with a medical emphasis I can tell you that listening without interrupting is considered part of many healing traditions, including the Dine healing process, according to Dine physician, Kathy Morsea. In addition, during my own qualitative and quantitative research at an urban Indian Health Clinic in Sacramento, California I learned that etiquette differences, such as abruptly getting down to business, frequent interruptions, frequently looking at the time, making written notes during discussions, no attention to spiritual welfare, and loud, confident tones can create alienation between patient and medical practitioner. While these etiquette differences may be cross-cultural preferences, they nonetheless reflect Dr. Kane's accounts of poor therapeutic contact. Still, as the author informs us, there is hope that we can heal the heart of healthcare by refocusing on the primacy of therapeutic contact in healing.
If you want to know more about our healthcare system--how and why it has changed so much in the past fifty years and why the system is in so much trouble, this is the book for you. As a proponent of healthcare reform, Kane provides a clear and concise overview of a system that no longer meets the needs of the sick--mostly people who suffer from lifestyle disorders, but instead is managed by insurance companies and overworked, and often sleep-deprived medical professionals. Once the baby boomer generation is gone, no one will be left who remembers house calls, doctors who take the time to listen and get to know their patients, and treatment involving more than a hastily written prescription. As Kane points out, today, the medical system is all about the bottom line. Insurance and pharmaceutical companies are making big bucks, doctors are brainwashed employees following an inflexible system, and patients are suffering the consequences. Take heart; The Bedside Manifesto is also about healing and Kane provides hope--for medical professionals and for "consumers" alike. It provides valuable insight and a prescription for fixing a system that is clearly broken. The Bedside Manifesto should be placed in every doctor's office and hospital waiting room in America.
Excellent look at the neglected side of healthcare delivery. Connecting subjective with the objective = good medicine. A book that should be required reading for all medical students.
The author makes a very strong case that the practice of medicine, properly done, is both a science and a humane art. This is a short book largely consisting of anecdotes, but with study results too. We all will get sick and die sometime, and this book contains material that will help anyone through a difficult time with the healthcare system as it exists now.
Dr. Kane offers common sense views on the role of the healer. He makes it clear that your doctor is not a "health care provider" but another human with the honor and privilege of guiding the patient through illness, wherever that journey may lead. Medical education has long been lacking in training healers and has been more focused on training technicians. Dr. Kane addresses the spiritual aspect of healing and wellness, which may be the most important issue, but is all too often neglected.
In The Bedside Manifesto once again Jeff Kane illuminates the difference between treating an illness and treating a person. In so doing he illuminates the difficulties of the physician's dual role as objective clinician and compassionate human being in today's American health care system, as well the effects on patients.
His observations, insights, anecdotes, and cautionary tales are sure to resonate with both doctors and patients - and, hopefully, to press some deep emotional buttons.
Dr. Kane manages to be informative, funny, moving, heart-breaking and horrifying all in one
thin volume. I wish that everyone touched by illness - doctors, patients, and those close to them - could read this book.
Ruth Cohn Bolletino, Ph.D., psychotherapist
Author of How to Talk with Family Caregivers about Cancer
Thank you for the book, which I just finished...plain common-sense-from-the-heart, that at which you excel. I bought two copies so I can loan them out...anyone needs to read soon, just message me directly or via Jeff. We need just what you advocate a complete revolution in health care, in healing the split between body and mind, in learning to commune with one another as human beings first and foremost...♥ The wit and humour add greatly to the discussion, as it derails irrational arguments that contradict the heart's common sense and wisdom. The emphasis on the importance of nurturing and paying attention to the value of community--human intimacy ("the sharing of the within")--is missing in almost all other conversations about "health care". Health care involves every part of a person, as Jeff so rightly points out.
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