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This title was Highly Commended (Basis of Medicine category) in the BMA Awards 2005. A highly practical account of communication for medical students, backed up with numerous case histories. In addition to the clinical interview the book covers other aspects of communication including how to promote healthy behaviour and the need for the doctor to work as part of the health care team. Reflects current importance of communication skills in curriculum. Highly practical approach. Accessible information with summary points. Covers needs for both hospital and general practice setting. Written specifically for medical students, unlike many of the competing books. Additional practical examples. More material on: professionalism; Mental Capacity Act; risk; the 'expert' patient.
‘Men’s lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially – as lawyer and politician. Woman’s function is to pour oil on the wounds – to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.’
A highly readable, in-depth analysis of the public life of Dame Margaret as wife of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. After a brief intro on her wartime public activities, the book brings to the fore her active political campaigning during Lloyd George's peacetime Premiership from 1918 to 1922.
Hemlock Th rones, he who discerns Let us say you are a detective in the Victorian age of 1899 how do you go about solving a crime? Well, lets see: you do not have a telephone, an auto, fi ngerprints, crime labs, computer but you are blessed with the ability to read people, and undress their body language even before they themselves, know what they are wearing. Is that enough for Th e Case of Six? It is very complicated! Are you able to analyze what was done, how it was accomplished, and put it all together with your ability to.discern the motive, fi nd the parts, fi t them into the puzzle? If you can do all those things you are Hemlock Th rones. And your friend, Doctor Marco Marconi, told this story about lovely, tormented Dulcy.