University Press of America
Pages: 230
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Trim: 6⅛ x 9
978-0-7618-2119-9 • Paperback • December 2001 • $72.99 • (£56.00)
Valerie Mirvis is a Social Worker in Jewish Care's North West London Area Team. She has received the rare honor of becoming the first person without medical qualifications to be elected to the Council of the London Jewish Medical Society.
Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 The Mirror and the Pinhole
Chapter 5 It Takes Two to Tango
Chapter 6 Nature and/or Nurture?
Chapter 7 Nurture and Know-how
Chapter 8 Please Don't Break My Other Leg!
Chapter 9 Do We Have the Green Light?
Chapter 10 Bedside Manners
Chapter 11 Einstein's Other Theory of Relativity
Chapter 12 Play it by Ear
Chapter 13 Body Language
Chapter 14 I Cannot See for Looking
Chapter 15 Hearing Aid
Chapter 16 Funny Ha Ha
Chapter 17 Direct Your Heart to Heaven
Chapter 18 The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
Chapter 19 The Reluctant Visitor
Chapter 20 Puppet on a String
Chapter 21 A Spoonful of Advice
Chapter 22 Empathic Patients
Chapter 23 Notes
Chapter 24 About the Author and Illustrator
Her book explores the relationship between health professionals, patients and their visitors, and looks at factors that can enhance and hinder empathy, providing useful examples that could form the basis for workshops on communication skills. . . . This book will be particularly interesting to clinical nurses.
— Nursing Times
The excellent style leads the reader smoothly through the book...All in all it is an enjoyable book, which certainly has to be read by professionals who regularly have to deal with very ill patients.
— Progress In Palliative Care
. . . the book is aimed at helping healthcare professionals, such as hospital consultants, to be more sensitive to the feelings of their patients. But it is also invaluable to anyone who encounters someone who is bereaved, or in any way sick, frail, orvulnerable.
— The Jewish Chronicle, UK
. . . the book is aimed at helping healthcare professionals, such as hospital consultants, to be more sensitive to the feelings of their patients. But it is also invaluable to anyone who encounters someone who is bereaved, or in any way sick, frail, or vulnerable.
— The Jewish Chronicle, UK
Her book explores the relationship between health professionals, patients and their visitors, and looks at factors that can enhance and hinder empathy, providing useful examples that could form the basis for workshops on communication skills. . . . This book will be particularly interesting to clinical nurses.
— Nursing Times
The excellent style leads the reader smoothly through the book...All in all it is an enjoyable book, which certainly has to be read by professionals who regularly have to deal with very ill patients.
— Progress In Palliative Care