Buttaro, T., Tribulsky, J., Bailey, P. & Sandberg-Cook, J. (2011). Primary Care. A Collaborative Practice. New York: Mosby.
This book is written for practitioners and it provides brief overviews of all diseases of adults, their symptoms and tips of primary care. New edition includes such topics as obesity, genetics, emergency preparedness and lifestyle management. It consists of 22 chapters devoted to evaluation and management of skin disorders, eye, ear, nose, oropharynx, pulmonary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic, musculoskeletal, neurologic, endocrine, metabolic, hematologic, rheumatic, infectious and oncologic disorders.
This book covers the majority of diseases and it is a good handbook for any medical worker as well as for any person interested in a particular disease. It should be noted that the language of this book is not very simple and a person who does not have a specialized knowledge finds it quite difficult for reading.
Eschom04. (2012). Limiting Medical Care for the Elderly. Critical Care Nursing. Web.
The author of the article expresses the concern about the rising costs of medical care. The problem is that the government spends too many costs to provide the care to the elderly people while other groups of citizens have to pay too expensive prices for their health. It is quite difficult to find the balance between costs and incomes as far as the majority of population are the elderly people who do not work and are provided a medical care free. The author provides some pieces of advice how to solve this problem. The limitation of inappropriate care and spending money for the healthcare more reasonably are the main means of solving this problem.
This article caters for the medical workers as well as for any citizen who uses healthcare services. Although the author provides strong arguments to attract the reader’s attention to the current problem, he does not provide a reasonable solution of this problem that is the main drawback of the article. This article is written in a simple language that makes it understandable for the ordinary reader.
Larson, J. (2012). Five Ways to Uncover What Your Patients Aren’t Telling You. Nurse Zone. Web.
The author provides the useful information for the medical workers. She points out that the main reason of inappropriate treatment is that many patients conceal their symptoms. Jennifer Larson shares some pieces of advice how to uncover these symptoms. There are five main tips namely using plain language, asking patients to prepare in advance, learning to understand cultural differences, avoiding appearing judgmental and using the teach-back method. This article is written in a simple language and may be used by medical workers on practice.
The author shares her own experience without providing factual proves. It is considered to be one of the drawbacks of the article. Those readers who trust her experience may use all these pieces of advice but they should be very careful as far as these tips may be used not in all cases. Every case is individual and needs a particular approach. Generally speaking, the internet-site Nurse Zone is very useful for nurses as well as for physicians. It provides links to different articles devoting to various subjects concerning medical workers. More than that, it provides the latest news in medicine. Every medical worker may register on this site to be aware of all news and innovations.
Reference List
Buttaro, T., Tribulsky, J., Bailey, P. & Sandberg-Cook, J. (2011). Primary Care. A Collaborative Practice. New York: Mosby.
Eschom04. (2012). Limiting Medical Care for the Elderly. Critical Care Nursing. Web.
Larson, J. (2012). Five Ways to Uncover What Your Patients Aren’t Telling You. Nurse Zone. Web.