The Health Sciences Faculty Book Display Case is where we have an opportunity to showcase our current faculty authors. This collection consist of books written while our faculty were employed at the Health Sciences Center. If we have missed any books, please reach out to us and share. Our email is: HSC-ScholarlyComm@salud.unm.edu
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A field guide to good decisions : values in action
Mark D. Bennett and Joan McIver Gibson
"Developed over twenty years in settings as diverse as hospital bedsides and corporate boardrooms, A Field Guide to Good Decisions provides the skills to make decisions that reflect one's core values while respecting the values of others - and considering the long-term implications for all participants. Illustrated through many real-life examples that will resonate with readers both professionally and personally, the book offers practical tools and techniques for identifying individual and common goals, reaching consensus, and communicating the results effectively. The authors also show readers how to overcome common obstacles to good decision-making (psychological, cultural, and organization).Ultimately, this book will help us make good decisions about things that can have a powerful effect on our sense of self and our credibility in the eyes of others, as well as on the lives of those touched by the choices we make."--Jacket.
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Essentials of nuclear medicine imaging
Fred A. Mettler Jr and Milton J. Guiberteau
This resource has established itself as the best introduction to nuclear imaging techniques. It is practical, yet comprehensive, covering physics, instrumentation, quality control, and legal requirements. The 5th Edition features a new color format, with many user-friendly features such as Pearls and Pitfalls. More than 600 pictures in digital-quality resolution depict imaging of each body system. A series of Unknown Case Sets, with answers, help test your knowledge.
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Regaining bladder control : what every woman needs to know
Rebecca G. Rogers, Janet Yagoda Shagam, and Shelley Kleinschmidt
"More than 15 million women in America suffer from chronic bladder control problems. Women may tolerate this uncomfortable and embarrassing condition for years, believing their difficulties are "just a part of aging" or that there is nothing they can do about it. Not true! Urinary incontinence is highly treatable. This sensitively written book details medically sound steps that include behavioral changes and exercises that can improve the continence of eight in ten women. These simple "at home" remedies, such as small dietary changes and easy-to-learn pelvic floor exercises, bring many women welcomed relief."--Publisher website (August 2006)
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Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support
Jerome A. Osheroff, Jonathan M. Teich, Donald Levick, Luis Saldana, Ferdinand T. Velasco, Dean F. Sittig, Kendall M. Rogers, and Robert A. Jenders
Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support helps healthcare organizations use clinical decision support (CDS) to measurable improve outcomes, including patient safety, care quality and cost effectiveness. Developed for clinical and information systems leaders and staff, this book helps organizations to determine their CDS program's goals and clinical objectives; catalog local information systems capabilities to achieve goals; select the best approach to address the goals with specific CDS interventions; develop, validate, and deploy the interventions; and monitor and improve the CDS program effectiveness on an ongoing basis. This book includes real-world examples and worksheets to clearly illustrate the steps in the CDS process; rich links to supportive materials, such as literature on CDS programs and Web sites with key data for CDS programs; and a robust glossary of terms and acronyms
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Closing the chart : a dying physician examines family, faith, and medicine
Steven D. Hsi, Jim Belshaw, and Beth Corbin-Hsi
"In 1995 Steven Hsi, an Albuquerque physician, underwent his first heart surgery. Becoming a patient changed his perspective on medicine. He and his friend Jim Belshaw, a patient who was also a writer, planned to write a book about his experiences, but Hsi died before the book could be completed. Belshaw and Hsi's widow have edited the doctor's journals into a book that offers a personal view of illness."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Laws of Invisible Things
Frank Huyler
A young doctor's struggle to understand what appears to be a deadly new virus takes him on a journey into the hinterland between religion and science, leading him to question his beliefs and search for new modes of thinking.
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Abnormal Pap Smears - What Every Woman Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
Lynda Rushing and Nancy Joste
This comprehensive guide for the more than 4 million women each year who experience abnormal Pap smears discusses the relationship of cervical cancer to infection by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) and underscores how crucial Pap smears are for cervical cancer prevention. The book covers the meaning of different Pap-smear diagnoses, ranging from atypical to full-blown cervical cancer. Simple and clear line drawings illustrate pertinent female anatomy and normal-to-abnormal cell changes. Since suboptimal tests can produce misleading results, tips are provided to help women improve their chances of receiving the most accurate Pap smear. This updated edition details the most recent developments in HPV testing, as well as the new liquid-based Pap test. Lastly, the future of Pap smears and cervical-cancer prevention is explored, with special emphasis on the recently approved HPV vaccine. Vital to the book are interspersed personal interviews, which provide firsthand information on women's feelings about their abnormal Pap smears as well as their experiences with cervical disease. These personal vignettes offer insights into the social and emotional effects that often result from an abnormal Pap smear. The first edition was chosen by" Nurse Practitioner" and by "Library Journal" as one of the best books of the year. Now fully updated, this clearly written, very approachable guide fills a vital consumer-health need.
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DMT : the spirit molecule : a doctor's revolutionary research into the biology of near-death and mystical experiences
Rick Strassman
Reviews what is known about psychedelic drugs in general, and DMT in particular. Traces the history of the research project into the effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, an extremely short-acting and powerful psychedelic.
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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
Frank Huyler
Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a compact, faceted gem that shines with intelligence," this stunning collection offers a startling and moving look at people whose lives are on the line and the men and women who try to keep them from crossing it. These twenty-eight vignettes seamlessly juxtapose visceral portrayals of life-and-death medical situations with lyrical meditations on the world of medicine and the world at large.
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The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
Frank Huyler
"The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments - the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter - interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured." "The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors - a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile."--Jacket Show Less
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The Women's Health & Drug Reference
Frederick P. Zuspan, William F. Rayburn, and Jeanne Tashian Fitzgerald
The first reference covering prescription and non-prescription drugs to deal specifically with women, their unique needs met by drugs, and hazards encountered in conception and pregnancy, this book includes information on birth control, pregnancy planning, infertility, menopause, sexually-transmitted diseases, substance abuse, and menstrual disorders. Includes a generic/brand-name cross reference guide.
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Implementing TQM :competing in the nineties through total quality management /
Joseph R. Jablonski
Presents a practical and useful model for implementing change.
