Only 10 Seconds to Care
Only 10 Seconds to Care
Wendy S. Harpham, MD., FACP
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Compassion is the key to good medical care. But today's practitioners are so busy they often feel they don't have to time to give patients the best clinical care and the compassionate attention they deserve.
This book delivers the help health care professionals need. Through engaging and inspiring stories, Dr. Harpham -- internist and survivor of chronic cancer -- helps readers think and talk about everyday problems in patient care. She encourages readers to engage the healing power of compassionate words and actions that take only seconds to say or do but can make a world of difference for patients. Only Ten Seconds to Care will help clinicians at all levels bring compassion and joy back to patient care!
Jane E. Brody, New York Times
In her new book, "Only 10 Seconds to Care: Help and Hope for Busy Clinicians" (ACP Press), Dr. Wendy Schlessel Harpham combines her experience as an internist and her nearly 18 years of experience as a cancer patient to show how simple actions and well-chosen words on the part of medical professionals can make an enormous difference in a patient's emotional and physical well-being.
curetoday.com
Wendy understands the psyche of physicians and the enormous time pressures today's physicians feel. The stories in the book illustrate words and actions that take only seconds but can make a world of difference to patients. It also helps us (survivors) to understand how clinicians function and why, sometimes, they act like they do.