Physician Healing

This is a book about physician burnout. It's also a book about physician engagement. Why? Because these two concepts are deeply connected. When physicians team up with the organizations they work for to pursue mutual goals, they are far less likely to burn out. And when organizations seek to prevent and treat physician burnout, they go a long way toward getting everyone, physicians included, working together to meet the same goals.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle. Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness...

In A Physician’s Insights on the Great Physician, Pastor Bayless Conley examines the writings of Luke—a physician who penned both the gospel that bears his name and the book of Acts—to draw insights from how, when, and why Jesus healed the sick. Due to his medical training, Dr. Luke could tell of Jesus’ healing ministry (as well as the Holy Spirit’s healing ministry through the early church) with detail often not used by the other gospel writers. His writings reveal many of God’s promises that you can believe and act upon today.

What if the greatest lessons in healing come when life completely unravels? As a young, healthy physician-in-training studying abroad, she was immersed in discovery—new cultures, new perspectives, and a growing curiosity about what it truly means to heal. She never expected to become her own patient. When subtle symptoms began to emerge, she did what she was trained to do—analyze, assess, and search for answers. But this time, the diagnosis was her own: A brain tumor. A malignant, incurable, life-altering tumor. In Difficult Gifts, this powerful memoir traces an unexpected journey from ...

Dr. Neil Spector, one of the nation’s top oncologists, led a charmed life. He was educated at prestigious universities, trained at top medical centers, and had married the woman of his dreams. It seemed too perfect. And it was. In 1994, it all came crashing down. He and his wife lost two unborn children. And a mysterious illness brought him to the brink of death. In his compelling memoir, Gone in a Heartbeat, Dr. Spector describes in great detail how he was misdiagnosed and, despite being a medical insider, was often discounted by his fellow physicians. As he recounts his own unorthodox ...

Lilian B. Yeomans was a woman who knew both the skill of earthly medicine and the hopelessness of human bondage. Trained as a physician, she spent her life helping the sick, yet found herself trapped in the cruel chains of drug addiction, despair, and physical brokenness. But when human strength failed and medical knowledge could not set her free, she encountered the One she would come to know as the Great Physician—Jesus Christ. This powerful book tells the inspiring story of a doctor who was rescued by divine mercy, restored by the healing power of God, and set aflame with a message ...

Cracking the Cradle is a deeply personal, reflective book about time, family, work, regret, healing, and the quiet discoveries that come late in life. Written from the viewpoint of Harold Laski, M.D., with Carmen Laski, EMT, this book looks at the emotional cost of a life spent working hard, caring for others, building a future, and sometimes missing the very moments that made that future worth building. It is not a book of blame. It is a book of recognition. It asks the question many people eventually face: What happens when the work slows down, the children are grown, the clock grows ...

Ibn Sina saw the human body as a map and the mind as its terrain. He began as a prodigy and became the physician-philosopher who shaped medicine for centuries. This concise, piercing biography traces his ascent from self-taught teenager to author of the Book of Healing and the Canon of Medicine—works that treated diagnosis as anatomy and ethics, treatment as physiology and metaphysics, and illness as a clue to the soul's state. Read this book for clarity, not hagiography. It strips away myth and keeps the brave questions: how did one thinker fuse Greek logic, Persian learning, and Islamic...

A scorchingly frank look at how doctors are made, bringing readers into the critical care unit to see one burgeoning physician's journey from ineptitude to competence. In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor—the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who...

Are you struggling with your health and having difficulty finding answers? HEALING THE HEALER is the story of a physician who, living with multiple sclerosis for more than fifty years, discovered what it takes to heal. She observed the shortcomings of the American medical profession.and why medical students are not receiving the kind of training that includes the lessons of a thousand years of making people well.

He memorized the Quran at ten. He mastered medicine at eighteen. He changed the world forever. Ibn Sina — known in the West as Avicenna — was the greatest physician and philosopher of the medieval world. His Canon of Medicine dominated medical education for six hundred years. His writings on the soul anticipated questions that Descartes wouldn't ask for six more centuries. And his life? His life was as extraordinary as his mind. Born in the golden age of Islamic civilization, Ibn Sina was a child prodigy who became a royal physician before he could vote, a philosopher who reconciled ...

Are you searching for God's Covenant Promise of Divine Healing but need guidance? This book will help you discover the promises of God and what you need to receive them. Whether you need healing or you want to pray for others to be healed, it's through faith in Jesus and the inerrant Word of God that you will find what your heart is searching for. For many years, my family was unable to afford health insurance. The Bible says that God has chosen the poor to be rich in faith. The poor do not have a bank account or health insurance for an arm of strength to trust in. They must look to God for...

In the heart there is a void that nothing in the world can fill — not success, not love, not the accumulation of everything you have ever wanted. You have felt this. The philosopher's name for it is existential longing. Your name for it might be something vaguer: a restlessness you cannot locate, an ache that returns after every distraction, a hunger that doesn't respond to any ordinary food. Seven centuries ago, a scholar in Damascus gave it a precise diagnosis. Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292–1350 CE) was the greatest student of the great Ibn Taymiyya, a man who spent years in prison ...

Would you like to be free of stress, anxiety, all types of physical discomfort, and start enjoying life way more than you do now? Or maybe you want to gain more knowledge about Vagus Nerve and your nerve system in general? Stress, anxiety, and depression have a big impact while accelerating diseases and making people sick. This audiobook is going to be like a tool for people so they can use it to learn how to control and heal their nerve system and explain the importance of Vagus Nerve which has the biggest impact on the health in our inner body.

Doctors work in life-and-death situations every day. But what happens when they encounter something even they can’t explain scientifically? Dreams foretelling future events, apparitions, and other miraculous experiences fill this book, as practicing doctors recount the most unusual moments of their careers. Meant to awe, instruct, and inspire, these tales will convince even the harshest skeptic that there are things beyond this physical world and that sometimes, all we need to do is believe. Physicians’ Untold Stories doesn’t stop at chronicling these occurrences. Scott J. Kolbaba, MD...

At 19 years old, Jordan Rubin was a healthy 6'1" and 180 pounds. Shockingly, his weight fell to just 104 lbs. in a matter of months. His immune system was at an all-time low, as he suffered from Crohn's disease, food allergies, anemia, fibromyalgia, intestinal parasites, and a host of other...

When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall apart? Funny, fresh, and deeply affecting, We Are All Perfectly Fine is the story of a married mother of three on the brink of personal and professional collapse who attends rehab with a twist: a...

Every now and again, one comes across an audiobook that opens the heart and lets the soul sing. Such an audiobook is a window on the wonder and joy, the beauty and the depths of the world around us. Such an audiobook leads us from one jeweled insight to another, like the Genie giving Aladdin a tour of the treasure cave. Once found, such an audiobook joins a precious few in a privileged place on one's bookshelf, to be taken down, re-listened and savored over and over. Soul Medicine by Dr. Judith Boice is exactly such an audiobook.

The Twin Physicians of the Cosmos: How the Ashvins Embody the Divine Art of Healing in Ancient Wisdom explores the rich and fascinating mythology of the Ashvins, the divine twin brothers who embody the ancient art of healing. Revered in Hindu mythology, the Ashvins are considered the celestial physicians who possess extraordinary powers to cure ailments, restore balance, and promote well-being. This book takes readers on a journey through their mythological origins, their roles as divine healers, and the timeless wisdom they offer for spiritual and physical restoration. Drawing from the ...