Book: When Doctors Finally Said No

 

When Doctors Finally Said No: The physicians' oath "Do no harm" is attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, but it isn't a part of the Hippocratic Oath. It is actually from another of his works Of the Epidemics.

Hippocrates' Of the Epidemics says: The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future – have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

In this work, Hippocrates acts as a prognosticator, raising concerns about not just one malady and one patient, but encompassing the past, present and future of many patients and the maladies they might face.

Following this rationale, this book, When Doctors Finally Said No, came to be. Although fiction, these true, medically related stories weave together a movement that is building barriers between doctors and their patients by using criteria based on outcomes instead of efforts.

The oath, once the bedrock of this still unpredictable science has now become its Achilles heel. Many of those in the federal government, the insurers, the hospital corporations and the bottom-feeders from the legal community feel they can legislate, regulate, administrate and litigate without real concern what harm might come from their actions, because doctors pledged to do no harm.

Hippocrates' pronouncements laid out an additional duty for doctors beside do no harm and that is doing nothing.

 

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eBook & Book: Chasing the Ponytail

 

Chasing the Ponytail: Those of us who grew up in our small Texas town in the 1950s and 1960s, were witness to a very special time when our word was our bond, relationships were meant to last and being 'bad', at most, earned one a night in the local calaboose. In those days, Waxahachie, Texas was the center of my universe and, in many ways, still is.

My latest novel, Chasing the Ponytail, goes back to those treasured times when I first met and went steady with the girl with the long blonde ponytail and not one, but two, dimples. Unfortunately, she expected more out of me, losing her because I wasn't able to get my priorities straight. Realizing, that if I wanted to win back her heart, my selfish ways had to change. But first, there was a lot of growing up to do on my part!

Chasing the Ponytail, is now available at the CreateSpace eStore, Amazon.com, Kindle download, and the optical shop adjacent to my Medical City office in Dallas.

 

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eBook: In Search of Medicine’s Moral Compass

 
This book gives you the opportunity to step into the shoes of a dedicated third-generation physician and see the changing nature of  health and medical care through his eyes.  —Texas Medical Association

In Search of Medicine’s Moral Compass charts the delivery side of health care to its beginnings to the present. In an age where uncertainty rules the day, Rob Tenery, MD has given us an eBook that explains how health care has evolved into a $2.6 trillion enterprise. He does so with carefully researched histories and a series of challenging and thought-provoking commentaries on the most important issues of the day.

Dr. Mayos Boy is an extraordinary book. By telling a spellbinding story of three generations of physicians, Rob Tenery traces the evolution of health care in this country and shows how much medicine has gained—and lost—in the past hundred years. Highly recommended! — Dean Ornish MD Founder and President of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute University of California, San Francisco
 
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eBook & Book: Bedside Manners: A Compendium of Physician Relationships

 

Bedside Manners: A Compendium of Physician Relationships The 99 axioms described in Bedside Manners: A Compendium of Physician Relationships are reminders that the practice of medicine is not just about the science and the art, but physicians' deportment as well. Morality is reasonably constant. Whereas, etiquette is behavior determined by social norms that are similar but clearly not the same. Physicians are bound to act on what is morally good. How they follow the precepts of proper etiquette may vary depending on their ability to cope and connect--- their bedside manner. The exploding science, a doubting public that often assesses blame on poor outcomes, the competitive business environment and increasing regulatory interventions, all test physicians' dedication. Still remaining are time-tested precepts that serve as guideposts for physician interaction, not only with their patients and their peers, but also with all those that they develop a relationship.

 
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