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This book
helps clinicians at all levels bring
compassion and joy back to patient care!
Today's
practitioners are so busy they often feel
they don't have time to give patients the
best clinical care and the
compassionate attention patients deserve.
Through engaging and inspiring stories, Dr.
Harpham shares insights and advice about
words and actions that take only seconds to
say or do, yet can make a world of
difference to patients.
"Accessible,
insightful and compassionate. With gentle
humor and tough love, Dr. Wendy Harpham
takes doctors and patients by the hand and
teaches us how to build a potentially
life-saving bridge between the human being
in the white coat and the human being in the
paper smock. I'll be recommending this book
to every survivor I know and handing a copy
to my oncologist at our next visit."
Joni Rodgers, survivor, author Bald in
the Land of Big Hair
To see
the publisher's page on Only 10 Seconds
to Care,
click here.
Table of
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Praise for Only 10 Seconds to Care
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"Dr. Harpham is uniquely
qualified to give an insiders view of
healthcare that can help survivors be more
effective paitents and imporve how
clinicians deliver medical care. We support
Dr. Harpham's efforts to advocate for cancer
survivors so they can live life on their own
terms. By sharing these stories of
survivorship, Dr. Harpham is empowering
people with infomration that can benefit
them personally and offering valuable
lessons for ways we can effect change in our
healthcare system."
Doug Ulman,
President/CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation
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"...her
message is timely, not just for her
physician colleagues, but all healthcare
professionals, in any specialty. The
simplicity of her suggestions on what ot say
or do is pracical and easily integrated into
daily encounters.... As the title suggests,
caring is possible in brief moments and this
book can be read in brief moments reminding
us of the importance of the clinican-patient
bond."
Brenda Nevidjon, MSN,
RN, FAAN, President, Oncology Nursing
Society and Clinica
Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
"...Only 10
Seconds to Care should be required
reading at every medical and nursing school
in the country. Dr. Harpham not only
explains which communication techniques are
useful, she takes the reader inside the
patient's perspective so that we understand
why. Like the communication she advocates,
this book is a quick read, lucid and, at
times powerful...She's got the compass and
map for those of s in the bewildering forest
of health professional - patient
relationships.
Doug Ulman, director
of survivorship Lance Armstrong Foundation
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"Dr. Wendy Harpham has
written another engaging and informative
book -- this time aimed at health
professionals. From her vantage point on
both sides of the stethoscope, she provides
insights into the clinician-patient
relationship that are funny, accurate and
sometimes painful!. A must read for
physicians-in-training, as well as for
seasoned clinicians."
Patricia A. Ganz, MD,
Professor, UCLA School of Medicine and
Public Health
"Wendy
Harpham moves seamlessly between patient and
physician sides of medical encounters,
offering gentle and useful advice to
physicians about how much caring can happen
in literally 10 seconds. Harpham's use of
her illness experiences to teach her medical
colleagues what patients are feeling is a
gift to the medical profession."
Arthur W. Frank,
survivor, author At the Will of the Body
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