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Tysiąc-Miśta, M., & Dziedzic, A. (2020). The Attitudes and Professional Approaches of Dental Practitioners during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Poland: A Cross-Sectional Survey. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(13), 4703 (COVID)....

What we get is an engaging narrative about doctors past and present, which at times reads like a sensational reportage. For the Polish reader, the book was translated by Piotr Jędrusik, MD, undoubtedly the best medical translator in our country, who combines...

The first publication on lifestyle medicine written on the basis of the latest EBM research. It contains reliable information on healthy lifestyle and how to effectively recommend it to patients. It shows its impact on the therapy and prevention of civilisation diseases,...

Patients referred to him as Judas Thaddeus, the patron saint of difficult and hopeless cases. Because Professor Romuald Dębski was no ordinary obstetrician-gynaecologist. Rather, he was the last chance for motherhood. Women who had been trying unsuccessfully for years to get pregnant ...

"The notes and reflections collected in these chapters - deliberately heterogeneous - are also attempts to clarify and understand one's own curriculum and its various conditions". This is how the book Wanderings under the Sign of the Scorpion, which is being presented to the reader, is written about by its...

The book "Sick People and Doctors in My Life" contains the observations and experiences of a practising doctor working in a so-called service centre during the communist era, a military doctor, I should add. He talks about the interrelationship between patients and doctors, among other things he talks about the so-called gratitude...

A story of love and medical dilemmas. "No Heaven" is an unpredictable story about doctors, their patients and the relationships between them - the exhausting sense of responsibility, empathy, an excess of which can become a force that destroys both parties,...

The shocking story of a doctor who became a patient and discovered the extent of medical anaesthesia. What are doctors not telling us? Do they always give us the right medication? Are they concerned about our condition? What do they really think of us - the patients? She was lying on the operating table....

This book is a selection of the most interesting, moving, unusual and surprising events witnessed by its author - Wiesław Mikuś, a physician anaesthetist working in hospitals in Zamość, Szczebrzeszyn and Biłgoraj. As a man who likes people and...

The moving story of a prominent neurologist who faced the terminal illness of her husband, a doctor. In 2011, Dr Lisa Shulman's husband, Dr William Weiner, was diagnosed with cancer. He died seventeen months later. They were both neurologists. Suddenly they went from being doctors to...

Do people who have committed unimaginable atrocities still deserve help and care? Absolutely yes! It is a doctor's duty to prevent human suffering. Even the suffering of those convicted of the greatest crimes in history. Doctor ...

What was an abortion and how was it to be treated? What were the most commonly used methods of abortion? How did peasants use suppositories? Zofia Karaś describes her struggles from her medical practice at the beginning of the 20th century in a captivating and humorous way....

Agony' is Paweł Kapusta's reportage nominated for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize. On the pages of the book, the author follows scandalous procedures and absurdities that make the lives of patients and doctors difficult. Many of them pose a real, direct threat to human life....

Katarzyna Kalukin in interviews with doctors of Poland's most popular specialisations and Polish healthcare professionals. What does a patient see in a hospital emergency room? A crowded waiting room where one sits for several hours at a time, crowding, doctors and nurses who...

Nurses. They complete difficult studies and receive low salaries. They are frustrated when they are treated only as doctors' assistants - after all, they do a hard and demanding job. Often unrewarding, too, because patients can be a pain in the ass. And yet they love what they do. They enjoy...