Safer Medical Care For You and Yours: Six Tools for Safe, Effective Compassionate Care (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539473671)

T Michael (Mike) White MD FACP is a HealthCare Value Professional. As a board-certified internist, his general internal medicine career has provided him with experience and insights as a physician: in training, in private practice, faculty member, residency program director (training family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, physiatry and psychiatry residents), vice president for quality, vice president for continuing and graduate medical education and healthcare executive (department chair, vice president medical affairs and chief medical officer). In addition, he has the experience and insights of a hospital surveyor for The Joint Commission and a field representative for the Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program. Most importantly, Dr. White observes his experiences as a patient have made him a more complete physician. Dr. White has authored three books advancing safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable/just compassionate care: -Unsafe to Safe - An Impatient Proposal for Safe Patient-centered Care -Safer Medical Care for You and Yours - Four Gifts to Enable Involved, Informed and Responsible Care and -Safer Medical Care for You and Yours - Six Tools for Safe, Effective Compassionate Care Stephen F Hightower MD FACP is a practicing board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. He has worked for over 35 years caring for patients in various environments including the Public Health Service (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico); a community based/university affiliated internal medicine residency program (Johnstown Pennsylvania's Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center); and multispecialty integrated health systems: Baylor/Scott and White (Georgetown, Texas) and Presbyterian Health Care (Albuquerque, New Mexico). He has served in multiple roles over the years supporting his local medical colleagues including: Chief of Staff (Public Health Service); Associate Residency Program Director (Conemaugh): Champion of the Patient Centered Medical Home Project (Baylor/Scott and White); Lead Physician Internal Medicine (Presbyterian) and medical student faculty and mentor at all institutions. Dr. Hightower's emphasis for over three decades has been, through empathetic listening and counseling and education, to motivate patients to discover physical and mental lifestyle habits that enable lives well lived.