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"From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations. From the routine to the unexpected, How to Be a Patient is your ultimate guide to better healthcare. Let's face it: nobody likes going to the doctor. It can be uncomfortable, nerve wracking, expensive--and that's just for routine care! When it's an emergency--how do you choose between the ER, Urgent...
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"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today--leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens women's lives and well-being. Modern medicine is failing women. Half of all American women suffer from at least one chronic health condition--from autoimmune...
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"Patientology: Toward the Study of Patients" is an in-depth look at how the patient is an integral part of the Health Care Delivery System (HCDS).
The previous statement may be an odd one, of course, patients are pivotal to the industry, but they are being, ignored and disregarded in alarming numbers. In fact, patients do not even appear in organizational charts-they are merely, assumed to exist. This continues to be true in many instances, although...
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A veteran physician shares his opinion on the state of health care in America and what needs to be done to change it.
In an age where uncertainty rules the day, Dr. Rob Tenery explains how health care has evolved into a $2.6 trillion enterprise. He does this with carefully researched histories and a series of challenging and thought-provoking commentaries on the most important issues of the day. Dr. Tenery's book focuses on a time when doctors...
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As a health-care professional, a licensed registered nurse, I have gained and benefited from the many and various experiences I had in the health-care industry. In this time of advancing technology of Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, computers, internet, website, satellite, information about any and everything abounds and surrounds us. Yet even if there is much that is known, the unknown seems infinite. What secret has everlasting life? This book provides...
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In an emotional story that details one woman's struggle within a medical organization that was filled with massive illegal billing, her faith shines through.
Healthcare Under Duress: An Inside look at the University of Washington Billing Scandal presents one woman's personal account and experience within a prestigious University Hospital (UWP).
This case is unique, representing the issuance of the largest fine ever given to a medical teaching institution...
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This is a must-read for summer runners, baby-boomers, and anyone who suspects that they or a loved one has been harmed by medical errors in our health care system. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year from medical errors, but most mistakes are kept secret from patients.
After learning a few basic tools of cardiology, the reader shares a journey of heartbreaking mystery and discovery as a father pieces together the events that led to the...
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"Prognosis Guarded" follows the exploits of doctors who owned a small hospital to develop in their own creative way, a method to bill Medicare for patients who were critical throughout their hospitalization. However, these patients had died months to years previously. This is a medical mystery surrounding greed and the dedicated medical professionals who attempt to uncover the mysteries. This book is a page turner that involves the interpersonal relationships...
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Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined explores how to create a gentler health care experience for patients and staff - one that is rooted in humanity.
Sue Robins reimagines health care based on empathy instead of efficiency. Ducks in a Row offers a refreshing shift from health care's corporate model back to caring for each other as human beings.
Drawing on the author's work life in patient and family engagement, Ducks in a Row describes a new health...
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Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn't emergency, what is?
The aWAKE Project, Second Edition is an updated collection of stories and essays geared toward educating and mobilizing Americans to help with the AIDS crisis in Africa. Action is needed for a continent on which five people die every minute from the deadly AIDS virus. aWAKE stands for: AIDS-Working toward Awareness, Knowledge and Engagement.
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What social factors contribute to the tragic state of health care in Africa? Focusing on East African societies, this book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in African cultures. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health...
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Why has medical care become so complicated-and expensive? Not very long ago, an individual would visit a doctor to be treated for an illness that could not be "cured" by one of Grandma's "recipes." Whether it was a sore throat, earache, or digestive pain, Grandma usually had some homespun "medicine" to deal with a common health issue. And if Grandma's "medicine chest" was not able to deal with a family member's illness, a neighborhood doctor was usually...
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Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not included. Rather, the emphasis is on the human aspects of choosing a practice and on understanding interpersonal relationships, topics that are extremely...
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The New Arthritis Breakthrough presents a groundbreaking medical therapy that has undergone rigorous clinical testing, demonstrating its unique ability to bring about long-term improvement and remission for a range of inflammatory arthritis conditions such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Lupus, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), Fibromyalgia, Scleroderma, Spondyloarthropathy, and other related ailments. This innovative approach offers hope and relief...
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Dans ce livre, des chercheurs, des administrateurs, des décideurs et des professionnels de la santé se penchent sur les problèmes de justice distributive engendrés par le manque de ressources dans le système de santé au Québec. Listes d'attente, pénurie de personnel et coûts élevés des médicaments menacent l'équité du système et l'égalité d'accès aux soins. De grands enjeux se dessinent, dont le plus important consiste à assurer...
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Working in teams sounds simple but the reality is often more difficult within complex health and social care systems. This revised edition of this essential book brings together cutting edge thinking about teamworking, and considers how this can be turned into practice within the context of interagency settings. It introduces a range of theories, models, and research to demonstrate the benefits – and pitfalls – inherent in teamworking in collaborative...
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To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch.
Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty.
Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang...
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This Caring Science in PHC, a guide for nurses in Primary Health Care, intends to lead the lecturers facilitating the Clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and diagnosis (Primary Health Care) and the basic Community Nursing Sciences students on the assessment of the client in the Primary Health Care (PHC) clinics in both rural and urban countries. The book teaches the integration of the caritas processes in the physical assessment. Lecturers and...
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