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1) The hidden history of American healthcare: why sickness bankrupts you and makes others insanely rich
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The Thom Hartmann hidden history volume 5
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"Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality"--
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"Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
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"Plagues upon the Earth is a history of human civilization and the germs that have shaped its course. At every stage in our species' past, micro-organisms have had macro-effects on the development of human societies. Kyle Harper proposes the first history of human disease to make full use of a radical new source of evidence: pathogen genomes as a biological archive and window into prehistoric times. We can now begin to reconstruct the natural history...
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For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Bradley and Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to improve the health of their populations: investments in social services.
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Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today's U.S. health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it.
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"A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, and a devastating portrait of the ways our society fails to protect the bodies of its most vulnerable members." -Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
"Erin Williams' What's Wrong? is an utterly riveting, deeply moving, absolutely molecule-rearranging exploration of pain--individual and collective--suffused...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Hospitals are busy places filled with sick and injured people and their caregivers. Who are the people who keep hospitals running? From schedulers to doctors and nurses to IT staff, many people work together to serve the needs of a hospital. Learn about their important work in this book from the Wonderful Workplaces series."--
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Welcome to medical office professional careers! If you are interested in a career in the medical office professional field, you've come to the right book. So, what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in these fields? How much money can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various fields? Do these career paths have a bright future? Is...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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640L
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"Earle Dickson and his new bride Josephine begin their lives together. The end. (Not really. There's more.) Josephine has a proclivity for injuring herself. Earle attaches cotton to long strips of adhesive tape, telling Josephine to cut off a length when she needs one. Since Earle works as a cotton buyer at Johnson & Johnson, he shares his idea. They're a big hit. The end. (Again, not really!) After a few false starts (much like the hilarious "the...
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A primer in plain English that explains how health insurance will work under the new legislation and how it will affect your care and your choices going forward.
Now that "Obamacare" (as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is popularly known) has become the law of the land, millions of Americans will need help figuring out exactly how the new system will work and how it might affect their lives.
This guide will teach people how the...
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Kickstart your independent medical practice and take your career to the next level with this comprehensive business guide!
Are you a nurse practitioner or medical professional who wants to launch your own practice? Are you struggling to develop your business plan and navigate the world of licensing and insurance? Or are you searching for a comprehensive overview of the different kinds of medical business? Then keep reading.
Featuring expert advice...
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Is Your Medical Practice Due For A Business Medical?
Have you started a medical business, but found that working harder isn't growing the practice?
Do you want to know what's holding back your business?
Have you always been the smartest person in the room, but somehow you just can't seem to get on top of everything now that you are a practice owner?
Many medical professionals feel like they've been studying their whole life, through Medical...
15) It's enough to make you sick: the failure of American health care and a prescription for the cure
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Lobosky explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. He indicts the special interests who have played a role in the demise of American health care, examines the current attempts at reform, and offers a practical, compassionate blueprint for effective change.
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The remarkable epic of an invention that revolutionized medicine. Dr. Raymond Damadian was plagued with a mysterious and persistent stomach pain, yet physicians assured him that they could find nothing wrong. To find the answer to his ailment, Damadian would spend the ensuing twelve years building a machine that would change medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance scanning, now called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), was a revolution: a safe means to...
17) Which Door
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We live in a country where we can't afford to pay the premiums to fund insurance policies most of us can't afford to use. We are overweight, depressed, and increasingly broke in the maze of our US healthcare. But we have a choice, we can either continue the insanity of what we or doing, or we can change and take a proactive approach. The parable you have in your hands is drawn from true healthcare stories of entrepreneurs and career leaders who populate...
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2022
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The story of how the work of one small group of people grew to meet the size of their calling: to ensure that Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege.
Peace & Health is the story behind this improbable effort: the 20-year-old who plants the flag in his small hometown of Middletown, Connecticut; the daughter of a sharecropper, who made her way north during the great migration and becomes the North Star of the drive to
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Before getting an MRI, almost eighty percent of children need to be, sedated to stay still enough for a good image. But, in the year after the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh installed Doug Dietz's new machines, they only needed to sedate two children. What did Dietz do differently?
Hacking Healthcare: Designing Human-Centered Technology for a Healthier Future shows that human-centered design of technology can improve healthcare, as we know it....
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