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  • A Death Retold

    Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

    Edición de Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Peter Guarnaccia ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight — she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan’s tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

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  • Overdiagnosed

    Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

    de H. Gilbert Welch ...
    From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testingGoing against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Stoned

    A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

    de David Casarett M.D. ...
    A doctor discovers the surprising truth about marijuanaNo substance on earth is as hotly debated as marijuana. Opponents claim it’s dangerous, addictive, carcinogenic, and a gateway to serious drug abuse. Fans claim it as a wonder drug, treating cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma, arthritis, migraines, PTSD, and insomnia. Patients suffering from these conditions need—and deserve—hard ... Leer más

    Antes $7.99 USD Ahora $6.99 USD

  • Letting Go

    how to plan for a good death

    de Charlie Corke ...
    ‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should doctors go when trying to prolong life? How can we decide what is ‘too far’ and ‘not far enough’ for our loved ones ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

    de Danielle Ofri MD ...
    Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Danger Within Us

    America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

    de Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    de Adam Dalton Reich ...
    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical ... Leer más

    $38.19 USD

  • Evaluating Health Promotion

    Practice and Methods

    Edición de Margaret Thorogood, Yolande Coombes ...
    Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore the need for accurate, reliable and valid methods to carry out evaluation. This book provides ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Wait Time

    A Memoir of Cancer

    de Kenneth Sherman ...
    Series Libro 56 - Life Writing
    When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks. His narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations

    Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?

    Edición de Anders Örtenblad, Carina Abrahamson Löfström, Rod Sheaff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
    Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such as Kaizen to styles of leadership and the management of learning – can usefully be applied to ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Familiar Physician

    Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare

    de Peter B. Anderson, Bud Ramey, Tom Emswiller ...
    Powerful forces of change are at the core of Obamacare—and they could either strengthen or destroy our family doctors. It's a perfect storm that threatens our hope for more effective and personalized medical care and it holds the potential to drive our trusted Familiar Physicians toward extinction. In the midst of the storm is a new and promising approach within Obamacare called the medical home. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

    Co-creation and Co-destruction of Value in the Healthcare Environment

    de Rocco Palumbo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patient empowerment as a collaborative partnership linking patients, providers, and systems, and examines the roles of health literacy, provider-patient and system-patient communication, and patient-centered care in the empowerment process. Models of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD