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New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year--Association of Business JournalistsFrom the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author."A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESOne in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

Have you ever experienced that "deer in the headlight" look when speaking to hospital staff while you, or a loved one is in the hospital? Have you had hospital staff come and go in your room like it's Grand Central Station ... and you have no idea who is doing what, from where? Then this book is for you. Ms. James has been on both sides of the hospital bed (patient & staff) and is intimately familiar with issues that can frustrate, infuriate and make a root canal seem like a trip to the amusement park, compared to a hospital stay. This short read provides practical, actionable advice to empower patients and families with information needed, but not always provided, for informed decision-making. Written with humor and compassion, it's easy to see how this author deftly uses her Holistic Nursing training to encourage, empower and advocate. Better communication between patients and staff, and greater education of patients about their situation is needed for improving not only patient satisfaction scores, but also for improving patient clinical outcomes.

Dysfunction in American healthcare is at a critical point. We pay too much. Not everyone has insurance coverage. We get mediocre results. Due to political rhetoric, problems fester. This book is a guide as to how we all can have affordable, quality care. How we can remake the system, so it works for patient. Here are the answers for a system that is killing and bankrupting us instead helping and healing us. Dr. Frangipane witnessed how the healthcare services are inefficient and rushed. Through conversations with policy experts, colleagues and patients, he saw what is wrong. This book is what he learned from both these experiences and research. Topics, like medical insurance coding, can be real snoozers. But Dr. Frangipane engages the reader. This book feels like a talk with your friend. He anticipates the reader's objections by answering each one of them. This book makes the abstract world of healthcare policy relatable. He tells stories that entertain the reader as they illustrate the problems of the American healthcare. Finally, the book is filled with Dr. Frangipane's unique humor. Dr. Frangipane starts by asking the simplest of questions. The first is if we truly have a crisis with our country's medical care system. He answers with a resounding yes and supported his answer. He backs it up with everyday examples. Next, he looks at the possible solutions for how a country can pay for healthcare. He concludes that a universal, governmental health insurance is the least costly and most efficient. Finally, he answers the objections one might raise about such a system.Dr. Frangipane names his system, "SPUN," for Single Payer Universal National Healthcare Plan. To fund it, he believes using our present federal tax system is the simplest and fairest. He shows that SPUN will save our country money. He analyses the finances of different individuals and businesses and shows they all come out ahead with his plan.He then looks at how SPUN would operate. Doctors still will work for themselves. Patients will retain the choice of where to go for care. However, the single-payer insurance will cover everyone. The coverage will be broad, too, covering dental, eye, mental health, long-term medical care and medications. The price tag for drugs will drop as SPUN will use its market power. There will an approval system of for what tests, medications and procedures are allowed, based on scientific evidence. Good health practices, like eating vegetables, will be subsidized. While bad health practices, like eating junk food, will be taxed. How practitioners get reimbursed will change. To encourage physicians to spend more time on your care, they will be paid by time. To encourage innovation, hospitals will be paid by diagnosis. This will reduce the cost of medical billing. There will the elimination of non-profit hospitals, a restructuring of medical education costs and a greater reliance on non-physician providers.To make the flow of health information more efficient, a single repository will exist for all medical information. Part of this system will be a patient health app. Such a system will be a gold mine of medical data. Dr. Frangipane's proposes a no-fault system for medical liability reform where victims of unexpected medical events receive compensation without the assignment of blame. He details a centralized, national system of healthcare licenses and evaluations.This book next describes how to streamline the practice of medicine. This includes physicians having ownership of each of a patient's medical problems. Patients, too, will be made more responsible for their own care. Healthwebs will be created that will coordinate healthcare. Finally, he describes the needed revolution in the national mindset to permit all these changes.This book is for readers who like current events, healthcare workers and as part of the curriculum in healthcare policy or medical ethics.

You have NO business being sick, Jesus has done it all. He has healed you from all sickness and disease. In this book, you will learn how to activate the Divine Health that our Lord Jesus Christ put inside you and you will put an end to HIV Forever!!

You have no business being sick, Jesus has done it all. He has healed you from all sickness and disease. In this book, you will learn how to activate the Divine Health that our Lord Jesus Christ has given to you and put an end to malaria FOREVER!!

Choosing the right doctor for you could lead to a life-or-death decision. This expert offers a few tips to help you choose the best qualified and the best-suited doctor for your healthcare needs.

Stop Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain provides extensive information about the realities and the myths of endometriosis and pelvic pain and is ideal for someone with endometriosis or pelvic pain or for someone with family members or friends who need information and support regarding every aspect of the disease.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid epidemic and the secretive world of the Sackler family behind Purdue Pharma, Pain Killer is the celebrated landmark story of corporate greed and government negligence that inspired an upcoming Netflix series. "Groundbreaking . . . Pain Killer is the shocking account of the origins of today's opioid epidemic, the creators of this plague, and the way to help stop it."-Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Families, working class and wealthy, have been torn apart, businesses destroyed, and public officials pushed to the brink. Meanwhile, the drugmaker's owners, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, whose names adorn museums worldwide, made enormous fortunes from the commercial success of OxyContin. In Pain Killer, Barry Meier tells the story of how Purdue turned OxyContin into a billion-dollar blockbuster. Powerful narcotic painkillers, or opioids, were once used as drugs of last resort for pain sufferers. But Purdue launched an unprecedented marketing campaign claiming that the drug's long-acting formulation made it safer to use than traditional painkillers for many types of pain. That illusion was quickly shattered as drug abusers learned that crushing an Oxy could release its narcotic payload all at once. Even in its prescribed form, Oxy proved fiercely addictive. As OxyContin's use and abuse grew, Purdue concealed what it knew from regulators, doctors, and patients. Here are the people who profited from the crisis and those who paid the price, those who plotted in boardrooms and those who tried to sound alarm bells. A country doctor in rural Virginia, Art Van Zee, took on Purdue and warned officials about OxyContin abuse. An ebullient high school cheerleader, Lindsey Myers, was reduced to stealing from her parents to feed her escalating Oxy habit. A hard-charging DEA official, Laura Nagel, tried to hold Purdue executives to account. In Pain Killer, Barry Meier breaks new ground in his decades-long investigation into the opioid epidemic. He takes readers inside Purdue to show how long the company withheld information about the abuse of OxyContin and gives a shocking account of the Justice Department's failure to alter the trajectory of the opioid epidemic and protect thousands of lives. Equal parts crime thriller, medical detective story, and business exposé, Pain Killer is a hard-hitting look at how a supposed wonder drug became the gateway drug to a national tragedy.

"From a gifted writer who spent two years in a support group for people caring for elderly and ill spouses, parents, and friends, The Caregivers chronicles the daily experiences--heart-breaking, poignant, and redemptive--of ordinary Americans as they face their final life passages"--

"The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--

Described in the New York Times as “an astonishingly clear ‘user’s manual’ that explains our health care system and the policies that will change it,” The Health Care Handbook, by Drs. Elisabeth Askin and Nathan Moore, offers a practical, neutral, and readable overview of the U.S. health care system in a compact, convenient format. The fully revised third edition provides concise coverage on health care delivery, insurance and economics, policy, and reform—all critical components of the system in which health care professionals work. Written in a conversational and accessible tone, this popular, highly regarded handbook serves as a “one stop shop” for essential facts, systems, concepts, and analysis of the U.S. health care system, providing the tools you need to confidently evaluate current health care policy and controversies.

Offers a single resource for American Diabetes Association standards of care for pregnant women with preexisting diabetes - type 1 (DM1) or type 2 (DM2). It providers up-to-date recommendations and treatment protocols for the management of diabetes and pregnancy to researchers, academic physicians, and clinicians who deal with the broad spectrum of problems.

The curator of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices shares his collection of hilarious, horrifying, and preposterous medical devices that have been foisted upon the gullible in their quest for good health. These modern-day snake oil salesmen, with their dubious devices, have preyed on the medically ignorant with ridiculous and sobering results. From the Prostate Gland Warmer to the Retro Rotor, from the Nose Straightener to the Wonder Electro Marvel, these implements reveal the desperate measures sought for magic cures. With period advertisements, promotional literature, and gadget instructions, this book offers a wealth of past -- and present -- medical fraud.

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

When you hear that someone you love has cancer...You want to be as supportive as possible. But how? Elise NeeDell Babcock has devoted her life to answering this question and now puts her twenty-three years of experience as a counselor into this immensely useful guide. When Life Becomes Precious contains hundreds of tips for helping patients, primary caregivers, co-workers, and family members, including: What to say (and not to say) to someone when you first find out they have cancer• How to be supportive without being intrusive• How to build a winning health-care team• How to handle holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries• How to explain the disease to children• Which gifts and gestures can do the most good From techniques for handling anger and anxiety, to uplifting success stories, to a comprehensive resource section, here is the information and inspiration you need to help those you love and to make each day--each moment--more precious.When Life Becomes Precious will be the first book to: • Offer tips on ways to help patients, caregivers and co-workers• Provide a long and diverse list of gifts that are appropriate to give to families that are living with cancer• Offers reasons why fear makes people shy away from discussing cancer and techniques on how to overcome that fear• Present the things that families do that doctors like and dislikeWhen Life Becomes Precious will teach readers to assess and put into perspective, their own feelings about the disease so that they can truly help those who are afflicted with it. The use of cartoons, anecdotes and personal stories will set an upbeat and positive tone. Readers will come away fully prepared to deal with the realities of cancer.

Leitlinienorientiert und basierend auf den neuesten Standards der Schlafmedizin: Diagnostische und therapeutische Hilfen bei allen Formen von Schlafstörungen. Praxisnah und übersichtlich von einem interdisziplinären renommierten Autorenteam der Schlafmedizin. Das Wichtigste zum schnellen Nachschlagen für die Praxis.Gestörter Schlaf und Tagesmüdigkeit sind häufige Beschwerden in der ärztlichen Praxis. Unbehandelt bergen sie ein erhöhtes Risiko für Unfälle und kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen. Das gezielte Erkennen von Schlafstörungen wie die Insomnie, das Schlafapnoe-Syndrom, Parasomnien oder Hypersomnien gehört inzwischen zum Alltag der ärztlichen Praxis. Die Schlafmedizin bietet eine Bandbreite an diagnostischen Verfahren über das Schlaflabor hinaus und störungsspezifische Therapiemöglichkeiten. Guter Schlaf ist ein integrativer Bestandteil der psychischen und körperlichen Gesundheit. Mit Informationsmaterial für Patienten, Fragebögen, Fallbeispielen.

En introduktion til teoretiske perspektiver i kvalitativ forskning22 TEMATEORIER TIL KVALITATIV FORSKNING sigter efter at bidrage til en stærkere teoretisk orientering blandt almenmedicinske forskere, som bruger kvalitative metoder. Andre sundhedsprofessionelle forskere, som er nysgerrige på dynamikkerne i mødet med patienter og de systemer, de arbejder i, kan også have glæde af bogen.I bogen præsenteres 22 temateorier, der har et specifikt match til konkrete spørgsmål og analyser i udvalgte forskningsprojekter inden for det almenmedicinske område. Hver temateori rammesættes af en case fra almen praksis for at illustrere koblingen mellem den medicinske problemstilling og den teori, som er i fokus. Læseren får også en grundlæggende indføring i, hvilken rolle teori spiller i den kvalitative forskning, og hvordan man kan bruge den.Forfatterne er almenmedicinske forskere medlang erfaring fra udvikling, undervisning og anvendelse af forskellige kvalitative metoder og frainterdisciplinært samarbejde.