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Too Big to Succeed
Profiteering in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Medicine in the United States is big business. We spend 50 percent more on health care per capita than other developed countries, but a multitude of measures indicate that we are not getting health-care value for our money. In Too Big to Succeed, author Dr. Russell J. Andrews details why health care...
The Intensivist's Challenge
Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have...
by Dr. Neil MacKinnon and Dr. Rhonda Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Take As Directed gives Canadians a much-needed guidebook to safely navigate our encounters with health-care providers and optimize the management of our own health. In recent years evidence indicating that our health-care system can be made safer has emerged. Here a family physician and a pharmacy...
The Ultimate Obamacare Handbook (2015?2016 edition)
A Definitive Guide to the Benefits, Rights, Responsibilities, and Potential Pitfalls of the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
"The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, makes health insurance available to the majority of Americans.
In fact, failure to obtain coverage will result in penalties, but the process of obtaining insurance can be daunting. This brief handbook explains the law and its history and tells readers how to...
Integral Pastoral Care in Ghana
Proposals for Healing in the Asante Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
What is Pastoral Care? Pastoral Care is differently defi ned by many authorities. Encyclopedia defi nes it as the ministry of care and counseling provided by pastors, chaplains, and other religious leaders to members of their church or congregation, to anyone within institutional settings, with a...
by Carole Lium Edelman, APRN, MS
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
With the advent of health care reform and an emphasis on reducing health care costs, health promotion and disease prevention is a priority in nursing care. Be prepared with Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span, 8th Edition, your comprehensive guide to major health promotion concepts. Featuring...
Introduction to Public Health, Second Edition
Promises and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The only public health text to incorporate new Affordable Care Act legislation
Praise for the first edition:
"More than just another preliminary textbook, this comprehensive introduction for those who are new to the field of public health weaves together its values, goals, and practices...
Being a Doctor
Understanding Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Being a Doctor is much more than simply providing medical care. This book aims to increase the resilience and wellness of doctors, helping the profession to provide better care for patients, through a deep and thoughtful approach to clinical work. It explores areas that can challenge clinicians in...
First, Do Less Harm
Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Each year, hospital-acquired infections, prescribing and treatment errors, lost documents and test reports, communication failures, and other problems have caused thousands of deaths in the United States, added millions of days to patients’ hospital stays, and cost Americans tens of billions of...
by Vivien Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Learning is at the heart of change. This book breaks new ground in exploring the need for individuals to engage in personal change, through learning, as an essential part of achieving significant change in organisations. It explains how to engage with people's energy, enthusiasm and abilities to enable...
Start Your Own Child-Care Service
Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
START YOUR OWN CHILD-CARE SERVICE AND GET PAID TO CARE FOR KIDS
As the number of working parents grows the number of children who need quality childcare grows along with it. That need is creating a tremendous entrepreneurial opportunity for people who love children and want to build a business...
by Wendy Leebov, Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Are you looking for effective ways to improve service excellence with your team?
Achieving Impressive Customer Service helps healthcare managers inspire and mobilize their teams to extend effective service and caring to the people they serve. This book describes a rich array of simple, doable...
Treating Health Care
How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international...
Surviving American Medicine
How to Get the Right Doctor, Right Hospital, and Right Treatment with Today’S Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Health-care reform isnt just political rhetoric: its a reality. Its happening every dayand for you it means new ways of getting your care. Virtually every American understands we are experiencing dramatic changes...