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Author : Tom McGrath
Release : 2002
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 672/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis When You're Sick Or in the Hospital by : Tom McGrath
Download or read book When You're Sick Or in the Hospital written by Tom McGrath. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the world of hospitals and illness, addressing questions and feelings faced by sick children.
Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Release : 2017-04-11
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 180/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis An American Sickness by : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal. This book was released on 2017-04-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Author : World Health Organization
Release : 2013
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 371/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children by : World Health Organization
Download or read book Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children written by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pocket Book is for use by doctors nurses and other health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first level referral hospitals. This second edition is based on evidence from several WHO updated and published clinical guidelines. It is for use in both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals with basic laboratory facilities and essential medicines. In some settings these guidelines can be used in any facilities where sick children are admitted for inpatient care. The Pocket Book is one of a series of documents and tools that support the Integrated Managem.
Author : The Hospital for Sick Children
Release : 2020-09-03
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 416/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics E-Book by : The Hospital for Sick Children
Download or read book The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics E-Book written by The Hospital for Sick Children. This book was released on 2020-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and pocket sized, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a trusted clinical reference for more than 50 years. The fully revised 12th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with succinct, easily accessible, and evidence-based answers for the diagnosis and management of pediatric patients. Get the reliable information you need from staff pediatricians, specialists, residents, and fellows at one of the top pediatric hospitals in the world. - Provides the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to pediatric clinical problems using evidence-based guidelines. - Contains new chapters on mental health and technology and medical complexity. - Offers quick access to comprehensive information on urgent situations in a six-chapter Acute Care section devoted to pediatric emergencies. - Includes abundant algorithms for bedside diagnoses and management of various scenarios. - Offers fast access to key information such as normal reference values for various ages and sizes of pediatric patients, common equations and normal vital signs, and resuscitation drugs. - Widely used by medical students, residents, practicing pediatricians, family physicians, emergency physicians, nurses, and other interdisciplinary practitioners.
Author : Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.
Release : 2017-10-06
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 259/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Old and Sick in America by : Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.
Download or read book Old and Sick in America written by Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.. This book was released on 2017-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change.
