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The CMIO Survival Guide
A Handbook for Chief Medical Information Officers and Those Who Hire Them, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The CMIO Survival Guide is the handbook for the new Chief Medical Information Officer, as well as for those recruiting or planning to recruit a CMIO. This quick reference is organized by real-world topics that CMIOs need to know, as well as the criteria that the CIO, CMO or CEO should consider in...
Taming the Beloved Beast
How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry....
by Beth Dawson, Robert G. Trapp
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care
First choice of students, educators, and practitioners
A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics
Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics
Learn to evaluate...
Practical Biostatistics
A Friendly Step-by-Step Approach for Evidence-based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Evidence-based medicine aims to apply the best available evidence gained from the scientific method to medical decision making. It is a practice that uses statistical analysis of scientific methods and outcomes to drive further experimentation and diagnosis. The profusion of evidence-based medicine...
Alternative Medicines To Enhance Your Medical Treatments
Your Best Guide To Ayurvedics, Chiropractics, Biofeedback, Chinese Medicine, Reiki Healing And Other Alternative Medicine Types Plus Using Alternative Medicine In Children And Gender-Specific Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Traditionally, the first response for Americans to any type of medical issue is conventional medicine. They look to conventional methods of medical treatments such as prescription medication, traditional surgery, and computerized scientific testing for relief and healing. Not many know that alternative...
by Sheldon Cohen M.D. FACP
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
A complete medical examination includes a history, physical examination and basic laboratory analysis. Performed with compassion and care, it provides a diagnosis eighty percent of the time.
Busy physicians, who find themselves pressed for the time necessary to complete this important task,...
by Linda Swisher, RN, EdD
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Reinforce your understanding of the concepts in Patton’s The Human Body in Health & Disease, 7th Edition! Corresponding to the chapters in the text, this study guide reviews essential medical terminology, concepts, and processes related to anatomy and physiology, and explains how our body systems...
Sex, Lies, and Menopause
The Shocking Truth About Synthetic Hormones and the Benefits of Natural Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Turning thirty years of medical and cultural wisdom on its head, Sex, Lies, and Menopause challenges both the medical establishment and modern feminists to prove that menopause does not have to be deadly.
In this revolutionary work -- a landmark that signals the true beginning of feminist medicine...
When Experiments Travel
Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate...
Stoned
A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
A doctor discovers the surprising truth about marijuana
No 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,...
Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine
The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously...
Health Care Under the Knife
Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
“I’ve still got my health so what do I care?” goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song. Most of us, in fact, assume we can’t live full lives, or take on life’s challenges, without also assuming that we’re basically healthy and will be for the foreseeable future. But these days, our health...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This unique introduction to the essentials of global health has been constructed by medical students from all over the world through the help of Medsin (now Students for Global Health) and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA). The global student and trainee author...
The Cure
How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated; childhood leukemia is now treatable; death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. Why is...