Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
by Dr Ng Kok Kit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Men are living longer today but many find that they do not have the energy or capability to enjoy this extra bit of life. Advancing age does not mean having to slow down because one is older. With knowledge, awareness and better care of his body, a man can extend his physical, mental and sexual capability...
60 Timely Thoughts in 60 Minutes…
With Rhyme and Some Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
As the years unfolded for me, a recurring desire was trying to rhyme words. Limericks offered the opportunity along with the challenge of meter. Of the many that have been penned, I have summoned the courage to select those enclosed, sprinkled with satire and a dash of poetic license. One target of...
Lethal Medicine
The Epidemic Of Medical Malpractice In America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
With America's health-care system in the midst of upheaval, and with government officials, physicians, and the public-at-large focused as never before on the cost and quality of these vital services, a hidden epidemic--medical malpractice--destroys hundreds of thousands of lives each year and is ignored...
The Art of Health Hacking
A Personal Guide to Elevate Your State of Health and Performance, Stress Less, and Build Healthy Habits that Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
"TJ shows us we don't lack the science, information or technology to live healthy, but the art to use these resources properly. Read The Art of Health Hacking to learn how vulnerability, self compassion, and personal health empowerment can put you back in charge of yourself. You'll be glad you...
by Danny Hum
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Bible verses quoted. Explaining with diagrams nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, presbyopia, glasses, contact lenses, cataracts, laser eye surgery, glaucoma, floaters, flashes, retinal detachments, macular degeneration, diabetes’ and hypertension’s eye effects, watery and dry eyes,...
by Jacob Needleman
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
In a time when the greatest controversy of medical care seems to be about how best to pay for it, The Way of the Physician brings back fundamental questions of what makes a true healer, what's involved in the uniquely intimate relationship of doctor and patient, and how we all face the inevitable...
God's Hotel
A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
**Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now!
For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s *When Breath Becomes Air, *a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). **
San Francisco’s Laguna...
by R.T. Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Despite battling depression in his mid-teens, Rohit Kumar fulfilled his beloved parents’ dream of becoming a doctor in 1990. He was one of Canada’s first hospitalists before setting up a highly successful private practice, and acquired specialized expertise in treating patients with chronic pain...
by Joe Graedon, Teresa Graedon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
A primary care doctor is skeptical of his patient’s concerns. A hospital nurse or intern is unaware of a drug’s potential side effects. A physician makes the most “common” diagnosis while overlooking the signs of a rarer and more serious illness, and the patient doesn’t see the necessary...
The Kitchen Shrink
A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The personal story of how a psychiatrist confronts the profound changes sweeping the medical establishment as they reshape her life and career.
In the past two decades, a seismic shift has occurred within the walls of our nation's hospitals and doctor's offices. The medical profession- once...
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes...
by David B. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs shaken. David Morris offers an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. He shows how desire—emotions, dreams, stories, romance, even eroticism—plays a crucial part in illness.
by Lori-Ann Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Without a doubt, healthcare in the United States today is a challenge. Changes in the law, bureaucracy, and mounting paperwork overwhelm both doctors and patients. Doctors have to do more with less and often feel they have less time with the patient.
Patients must cope...
by Bryce Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The modern hospital represents a complex community in which life and death decisions are made on the front lines of patient care, and difficult operational and strategic initiatives are developed in the offices of institutional leaders. Effective Medical Leadership describes the unusual position of...