Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy
A Guide to Retail Pharmacy for Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, and Pharmacy Technicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy offers an honest, politically incorrect, no-holds-barred look at the inner workings of the world of retail pharmacy. Pharmacist...
When a Loved One Falls Ill
How to Be an Effective Patient Advocate
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The much-needed book for anyone with a loved one facing a serious illness. It is the book that’s a bible for how to make the potentially life-or-death decisions that every medical advocate, and every patient, must grapple with—especially now, as health care becomes ever more complicated. It is...
by Elizabeth M Vansyckle
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
I think all of us who are blessed to be able to work in hospice are asked. "Why?"
Why do you feel called to this type of patient care? Where do you find the emotional strength? How can you be with people as they die?
These wondrous souls, I am sharing with you, show not only the healing...
The Ebola Survival Handbook
An MD Tells You What You Need to Know Now to Stay Safe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
As the Ebola epidemic becomes more frightening-and hits closer to home-people are looking for answers. How does it spread? Are we at risk? How do we protect ourselves and our families from this deadly disease? In this necessary new book, Dr. Joseph Alton, an MD who is at the forefront of crisis medicine,...
Living Time
Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Living Time is at once a personal odyssey, an intimate doctor-patient communication, and a prescriptive guide for patients and their families. Writing with wit and humility, Dr. Bernadine Healy shares the hard-won insights that transformed her own struggle with a deadly cancer more than seven years...
by John Gurley
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
My wife, Yvette, and eleven other sufferers of dementia are in a memory support unit in a care center that is affiliated with a luxurious retirement home called Vi at Palo Alto, California. Gigi, a baby girl, was very often brought into the MS unit to visit her grandmother. Gigi brought joy not only...
Healthcare, Guaranteed
A Simple, Secure Solution for America
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare-2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure...
Pharmaphobia
How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
For millennia, human survival depended on our innate abilities to fight pathogens and repair injuries. Only recently has medical science prolonged longevity and improved quality of life. Physicians and academic researchers contribute to such progress, but the principal contributor is private industry...
by National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
An ethics resource for the community health sector
This guidebook will provide a brief overview of compulsive hoarding, a review of relevant legislation, and consideration of the ethical tensions. A case study will walk through a reflective decision-making process in action. A resource list...
by Jason Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An Obamacare book like no other, Obamacare: Healthcare Apocalypse not only lays out all of the core components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but also provides a detailed analysis of the long-term impacts of this massive federal intrusion into healthcare.
Whether...
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,...
The Shocking Reality of Violence in Healthcare
And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
The book that could save your life. Are you a healthcare worker who has been assaulted, or know someone who has? Violence against healthcare workers has reached epidemic levels, and emergency personnel are particularly at risk. Assaults on healthcare staff are leading to life-changing injuries,...
by Lorry Schoenly
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This short ebook describes the seven affirmations of a correctional nursing manifesto to live by. Correctional nurses have the challenging job of providing nursing care to vulnerable, marginalized patients in the low-resourced, ethically challenging criminal justice system - jails, prisons, or juvenile...
by National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Consent To Treatment Required
No treatment unless:
a. Health Practitioner (HP) of opinion person CAPABLE in respect to treatment and person has consented, or b. HP of opinion that person INCAPABLE in respect to treatment and SDM gives consent. c. if Consent and Capacity Board or...