Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
Living Well Beyond Breast Cancer
A Survivor's Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
What do I do now? Why am I still so tired? Am I really cured? How do I reduce my risk of recurrence? Is it safe for me to get pregnant? How do I get rid of the hot flashes so I can sleep?
This fully revised and updated second edition contains crucial information about these issues and more—including...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Children health and wellness is something that can be taught! You just need to have the right tools and strategies for manage it!
Here’s an overview of this ultimate guide to managing healthy children:
With this guide, you’ll be equipped with the most powerful tools and strategies to helping...
The Patient Survival Handbook
Avoid Being the Next Victim of Medical Error
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
The critical accomplishment of this book lies in the sensitively-worded, yet powerful approach derived from real-world experience which extols the nature and beauty of partnership in caring for very ill patients. Whether we are talking about 100,000 deaths from medical errors, or the millions of adverse...
by Joseph P. Badame
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
The pursuit of a remedy for a physical injury or disability is usually straight forward. The injury is a visible and quantifiable thing that many times suggests its own solution. Psychological disorders present a more difficult problem. The manifestation of the disorder is invisible, usually within...
Addicted Healers
5 Key Signs Your Healthcare Professional May Be Drug Impaired
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Prescription drug abuse represents a serious and growing public health problem in the medical profession. We the public have a right to know what we are getting into when we walk through the doors of a hospital or doctor’s office.One to two percent of all healthcare professionals will become addicted...
by G C Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The unique role of the Seamen’s Hospital Society (SHS) in the foundation of the formal discipline of tropical (colonial) medicine at its Albert Dock Hospital (ADH) in 1899 is not widely appreciated.
The SHS was founded in 1821 by a group of philanthropists, primarily for the welfare – both...
by National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What is periodontal disease?
• chronic bacterial infection in the mouth • can occur at any age but is prevalent in older adults • usually starts with gingivitis; red and slightly swollen gums caused by accumulation of plaque on the tooth if left untreated, gingivitis may progress to “periodontitis”
Accessing and Optimizing Pensions and Public Benefits
FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR SENIORS
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Both Canada and British Columbia have several programs in place to assist low-income seniors. Each program has specific eligibility and application requirements.
Seeing Red
HIV/AIDS and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Featuring the diverse experiences of people living with HIV, this collection highlights various perspectives from academics, activists, and community workers...
Preventing and Intervening in Situations of Financial Abuse
for Ontario Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Adopting Effective Banking Practices
for Ontario Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Banks, credit unions, trust companies, or caisses populaires are safe places to keep your money.
The Facey Romford Papers. Days in The Life of the NHS
An Everyday Story of N£sd Folk.
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This unusual, witty, satirical, pseudonymous, controversial and very pointed work gathers together the 50 episodes which were originally published on the famous and widely-read nhsManagers.net eletter run by Roy Lilley, which has some 30,000 subscribers here and abroad. Both the author, and Mr. Lilley...
The Nursing Home Decision
Easing the Transition for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Easing the Way to a New Stage in Life.
Placing a loved one in a nursing home is a difficult thing to face. In addition to choosing a home, figuring out finances, and dealing with the actual moving, you may also be struggling with deeper conflicts. The emotions you may feel--of guilt, sadness,...
by Jerry Wyant
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Doctors are only human. A patient may think he or she has a great doctor who is incapable of making a mistake. But we all need to be vigilant. Even great doctors make mistakes.
It is not comforting to know that our doctors are capable of making mistakes. Our livelihoods, even our lives, are...