Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
by Fran Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
"Fran Lewis illustrates her mother’s difficult journey with honesty, love and great heart.” — New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
This is a special book that deals with a serious illness — Alzheimer’s disease. Through Ruth Swerdloff’s journal and observations by...
Ask the Experts
Expert Answers About Your Diabetes from the Pages of Diabetes Forecast
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Each month the editors of Diabetes Forecast publish answers to relevant questions submitted by readers. The answers, written by physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dietitians, diabetes educators, and other experts in the diabetes research and clinical communities, help people with...
Get Me Through Tomorrow
A Sister's Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed. A string of...
by Dueep Jyot Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Table of ContentsIntroductionHemorrhage typesA Class I HemorrhageClass II hemorrhagesClass III hemorrhagesType IV hemorrhagePostpartum hemorrhageNosebleedSprainsSymptoms of a HemorrhageBasic Care/PreventionSmall woundsHow to Make a TourniquetYour DietSoupsGingerRed Sandalwood Powder and LicoriceTri-phala...
Symptoms of Unknown Origin
A Medical Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body—something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear...
Bone Broth
Simple Inexpensive & Delicious Nutrient Rich Broth At Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
BONE BROTH is blessedly easy and inexpensive to make at home. Bone Broth is a rich mineral infusion made by bones of healthy animals with herbs, spices and vegetables. The collagen, bone, skin, marrow, and fat that is extracted when animal bones simmer in water for hours are the building blocks of...
Comprehensive Healthcare Redesign
25 Keys to Redesign U.S. Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Before reforming a complex economic system such as the U.S. healthcare system, it's essential to start with the basics. The U.S. healthcare system needs to be remade - redesigned in fact. This book touches key concerns policymakers must address before redesigning the system in a way that will provide access to care to as many Americans as possible at an affordable price.
Sick
A Compilation Zine on Physical Illness
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
Sick collects peoples' experiences with illness in order to help establish a collective voice of those impacted within radical/left/DIY communities. The zine is meant to be a resource for those who are living with illness as well as those who have not directly experienced it themselves. Contributors...
by Dr. Bimal Chhajer
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Life is nothing but a matter of heart, a human fist size organ that keeps ticking under left side of our chest. And with it hangs our world, our life. It is powerful bio-machine but very delicate, prone to excesses of human activities. When the heart is in trouble the man faces the biggest trouble...
Pflegeheime am Pranger
Wie schaffen wir eine bessere Altenhilfe
Language: German
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Dieses Buch analysiert die organisatorische Struktur der Alten- und Pflegeheime, ihre Schwierigkeiten bei der Personalbemessung, die Bürokratisierung in der Pflege und einen allgemeinen Trend zur Überregulierung. Ein Muss für alle, welche die sozialpolitische Dimension der Heime verstehen wollen. Zugleich ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für eine bessere Altenhilfe.
China Rx
Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.Several decades ago, penicillin, vitamin...
The Expert's Guide to Weight-Loss Surgery
Is it right for me? What happens during surgery? How do I keep the weight off?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
**An indispensible guide to weight-loss surgery written by a leading bariatric surgeon
Today, an estimated 44 million Americans suffer from obesity. For one in five Americans, diet and exercise simply don't work. Luckily, weight-loss surgeries offer a realistic solution that can help people...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems...
The Night Shift
Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other...