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Have you taken a backseat role when it comes to your healthcare and insurance decisions? Maybe you're mad as hell about checking boxes you don't understand and watching your premiums go up. Maybe you're struggling to determine your personal risk and what plan is right for you. Maybe you feel the industry is a speaking different language-one you'll never understand.
In Healthcare Is Making Me Sick, expert Scott Hesier takes what he's learned in his...
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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 the satire is the system of medical care existing for patients and doctors alike. For both, insurance carriers and the federal government dictate the parameters...
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Mind Trick - John Brown
Not until we experience on a personal level the utter, devasting effects of memory loss in someone close to us, does the awful significance of this condition come crashing home.
Within this compact book, the author tackles the thorny issue of Dementia, its complications, its impact and how to cope on a day-to-day basis.
Packed with some unusual tips and loads of common-sense advice on how to reduce the impact of this awful...
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This book is an autobiographical account focusing on plastic surgery medi-tourism and travel in Bogota during the Covid pandemic that was part of a larger trip to Colombia in general. The book will be of interest to those interested in plastic surgery or medical services performed abroad at a comparatively lower cost to those in the United States. It also focuses on topics of usual interest to would-be travelers such as optimizing travel arrangements,...
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In Off Balance, The American Way of Health, author and pharmacist Dr. Leyla Ali's shares her unique perspective of a failing healthcare system in a colorful and easy-to-read format. After reading this book, Dr. Leyla hopes the reader will not only understand the limitations of doctors and drugs, but also take responsibility for their own health and start seeking holistic and alternative solutions for their own healthcare needs.
You will discover...
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Dr. Michael J. Young, a physician for 3 decades sheds light on the current debacle of the medical health delivery system in America. His powerful book is an important message and honest look behind and around the process of health care delivery, from the perspective of both patient and provider. The book examines and reviews how one experiences medical treatment from both sides of the table. The significant obstacles patients endure, as well as the...
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On August 7, 2012 Camden Clark Medical Center announced the impending closure of the St. Joseph's Hospital campus in Parkersburg, WV. Among the reasons provided for closure of the hospital were upcoming changes established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Being a person who was born at St Joseph's and raised in Parkersburg, I was moved by the news of the upcoming closure. Being a physician and a healthcare consultant whose life and...
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What if there's a scandal lurking in healthcare, waiting to break?
MRI contrasts are a billion-dollar industry, with over one hundred million people around the globe having been injected, believing in good faith that it was necessary and safe. But what if we got it wrong? What if that trust was misplaced?
Do MRI contrasts genuinely cause gadolinium toxicity in vulnerable and unsuspecting people?
What do we really know about gadolinium, the toxic...
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To think of not washing the hands often throughout the day can lead to profound consequences. Indeed, inadequate handwashing in this era can result in sickness or death. Human hands encounter many objects and other people, all through the day. Commodities carry germs, and so do other people's hands. The hands can be visibly or invisibly dirty. Therefore, dashing through the day, handling money, shaking hands, visiting the restroom, handling door knobs,...
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Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to this topic. Fundamentally, he claims, we have been brainwashed by our institutions government, organized religion, the healthcare industry to accept death as an inevitable end. Leary argues instead that death is misunderstood, that we don't have to die, and that there are "commonsense alternatives." His theory rests on...
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La enfermedad del párkinson afecta todo nuestro ser desde lo profundo e invisible hasta lo visible y superficial, aunque el efecto es diferente para cada individuo. A pesar de no parecernos físicamente, todos tenemos una cosa en común-el querer vivir una vida mejor, llena de éxito, felicidad, y amor; en si una, vida abundante. Queremos aprender a caminar con la enfermedad al lado pero no controlados por ella.Por lo tanto los Viviendo más allá...
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A fascinating and instructive journey into the heart of modern medical practice. In 'The Art of Medicine', Toronto Western Hospital’s legendary internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician, to examine the core principles of a patient-centred approach to diagnosis and treatment. While HPK, as he is fondly known, recognizes and applauds the many invaluable innovations in medical...
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IF You Are Well: Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer is a guide to help your employees make the choices and lifestyle changes necessary to stay healthy and out of the health care system, as well as understand how their personal wellness and health care spending habits contribute to and impact the current health care crisis. The small steps outlined here in the four key areas of psychological, physical, relationship, and...
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Shrinking budgets, stressful conditions, demanding patients: today's medical professionals face enormous pressure. What's a doctor to do? For Dave Hepburn, the only relief is in relishing the ridiculousness of it all. In his first book, the GP and popular columnist proves the adage about laughter and medicine. He tackles a variety of health issues, from smoking (the nicotine patch works best when placed directly over the mouth) to the body mass index...
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Sylvia and her husband, Brian, were enjoying an unconditionally loving relationship when suddenly it all changed and Sylvia found herself investigating young-onset Alzheimer's disease. A nursing and care home management background did not prepare Sylvia for the journey ahead. The Rocky Road of 24/7 Care explains the journey she and her husband embarked on when the plan they had to do the journey totally at home changed and nursing home care became...
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An indispensable guide to every aspect of at-home care This thoroughly practical guide details the daily routines and unique concerns that are essential to quality at-home care of people with AIDS. From setting up a safe and comfortable environment to making medical and legal choices and solving emotional problems, each vital issue is covered in depth. Every caregiver and person with AIDS will benefit from this supportive, comprehensive resource.
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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 teens and a woman who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of everyday E.R. visits:...
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How Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic Security
At some point you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails and parked along a corridor in a busy emergency department. Moans of "Nurse!" will echo from the beds ahead of you in line. Those pleas will fall largely on deaf ears. Your hospital is underfunded...
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American Health Care: A System in Crisis discusses the countless problems found within the American health-care system. There is the discussion from various vantage points including the insurance companies, health-care providers, and the patient/consumer. It further discusses the government's role in this ever-growing national crisis. Upon discussing the many areas found in health care, a serious dialogue ensues as to possible cures to the cancerous...
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