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"An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.
A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical...
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A concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics, which provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. The author describes the care we need, the care we don't, and how to deal with doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Telemedicine and healthcare apps that have become so important during the coronavirus epidemic are also explained. -- adapted from Amazon.com.
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"From the author of On Tyranny comes an urgent diagnosis of an American malady: our heartless system of commercial medicine and our politics of pain. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window,...
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Build the Healthcare Sales Relationships That Power Enduring Success Healthcare salespeople have immense opportunities. But enduring success demands more than training and great products. You need High-Return Relationships: pre-qualified connections elevated by genuine shared passions and a long-term outlook. Selling Healthcare will help you build those relationships. It leverages decades of experience in healthcare sales and management, and it's...
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"Visit the Doctor! focuses on doctor visits while discussing steps children can take to practice healthy lifestyles. Readers are introduced to what may happen during a typical medical exam and specifics about the job of a doctor. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words."--Provided...
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This book explores the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, offering advice on what can be done to solve its myriad of problems. The author discusses how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care patients deserve. Breaking down the monolithic business into its individual industries - the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, drug manufacturers - that together...
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The failure of America's medical system, as seen through the stories of the people who engineered the current health care revolution and those who have suffered from it. Every day, millions of Americans find themselves struggling to find affordable medical care for themselves and their families. It is a problem unique to the United States, the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship....
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Doctors are important community helpers. Readers explore different facets of a doctors jobfrom the people they work with to the things they do to help us feel better when were sick. Simple, clear text allows readers to learn about this popular career and common curriculum topic on their own. Each fact about doctors is presented alongside a colorful photograph of a doctor at work. This close picture-text correlation allows readers to develop their...
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"Jonathan Bush of athenahealth leads readers through the underbelly of American health care, which has missed the customer service revolution of the past two decades, while reflecting on his own journey from ambulance driver to CEO of one of the nation's fastest growing tech companies. He offers a vision and plan for disrupting the current system and pushes to restore the sanctity of the physician-patient experience. The key, he argues, is more innovation,...
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For decades researchers and programmers have used SAS to analyze, summarize, and report clinical trial data. Now Chris Holland and Jack Shostak have updated their popular Implementing CDISC Using SAS, the first comprehensive book on applying clinical research data and metadata to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards. Implementing CDISC Using SAS: An End-to-End Guide, Revised Second Edition, is an all-inclusive guide...
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"This handbook provides a broad healthcare context for operational research/management science (OR/MS) researchers with an encyclopedic account of the most vexing international healthcare issues. In addition, the handbook features a practical guide for OR/MS researchers to learn the most important quantitative research tools in conducting healthcare research, including classical OR techniques enhanced with game theory (such as queuing games); classical...
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"New York Times" bestselling author Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.
How is it that all other industrialized democracies provide health care for their citizens as a reasonable cost - something the United States has never managed to do? In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T.S. Reid shows how they...
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"Although American medical care is the costliest in the world, it ranks far from number one. Some sources rank American healthcare as low as 54th behind Bangladesh in distribution of care, 47th behind Bosnia in life expectancy at birth. A 2013 study from National Academy of Sciences shows us lagging near the bottom of all industrialized nations including those with 'socialized medicine.' In To die or not to die, Dr. Cook gives a brief overview of...
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"Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand the health-care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies -- UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan,...
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La salud digital y las nuevas formas de la atención médica aborda cómo las nuevas tecnologías e innovaciones están transformando el sector y examina las tendencias actuales y sus áreas de aplicación, incluyendo la atención basada en valor y las terapias digitales. Además, explora sus beneficios, tanto para pacientes como para profesionales, y resalta la importancia de la competencia digital para los profesionales sanitarios. La salud...
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Digital Transformation in Healthcare in Post-Covid19 Times discusses recent advances in patient care and offers critical comparative insights into their application across multiple domains in healthcare. By showcasing key problems, best practices and emerging challenges, the book offers a state-of-art review of opportunities and prospects in the process of delivering smart sustainable healthcare services. Topics discussed include healthcare challenges...
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"An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic...
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