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  • Honest Aging

    An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life

    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    Your indispensable guide to taking charge of the second half of your life.From Dr. Rosanne M. Leipzig, a top doctor with more than 35 years of experience caring for older people, Honest Aging is an indispensable guide to the second half of life, describing what to expect physically, psychologically, functionally, and emotionally as you age.Leipzig, an expert in evidence-based geriatrics, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Heroes Need Not Apply

    How to Build a Patient-Accountable Culture without Putting More on Your Plate

    Everyone in healthcare knows that the lack of accountability negatively impacts care, and when accountability improves throughout your organization, care improves. What healthcare leaders don’t know, is how to improve accountability and why it so critically linked to improving patient care. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Clinical Ethics

    A Graphic Medicine Casebook

    Series series Graphic Medicine
    Mr. Ito’s children act as his informal translators, but his doctor isn’t sure their translations are accurate or complete. Is Mr. Ito getting the medical information he needs?Ten-year-old Hannah arrives for her checkup with a bruised nose and an irritable father. Medical student Melanie is concerned for Hannah’s safety but wary of making accusations without evidence.Dr. Joshi worries that her ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Making Excellence A Habit

    The Secret to Building a World-Class Healthcare System in India

    by Dr. V. Mohan ...
    One of the few practising doctors in India who contributed to research, education and charity in such a large measure, the book documents the fundamentals of what makes a person achieve meaningful success. While hard work, passion and focus emerge as winning lessons, delicate and tender learnings from Dr Mohan's life, such as empathy or spirituality, are not forgotten. Written in Dr Mohan's ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver's Handbook

    What to Remember When They Forget

    When a loved one shows signs of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, you will face challenges for which you feel ill-equiped. Dozens of decisions will need to be made:* Can Mom live by herself safely? If not, what if she refuses to leave her home?* When do I need to take away the car keys and checkbook?* How do I deal with her obstinate refusal to take a bath or go to the doctor?* Should I correct her ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare

    How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare

    From the nation’s leading experts in healthcare safety—the first comprehensive guide to delivering care that ensures the safety of patients and staff alike.One of the primary tenets among healthcare professionals is, “First, do no harm.” Achieving this goal means ensuring the safety of both patient and caregiver. Every year in the United States alone, an estimated 4.8 million hospital patients ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

    A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence

    by Ian Harris ...
    For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced, practising orthopaedic surgeon who performs many of these operations himself, makes the unsettling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Year of the Nurse: A Covid-19 Pandemic Memoir

    This book is for everyone, nurse or otherwise, who is furious about how 2020 went down -- and how 2021 is going.In 2020 there were roughly four million nurses in America. Only 2.7 million U.S. soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. Those who came back from Vietnam, having witnessed atrocities—and in some cases, participated in them—were changed forever.You can’t send four million people into a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • InVerse Medicine

    Poems about Things Often Left Unsaid

    Some conversations come easy; some are hard; some never take place.The poems contained in this volume are conversations often overlooked in the hurry and bluster of life.These poems are for people who have seen struggle from up close, and for those who have never had to; for people who love poetry, and for those who wonder and doubt; for people who think the healthcare system is fatally flawed, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Searching for Health

    The Smart Way to Find Information Online and Put It to Use

    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    An insider's guide to searching online, communicating with your physician, and maximizing your health from a doctor who works at Google.We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr. Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Charting the Course

    Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare

    In Why Hospitals Should Fly by John J. Nance, JD, the 2009 James A. Hamilton ACHE Book of the Year, he advanced a paradigm—a model of what a good, successful, safe and efficient hospital looks like. The name of the fictional hospital featured in that award-winning book could be stated in Naval terms as a clazz: A “St. Michael’s-clazz” hospital (like a Nimitz-clazz aircraft carrier). In this book, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Escape to Tuscany

    by T.A. Williams ...
    Sit back, relax and allow yourself to be swept away to Italy! Includes all three books in the heartwarming Escape to Tuscany series; Under A Siena Sun, Second Chances in Chianti and Secrets on the Italian Island.Under A Siena Sun: Doctors Without Borders has been Lucy Young’s life for the past four years. After being rescued from a conflict zone, she’s making a change from saving lives under ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Language of Doctors

    Cracking the Code of Hospital Culture

    by Brian Goldman ...
    Most people have visited a doctor's office or emergency room in their lifetime to gain clarity about an ailment or check in after a procedure. While doctors strive to ensure their patients understand their diagnoses, rarely do those outside the medical community understand the words and phrases we hear practitioners yell across a hospital hallway or murmur to a colleague behind office doors. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It

    A practical action plan for reinventing healthcare in a post-pandemic world—from a physician-entrepreneur who works with Fortune 500 companies.If the healthcare system were an emperor, Covid-19 tragically revealed that it had no clothes. Healthcare had to adapt, and quickly―sparking a dramatic acceleration of virtual care, drive-through testing, and home-based services. In the process, old rules ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Butchered By "Healthcare"

    HOW YOU CAN SURVIVE "HEALTHCARE," THE LARGEST AND MOST CORRUPT INDUSTRY IN AMERICA.Robert Yoho, MD, a top physician, has written this award-winning book to help you see through the lies, handle hospitals, find trustworthy doctors, and master your drugs.Learn how to avoid disgracefully ineffective and overused treatments such as:✪Angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery✪Low back and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humanizing Health Care

    Creating Cultures of Compassion With Nonviolent Communication

    by Melanie Sears ...
    Series series Nonviolent Communication Guides
    The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the workplace, the classroom, and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation, discovery, and application. Focusing on the language used in the health care system, this manual ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Medicine

    Healing and the Limits of Technology

    A renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicineIn The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s 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-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment.While HPK, as he is fondly known, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Vital Conversations

    Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients

    by Dennis Rosen ...
    “Engaging . . . provides patients tools they can use to improve dialogue with their doctors and, ultimately, improve their ultimate medical outcomes.”—The Times of IsraelThe health-care system in the United States is by far the most expensive in the world, yet its outcomes are decidedly mediocre in comparison with those of other countries. Poor communication between doctors and patients, Dennis ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feel Good Again

    A Game-Changing Guide to Creating Wellness, Energy, Joy and an Enthusiasm for Life

    Is waking up with fatigue, aches, and pains getting old for you?Your labwork is ?normal.? Your doctors shrug their shoulders. And you?re left wondering where in the world your energy and vitality could possibly have gone, especially when you?re trying to ?do all the right things.? Dr. Linda Goggin invites you on a lively journey to Feel Good Again, because robust good health is your birthright and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quality Playbook

    A Step-by-Step Guide for Healthcare Leaders

    The Quality Playbook and the companion Workbook (which you can purchase separately on the publisher's website www.SecondRiverHealthcare.com) are about creating great clinical outcomes and safer care for patients, families, and communities; creating healthcare organizations that rank at the top of the nation’s rating lists; and doing what most organizations have been unable to do: deliver top ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Care We Dream Of

    Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

    by Zena Sharman ...
    What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honored and valued queer and trans people’s lives, bodies and expertise? What if LGBTQ+ communities led and organized our own health care as a form of mutual aid? What if every aspect of our health care was rooted in a commitment to our healing, pleasure and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Washington Manual of Outpatient Internal Medicine

    Focusing on the essential information you need to know for the most commonly encountered problems in outpatient internal medicine, this practical volume in the Washington Manual® series provides concise, high-yield content that reflects today’s advances in patient evaluation and management. In one convenient, portable resource, you’ll find complete coverage of everything from hypertension and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • On Becoming a Healer

    The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients

    An invaluable guide to becoming a competent and compassionate physician.Medical students and physicians-in-training embark on a long journey that, although steeped in scientific learning and technical skill building, includes little guidance on the emotional and interpersonal dimensions of becoming a healer. Written for anyone in the health care community who hopes to grow emotionally and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The APRN’s Complete Guide to Prescribing Drug Therapy 2018

    This is a concise, easy-to-read prescribing reference for advanced health care providers involved in the primary care management of patients with acute, episodic, and chronic health problems. Organized alphabetically by clinical diagnosis for quick access in all clinical settings, the guide encompasses CDC- and FDA-approved pharmacotherapy regimens for more than 500 clinical diagnoses along with ... Read more

    $52.99 USD