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  • 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

  • Beyond Caring

    Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics

    Series series Morality and Society Series
    Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.Based on more than ten years' field research, Beyond Caring is filled with eyewitness accounts and personal stories demonstrating how nurses turn the awesome into the routine. It shows how ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Thrive

    How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

    A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Black and Blue

    The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

    by John Hoberman ...
    Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.Black & Blue penetrates the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Doctors

    How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the Worlds Conception of Health Care

    Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Inside Health Care: Neonatal Intensive Care - Who Decides? Who Pays? Who Can Afford It?

    Health care in the US is facing a crisis, but there is polarization and disagreement among policy makers and the public about how to solve this crisis. The overall outcome is ranked much lower than most developed nations and nearly 50 million people are uninsured. Health care is big business and is 17 % of the gross domestic product. Inside Health Care highlights the lifesaving nature of neonatal ... Read more

    $28.99 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

  • Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

    An award-winning physician-writer exposes 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 we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Why Hospitals Should Fly

    The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care

    “How can it be that in 2008, a checked bag on an airline flight is still exponentially safer than a patient in an American hospital?  Simply put, one industry has learned the realities of what it takes to make a human system safe, and the other has not.  So what does it take to dramatically improve patient safety and service quality?  It takes a host of new and different (and sometimes radical) ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Truth About COVID-19

    Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal

    USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly National Bestseller“An eloquent, charismatic, and knowledgeable [critique] of a corrupt system.”****—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., from the foreword**“Dr. Mercola is a visionary, pioneer, and leader.”**—Del Bigtree, host of The HighwireMultiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins,... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Autism's False Prophets

    Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

    A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Understanding Healthcare

    a historical perspective

    Freedom in Health Care, by Kenneth A. Fisher, MD. Feb. 2016, 154 pages. With tables, reading list, and footnotes. (ISBN: 9780997151107)Dr. Fisher provides the reader an in-depth understanding of how we got into this controversial, overly expensive, exceedingly complex and bureaucratic healthcare system and ends with a comprehensive solution delivering the promise of personalized care for all at ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Josie's Story

    A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe

    by Sorrel King ...
    The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal).Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s new home. Taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, Josie made a remarkable recovery. But as she was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Prepper's Medical Handbook: The Pocket Sized Survival Guide

    by Edwin Hose ...
    Are you prepared for the turmoil this world is offering?Do you have a doctor on hand?With wars brewing around the world, viruses crippling society, prepping is no longer a fringe hobby.Your readiness and well being is your responsibility.Not your neighbors, not the government, not any agency.Take control and give yourself the tools,And knowledge to safeguard the well being of yourself and your ... Read more

    Free

  • The Body Multiple

    Ontology in Medical Practice

    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Summary of The Checklist Manifesto

    by Atul Gawande | Includes Analysis

    The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | Includes & AnalysisPreview:The Checklist Manifesto is a non-fiction investigation of human fallibility in high-stakes environments, such as medical surgeries, airline flights, and skyscraper construction. It explains how the introduction of procedural checklists can improve performance, reduce error, and ultimately save lives—especially in today’s ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States, 12th Edition

    This fully updated and revised 12th edition of the highly acclaimed textbook on health care delivery provides graduate and undergraduate students with a comprehensive survey of health care in the United States ranging in topics from the organization of care, the politics surrounding healthcare in the United States, to population health and vulnerable populations, healthcare costs and value, health ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights

    Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and ... Read more

    Free

  • The Master Adaptive Learner

    Series series The AMA MedEd Innovation Series
    Tomorrow’s best physicians will be those who continually learn, adjust, and innovate as new information and best practices evolve, reflecting adaptive expertise in response to practice challenges. As the first volume in the American Medical Association’s MedEd Innovation Series, The Master Adaptive Learner is an instructor-focused guide covering models for how to train and teach future clinicians ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Careful

    The Meaning of Careful addresses the pressing need to improve patient safety and cost efficiencies while at the same time nurturing staff morale & improving the patient experience. It offers a unique perspective on the possibilities for change within the healthcare system informed both by Dr Brownʼs hands-on experience as an ER doctor and his involvement in managing change in large corporations. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • AIDS TV

    Identity, Community, and Alternative Video

    Series series Console-ing passions
    Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression—an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon—why and how video has become the medium for so much AIDS activism—she also tries to make sense of the bigger picture: How is this work different from ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Pharmageddon

    by David Healy ...
    This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing side effects of many anti-depressants, attributes our current state of affairs to three ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Gateway to 10,000 Illnesses

    by Robert Boyd ...
    Author Robert Boyd suggests what he sees as the hitherto missing link in the world of medicine. Robert's writings are refreshing, stimulating and thought provoking – even humorous - and challenge the accepted norms in wide areas of conventional and alternative medicine. He has been at the forefront of cranial research and innovation for over 30 years. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus