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An urgent indictment of the food we eat, how it is making us sick, and the choices that led us here, and a call for a revolutionary new food system that can mend our health, economy, and planet, from a world-renowned expert in nutrition, medicine, and public policy The food we eat is making us...

The fear of cancer is understandable. But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases. In Curing Cancerphobia, David Ropeik reveals the fascinating historical and psychological roots of our fear of cancer and documents the dramatic health and financial harms caused when that fear exceeds the risk.

In this non-fiction book, listeners are introduced to the heartbreaking and infuriating stories of three patients and their families who experienced a complete lack of care and compassion in an American Long Term Acute Care Hospital. Despite the desperate pleas and efforts of their families, these patients were neglected and even denied basic needs, resulting in tragic outcomes.

“Leading Healthcare Transformation: Doctors, Nurses, and Managers at the Helm” is an exhaustive analysis of the modern dynamics in the healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on middle management leadership. It provides a deep dive into the roles, responsibilities, and leadership abilities required by different professionals, including doctors, nurses, and managers.

Everyone knows the path to becoming a doctor: study, study and more study. Depending on your specialty, you’ll spend four years in pre-med, followed by four years in medical school. And then, to earn that white coat, you’ll toil night and day, rounding for years as a resident in a range of healthcare settings. You might think that a few of those many hours would be devoted to helping a novice doctor master the basics of launching a private practice. However, what Justin Berthold, D.O., learned the hard way was that there was no roadmap for how to go into private practice.

This book is about churn or patient turnover. This is for those DPC doctors, not only those in mature practices, but also for those newbies who are just starting out. Everyone needs to worry about losing patients. It’s not only a blow to your ego when people are going out the door seemingly as fast as they are coming in but also a blow to your bottom line. And it could put you out of business.

Diagnosis: Truths and Tales shares stories told from the perspectives of those who receive diagnoses and those who deliver them. Confronting how we address illness in our personal lives and in popular culture, this compelling book explores narratives of diagnosis while pondering the impact they have on how we experience health and disease.

Then one day at clinic, she noticed patients trading stories in the waiting room, sharing not just valuable advice, but empathy and encouragement. That was the genesis of the support group, a safe place where people dealing with cancer and its aftermath could talk openly about what they were going through. It was a lightbulb experience for Dr. Blackmon. Once she saw the difference a committed ally could make in a patient’s long-term survivorship, Dr. Blackmon sought to extend the principles of support to her colleagues.

In Dying to Save You, Dr. William Queale takes you behind the scenes of our sickcare system. He uses deeply personal stories to explain how we got here and how systems thinking can get us out. But Dying to Save You isn’t just about medicine, science, and healthcare policy. This book is about you—and how you can stay out of the sickcare system altogether.

In this guide Juniper Advisory and other healthcare transaction professionals explore the important points that leaders should consider and understand when evaluating and undertaking strategic organizational decisions like mergers and acquisitions. The compendium of articles offers a common-sense businessperson's summary of topics and brings detailed technical analyses to key issues.

The Physician Wellness Project is your roadmap to joy in your job. This step-by-step guidebook to career satisfaction and work-life balance. We'll explore the best jobs within medicine. And if you're looking to leave medicine, this book shares all the best career options for healthcare professionals beyond clinical practice.

Visits with a human doctor will be a thing of the past. See how an AI-powered robot doctor will provide comprehensive, fully automated, and omnipresent healthcare. Understand why we need this, and explore the feasibility and advantages of such a system. Discover avant-garde trends and ideas in healthcare technology, and see what the future holds!

This audiobook series is dedicated to tackling the security challenges faced by healthcare provider organizations and enhancing the patient experience. In today's healthcare landscape, Information Technology serves as a vital lifeline. Crafting robust and secure applications and infrastructure is crucial for healthcare professionals to deliver optimal patient care while safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of both applications and patient data.

The practice of medicine has never been easy. Years of demanding education. Long hours. Weekend call duty. Stress-laden procedures. Burgeoning regulatory requirements. Even a worldwide healthcare crisis. How is a physician to cope? This indispensable anthology of essential essays offers practical solutions. 'Physician Well-Being During Sustained Crisis' features over twenty authors, including active physician executives, counselors, and healthcare chaplains, addressing three core concepts related to the well-being of physicians.

Eugene A. Woods, CEO of Advocate Health, one of the largest non-profit health systems in the nation, provides a riveting behind-the-scenes look at healthcare in the United States. By sharing his insights from three decades in healthcare administration, as well as his personal journey, listeners gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing healthcare systems and the impact on all of us. Woods sheds light on the inequities our communities face and presents actionable prescriptions to create a more equitable, just and accessible healthcare system.

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognizing the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work, the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work—shame, stigma, suffering, and sacrifice—and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery.

Addressing nurse burnout is essential to enhance the nursing workforce's overall well-being and provide patients with the highest level of care possible. Having a reliable resource to provide assistance, guidance, and support can go a long way in mitigating burnout and ensuring that nurses feel supported in their roles. So, let's prioritize nurse burnout and strive to make nursing a profession that nurtures the mind, body, and soul of all those who dedicate their lives to helping others.

Wenn Metin nach Feierabend mal wieder an seine Kühlschranktür klopft, weiß er, dass an diesem Tag sehr viele Patient*innen nach ihm gerufen haben – Er ist Krankenpfleger durch und durch, und ohne diese Leidenschaft geht das in seinen Augen auch gar nicht. Denn das kaputtgesparte Gesundheitssystem, der stressige Klinikalltag und die mangelnde Wertschätzung machen seinen Job zu einer Herausforderung. Doch die Patient*innen stehen immer an erster Stelle und das Team hält zusammen.

La historia de cómo el trabajo de un pequeño grupo de personas creció hasta alcanzar el tamaño de su vocación: garantizar que el cuidado de la salud sea un derecho, no un privilegio.

Understanding the inevitable changes that technology has brought—and will continue to bring—to the healthcare industry will help all of us take more control over our well-being, prevent chronic diseases, and pursue care at the right time, at the right place, in the right way, from the right people.

Psychische Gesundheit ist politisch. In Ländern wie Deutschland und Österreich können wir uns auf eine medizinische Notversorgung verlassen. Gibt es einen Unfall, wird ein Rettungswagen gerufen, Patient*innen werden in ein Krankenhaus gebracht und schnellstmöglich versorgt. Selbstverständlich, oder? Immerhin wäre es für uns unvorstellbar, mit einem Knochenbruch wieder nach Hause geschickt zu werden, einschließlich einer Wartefrist von sechs Wochen. Bis ein Behandlungsplatz zur Verfügung steht. In etwa so gestaltet sich jedoch die Situation im Bereich der psychischen Erkrankungen.

Filled with firsthand insights and stories from the frontlines of healthcare, as well as innovative solutions, Care After Covid shows all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem exactly what needs to change and, more importantly, how to do it.

Myth: People from marginalized backgrounds have poorer health outcomes because of poor decision-making. Through extensive research and interviews, Health Care of a Thousand Slights: Connecting Legacy to Access to Healthcare debunks this myth, demonstrating that the historical legacy of discriminatory policies and culture has had an enduring impact on healthcare access and outcomes among marginalized communities.

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 often falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to specialty, hospital shifts, or an insurer's whims. In this gripping narrative from medicine's front lines, Ilana Yurkiewicz reveals how a system that doesn't talk to itself puts insupportable burdens on physicians, patients, and caregivers.

The American health-care system is failing us. It is a frustratingly complex, opaque, and unaffordable system that results in suboptimal care and a deterioration of the welfare of the majority of American families. The experience of the past few decades and the recent ravaging pandemic has shown us that doing more of the same is not going to deliver us from this dilemma. But there is hope. There is a way to create a more accessible, consumer-friendly, safer, and affordable system of care for all of us.

In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a groundbreaking force with the potential to reshape every facet of human existence. Among its most promising applications, the integration of AI in the medical field stands out as a transformative and revolutionary endeavor. AI's ability to process vast amounts of data, learn from patterns, and make intelligent decisions has opened up unprecedented possibilities in the domain of healthcare.

Dr. Caleb Slater has a revolutionarily new approach to treating patients. With a slightly different view of the human body, he has been able to achieve groundbreaking results for a wide variety of symptoms, including pain, nausea, dizziness, abdominal discomfort, headaches, and breathing difficulties to name a few. If you have found the current treatments lacking and only managing your symptoms rather than providing a cure, then this book is for you.

Operating an ALF can be rewarding. The services you provide for people aged 62+ and their families help people live their best lives. You also contribute to the community and society at large by maintaining the health and well-being of a contributing member.

A Healthy Society offers a new approach to politics–and a new approach to building a healthier world. Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores fundamental conditions that lead to poor health such as income, education, employment, housing, and environment.

The healthcare industry is undergoing major transformations, and if you're a Chief Information Officer (CIO) clinging to outdated methods, your organization is at risk. As a CIO, your key role is enabling Population Health Management and transforming your organization from a reactive to proactive focus on future systems. But this requires looking beyond the walls of the hospital.

From the suburbs of Washington, DC, and northern Virginia to the bat-infested caves of Wuhan, China, Dr. Ravi Iyer traces the myriad networks of the virus that brought the entire world to its knees for 24 months and decimated the lives of millions in its path.

Health care as it stands today needs to be re-imagined. Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine by Paul Cerrato and Dr. John Halamka challenges the profession to renegotiate its priorities and address the fact that it’s become timid and reluctant to explore new care delivery models. The guiding premise of this book is that rethinking and reimagining the way medicine is practiced in the 21st century will improve health outcomes, and that technology is central to this transformation.

Since its birth in 1948, the powers that be have chipped away at the NHS. Now, Britain's best-loved institution is under greater threat than ever, besieged by a deadly combination of underfunding, understaffing and the predatory private sector. In the wake of the pandemic, we have come to accept a 'new normal' of permanent crisis and years-long waiting lists. But, as Gavin Francis reveals in this short, vital book - it doesn't have to be this way, and until recently, it wasn't.

From the co-author of Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare, the first book to warn of the systematic replacement of physicians, comes Imposter Doctors, an even more frightening exposé of patient endangerment at the hands of for-profit corporate entities and healthcare conglomerates.

Doctor Deals is a tactical playbook for anyone who wants to be successful in the business of healthcare. If you operate any type of healthcare business in the United States of America, physicians are going to be a critical factor in your success or failure.

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg “A gripping, deeply moving account of a signal year in modern history, told through the...

What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Phil Whitaker offers insight into the medical movements, political interference and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor over the past three decades.

Now in paperback, an empowering, soul-baring personal account and guide from a two-time cancer survivor and healthcare disrupter that shows anyone how to deal with a frightening medical diagnosis in America today, providing the knowledge necessary to take ownership of personal wellbeing and...

As we grapple with the world's worst pandemic for a century, our minds are on our health more than ever. But what should we rightfully expect of doctors? In this original and thought-provoking book, Sir David Haslam explores what good healthcare should achieve and asks how we pay for it. Informed by patient stories and data from across the world—from US big pharma to Britain's NHS—this is an urgent and often moving examination of our most important asset: our health.

Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a magnanimous cornerstone of the Canadian state, developed in lockstep with colonial control over Indigenous land and life.

For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. Black activists, physicians, and communities continue to battle inequities and structural problems that include poverty, inadequate access to health care, incarceration, a lack of transportation, and food insecurity.