検索キーワード： 政策・行政

Get Off the Hamster Wheel reveals the fallacies of our modern health care system, so that CEOs, senior executives, HR professionals, benefits advisers, and employees of a corporate group health plan can slash expenses. Charles W. Gragg, CEBS, REBC, RHU, a results-focused senior executive whose background includes leadership roles in group insurance and financial services, as well as third-party administration, addresses how to solve one of the most challenging problems in the health care economy.

What if everything you thought you knew about healthcare was wrong? Profits Over People: How Healthcare Became Sickcare, Dr. Adrian Mehmedi exposes the truth about a broken medical system that prioritizes profits over patient well-being. From the rise of Big Pharma’s influence to the suppression of alternative medicine, this book reveals how corporate greed, flawed policies, and a pharmaceutical-driven agenda have transformed healthcare into a business that thrives on illness rather than healing. Why are prescription drugs the go-to solution, even when they cause harm? Why is the U.S.

Written by a licensed Medicare broker who’s helped thousands of NJ residents, this isn’t just another government pamphlet. It’s a plain-English survival guide that finally makes these programs make sense—especially for seniors, caregivers, and those living on a fixed income.

This book was written to shine a light on a growing issue in modern healthcare: the confusion patients face when they unknowingly receive care from a provider who isn’t a physician. As someone who has witnessed firsthand the frustration and uncertainty that arises when patients learn—often after the fact—that they were seen by a Physician Associate (PA) rather than an MD or DO, I felt compelled to provide clarity.

The operating room is where life-changing moments happen. It’s where surgeons, nurses, and support teams come together to deliver the best possible care. But behind the scenes, inefficiencies, delays, and miscommunication often get in the way. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by long turnaround times, last-minute cancellations, or the feeling that things could run much smoothly, this audiobook is for you.

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healthcare industry is undergoing major transformations, and if you're a Chief Information Officer (CIO) clinging to outdated methods, your organization is at risk.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.

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.

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.

Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point. As the Stanford health economist Liran Einav and the MIT economist and MacArthur Genius Amy Finkelstein argue, our health care system was never deliberately designed, but rather pieced together to deal with issues as they became politically relevant.

The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our genomes—have promised to usher in a new era of miracle cures. Advocates of this gene-guided health-care practice foresee a future where skyrocketing costs can be curbed by customization and unjust disparities are vanquished by biomedical breakthroughs. Progress, however, has come slowly, and with a price too high for the average citizen.

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.

In Medicare Decoded: Shocking Facts to Help You Save Money and Get the Most from Medicare, elder advocate and Medicare expert Rick Solofsky guides you through the twists and turns of Medicare to get to the heart of what you need to know. Easy to understand and filled with essential information and strategies, Medicare Decoded answers your questions.

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.

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.

This comprehensive study guide includes everything you need to ace the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians Test. Our NREMT Study Guide works to eliminate test anxiety because our guide contains everything you will need to help you not only to pass the exam but ace it.

Richard A. Stone MD is the former Deputy Surgeon General of the United States Army. He returned to government service to lead the Veterans Health Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2018. Brought on as a proven changemaker and experienced leader in an inflection point for the agency. He had no idea his tenure would be defined by the public health challenge of our lifetime.

Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate United States authority on a drug's safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA's cancer drug advisory committee—tells the story of how the FDA became the most trusted regulatory agency in the world.