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To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch.
Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty.
Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang...
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Dr. Terrence Loftus is President of Loftus Health, a healthcare consulting company committed to educating and coaching the next generation of healthcare leaders on how to improve the delivery of healthcare. His new book, The Clinical Practice Program: A How-to-Guide for Physician Leaders on Starting Up a Successful Program, builds on the concept of the Seven Pillars. The Seven Pillars refers to the observation that successful programs are supported...
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Most Americans remain confused about Obamacare ad how it effects them. Using his insider's knowledge of the NFL, Dr. Dennis Deruelle shows how we can apply professional football's approach to healthcare to our best advantage.Teams are the future of healthcare. Many of the new changes to healthcare are similar to the best practices of the NFL. In Your Healthcare Playbook, Dr. Deruelle uses the NFL, the most successful franchise in American history,...
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If you believe that America has the greatest health care system in the world then this book is probably not for you. The truth is that our health care system is riddled with deeply rooted flaws. It is certainly not the product of intelligent design. Too often it has put profits ahead of good science and cost-effectiveness. Unfortunately, the system is highly resistant to change because of all the powerful players who have a vested interest in the...
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The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public concerning which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect. Kabat approaches...
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Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite this, the number of HSWs is growing fast as governments strive to combat illness and address social care issues in a world of finite resources. This original collection analyses the global experience of HSWs in the UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, Sweden and The Netherlands. Leading academics...
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As a field, health and social care is facing considerable challenge and debate, in the UK and internationally. This clear and succinct text offers a valuable introductory guide to this multidisciplinary subject, helping people who want to study or work in health and social care understand why these services matter, how they have developed and how they work. Framed by vital historical and social policy context, the book considers:
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Along the Continuum of Care creates a mind shift for the case manager in the new paradigm to be effective agents of change and resource connectors. The urgent need to improve health outcomes is resulting in moment-to-moment changes in the world of case management. Along the Continuum of Care focus on helping health care professionals meet the new challenges with Health Care Reform. Case Managers must educate the senior leadership team about the financial...
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I'm a family physician. I think American healthcare costs too much, and I think physicians are part of the problem. I wrote this book because I'm worried about America's future. American businesses have become more efficient over the last 10 years, but their employees can't feel it. Workers are more productive, but the fruit of their labors is missing from their paychecks because it's being sucked into the healthcare system. As well, U.S. businesses...
11) The Value Analysis Program: A How-to-Guide for Physician Leaders On Starting Up a Successful Program
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Dr. Terrence Loftus is President of Loftus Health, a healthcare consulting company committed to educating and coaching the next generation of healthcare leaders on how to improve the delivery of healthcare. His new book, The Value Analysis Program: A How-to-Guide for Physician Leaders on Starting Up a Successful Program, builds on the concept of the Seven Pillars. The Seven Pillars refers to the observation that successful programs are supported by...
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The NHS is a national icon that spends a lot of taxpayer's money, sometimes wastefully. This is an account of a Labour Health Minister's involvement in reforming a reluctant NHS. It assesses Labour's stewardship of the NHS, warts and all. Drawing on this experience, it examines the Coalition Government's plans for reform, as NHS funding moves from feast to famine. The book concludes with a description of the financial and accountability framework...
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The outmost goal of managing a pregnancy is to prevent complications and enhance safe labour, childbirth, and neonatal period. This goal is achieved in this book. The first chapter on prepregnancy care deals with what you have to do before trying for a baby; this was followed with human anatomy, early pregnancy and its peculiarities, foetal development week-by-week, and then antenatal care in succession. Dr Abbey explains the modern techniques of...
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Willie Ramirez is arguably the most important medical malpractice case related to language and prejudice. As a result of an interpreting error, Willie's brain hemorrhage was misdiagnosed and he was left quadriplegic. On January 22, 1980, 18-year-old Willie Ramirez ate a fast food hamburger. That evening, he fell down unconscious and his Cuban family thought it was the hamburger that made him sick. They tried to explain to the emergency room doctor...
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This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly funded health services in England and Canada. Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds on both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of the profession uniquely influences reforms. With summaries of developments in models of care, and the participation of doctors since the inception of publicly funded healthcare systems, they ask whether...
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This workbook has been developed for all individuals with little to no background in the health care field.It is a basic introduction to medical terminology.It provides the student with an opportunity to develop good word-building skills so that the student can identify medical terms by their corresponding word components.This workbook is unique in that it has been designed for use with any medical terminology textbook or instructor lectures.It is...
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Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the world-is extraordinary. It is a biological process that...
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What social factors contribute to the tragic state of health care in Africa? Focusing on East African societies, this book is the first to investigate what role religion plays in health care in African cultures. Taking in to account the geopolitical and economic environments of the region, the authors examine the roles played by individual and group beliefs, government policies, and pressure from the Millennium Development Goals in affecting health...
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The New Arthritis Breakthrough presents a groundbreaking medical therapy that has undergone rigorous clinical testing, demonstrating its unique ability to bring about long-term improvement and remission for a range of inflammatory arthritis conditions such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Lupus, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), Fibromyalgia, Scleroderma, Spondyloarthropathy, and other related ailments. This innovative approach offers hope and relief...
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Practicing for Practice is a handbook created for resident physicians who are on the threshold of entering practice and in the process of analyzing potential practice sites. The author believes there is sufficient information and enough advisors available on the business aspects, so those are not included. Rather, the emphasis is on the human aspects of choosing a practice and on understanding interpersonal relationships, topics that are extremely...
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