A multidisciplinary international team examines the safety, ethics, and health implications of the emerging global market for health care, and the issues that arise when patients cross borders for medical procedures they cannot afford or access at home, from liposuction to kidney transplants. Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services provides an in-depth, comprehensive assessment of the benefits and risks when health care becomes a global commodity. The collection includes contributions from leading scholars in law and public policy, medicine and public health, bioethics, anthropology, health geography, and economics. This timely and informative handbook looks at medical tourism from the perspective of some of the major regions that send and receive medical tourists, including the United States, the European Union, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Contributors examine how government agencies, medical tourism companies, international hospital chains, and other organizations promote medical tourism and the globalization of health care. The topics explored include the legal remedies available to medical tourists when procedures go awry; potential consequences when patients cross borders for medical procedures that are illegal in their home countries; the relationship of medical tourism to international spread of infectious disease; and the lack of adequate transnational policies and regulations governing the global market for health services.
Victor E. Arencibia is here to proclaim to the world that he is on a losing streak. He is losing his need to be angry, jealous, fearful, regretful, and guilty. Here's to all the losers of the world! Well done and welcome. With the coming new age and millennium, more than ever, there is a shhh . . . ift into spirituality and self-discovery. There is a shhh . . . ift toward spirit and God and inner peace. Shhh . . . ift Happens touches upon a wide range of observations and manages to bring them all together into one expression. Victor touches upon topics such as fear, love, courage, freedom, laughter, meditation, self-respect, and much more. This is accomplished by the use of humor and by the use of playing with words and their meaning, yet while keeping it thought provoking and challenging. A New York Journalist comments: "Shift Happens. Shhh . . . ift Happens. Swiftly say it and one recognizes the allusion at once. Shift Happens. The phrase it resembles--popular on T-shirts--is about random occurrences where there is no control. None. And random occurrences do happen in our lives, or they seem to. But, personal experiences do happen in our lives and an ever-deepening faith lead me to conclude that occurrences are not random, and what does occur, what we perceive, is a shift--in circumstance, in consciousness: in attitude; hence, shift happens! To venture into oneself and into one's inner silence is where such shifts originate and blossom. Shhh . . . ift Happens (A Book of Practical and Spiritual Insights, with a smile) means, to me, a shift in consciousness, in meaning, in life. Shift Happens. Shhh . . . ift Happens." Shhh . . . ift Happens is not a silly book, yet , there is much joy and laughter in it. It is not presented as a serious intellectual venture, yet it has the power to stay in one's consciousness and heart for years and years to come. Shhh . . . ift Happens is empowering, charming, disarming, and full of grace. This book makes observations. It does not try to fix or change anyone, for there is nothing to fix. The book stands on the premise that we are all already perfect. As Victor Arencibia demonstrates, Shhh . . . ift Happens shows and presents insights in a direct, challenging, and humorous way with a no-nonsense (and plenty of it!) style. The book makes no promise will come from within each reader's heart. Each reader will be attracted to the entries that are perfect for them at any given moment. Shhh . . . ift Happens. The book makes no promises. The promise will come from within each readers heart.
An empty stretch of highway. A freak electrical storm. A bus full of strangers. And a mysterious bus driver with a rather peculiar agenda. America the Horrific: An Anthology of Horror presents eleven tales of terror in the tradition of classic storytelling. When a freak storm strands a bus on a deserted stretch of highway, the passengers find themselves suddenly "disconnected" from the world. To pass the time, the driver encourages each passenger share something about their hometown ... but only if it is something scary. The passengers soon learn that, despite their differences, they do share one thing in common: their shared world is a very scary place.
A Girl with a Big Vision is about 10 year old Natty's journey of finding and achieving her dreams of becoming an Eye Doctor and discovering the importance of never giving up on her dreams. In tribute to her native home of Kingston Jamaica, author Kerri-Ann Coombs Hodge tells the story of Natty, a young bright, inquisitive young girl who carries the weight of her father's vision loss. Her dad, her hero, is going blind and she wants more than anything to save his eyes. She makes it her life's mission as she embarks on a career path that will take her from the beaches of Jamaica and land her studying Optometry in the United States.
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