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The Vitamin D Solution

A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems

By: Michael F. Holick Ph.D., M.D.

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The Vitamin D Solution

A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems

By: Michael F. Holick Ph.D., M.D.

This information can save your life. Really."—Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Goddesses Never Age and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom Many Americans have succumbed to the scare tactics of the dermatological community, and avoid sunlight for fear of skin cancer and premature aging. Therefore, most of us suffer from vitamin D deficiency, which causes daily aches, pains, and fatigue, worsens serious illnesses, and diminishes the quality of everyday life. Drawing on decades of research, Dr. Michael f. Holick reveals a well-kept secret: our bodies need a sensible amount of unprotected sun exposure. The most comprehensive rescriptive book on the market, The Vitamin D Solution offers readers an easy and inexpensive plan to reversing the effects of vitamin D deficiency-and enjoying a substantially healthier life.

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The Vitamin D Solution

A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems

By: Michael F. Holick Ph.D., M.D.

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The Vitamin D Solution

A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problems

By: Michael F. Holick Ph.D., M.D.

The world's leading expert on vitamin D reveals the missing link to achieving optimal health Vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world. In America alone, over 200 million people lack sufficient levels of vitamin D and may consequently suffer from chronic health conditions, ranging from daily annoyances like fatigue and pain to life-threatening illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. But few people know why vitamin D is so important and what they can do to avoid the myriad ailments associated with deficiency, including heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. There is no better person to demystify this vitamin and showcase its place in human health than author Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D.-the father of modern vitamin D research. With more than three decades spent studying the relationship between vitamin D, limited sun exposure, and human well-being, Dr. Holick shares his findings on how combining the natural curative properties of the sun along with small lifestyle changes can help everyone to live a substantially healthier life. Armed with a three-step plan incorporating safe amounts of sun exposure, the right supplementation, and eating foods rich in vitamin D, Dr. Holick provides prescriptive advice for anyone- from relatively healthy people to those suffering from chronic or even fatal diseases- on how to easily rebuild and maintain optimal levels of this essential hormone. Rich with anecdotes and entertaining case studies, The Vitamin D Solution also presents research from around the world to serve as a wake-up call on this potentially lifesaving hormone for health.

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The UV Advantage

By: Michael Hollick, M.D. and Mark Jenkins

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The UV Advantage

By: Michael Hollick, M.D. and Mark Jenkins

“...Dr. Holick says, sunshine is good medicine." Jane E. Brody, The New York Times Sunshine is good for you! While too much sun causes wrinkles and raises other health concerns, a lack of sun exposure, our primary source of vitamin D can cause serious health problems, such as osteoporosis, certain cancers, and diabetes. Dr. Holick, the discoverer of the active form of vitamin D, has pulled together an impressive body of evidence in support that no one should be—as he puts it—a “sunphobe,” or, for that matter, a sun worshipper. His conclusion: relatively brief, but unfettered exposure to sunshine and its equivalent can help to ward off a host of debilitating and sometimes deadly diseases, including osteoporosis, cancers of the colon, prostate and breast, hypertension, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and depression.

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The Vitamin D Solution

A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem

By: Michael F. Holick

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The Vitamin D Solution

A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem

By: Michael F. Holick

Citing the role of Vitamin D deficiency in chronic health conditions, a program for implementing safe moderate quantities of sunlight into a lifestyle also provides anecdotes and case studies that have demonstrated effective treatments.

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Demystifying Medicine

By: Michael Jacobs

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Demystifying Medicine

By: Michael Jacobs

Dr. Michael Jacobs has a broad, eclectic background. Before returning for higher education in 1973, he had earlier experiences as a newspaper writer, high school teacher, and professional baseball player.He completed his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Toledo, Ohio with a dissertation in the neurosciences. He then taught at the Universities of Utah and Texas before returning to medical school at the Medical College of Ohioat Toledo.After completing his education and residency in internal medicine, he practiced in Jacksonville, Florida for 11 years. He currently has a private practice, complemented by clinical research and medical-school teaching in Las Vegas, Nevada and New York City.He is board certified in Internal Medicine.

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The Human Effect in Medicine

Theory, Research and Practice

By: Michael Dixon (M.D.),Kieran Sweeney

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The Human Effect in Medicine

Theory, Research and Practice

By: Michael Dixon (M.D.),Kieran Sweeney

How is modern medicine failing? Why is a more human approach required? This book challenges the dogma of modern technological medicine that ignores both the therapeutic effect of the doctors and the self-healing powers of the patient. It reviews the vast weight of evidence on the effectiveness of this 'human effect', and uses the evidence to describe how to use the human effect in everyday practice. This book is about a vision. A vision that practitioners and patients will recognise and regain their therapeutic potential. It provides a shift in perspective on what doctors can achieve. Thoroughly referenced, it is vital for general practitioners, and also very relevant to all doctors, nurses, health managers, policy makers and indeed patients. 'Pendulums swing in most fields of life, and medicine and general practice are no exceptions. At the mid-point of the twentieth century the human side of medicine was well understood and implicitly accepted by most working practitioners. As the century progressed, the personal aspects came second (but now) the pendulum of thought has started to swing back again towards the personal.

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Demanding Medical Excellence

Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age

By: Michael L. Millenson

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Demanding Medical Excellence

Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age

By: Michael L. Millenson

Demanding Medical Excellence is a groundbreaking and accessible work that reveals how the information revolution is changing the way doctors make decisions. Michael Millenson, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee as a health-care reporter for the Chicago Tribune, illustrates serious flaws in contemporary medical practice and shows ways to improve care and save tens of thousands of lives. "If you read only one book this year, read Demanding Medical Excellence. It's that good, and the revolution it describes is that important."—Health Affairs "Millenson has done yeoman's work in amassing and understanding that avalanche of data that lies beneath most of the managed-care headlines. . . . What he finds is both important and well-explained: inconsistency, overlap, and inattention to quality measures in medical treatment cost more and are more dangerous than most cost-cutting measures. . . . [This book] elevates the healthcare debate to a new level and deserves a wide readership."—Library Journal "An involving, human narrative explaining how we got to where we are today and what lies ahead."—Mark Taylor, Philadelphia Inquirer "Read this book. It will entertain you, challenge, and strengthen you in your quest for better accountability in health care."—Alex R. Rodriguez, M.D., American Journal of Medical Quality "Finally, a health-care book that doesn't wring its hands over the decline of medicine at the hands of money-grubbing corporations. . . . This is a readable account of what Millenson calls a 'quiet revolution' in health care, and his optimism makes for a refreshing change."—Publishers Weekly "With meticulous detail, historical accuracy, and an uncommon understanding of the clinical field, Millenson documents our struggle to reach accountability."—Saty Satya-Murti, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association

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Why Physicians Die by Suicide

Lessons Learned from Their Families and Others Who Cared

By: Michael F Myers MD

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Why Physicians Die by Suicide

Lessons Learned from Their Families and Others Who Cared

By: Michael F Myers MD

Physicians are known to be a group of professionals who are at risk of taking their own lives. In this easy-to-read book, Dr. Michael Myers, a psychiatrist and specialist in physician health, attempts to explain the mystery of why some doctors, despite their calling and the adoration of their families, patients, students and colleagues, perish by suicide. He combines the powerful and gripping insights of dozens of bereaved people whom he interviewed for this project with disguised stories from his decades long clinical practice to shed some light on this national tragedy. The stigma attached to mental illness in doctors is ubiquitous and pernicious - and, because untreated illness is one of the major drivers to suicide, Dr. Myers argues that stigma must be fought with urgency and might. He makes across-the-board recommendations in an effort to prevent suicide in physicians and concludes that everyone has a role to play in saving a doctor's life. This is a book about heartbreak, loss, prevailing, growth, passion and hope. It's a book for doctors themselves, their families, those who train them, those who treat them and those who care about them.

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On Medicine as Colonialism

By: Michael Fine

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On Medicine as Colonialism

By: Michael Fine

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.

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Medicine at the Crossroads

A Collection of Stories and Conversations to Forge a Vision for Health Care

By: Michael Attas

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Medicine at the Crossroads

A Collection of Stories and Conversations to Forge a Vision for Health Care

By: Michael Attas

Medicine at the Crossroads is a collection of essays based a column originally published in the Waco-Tribune Herald by renowned cardiologist Dr. Michael Attas of Baylor University. It touches on three perspectives - the physician, the patient, and the healthcare system - and addresses some of the most pressing questions in medicine today.

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1944952225

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50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know

The Key Studies That Form the Foundation of Evidence-Based Medicine

By: Michael E. Hochman,Steven D. Hochman

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50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know

The Key Studies That Form the Foundation of Evidence-Based Medicine

By: Michael E. Hochman,Steven D. Hochman

Study Interventions: Participants in the placebo group received standard lifestyle recommendations. Participants in the metformin group received standard lifestyle recommendations along with metformin 850 mg twice daily. Participants in the lifestyle group were given an intensive lifestyle modification program taught by case managers on a one-to-one basis with the goal of achieving and maintaining a 7% or greater reduction in body weight, improvements in dietary intake, and physical activity of at least 150 minutes per week. The lifestyle modification program was taught during 16 sessions over a 24-week period, and reinforced with individual (usually monthly) and group sessions after that"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197533647

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Healing Words

The Power of Apology in Medicine

By: Michael S. Woods

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Healing Words

The Power of Apology in Medicine

By: Michael S. Woods

One doctor speaking to other doctors and health care providers about how to provide the best possible care for patients--by actually caring about patients. These powerful laminated cards helps health care providers understand and practice what to do after unexpected outcomes--to apologize. Michael Woods walks health care providers through the Five "R's" of Apology: Recognition; Regret; Responsibility; Remedy and Remain Engaged.

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Doctors In Touch

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0975519603

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The Good Doctor

Why Medical Uncertainty Matters

By: Kenneth Brigham,Michael M. E. Johns

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The Good Doctor

Why Medical Uncertainty Matters

By: Kenneth Brigham,Michael M. E. Johns

What makes a good doctor? It's not what you think. A doctor willing to face their own uncertainty in the face of illness and treatment might just be the best medicine. Too often we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want to be the healthiest we can be. Counterintuitive as it may seem, uncertainty is integral to medicine, and you want a doctor who knows that: someone who sees you as the unique case you are, someone who knows that data isn't everything, someone who is able to change her mind as the information changes. For too long we've clung to the myth of the infallible doctor--one who assuredly tells us this is what's wrong and here is how I will cure you--and our health has suffered for it. Brigham and Johns propose a new model of medicine, one that is comfortable with ambiguity and that centers on an equal partnership between patient and doctor. Uncertainty, properly embraced, opens a new universe of possibilities.

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1609809971

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Pained

Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health

By: Michael Stein,Sandro Galea

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Pained

Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health

By: Michael Stein,Sandro Galea

A POLITICAL PROVOCATION FROM A PAIR OF PHYSICIANS WRITING OUTSIDE THEIR LANE Americans care about their health. Americans pay lots of money in hopes of maintaining their health. So why are Americans so unhealthy? The reason is simple: as a country, the United States overinvests in medical care at the expense of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produce health. The rise of medicine as a cornerstone of American life and culture has coincided with a social and political devaluation of factors demonstrated to mean more to our vitality than anything else -- influences like where we live, work, and play; livable wages that create opportunity for healthy living; and gender and racial equity. In Pained, physicians Michael Stein and Sandro Galea push the conversation around American health where it belongs: toward matters of class, money, and culture. Across more than 50 essays and data illustrations, Pained casts a light on how the structural components of everyday life -- like school, housing, police, even cell phones -- ultimately determine who gets to be healthy in today's America. In doing so, it makes a case for reframing our political discourse in less myopic, more effectual terms. Accessible and surprising, political but not partisan, Pained is the urgent, uncomfortable conversation that American needs in this challenging moment. It will delight and infuriate readers of all political stripes.

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019751040X

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Off the Pedestal

Transforming the Business of Medicine

By: Michael A. Greenberg

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Off the Pedestal

Transforming the Business of Medicine

By: Michael A. Greenberg

A personal account by a physician of his struggle with the problems facing our medical system.

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Medical Decision Making

By: Harold C. Sox,Michael C. Higgins,Douglas K. Owens

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Medical Decision Making

By: Harold C. Sox,Michael C. Higgins,Douglas K. Owens

Medical Decision Making provides clinicians with a powerful framework for helping patients make decisions that increase the likelihood that they will have the outcomes that are most consistent with their preferences. This new edition provides a thorough understanding of the key decision making infrastructure of clinical practice and explains the principles of medical decision making both for individual patients and the wider health care arena. It shows how to make the best clinical decisions based on the available evidence and how to use clinical guidelines and decision support systems in electronic medical records to shape practice guidelines and policies. Medical Decision Making is a valuable resource for all experienced and learning clinicians who wish to fully understand and apply decision modelling, enhance their practice and improve patient outcomes. “There is little doubt that in the future many clinical analyses will be based on the methods described in Medical Decision Making, and the book provides a basis for a critical appraisal of such policies.” - Jerome P. Kassirer M.D., Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, US and Visiting Professor, Stanford Medical School, US

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1118341562

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Guarded Prognosis

A Doctor and His Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope with It

By: Michael D. Lockshin

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Guarded Prognosis

A Doctor and His Patients Talk about Chronic Disease and How to Cope with It

By: Michael D. Lockshin

15 years ago the noted physician, Dr. Michael Lockshin, Professor of Medicine and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medical School and Director of the Barbara Volker Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery wrote Guarded Prognosis, a book about the health care system from the point of view of a physician with broad experience in treating chronic disease.Michael Lockshin is one of America's preeminent experts in the long-term care of chronically ill patients. He is a pioneer in solving health-care issues that arise with the illnesses on which he has done his most renowned research—systemic lupus erythematosus, Antiphospholipid syndrome, and other autoimmune diseases which especially afflict women. Guarded Prognosis has been re-issued as an eBook. 15 years after its first publication, the reader will be struck by how far the we have come—in terms of electronic records and the new hospitalist system—but also by how little has changed for patients with chronic illness navigating the U.S. healthcare system.Guarded Prognosis is newly relevant in the light of the acrimonious debate over “Obamacare” whose passage Dr. Lockshin heartily endorses as a route to the universal health coverage so desperately needed by those with chronic illness.These affecting stories of chronically ill patients and the policy lessons learned from their experience make clear how important it is to change our inefficient, costly, and often inhumane healthcare system. Otherwise, each of us could be at risk not only from disease, but from fragmented and costly healthcare.

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1499149409

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YOU: The Smart Patient

An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment

By: Michael F. Roizen,Mehmet Oz

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YOU: The Smart Patient

An Insider's Handbook for Getting the Best Treatment

By: Michael F. Roizen,Mehmet Oz

America’s doctors, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, show you how to become your own medical detective and get the best health care possible. Everyone needs to become a smart patient. In fact, in the worst cases, your life may even depend on it. Number one bestselling authors and doctors Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz have written this indispensable handbook to help everyone to get the best health care possible—by making everyone into their own medical detective. Witty, playful, at times offbeat, but always authoritative, You: The Smart Patient shows you how to become your own medical sleuth, tracing your medical family tree and wending your way through the pitfalls of any health care situation. Written in conjunction with the health care community's leading oversight group, The Joint Commission, the book shows readers in clear, easy steps how to take control of their own health care and deal with all matters that may come up when facing a medical case: from choosing the right doctor, hospital, and insurance company to navigating prescription drugs, specialists, treatment options, alternative medicine, pain management, or any problem that might arise. Accessible, humorous, and filled with information that you need, You: The Smart Patient is a book for every patient and all those dealing with a loved one's medical issues.

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1416556818

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50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know

The Key Studies that Form the Foundation of Evidence Based Medicine

By: Michael E. Hochman

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50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know

The Key Studies that Form the Foundation of Evidence Based Medicine

By: Michael E. Hochman

50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of medicine. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics ranging from dieting to cardiovascular disease, insomnia to obstetrics. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. Brief information on other relevant studies is provided, and an illustrative clinical case concludes each review. A section of review questions and answers is included at the back of the book to ensure that readers take.

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0190235047

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Future Medicine

Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation

By: Michael Howard Cohen

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Future Medicine

Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation

By: Michael Howard Cohen

Future Medicine is an investigation into the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes occurring in our health care system as a result of the developing field of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Here Michael H. Cohen describes the likely evolution of the legal system and the health care system at the crossroads of developments in the way human beings care for body, mind, emotions, environment, and soul. Through the use of fascinating and relevant case studies, Cohen presents stimulating questions that will challenge academics, intellectuals, and all those interested in the future of health care. In concise, evocative strokes, the book lays the foundation for a novel synthesis of ideas from such diverse disciplines as transpersonal psychology, political philosophy, and bioethics. Providing an exploration of regulatory conundrums faced by many healing professionals, Cohen articulates the value of expanding our concept of health care regulation to consider not only goals of fraud control and quality assurance, but also health care freedom, integration of global medicine, and human transformation. Future Medicine provides a fair-minded, illuminating, and honest discussion that will interest hospice workers, pastoral counselors, and psychotherapists, as well as bioethicists, physicians and allied health care providers, complementary and alternative medical providers (such as chiropractors, acupuncturists, naturopaths, massage therapists, homeopaths, and herbalists), and attorneys, hospital administrators, health care executives, and government health care workers. Michael H. Cohen is Director for Legal Programs, the Center for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.

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0472024574

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Predictive Health

How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

By: Kenneth L. Brigham,Michael M. E. Johns

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Predictive Health

How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

By: Kenneth L. Brigham,Michael M. E. Johns

Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget—nearly 175 billion—is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health. In Predictive Health, distinguished doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns propose a solution: invest earlier—and use science and technology to make healthcare more available and affordable. Every child would begin life with a post-natal genetic screen, when potential risk—say for type II diabetes or heart disease—would be found. More data on biology, behavior, and environment would be captured throughout her life. Using this information, health-care workers and the people they care for could forge personal strategies for healthier living long before a small glitch blows up into major disease. This real health care wouldn’t just replace much of modern disease care—it would make it obsolete. The result, according to Brigham and Johns, will be a life defined by a long stay at top physical and mental form, rather than an early peak and long decline. Accomplishing this goal will require new tools, new clinics, fewer doctors and more mentors, smarter companies, and engaged patients. In short, it will require a revolution. Thanks to a decade-long collaboration between Brigham, Johns and others, it is already underway. An optimistic plan for reducing or eliminating many chronic diseases as well as reforming our faltering medical system, Predictive Health is a deeply knowledgeable, deeply humane proposal for how we can reallocate expenses and resources to prolong the best years of life, rather than extending the worst.

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0465023126

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Hostility to Hospitality

Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

By: Michael J. Balboni,Tracy A. Balboni

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Hostility to Hospitality

Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine

By: Michael J. Balboni,Tracy A. Balboni

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its importance to patient decision-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular-sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing, social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine. Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality.

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0199325766

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Debating Modern Medical Technologies

The Politics of Safety, Effectiveness, and Patient Access

By: Karen J. Maschke,Michael K. Gusmano

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Debating Modern Medical Technologies

The Politics of Safety, Effectiveness, and Patient Access

By: Karen J. Maschke,Michael K. Gusmano

This book analyzes policy fights about what counts as good evidence of safety and effectiveness when it comes to new health care technologies in the United States and what political decisions mean for patients and doctors. Medical technologies often promise to extend and improve quality of life but come with many questions: Are they safe and effective? Are they worth the cost? When should they be allowed on the market, and when should Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies be required to pay for drugs, devices, and diagnostic tests? Using case studies of disputes about the value of mammography screening; genetic testing for disease risk; brain imaging technologies to detect biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease; cell-based therapies; and new, expensive drugs, Maschke and Gusmano illustrate how scientific disagreements about what counts as good evidence of safety and effectiveness are often swept up in partisan fights over health care reform and battles among insurance and health care companies, physicians, and patient advocates. Debating Modern Medical Technologies: The Politics of Safety, Effectiveness, and Patient Access reveals stakeholders' differing values and interests regarding patient choice, physician autonomy, risk assessment, government intervention in medicine and technology assessment, and scientific innovation as a driver of national and global economies. It will help readers to understand the nature and complexity of past and current policy disagreements and their effects on patients.

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1440861900

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The Decline of American Medicine

Where Have All the Doctors Gone?

By: Michael Rosenblum

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The Decline of American Medicine

Where Have All the Doctors Gone?

By: Michael Rosenblum

Why is it so difficult to find a good doctor, and see the doctor when you have a problem? Why are you told to "go to the emergency room?" Why is your "doctor" a nurse practitioner? The U.S. health care system, heralded as the finest in the world, has been in decline for a number of years. Here are the explanations for the decline in availability of primary health care, its increasing cost, and the increasingly impersonal care encountered by the patient. Dr. Rosenblum, chosen by his peers as a leading physician in his community, clarifies the many issues contributing to deterioration of health care. He employs his experience as an internist, and interviews with key individuals involved in health policy and health care delivery. He proposes solutions to halt the disintegration of primary health care, which if restored to its former position of prominence, would reverse the downhill course of medical care in the United States.

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Internal Medicine Board Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Third Edition

Pearls of Wisdom

By: Michael Zevitz,Scott Plantz

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Internal Medicine Board Review: Pearls of Wisdom, Third Edition

Pearls of Wisdom

By: Michael Zevitz,Scott Plantz

Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the internal medicine board exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam success. Great for in-service exams, certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the boards is perfect for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam

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Every Doctor

Healthier Doctors

By: Leanne Rowe,Michael Kidd

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Every Doctor

Healthier Doctors

By: Leanne Rowe,Michael Kidd

Every Doctor is about thriving in medicine at a time of massive advances and changes in global health systems and medical services. The book is a must-read for doctors of all specialties at all stages of their careers wherever they practise in the world, because exemplary care of patients, peers, profession and self is a lifelong journey.

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