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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

How We Got into—and Out of—Vietnam, and What We Can Learn from It Now

By: Timothy P. Maga Ph.D.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

How We Got into—and Out of—Vietnam, and What We Can Learn from It Now

By: Timothy P. Maga Ph.D.

A long ago war-still relevant today Misunderstanding remains, and a lot is still unknown, of the Vietnam War. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Vietnam War, Second Edition provides an updated and revised guide giving readers the facts. It assesses policies and the reasons for them, shedding light on the controversies regarding the Vietnam War, what has been called the most complicated armed conflict of the 20th century. It offers: • A big-picture look at the politics, public figures, and history of the war in Southeast Asia • Present-tense relevance of Vietnam to the current wars in which the United States, and the rest of the world, is involved • Clarification of details for those who lived through it and an explanation for younger generations

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

How We Got into—and Out of—Vietnam, and What We Can Learn from It Now

By: Timothy P. Maga Ph.D.

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How We Got into—and Out of—Vietnam, and What We Can Learn from It Now

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Our Malady

Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

By: Timothy Snyder

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Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

By: Timothy Snyder

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of ill patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children’s future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.

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0593238907

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Medical Thinking

The Psychology of Medical Judgment and Decision Making

By: Steven Schwartz,Timothy Griffin

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The Psychology of Medical Judgment and Decision Making

By: Steven Schwartz,Timothy Griffin

Decision making is the physician's major activity. Every day, in doctors' offices throughout the world, patients describe their symptoms and com plaints while doctors perform examinations, order tests, and, on the basis of these data, decide what is wrong and what should be done. Although the process may appear routine-even to the physicians in volved-each step in the sequence requires skilled clinical judgment. Physicians must decide: which symptoms are important, whether any laboratory tests should be done, how the various items of clinical data should be combined, and, finally, which of several treatments (including doing nothing) is indicated. Although much of the information used in clinical decision making is objective, the physician's values (a belief that pain relief is more important than potential addiction to pain-killing drugs, for example) and subjectivity are as much a part of the clinical process as the objective findings of laboratory tests. In recent years, both physicians and psychologists have come to realize that patient management decisions are not only subjective but also prob abilistic (although this is not always acknowledged overtly). When doc tors argue that an operation is fairly safe because it has a mortality rate of only 1 %, they are at least implicitly admitting that the outcome of their decision is based on probability.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461249546

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War, 2nd Edition

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