Download or read book Hospitals Under Fire written by Everett A. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health under Fire written by James R. Arnold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical reference highlights the people, diseases, and innovations that have impacted the health of soldiers and civilians during wartime, focusing on U.S. conflicts from early colonial skirmishes to the current War on Terror. This intriguing text examines the connections between war and health, addressing both the good and bad aspects of this relationship and tracing the evolution of medical practice under its influence. The work features 12 American military operations—from the Revolutionary War to the American Indian Wars to the Spanish-American War to the current War on Terror—and offers insight into the conflicts' contributions to medical advances as well as the unique health challenges presented during battles of the time. From George Washington's decision to inoculate his troops against smallpox to the development of modern plastic surgery techniques to treat disfigured World War I veterans, this valuable work illustrates the progression of medical practice from trial and error to scientific management. Cross-disciplinary essays profile each of the wars, and alphabetical entries cover such topics as the use of biological weapons, federal responsibility for veterans, and the influence of sickness and disease on military affairs.
Download or read book Fire Prevention in Hospitals written by Julian Smariga and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals Under Fire written by George C. Curnock and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First hand accounts of the bombing of many British hospitals during the first German onslaught during World War II.
Download or read book Fires in Hospitals and Institutions written by National Fire Protection Association and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospitals under fire written by George C. Curnock and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Under Fire But the Lamp Still Burns written by G. C. Curnock and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fire Protection of Hospitals for the Insane written by Lawrence H. Prince and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training of Hospital Staff to Respond to a Mass Casualty Incident written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency Removal of Patients and First aid Fire Fighting in Hospitals written by Robert McGrath and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Roper Hospital under fire written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Days at Memorial written by Sheri Fink and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award
Download or read book Fires in Hospitals written by Stanley Edward Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numbers of fire in hospitals has risen from 590 in 1963 to an estimated 684 in 1968. Two hundred and ninety-two incidents were in mental hospitals. The fire risk in mental hospitals did not appear to be greater than in other hospitals, but the types of fire differed, particularly with respect to the source of ignition and place of origin. The most common places of origin were wards, stores and kitchens. The most important causes were smoking materials (27 per cent), malicious ignition and cooking appliances. The first two accounted for 65 per cent of the fires in mental hospitals. Only 6.5 per cent of the fires spread beyond the room of origin. Well over half (396) were successfully tackled before the arrival of the fire brigade. During the period 1963-1968 there were 62 fatal casualties in 38 fires, 24 of these occurring in the Shelton Mental Hospital Fire (1968). There is, at present, no statistical evidence that the fire risk to patients in hospitals differs appreciably from that to people in their homes.
Download or read book Szasz Under Fire written by Jeffrey A. Schaler and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he published The Myth of Mental Illness in 1961, professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz has been the scourge of the psychiatric establishment. In dozens of books and articles, he has argued passionately and knowledgeably against compulsory commitment of the mentally ill, against the war on drugs, against the insanity defense in criminal trials, against the "diseasing" of voluntary humanpractices such as addiction and homosexual behavior, against the drugging of schoolchildren with Ritalin, and for the right to suicide. Most controversial of all has been his denial that "mental illness" is a literal disease, treatable by medical practitioners. In Szasz Under Fire, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other leading experts who disagree with Szasz on specific issues explain the reasons, with no holds barred, and Szasz replies cogently and pungently to each of them. Topics debated include the nature of mental illness, the right to suicide, the insanity defense, the use and abuse of drugs, and the responsibilities of psychiatrists and therapists. These exchanges are preceded by Szasz's autobiography and followed by a bibliography of his works.
Download or read book Fire in America written by Paul R. Lyons and published by National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fire Protection of Hospitals for the Insane Classic Reprint written by L. H. Prince and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fire Protection of Hospitals for the Insane This little manual is offered with the hope that it may prove of assistance to those who are interested in the proper fire-protection of Hospitals for the Insane. While much that is contained in its pages should be of interest to architects, builders, managers, and trustees, the work is especially intended for the use of Superintendents, and other officers, attendants, and employes in general of hospitals and asylums those who are more directly concerned in the prevention and extinguishment of fire. The author, regretting the incompleteness of the work in many respects, trusts that it may at least suggest what is necessary to be done in order that the dangers from fire in Hospitals for the Insane and other public institutions may be greatly lessened. While especially adapted for the use of Hospitals for the Insane, the suggestions herein offered may be easily modified to suit the requirements of all large public institutions, such as Asylums for the Deaf and Dumb, the Blind, the Idiotic and Feeble-Minded; Orphan Asylums; Sailors' and Soldiers' Homes; City Hospitals; Industrial Schools; Almshouses; Infirmaries; Reformatories; Penitentiaries, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Escape Fire written by Donald M. Berwick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design. Throughout the book, Berwick identifies innovations and ideas from a number of surprising sources—a girls' soccer team, a sinking ship, and the safety standards at NASA. Escape Fire takes its title from the 1949 Mann Gulch tragedy in which thirteen young firefighters were trapped in a wildfire on a Montana hillside. The firefighter's leader, Wag Dodge, devised a creative solution for avoiding the encroaching fire. He burned a patch of grass and lay down in the middle of the scorched earth. His team refused to join him, and most perished in the fire. Dodge survived. Berwick applies the lessons learned from the catastrophe to our ailing health care system—we must not let ingrained processes obstruct life-saving innovation. Not content to simply define the problems with our flawed system, Berwick outlines new designs and suggests practical tools for change: name the problem, build on success, take leaps of faith, look outside of the medical field, set aims, understand systems, make action lists, and—the most fundamental of all—never lose sight of the patient as the central figure.
