Download or read book Where Medicine Fails written by Anselm L. Strauss and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1984 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Medicine Fails written by Carolyn L. Wiener and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a new introduction, Carolyn Wiener discusses the continuing relevance of chapters that appeared in earlier editions and the contemporary significance of those that have been added. She writes that the aim of Where Medicine Fails is to encourage serious examination of the current structure of health services and of the complicated facets of proposed health care reform."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Where Medicine Fails written by Carolyn L. Wiener and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous editions, argues for a broader definition of society's responsibilities to the ill than is commonly perceived to be the case. The authors examine the moral and economic implications of medical technology, especially in regard to fetal tissue transplant, cancer survival, childbirth, and dying, and provide a thoughtful assessment of the issues and challenges facing American hospitals. Seventeen chapters are new to this edition. The aim of this volume is to encourage serious examination of the current structure of health services and of the complicated facets of health care reform.
Download or read book Where Medicine Fails written by Carol E. McMahon and published by Trado Medic Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where medicine fails written by Anselm L. Strauss (comp) 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 Where Medicine Fails written by Carolyn L. Wiener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth edition of Where Medicine Fails, like previous editions, argues for a broader definition of society's responsibilities to the ill than is commonly perceived to be the case. The authors examine the moral and economic implications of medical technology, especially in regard to fetal tissue transplant, cancer survival, childbirth, and dying, and provide a thoughtful assessment of the issues and challenges facing American hospitals. Seventeen chapters are new to this edition. The aim of this volume is to encourage serious examination of the current structure of health services and of the complicated facets of health care reform.
Download or read book Great Medicine Fails written by Barbara Krasner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Think medical science is foolproof? Think again! This book invites readers to explore some of the world's biggest failures in medicine and how some of those failures eventually led to success."--
Download or read book Unwell Women written by Elinor Cleghorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative. Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn traces the almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women by treating their bodies as alien and other, often to perilous effect. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the "wandering womb" of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy—and the men who controlled their fate—this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women who suffered so strides could be made, and shows how being unwell has become normalized in society and culture, where women have long been distrusted as reliable narrators of their own bodies and pain. But the time for real change is long overdue: answers reside in the body, in the testimonies of unwell women—and their lives depend on medicine learning to listen.
Download or read book Chronic Condition written by Sherry Glied and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the causes of the current health care crisis in the US and the shortfalls of reform proposals. The book aims to offer a framework for reform that should minimize government interference and provide means for financing care for the less affluent.
Download or read book Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails written by M a Scott A Johnson, L.P. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd edition is now available with expanded information and more than 100 additional protocols. amazon.com/3rd-Edition-Surviving-definitive-Essential/dp/099641391X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top'ie=UTF8Be prepared to take charge of your health with Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails! Would you be able to survive if you were cut off from vital medical treatment and prescription medications during a crisis? This situation is far too familiar, affecting hundreds of thousands of people during the last decade who struggled to outlive calamities when isolated from medical care. In this invaluable resource, Dr. Scott A. Johnson shares crucial information that could potentially save your life when modern medicine collapses after a disaster. With about 42 essential oils in your emergency preparedness kit, Dr. Johnson provides a definitive, specific and easy to follow guide arming you with indispensable information to manage more than 350 common health conditions.* Expanded safety data, including known drug interactions and contraindications* Now over 350 protocols for health conditions* New topical and oral dosage guidelines and recommended dilution ratios* Profiles and benefits of popular carrier oils* Essential oil chemistry basics - summaries of common essential oil constituents* Clarification of liver toxicity reports and allergies or sensitivities to essential oils
Download or read book Forgive and Remember written by Charles L. Bosk and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff—now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue. When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and potentially devastating, Bosk found that they could be forgiven—as long as they were remembered and never repeated. In this second edition, Bosk reflects more than twenty years later on how things have changed, both in the medical profession and in sociology. With an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, this updated edition of Forgive and Remember is as timely as ever.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine written by James Le Fanu and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the pace of medical discoveries has slowed in the last twenty-five years due to excessive emphasis on the social and political aspects of health care, and to controversies caused by ethical issues.
Download or read book Problem Solving in Clinical Medicine written by Paul Cutler and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1998 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clinical reasoning process is explained in terms of formation of an initial concept, formation of hypotheses, the further expansion of inquiry tactics, and application of appropriate clinical skills. Over 80 carefully selected cases are featured where pieces of data are interspersed with corresponding pieces of logic. The most common clinical presentations seen in medical practice are covered, and readers get an extensive body of medical knowledge. Compatibility: BlackBerry® OS 4.1 or Higher / iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0 or Higher /Palm OS 3.5 or higher / Palm Pre Classic / Symbian S60, 3rd edition (Nokia) / Windows Mobile™ Pocket PC (all versions) / Windows Mobile Smartphone / Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP/Vista/Tablet PC
Download or read book The Doctor s Guide to Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails written by Scott A. Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of running to the doctor every time you get sick, you can avoid the illness in the first place with the solutions offered in The Doctor’s Guide to Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails. No matter your current state of health, these easy-to-follow steps will help you elevate your health and live a longer life. This book goes above the standard of healthy eating and exercise. Dr. Johnson tells you what to eat, how to employ proven dietary supplements as allies in your health, ways regularly cleanse your body of toxins and harmful chemicals to prevent common colds and diseases, and how to get the most out of physical activity, and more. The techniques outlined by Dr. Scott A. Johnson will create a bodily environment inhospitable to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and more. Through the sensible approach in The Doctor’s Guide to Surviving When Modern Medicine Fails
Download or read book When We Do Harm written by Danielle Ofri, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s rich stories and research explore patient safety. Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there’s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is—and always will be—imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.
Download or read book Overtreated written by Shannon Brownlee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Brownlee dissects what she calls "the medical-industrial complex" and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive. Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care reform. It offers a way to control costs and cover the uninsured, while simultaneously improving the quality of American medicine. Shannon Brownlee's humane, intelligent, and penetrating analysis empowers readers to avoid the perils of overtreatment, as well as pointing the way to better health care for everyone.
Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
