Download or read book Take This Book To The Hospital With You written by Charles B. Inlander and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with invaluable advice for a planned or unexpected hospital stay, it arms consumers with the tools to manage the dangerous pitfalls and medical minefields of hospitalization. A People's Medical Society Book.

Download or read book The Informed Patient written by Karen A. Friedman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the most capable individuals are challenged when confronted with the complexity of the modern hospital experience. The Informed Patient is a guide and a workbook, divided into topical, focused sections with step-by-step instructions, insights, and tips to illustrate what patients and their families can expect during a hospital stay. Anyone who will experience a hospital stay—or friends or family who may be in charge of a patient’s care—will find all the help and advice they could need in the detailed sections that cover every aspect of what they can expect. Karen A. Friedman, MD, and Sara L. Merwin, MPH, offer hands-on advice about how patients, health care providers, and medical staff can work together to achieve good outcomes. Through anecdotes, tips, sidebars, and clinical scenario vignettes, The Informed Patient presents ways to enhance and optimize a hospital stay, from practical advice on obtaining the best care to dealing with the emotional experience of being in the hospital.

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 Navigating Your Hospital Stay written by Robin Russell and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, a hospital is an alien world. These institutions seem to use their own language and make decisions and rules that are not easily understood, and often, not clearly explained. Navigating Your Hospital Stay takes the guess work out of any hospitalization, offering step-by-step guidance from before you step through the hospital doors, to the time you are discharged home.With clear explanations of terms, and details of what you can expect during any hospital stay, Navigating Your Hospital Stay replaces anxiety with empowerment, and gives you the information you need to make decisions that will enable you to truly be a partner in your care.Navigating Your Hospital Stay includes the following important information:* Advance Care Planning* Medicare and other insurances* Choosing a hospital* Medical history forms* Emergency Care* Surgery and AnesthesiaNavigating Your Hospital Stay will educate you and empower you to truly be a partner in your hospital care! This book is a tool and a reference and belongs on every family bookshelf!

Download or read book Patient Power written by Iris Sneider and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Survive Your Hospital Stay written by Gail Van Kanegan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET WELL AND GET OUT! Most people will find themselves -- or a loved one -- faced with a hospital stay at some point in their lives. The prospect is scary enough, even without worrying about hospital infections, adverse drug reactions, and other alarming risks that have been documented by the Centers for Disease Control and reported widely in medical journals and the national media. But help is here. Written by an experienced nurse practitioner and recognized hospital safety expert, How to Survive Your Hospital Stay offers simple steps to take before, during, and after hospitalization in order to take control of the entire process, including: Evaluating whether a hospital stay is really necessary Dealing with the top ten risks, from medication errors to malnutrition Getting the staff on your side Choosing the right doctor Negotiating the insurance minefield Making sure you are discharged safely and will get the follow-up care you need Packed with advice that will help people feel better when they are ill and at their most vulnerable, this essential guide provides a reassuring road map for avoiding mishaps along the route to recovery.

Download or read book How to Stay Out of the Hospital written by Lila Anastas and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Navigating Your Hospital Stay written by Mary Beth Modic D. N. P. Aprn Cns CDE and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients and their loved ones are the reason hospitals exists. Providing safe, compassionate and expert care is the overarching goal of your doctors, nurses and other caregivers in the hospital. Navigating Your Hospital Stay: A Guide Written by Expert Nurses was written to enhance the experience of all hospitalized patients. It was written by expert nurses who are committed to alleviating suffering, preventing complications and promoting healing in their patients. This book describes the members of the caregiving team you or your loved one may encounter, the role of the bedside nurse and why care is provided in certain ways. The goal of this book is to help you become an educated partner in your hospital stay or that of your loved one. The messages contained in this book encourage you to speak up, ask questions and offer feedback to your caregivers to assure that you or your loved one's needs are met. The overarching theme is communication - how it is provided to you and your loved ones and how your questions, concerns and challenges are heard by members of the caregiving team.

Download or read book Take this Book to the Hospital with You written by Charles B. Inlander and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to avoid malpractice, take advantage of patient rights, handle managed care matters, and have complaints heard and addressed in a hospital environment. A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection.

Download or read book Confessions of a Professional Hospital Patient written by Michael A. Weiss and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Professional Hospital Patient is a humorous first person account of how to survive a hospital stay and escape with your life, dignity and sense of humor. The book, written with the insight worthy of a physician but from a patients perspective, relates the TRUE goings on in hospitals and medical care today. Through Mr. Weiss sharing of his most intimate, embarrassing and funny experiences, the book takes you through chapter upon chapter of useful nuggets of information on such important topics as preparing for the hospital stay, coping with nurses in the middle of the night, communicating with doctors, getting treated in the emergency room, creating privacy and dignity in the often demeaning hospital setting, dealing with the pain and setbacks associated with recuperation/rehabilitation and pursuing payment/reimbursement from bureaucratic managed care companies. In addition to the book being a very useful source of practical information for prospective hospital patients and their families, it is unique in its blend of humor and candor in addressing a delicate and uncomfortable topic. As a bonus, Mr. Weiss personal story is truly inspiring and the manner in which he conveys his experiences is entertaining, funny and poignant.

Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.

Download or read book Your Hospital Stay written by M. D. Jerome M. Kong and published by Llumina Press. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief guide for patients and caregivers that explains how a hospitalization works, addressing both emergent and elective admissions, and what patients need to do to optimize their care. Written by an Internal Medicine Hospital Physician, Your Hospital Stay covers the different care-giving personnel in a hospital, what happens during a hospital stay, and discharge planning. Special emphasis is placed on instructing patients on how to take charge of their personal health information, thereby empowering them to facilitate better care with fewer errors and greater efficiency. Jerome M Kong, MD, is a board-certified hospitalist and internal medicine physician. He attended Rice University as an undergraduate (with a BA in Economics), completed medical and specialty training at Baylor College of Medicine and Mount Carmel Health System, and actively practices in the central Ohio region.

Download or read book How to Survive Your Hospital Stay written by Judy Burger Crane and published by Center Press (Westlake Village, CA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step by step educational tool outlining the important points a patient and family should know in order to better survive a hospital stay of any duration and for any purpose and obtain the best possible recovery.

Download or read book Birth Settings in America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

Download or read book Your Hospital Stay written by Lori-Ann Rickard and published by Expert Health Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare expert Lori-Ann Rickard reveals the easy and practical answers that only an insider knows. Spin Your Healthcare Your Way and know what to do for Your Hospital Stay with her guide. Easy Healthcare: Your Hospital Stay gives you the secrets no outsider would guess such as: • How to choose the best hospital for you and your loved ones (and it’s not just the one nearest to home) • Why you should avoid the emergency room • How to have as much control as possible over your care • How to plan for your discharge (before your discharge) • How to negotiate your hospital bill This guide shows you how to get the best, most cost-effective care during Your Hospital Stay. Lori-Ann Rickard gives you The Bottom Line. With over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, HealthSpin founder Lori-Ann Rickard puts you in charge so you can Spin Your Healthcare Your Way!

Download or read book War Hospital written by Sheri Lee Fink and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues. With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?

Download or read book Going to the Hospital written by Fred Rogers and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Offering some advance warning about what to expect during a hospital stay, Mr. Rogers provides reassurance to help young children deal with their fears and concerns about hospitalization