Author: Elizabeth L. Bewley
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608443965
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Killer Cure will change forever how you think about your health and health care. Leaving conventional wisdom in the dust, Killer Cure reveals startling and unforgettable insights: -Why health care in America accidentally kills 12,000 people each week -- even though every doctor and nurse you know is terrific -Why health care's hidden assumptions about you are almost certain to damage your health -- and what you can do about it -Why health care's focus on solving yesterday's problems may reduce life expectancy in the U.S. -- by as much as five years -Why you might want to become CEO of your own health and health care -- and how to go about it The root cause of America's health care crisis is that health care is not about you. Health care is not designed to help you enjoy good health. It is designed to help doctors take action: write prescriptions, perform surgery, etc. That focus hurts you in two ways: -First, those actions are likely to damage you nearly as often as they help you because of side effects, complications, and other problems with care delivery. For example, hospital ICUs (Intensive Care Units) have a remarkable number of characteristics in common with prison camps for terrorist suspects. People die needless deaths as a result. -Second, the focus on actions the doctor takes crowds out actions you could take that would often get you better outcomes. For example, more than 100,000 people a year get a foot or leg amputated instead of learning simple ways to prevent foot infections in the first place. To get better results, the health care system first needs to embrace a new purpose: to enable people to lead the lives they want. Three further changes are necessary: -The first is a social revolution akin to freeing the slaves or granting women the right to vote. With this revolution, the health care system will no longer treat the people it serves as if they were second-class citizens whose intelligence, values, priorities, and needs can safely be ignored while others call the shots. -The second is more realistic expectations about what health care can deliver. -The third is management of health care as a process -- connecting the dots among actions that are uncoordinated today. Killer Cure provides a tool kit to help you safeguard your life until these changes take place. Before closing, the book makes surprising predictions concerning a future in which health care is about you. At the end of Killer Cure is a Readers' Discussion Guide. It is offered to aid you in thinking about and discussing both the book and your own health care experiences.
Author: Lawrence Goldstone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681776049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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A remarkable new historical thriller by New York Times notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone that evokes the New York City of 1899. In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor’s house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy’s regular physician—the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias—of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder—for it must be murder—and confront the man whom he is convinced is the real killer. His investigation leads him to a reporter for a muckraking magazine and a beautiful radical editor who are convinced that a secret, experimental drug from Germany has caused the death of at least five local children, and possibly many more. Noah is drawn into a dangerous world of drugs, criminals, and politics, which threatens not just his career but also his life. Goldstone weaves a savvy tale of intrigue and stunning twists that incorporates real-life historical figures and events while richly recreating the closing days of the nineteenth century—a time when American might was on the march in the Pacific, medicine was poised to leap into a new era, radical politics threatened the status quo, and the role of women in American society was undergoing profound change.
Author: James Phillips
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Languages : en
Pages : 243
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In 2020 the world experienced a truly global Pandemic, COVID-19, resulting in billions of people in lock-down, hundreds of thousands of deaths and economic paralysis. Governments told their people that it would end, that a vaccine would be developed and that we would go back to normal. In 2025 things are anything but normal... Brad turned 18 years old just as the pandemic hit and was looking forward to a benign world of adulthood. However, Strain-Z changed all of that and being a 'munie' made his world a whole lot different. In 2025 he's fighting to stay alive, trapped in the middle of a power struggle between the government and the independent communities. In a world where good and evil aren't that easy to distinguish, how will he decide which side he is on? James Phillips has created a novel that will challenge you to consider the fragility of our society and the lengths that people will go to for survival.
Author: Robin Cook
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101664169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Public health care is one of the most important issues in America today. Now Robin Cook, the bestselling master of medical suspense, confronts this controversial subject with an all-too-possible scenario as powerful--and terrifying--as his groundbreaking blockbuster, Coma...With its state-of-the-art facility and peaceful Vermont setting, the Bartlet Community Hospital seemed like a dream come true. It offered doctors David and Angela Wilson new career opportunities, a chance to work within an enlightened system of "Managed care" --and a perfect place to raise their daughter, who suffered from cystic fibrosis. But then, one by one, their dreams turned to nightmares. And day by day, their patients began to die...
Author: William Cutrer
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825494543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The explosive sequel to the CBA best-seller, Lethal Harvest. Around every turn in the story lies a blinding matrix of complicated motives and challenges to the sanctity of life. Guaranteed fiction!
Author: Lawrence W. Gold M. D.
Publisher: Gold Enterprises
ISBN: 9780615575070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Death at Brier Hospital is routine and provides the perfect opportunity to murder and get away with it. Jacob Weizman, a physician, and his wife, Lola, a psychotherapist, are holocaust survivors and need no proof of evil in this world. Jacob and Lola are unique protagonists. They're octogenarians who take the fear out of getting old. Their intelligence, competence, humor, and sense of history make them appealing in a world that too often disdains the aged. After fifty-five years practicing medicine, Jacob is disappointed, but not surprised by several patients' deaths, even the unexpected ones. Soon, however, it becomes clear that a killer is stalking the halls of Brier Hospital targeting Jacob's patients. While Jacob has made enemies over the years, he finds it inconceivable that anyone would murder his patients for revenge. The killings mount even as the hospital and police increase security and pursue a vigorous investigation. Finally, unsatisfied with surrogates, the killer targets Jacob.
Author: Larry Lee Rhoton
Publisher: Amazon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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German mafia, Russian assassins, and two rogue Americans trying to steal a groundbreaking medical cure for cancer. Abigail Bartoli thought visiting London would give her five days of sightseeing while her husband, Dr. Antonio Bartoli, attended a Medical Convention at the QEII. On the first morning of the convention, one of the doctors is murdered in the street. A man with a heavy Russian accent sits with Abigail while she is having breakfast. He slips her an envelope, telling her to give it to Sasha. If she refuses, he’ll kill her. She has no idea who Sasha is but soon realizes she’s a Russian assassin. Another mystery falls into Abigail’s lap. Someone is killing the five doctors who created the cure. Five key codes are needed to launch the cure worldwide. The doctors are being murdered, and the key codes are stolen. Abigail needs a plan. Can she stop the carnage and keep the doctors and keycodes safe? Or will her plan lead both her and Antonio to their deaths?
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.
Author: Lorna R. Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9780758203748
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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What causes one person to catch a cold or flu and another to avoid it? Why do serious outbreaks of infectious diseases leave some individuals untouched? What allows someone to be incapacitated by allergies? The answer lies within nature itself-our immune system. The Immune System Cure provides simple techniques for supercharging your immune system to resist and prevent disease. Through diet, exercise, stress reduction and nutritional supplements, including plant sterols and sterolins, you can harness the power of your immune system in just 30 days and help it combat: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria Fibromyalgia Allergies Hepatitis C Tuberculosis Cancer Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases Chronic fatigue syndrome and more Now you can maintain a healthy natural resistance to disease and infection with The Immune System Cure. Lorna R. Vanderhaeghe is a health journalist who has been researching and writing on the subject of nutritional medicine for over fifteen years. She is editor-in-chief of Healthy Living Guide magazine and Alive magazine, and senior editor for the Encyclopedia of Natural Healing, a book that recently won the Benjamin Franklin Award. She is co-author with Udo Erasmus of Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill: Your Guide to a Healthy Kitchen. Patrick J.D. Bouic, Ph.D., is a leading immunologist at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. For more than a decade, Professor Bouic has been researching the effects of sterols and sterolins on human health.
