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Voices from the Front Lines of Mobile Health

by Travis LeFever, Amanda LeFever ...

What if the best medicine isn’t found inside a hospital—but outside, in your neighborhood?Healthcare workers didn’t choose their profession for the paperwork. They came to heal. Now, many are searching for a way back to that purpose.Game Changers reveals a powerful solution already transforming lives: mobile healthcare. From city blocks to rural roads, a new model of medicine is emerging, with ... Read more

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What if the best medicine isn’t found inside a hospital—but outside, in your neighborhood?Healthcare workers didn’t choose their profession for the paperwork. They came to heal. Now, many are searching for a way back to that purpose.Game Changers reveals a powerful solution already transforming lives: mobile healthcare. From city blocks to rural roads, a new model of medicine is emerging, with
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We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is ... Read more

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We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is
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Upstream

The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

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**Wall Street Journal BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers and showing how leaders, teams, and organizations can shift from reaction to prevention****.So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with ... Read more

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**Wall Street Journal BestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers and showing how leaders, teams, and organizations can shift from reaction to prevention****.So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with
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An American Sickness

How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

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**A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

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**A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking
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Better Now

Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

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Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the ... Read more

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Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president, she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert, she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the
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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

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A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The ... Read more

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A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The
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Disrupt Aging

A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age

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Discover the inspiring national bestseller about aging and health that "will help us all live each year to the fullest" (Sheryl Sandberg).We've all seen the ads on TV and in magazines-"50 is the new 30!" or "60 is the new 40!" A nice sentiment to be sure, but CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins disagrees. 50 is 50, and she, for one, likes the look of it.In Disrupt Aging, Jenkins focuses on three core areas ... Read more

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Discover the inspiring national bestseller about aging and health that "will help us all live each year to the fullest" (Sheryl Sandberg).We've all seen the ads on TV and in magazines-"50 is the new 30!" or "60 is the new 40!" A nice sentiment to be sure, but CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins disagrees. 50 is 50, and she, for one, likes the look of it.In Disrupt Aging, Jenkins focuses on three core areas
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Side Effects

How Our Healthcare Lost Its Way – And How We Fix It

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In the shadow of the pandemic , how do we make a healthcare system that is affordable, effective and fair? With a single drug in the UK currently costing £ 340,000 per patient per year, or a gene therapy in the USA being costed at $1.2million, who should get such treatments, and how can we begin to afford them? Should we all be entitled to timely mental health therapy? How should we care for our ... Read more

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The Power of Fifty Bits

The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results

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Going beyond the bestsellers Predictably Irrational and Thinking, Fast and Slow, the first “how to” guide grounded in behavioral science that shows you how to help customers, employees, coworkers, and clients make better choices to get what they truly want.Of the ten million bits of information our brains process each second, only fifty bits are devoted to conscious thought. Because our brains are ... Read more

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Building Backwards to Biotech

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Ever wonder how medicines and vaccines enter the marketplace? Why they are so expensive? Most people have heard about Theranos, a story of failure: how do biotechnology start-ups actually succeed?In Building Backwards to Biotech, author Stephanie A. Wisner demystifies the subjects of biotechnology, start-ups, and finance to answer these questions. Wisner unlocks the secrets of how to build a ... Read more

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Getting Older Without Getting Old

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Get older without getting old!Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you’ve been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life.SuperAging is already a reality for millions. But the science, business, ... Read more

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Get older without getting old!Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you’ve been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life.SuperAging is already a reality for millions. But the science, business,
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Financial Times Business Top Title March 2022 How could a large collection of small companies, most with fewer than 50 employees, rise to compete with Big Pharma, one of the world's most breathtakingly expensive and highly regulated industries? Beginning in the 1970s, several scientific breakthroughs promised to transform the creation of new medicines. As investors sought to capitalize on these ... Read more

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