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“peter b anderson”

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  • The Familiar Physician

    Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare

    by Peter B. Anderson, Bud Ramey, Tom Emswiller ...
    Powerful forces of change are at the core of Obamacare—and they could either strengthen or destroy our family doctors. It's a perfect storm that threatens our hope for more effective and personalized medical care and it holds the potential to drive our trusted Familiar Physicians toward extinction. In the midst of the storm is a new and promising approach within Obamacare called the medical home. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Better Now

    Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

    by Dr. Danielle Martin ...
    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

    $15.99 USD

  • Reinventing American Health Care

    How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Surviving Your Doctors

    Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive

    by Richard S. Klein ...
    Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    by Adam Dalton Reich ...
    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Evaluating Health Promotion

    Practice and Methods

    Edited by Margaret Thorogood, Yolande Coombes ...
    Health Promotion is a relatively new discipline and there is little in the way of practical help for students and practitioners in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation methods. As the demands for rigorous evaluation and evidence-based decision-making increase, health promotion cannot ignore the need for accurate, reliable and valid methods to carry out evaluation. This book provides ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics

    Edited by Sherry Glied, Peter C. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The chapters stress the direct impact of health economics reasoning on policy and practice, offering readers an introduction to the potential reach of the ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Wait Time

    A Memoir of Cancer

    by Kenneth Sherman ...
    Series Book 56 - Life Writing
    When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents a clear-eyed view of what the cancer patient feels and thinks. His narrative voice is personal but not confessional, practical but not cold, thoughtful and searching but not self-pitying or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations

    Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?

    Edited by Anders Örtenblad, Carina Abrahamson Löfström, Rod Sheaff ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations
    Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such as Kaizen to styles of leadership and the management of learning – can usefully be applied to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Future of Health-Care Delivery

    by Stephen C. Schimpff, MD ...
    Approximately 100,000 deaths per year in the United States result from preventable medical errors. This figure is about twice the number of people who die in car accidents and five times the number of murder victims annually, and twenty times the number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of hostilities in 2001. If you think Americans have the best health-care ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

  • Survival Manual for Elders: Encouraging Elders' Resiliency Potential

    by Melanie Adair, Joe B. Adair ...
    Helps seniors and their caregivers successfully navigate the challenges of aging, make informed decisions, and focus on individualized goals of care to promote resiliency and maximum functional potential. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, therapists, chaplains, business and legal experts collaborate on topics such as dignity, health promotion, care choices, common ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Patient Empowerment

    Co-creation and Co-destruction of Value in the Healthcare Environment

    by Rocco Palumbo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Patient empowerment as a key component in the future of healthcare systems is the focus of this concise in-depth analysis. It begins by defining patient empowerment as a collaborative partnership linking patients, providers, and systems, and examines the roles of health literacy, provider-patient and system-patient communication, and patient-centered care in the empowerment process. Models of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD