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  • The Truth About Big Medicine

    Righting the Wrongs for Better Health Care

    by Rosemary Gibson, Lisa McGiffert, Robert E. Oshel, Yanling Yu, Gerald Rogan, Evelyn V. McKnight, Denise S. Lasater, Stephen S. Tower, Daniel M. Saman, Kiran B. Sagar ...
    Many Americans believe that their healthcare is second to none. Most patients, therefore, fail to appreciate the flaws and dangers present while receiving medical care. In fact, the American healthcare industry is one of the great tragedies of this country, which is now being brought to its knees by the medical industry run amuck. The Truth About Big Medicine: Righting the Wrongs for Better ... Read more

    $54.29 USD

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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

  • Crooked

    Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery

    by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin ...
    The acclaimed author of Carved in Sand—a veteran investigative journalist who endured persistent back pain for decades—delivers the definitive book on the subject: an essential examination of all facets of the back pain industry, exploring what works, what doesn't, what may cause harm, and how to get on the road to recovery.In her effort to manage her chronic back pain, investigative reporter ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Best Care Possible

    A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

    by Ira Byock ...
    A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Next Medicine

    The Science and Civics of Health

    by Walter Bortz, MD ...
    Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. Not only do 40 million Americans lack health insurance, but more than 200,000 die each year ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Fresh Medicine

    How to Fix, Reform, and Build a Sustainable Health Care System

    by Phil Bredesen ...
    An authoritative, engaging, and nonpartisan look at what is wrong with American health care and how we can fix it—"told with skill and grace" (Jon Meacham, author of American Lion).Former Governor of Tennessee and CEO of HealthAmerica Corporation, Phil Bredesen "knows the American health care system inside and out. He knows both the theory and, more importantly, how things really work." In Fresh ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Profit Is Not the Cure

    A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare

    by Maude Barlow ...
    On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.More than thirty years later, the same battle is being fought all over again. Only now, the forces opposed to medicare are more ideologically unified, more ... Read more

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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

  • Code Red

    An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It

    by David Dranove ...
    The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Treatment Trap

    How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It

    by Rosemary Gibson, Janardan Prasad Singh ...
    With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar knowledge but from a financial perspective, the authors explore the most neglected issue in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Who Shall Live? Health, Economics And Social Choice (2nd Expanded Edition)

    by Victor R Fuchs ...
    Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations and memorable examples of the importance of the non-medical determinants of health, the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD