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  • Overtreated

    Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

    de Shannon Brownlee ...
    Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Worried Sick

    A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America

    de Nortin M. Hadler M.D. ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Nortin Hadler’s clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Curing Medicare

    A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It

    de Andy Lazris ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments ... Leer más

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  • Powerful Medicines

    The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

    de Jerry Avorn M.D. ...
    If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Nursing Home Guide

    A Doctor Reveals What You Need to Know about Long-Term Care

    de Joshua D. Schor ...
    The lowdown on long-term care?from a geriatric specialist with over twenty years in the field.Placing loved ones in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities is a stressful decision?and for good reason. In previous decades, some homes were plagued by scandal, and everyone wants to know that their family members will be safe and sound even when they can?t be nearby all the time. Here, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Myeloma Survival Guide

    Essential Advice for Patients and Their Loved Ones

    de Jim Tamkin, MD, FACP, FACE, Dave Visel ...
    The definitive guide to living a longer, fuller life with myelomaThe Myeloma Survival Guide makes sense of the difficult questions myeloma patients face, dealing with every aspect of life after diagnosis, from creating a wellness team to navigating treatment options to building a financial safety net. Jim Tamkin, MD, who lived with myeloma for 11 years, and Dave Visel share the insights they've ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Aging Wisely

    Strategies for Baby Boomers and Seniors

    de Robert A. Levine ...
    Everyone ages. Not everyone ages well. Aging Wisely explains that much of what happens to our minds and bodies as we grow older depends on our approach to life and our attitudes and feelings about ourselves. Though there are elements beyond our control, we must take advantage of those things we can control while dealing competently with adversity. In describing the impact of aging and various ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Surviving Your Doctors

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $48.59 USD

  • The Other End of the Stethoscope

    The Physician's Perspective on the Health Care Crisis

    de Diana Reed ...
    In this book, I hope to enlighten readers about the physician's life, and how the current medical climate has affected everything we do, every decision we make and our career satisfaction. The deterioration of the doctor-patient relationship has gotten worse and worse, fraught with mistrust from both ends of the stethoscope. If we are to turn the current situation around, we must understand the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • An American Sickness

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

    de Elisabeth Rosenthal ...
    **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 ... Leer más

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  • "Cause Unknown"

    The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022

    de Ed Dowd, Gavin de Becker ...
    Series series Children’s Health Defense
    What is killing healthy young Americans?2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Unaccountable

    What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care

    de Marty Makary ...
    New York Times Bestseller“Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.”-Shannon Brownlee, author of OvertreatedDr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD