Medical - Health Care Delivery

"The book is the place to turn for initial information and perspective on Alzheimer's disease, and to return for practical advice as problems arise. Most importantly, however, it dispels the sense of hopelessness families may feel by providing steps to maximize the enjoyment of...

It took these two doctors - medical and money - to get you the care you need when you need it.Together, these two doctors developed Empower Patients, a plan that would: - Return financial control to YOU- Directly connect YOU and your preferred doctor-...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of...

Creates a new framework for approaching Black women's wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy.This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women's struggle for inner peace and mental stability....

A frontline doctor's sweeping, deeply researched, and intimately written chronicle of the centuries-long effort to understand and effectively treat sepsis--one of history's most lethal, misunderstood maladies and the leading cause of death for children worldwide.When presented with a patient with a severe infection, there...

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable...

While academic programs prepare public health graduates for the technical challenges of practice, many professionals new to the field also need training in the cross-cutting strategic skills required for successful leadership and management of health agencies. Successful practitioners blend subject matter expertise with administrative...

Cialis & Men's Sexual Health is a clear, reliable, and supportive guide for men who want to understand erectile dysfunction (ED) and make informed decisions about treatment. Designed for everyday readers, this book explains how Cialis (Tadalafil) works, when it is appropriate to use,...

Using compassion as the foundation, Dr. Emelia Sam explores the way in which contemporary healthcare can be transformed from the inside out. Combining elements of mindfulness and emotional intelligence, this work imparts simple and practical direction for practitioners and students. Compassionate Competency serves as...

Have you ever wished for help finding the right words when you are midway through another difficult conversation with a colleague, manager, or patient? Critical Conversations in Healthcare, Third Edition, provides scripts and scenarios to facilitate better, more effective communication in healthcare settings. This...

Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught-the Nonclinical Skills That Save CareersSurgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers-complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight...

Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught-the Nonclinical Skills That Save CareersSurgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers-complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight...

In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness--the recognition that we are all differentially...

An Economist Best Book of 2025 So Far For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, a "gripping story of medical groupthink and warped incentives" (The Economist) that follows how Alzheimer's disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers, negligent regulators, and the...

Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In Doing...

Stories of healthcare disasters abound in America today. Who among us does not know of one? In this anthology of composited true stories, a veteran clinician shares the details of practitioners and patients who were harmed-in some cases fatally-by a terribly broken healthcare system....

Flourish aims to support you as a midwife to do two things: to name what's going on around you and within you, then to find and claim your distinctive place in the midwifery world. You might be a newly qualified or early career midwife...

From the bestselling author of One Child comes this compelling, true story of a child in desperate peril and the teacher who saved her despite the odds.Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie...

One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Decade A definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable...

Introduction to One Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Planetary Health offers an accessible, readable introduction to the burgeoning field of One Health. Provides a thorough introduction to the who, what, where, when, why, and how of One Health Presents an overview of the One...