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Различные книги в жанре МедицинаFly With Me I've Crashed Before
Addiction treatment is experiencing a radical change due to neuroscience and a program called NeuroBehavioral Learning, which has proven to be far more successful at attaining positive results, ending the revolving door of treatment for many. If you ever need treatment, before you pay anyone, read this book!
Raising the Bar on Service Excellence
Raising the Bar on Service Excellence concentrates on five crucial leadership actions that will shift your organization from good to great. Once again, Baird pushes the reader out of the theory mode and into action. Each chapter features case examples and concludes with specific leadership action steps that will bring the organization closer to living the mission, vision, values and brand promise.
Cardio Crime
Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans. It is predicted that the cost of treating heart disease for Americans will reach a staggering $800 billion per year by 2030. An inexpensive cure for heart disease exists, but the FDA has recently banned several companies from marketing this cure. "Cardio Crime" is an expose of how large institutions such as the AMA, AHA and FDA, will protect their self interest and stifle innovative health care therapies even if the evidence strongly points to safety and efficacy.
Answer Cancer
Is it possible that cancer and most chronic illnesses are actually produced by the mind? And if so, can the mind be used not just to heal such ills, but to prevent them in the first place?<br> Stephen Parkhill, a noted hypnotherapist, answers these questions and many others. Filled with fascinating case studies from Steve's professional history, this book gives positive proof that the cure for many debilitating diseases exists within the mind of each and every one of us.
You Make the Call - Healthcare's Mandate for Post-discharge Follow Up
Every day, thousands of people are discharged from hospitals. While relieved to be going home, they are often frightened and insecure about caring for themselves at home. How the hospital manages follow up can make a world of difference in spotting adverse reactions, quelling fears, and providing appropriate direction. Adverse conditions can lead to costly readmissions that hurt the bottom line and dissatisfied consumers who can hurt the hospital's reputation. <br><br>You Make the Call presents a solid case for a post-discharge call system to improve clinical outcomes and improve the patient experience. This book provides the rationale and key steps for launching a post-discharge follow-up call process. Kristin Baird offers case examples, models, and tools to help you evaluate the need for follow-up calls as well as tools for integrating them into a comprehensive care plan. <br><br>An award-winning author and consultant, Baird's expertise stems from over 30 years as a nurse, executive, and consultant. Her passion for the patient experience has set her career path and is a driving force behind this book. <br><br>Are you doing post-discharge follow up? Does it make sense for your organization? Should you devote resources to post-discharge calls? Read Baird's book and then you make the call.
The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Symptoms Never to Ignore
There is danger in delaying the evaluation of an unexplained medical symptom. <br><br>The author lists thirty-four such symptoms, describes them in detail, lists the possible diagnoses the symptoms may represent, their urgency, and the consequences of delay in diagnosis.<br><br>Procrastination is the thief of time and results in many preventable deaths. Hopefully, the book will stimulate patients to a more prompt appraisal of an unexplained symptom.
The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Man the Barricades - The Story of the Immune System
The immune system is a complicated mechanism whose principle actors are organs, cells, chemicals and a vast collection of proteins tuned by billions of years of evolution to work in a harmonious manner for the good of the whole. Its purpose is to keep us alive in a world where visible and invisible predators intending to usurp our bodies attack us on a daily basis. <br><br>By virtue of an amazing communication network, millions of cells gather, exchange information, become activated and respond to bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses preventing them from causing infection. <br><br>A malfunctioning immune system, when immune cells attack "self," results in numerous auto-immune diseases, the "God only knows" diseases of sixty years ago.
The Slim Book of Health Pearls: The Complete Medical Examination
A complete medical examination includes a history, physical examination and basic laboratory analysis. Performed with compassion and care, it provides a diagnosis eighty percent of the time. <br><br>Busy physicians, who find themselves pressed for the time necessary to complete this important task, compromise this complicated and time-consuming procedure. As a result, initial diagnosis is prone to errors and delays negatively affecting the patient and physician alike. <br><br>As the new government health care initiatives start, and if the physician shortage does not improve, the author fears that the situation will worsen. Government and the medical and nursing community must find ways to correct this deficiency.
The Slim Book of Health Pearls: The Prevention of Medical Errors
A medical error occurs when a healthcare provider chooses an improper method of care, or inappropriately executes a correct method of care. Medical errors result in death and disability. <br><br>More often than not, the medical error results from a system failure, a lack of coordination amongst those responsible for delivering patient care. <br><br>The Institute of Medicine estimates between 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year result from medical errors.
The Slim Book of Health Pearls: Am I At Risk? The Patient's Guide to Health Risk Factors
Complete risk factor analysis, a critically important part of a complete medical examination, is often a neglected aspect of an initial doctor-patient interaction. It may worsen with the impending healthcare changes to come—where doctors will face increasing patient loads. This book will introduce respective patients to a complete risk factor analysis for the major illnesses. Patients can share the results with their personal physician. They will appreciate this assistance.<br><br>The author recommends that all patients must be their own personal advocate and direct their health care.<br><br>The medical profession is depending upon you to help them keep you healthy!