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The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket before insurance kicks in. The idea behind this shift is that patients will become better consumers of healthcare when forced to pay for their medical expenses.

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear symptoms but no discernible disease, he concluded that his own assumptions were too narrow and, indeed, that the underlying basis for much of clinical medicine was severely limited.

In this book, award-winning journalist Beth Baker tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable.

Over the past several years, there has been an overwhelming amount of patients coming to the emergency department for medical care. It is essential for all emergency departments to improve patient flow by identifying barriers that slow the patient flow down and improve and revise these areas.

Studies show that the average net profit for private practices nationwide is 12% - with no sign of improving. Drs. Dimitrios Kostopoulos and Kostas Rizopoulos, successful practice owners and founders of the Hands-On Companies, open up their playbook to the single biggest opportunity for the entire physical therapy profession: diagnostic testing.

Cybersecurity for Healthcare Professionals is a conversation about keeping you and your patients safe from cyberattacks. With the ever-evolving risk of all internet users becoming victim to cyber crime, the healthcare industry requires extra attention in ushering forth a new era of preventative care that includes maintaining network security and protecting patients from an often-overlooked, different kind of threat.

A heart-wrenching listen, this audiobook explores 23 days of torment, denial of patient care, and first-hand accounts of the horrors experienced by many of the patients at Montefiore and the community in Bronx, New York. This book also shares advocacy skills to help families protect their loved ones from the nightmares associated with any hospitalization, whether at Montefiore or elsewhere, and the bureaucracies of dealing with the hospital's administration at New York’s Health First and Albert Einstein College of Medicine's bioethics department.

Bart Stupak, a nine-term Democratic Congressman from Michigan’s First Congressional District, brought two unshakable principles with him to Capitol Hill in 1992: a firm belief in the sanctity of life, and the conviction that health care was a right for all Americans and not a privilege for the fortunate few. Studies indicating that 45,000 Americans died needlessly every year for lack of access to health care inspired Congressman Stupak’s tireless efforts, often at great personal cost, to pass lifesaving legislation while remaining true to his right-to-life principles.

Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools. Digital machines do many tasks orders-of-magnitude better, faster, and more accurately than humans. Still, there are functions critical to the healthcare endeavor that people do much better than machines, things like: understanding and using natural language; perceiving what is unexpressed; taking into account values, culture, ethics, and human relationships; touching and healing.

The US healthcare system desperately needs radical reform to rein in costs, reduce harm, expand access, and become customer centric...Imagine what real change in our healthcare system would mean for you, the economy, and our future. Real change requires disruptive innovation. As citizens, employers, entrepreneurs, healthcare workers, elected officials, and patients, it is time for us to drive the change. Authors Aaron Fausz and Terry Howell explain how we can disrupt, dismantle, and rebuild.

In this short audiobook, R.W. Murphy makes the argument that the US healthcare delivery system is irreparably broken as the result of a perfectly inelastic demand curve for healthcare goods and services. In essence, he indicates that Americans will buy the same number of units regardless of price and that is destroying the system. He points to all the retail level cost control initiatives to date as failing to address wholesale pricing pressures. His premise is that underlying wholesale cost increases have hardly been affected at all.

This nifty guide will replace many hours of worry and uncertainty with a definitive description of the very best Medicare coverages available on the market today. Cutting through the confusion and stupidity, a clear path to security will be laid out for you by the author, a highly experienced Medicare expert. Discover the best kept secret in all of Medicare! Learn why it is a complete waste of time for the average person to study every Medicare plan and option available.

Inside Radical Loving Care distills the essence of Erie Chapman's three previous books into a single slender volume. It equips caregivers with stories of powerful examples and all the tools they need to live love, not fear, every day and night. Execute the ideas in this book and your life and your work culture will change for the better. As a result, every patient's care will improve.

Dr. Zeev Neuwirth wrote Reframing Healthcare for leaders and organizations interested in understanding what the disrupters in healthcare are doing and, more to the point, for those who want to be the disrupters rather than the disrupted. This audiobook is a step-by-step guide for leadership teams that are intent on improving healthcare at an accelerated pace. It’s written for healthcare organizations that wish to thrive in a customer-centric, community-oriented, value-based healthcare system.

Healthcare has changed immensely over the past few generations - house calls from a local family doctor are a thing of the past, and the deeply personal relationships and bonds between provider and patient are eroding with the demands of for-profit insurance. As a family practitioner focused on cradle-to-grave care, author Barb Regis has a valuable perspective on how patients can experience better outcomes.

Health-care organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.

This is a practical, must-have A-to-Z guide for anyone who desires to start and develop a thriving private practice as a metal/behavioral health provider. The author narrated this audiobook with three years of personal experience and trial and error as a licensed marriage family therapist in private practice. This audiobook presents the essence for starting and building a successful practice and covers everything you need to know: business planning, financial budgeting and management, registration for your business, banking matter, marketing and clientele development, and more.

One way to explore pharmacy consulting and stretch your clinical muscles is by conducting Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services in your current position. In this book, I take it one step further and teach you how to offer pharmacist-led clinical services in various practice settings. Are you ready for a career change? One key to achieving your dream career is through entrepreneurship. Owning your own consulting business can help you regain your passion for pharmacy and find freedom at the same time.

Told through a collection of insights from the author's own career, as well as advice from emerging and established healthcare leaders, Crush the Climb brings together diverse points of view into a handbook for students and early career professionals who aspire to be great healthcare leaders. Discover 11 lessons that will help you survive and thrive in the today's healthcare industry and crush the climb,

Wie Sie sich selbst optimieren und Leistungsfähiger werden durch Biohacking Lernen Sie mit diesen praxiserprobten Tipps, wie Sie sich selbst optimieren und Ihr volles Potenzial ausschöpfen. Sie wünschen sich Leistungsfähiger zu sein und wünschen sich, Ihr volles Potenzial zu entfalten?Sie möchten Ihre Gesundheit auf das nächste Level bringen. All das ist kein Problem.