John Toussaint

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

The Collaborative Cure for Healthcare

Potent Medicine could be the most important book on transforming healthcare ever published. Why? Because John Toussaint, MD, has dedicated his career to taking action that will leave our children with a better healthcare system than we inherited. This book is written for patients, insurance companies, policy-makers and those who work in a hospital or health system. Dr Toussaint has identified actions each group needs to take to make improvements to the system. For example true transparency means using words like death and risk and error. A patient evaluating a hospital for heart surgery needs to research a few simple measures of quality. * Number of medical errors committed in a hospital yesterday, shown both as a number and a historical trend * Number of surgical infections last month * Number of people who come in with chest pains and die * Percentage of people requiring this surgery who died in the hospital, and how many died within the last six months * Average number of days to a full recovery Potent Medicine is the compelling follow-up to Dr Toussaints first book, On the Mend. The stories highlight the tragic consequences that occur when medical teams do not follow a patients progress and just pass them through the system. It offers practical advice from Wisconsins collaborative efforts to transform healthcare and deliver better patient value and is focused on these 3 elements: * Delivery of care designed around the patient - using lean principles and methods to deliver care focused on patient needs * Transparency of treatment quality and cost - making healthcare outcomes public for everyone * Payment for outcome - move away from fee-for-service to a system that pays based on quality and efficient care Potent Medicine highlights the steps to achieving a quality healthcare system.

Potent Medicine

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

What We Can Do about the Health-Care Crisis

A much-needed and hard-hitting plan, from one of the great Democratic minds of our time, to reform America’s broken health-care system.

Undoubtedly, the biggest domestic policy issue in the coming years will be America’s health-care system.  Millions of Americans go without medical care because they can’t afford it, and many others are mired in debt because they can’t pay their medical bills. It’s hard to think of another public policy problem that has lingered unaddressed for so long. Why have we failed to solve a problem that is such a high priority for so many citizens?

      Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle believes the problem is rooted in the complexity of the health-care issue and the power of the interest groups—doctors, hospitals, insurers, drug companies, researchers, patient advocates—that have a direct stake in it. Rather than simply pointing out the major flaws and placing blame, Daschle offers key solutions and creates a blueprint for solving the crisis.

      Daschle’s solution lies in the Federal Reserve Board, which has overseen the equally complicated financial system with great success.  A Fed-like health board would offer a public framework within which a private health-care system can operate more effectively and efficiently—insulated from political pressure yet accountable to elected officials and the American people. Daschle argues that this independent board would create a single standard of care and exert tremendous influence on every other provider and payer, even those in the private sector.

      After decades of failed incremental measures, the American health-care system remains fundamentally broken and requires a comprehensive fix.  With his bold and forward-looking plan, Daschle points us to the solution.

Critical

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Volume 1

Cecil-Leob Textbook of Medicine V.1

Volume 2

V.2 - Cecil Textbook of Medicine

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V.1 - Cecil Textbook of Medicine

#hardcover #medicine #selfhelp #nonfiction #medical #surgeon #selfhealing #healing #mentalhealth #wellness 

Oregon

Explores the link between mind and body, and shows how to become a survivor.

Love, Medicine and Miracles

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John Abramson

Maryland

The Broken Promise of American Medicine

"Overdosed America reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threaten the public health. Before you see a doctor, you should read this book." --Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself

For twenty years, John Abramson, M.D., cared for patients of all ages in a small town north of Boston. But increasingly his role as family doctor was undermined as pressure mounted to use the latest drugs and high-tech solutions for nearly every problem. Drawing on his background in statistics and health policy research, he began to investigate the radical changes that were quietly taking place in American medicine.

At the heart of the crisis, he found, lies the changed purpose of medical knowledge--from seeking to optimize health to searching for the greatest profits. The lack of transparency that has become normal in commercially sponsored medical research now taints the scientific evidence published in even our most prestigious medical journals. And unlike the recent scandals in other industries that robbed Americans of money and jobs, this one is undermining our health.

Commercial distortion pervades the information that doctors rely upon to guide the prevention and treatment of common health problems, from heart disease to stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, and osteoarthritis. The good news, as Dr. Abramson explains, is that the real scientific evidence shows that many of the things that you can do to protect and preserve your own health are far more effective than what the drug companies' top-selling products can do for you--which is why the drug companies work so hard to keep this information under wraps.

In what is sure to be one of the most important and eye-opening books you or your doctor will ever read, John Abramson offers conclusive evidence that American medicine has broken its promise to best improve our health and is squandering more than $500 billion each year in the process.

Overdosed America

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Kevin Trudeau

This book presents the author's thesis that processed foods and drugs approved by the FDA can be harmful to consumers' health. It offers advice on the use of alternative therapies and natural cures to treat and prevent illnesses and disabilities.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About

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West Virginia

A Doctor's Life As a Patient

From mortal illness to miraculous recovery, a doctor's moving account of his own experience as a patient At forty-two, Geoffrey Kurland, a pediatric pulmonologist specializing in such deadly diseases as cystic fibrosis, was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia, a rare cancer with a statistically low survival rate. A remarkably fit man in training for 100-mile "extreme" races whose job is equally high performance, he is forced to confront the challenge of his own mortality. He tries to cope by turning inward in a desperate search for ever-elusive answers. As the doctor becomes a patient and lives through the terror and pain that he had until then only observed at a remove in his young patients, he learns invaluable life lessons that will ultimately make him a better doctor. This is Kurland's memoir of his diagnosis, treatment, and return to health and "normal" life-an unforgettable testament to the resilence of the human spirit.

My Own Medicine

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Volume 2, 5th edition. Nice binding - good for use as decorative book

Principles of Internal Medicine 

Classic text - great book for ornamental use

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Cecil-Loeb Textbook of Medicine

Edward J. Huth

This "how to" guide to effective writing in the medical sciences offers a solid sense of direction for every step of the writing-to-publication process. Designed for novice and veteran writers alike, this mainstay of the professional medical wordsmith's shelf has been revised, refreshed and reorganized to reflect today's fast-paced publishing environment and sensibilities.

Writing and Publishing in Medicine

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Essays on the Rise and Decline of Bedside Medicine

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Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management--and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field-- Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management.


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Hospital Medicine

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Science

V. 2

Cecil Texbook of Medicine v.2

#medicine ex libris - book has library markings

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

The new edition of this reorganized text emphasizes practicality and includes expeditious features that enable both students and practitioners to find authoritative answers fast. With "Approach to Patients" chapters that focus on evaluation and work-up, complete descriptions of disease-specific entities with highlighted "Indications for Referrals" and "Indications for Hospitalization," and a rapid-access guide summarizing key facts, this authoritative textbook has been streamlined and referenced for quick access to information. Includes 120 evidence-based algorithms that detail step-by-step patient management.

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Kelley's Textbook of Internal Medicine

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A Guide to Clinical Practice

You will love the new edition of this classic respiratory text! Now featuring an even stronger clinical focus, this standard-setting reference reflects the latest research findings, therapies and equipment, providing the reader with the most up-to-date information available anywhere. The larger format of this latest edition reflects a wealth of changes: / Each chapter in this resourceful text now begins with an outline, providing an overview of the material to be covered and alerting the reader to the most important information. / Clinical Skills in clinical chapters, based on the RRT and CRTT exam review matrices, provide learning objectives and prepare the reader for these exams. / Professional Skills, provided with the non-clinical chapters, serve as learning objectives and offer opportunities for personal growth. / Numerous boxes -- including equation boxes -- emphasize key information and reinforce its importance. / Guidelines for treatment from the American Association of Respiratory Care are highlighted in boxes, acquainting the reader with essential standards of practice. / Therapist Driven Protocols are presented in the form of flow charts, defining the procedures for treatment in the clinical setting. / A greater number of illustrations highlight and enhance key respiratory care concepts. / Many new chapters offer the most current thinking on: / the future of respiratory care; / cardiopulmonary monitoring; / bronchial hygiene therapy; / volume expansion therapy; / bronchial asthma; / chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; / interstitial lung diseases; / industrial, environmental, and self-induced pulmonary diseases; and / acute adult respiratory distress syndromes.

Respiratory Care

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New Jersey

What You Can Expect, How You Should Prepare, What Your Results Mean

Offer information on the purpose, pretest preparations, risks, estimated cost, special concerns, and results associated with more than 170 widely used medical tests.

The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Medical Tests

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#hardcover #medicine #homeremedies #educational #remedies #nonfiction #health #selfhelp 

California

Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems

The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies

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#medicine #homeremedies #women #health #doctors #selfhelp 

Colorado

Women Doctors Reveal over 2,000 Self-Help Tips on the Health Problems That Concern Women the Most

This is the first self-care book for women based exclusively on advice from women doctors. Their advice is presented in short, easy-to-use tips and ailments are covered A-to-Z.

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Women

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Nevada

A Pandemic Story

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.

The Premonition

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Georgia

Delaware

How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

The world recoiled at the notion of a woman doctor, yet Elizabeth Blackwell persisted--in 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an MD. Her achievement made her an icon--"I am convinced that a new & nobler era is dawning, for Medicine," she wrote--but her sister Emily, eternally eclipsed, was the more brilliant physician. Together they founded the first hospital staffed entirely by women, in New York City. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women's rights--or with each other. "Doubt is disease," Elizabeth insisted. They prevailed against fierce resistance from the male establishment, moving among Britain, France, and America during a tumultuous time of scientific discovery and civil war. This major new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility. As Elizabeth predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."

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Love, Medicine and Miracles

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Overdosed America

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Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About

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My Own Medicine

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Principles of Internal Medicine

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Cecil-Loeb Textbook of Medicine

Edward J. Huth

Writing and Publishing in Medicine

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Essays on the Rise and Decline of Bedside Medicine

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Hospital Medicine

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Cecil Texbook of Medicine v.2

Kelley's Textbook of Internal Medicine

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The Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Medical Tests

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