Frank Kane

Phyllis Wise

Everything a dog owner needs to know about caring for Cocker Spaniels — grooming, breeding, showing, etc. 
95+ color photographs and illustrations

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Everything you need to know about your spaniel including health care, training, breeding and showing.

A Dog Owner’s Guide to American and English Cocker Spaniels

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Oregon

From Pre-Birth Through the Teen Years

An indispensable guide delivers practical and critical information parents need to know, taking a balanced approach to rearing emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy children. Original.

Baby and Child Care

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Springhouse Publishing Company Staff

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Iowa

A handy reference for those entering or needing a refresher in cardiovascular nursing care.

Cardiovascular Care Made Incredibly Easy!

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Physician's Manual to Exceptional Health Care

So much of a medical organization's success rides on the leadership, conduct, and performance of its physicians. How does a health care organization engage its physicians to lead by example? And how does a physician—in the midst of 25 appointments, 30 phone messages, hospital rounds, and the details of “managing” a clinical practice—do what needs to be done to foster satisfaction and loyalty among patients? Practicing Excellence eloquently answers these questions.Stephen C. Beeson, MD, has created a brilliant guide to implementing physician leadership and behaviors that will create a high-performance workplace built on collaboration, commitment, purpose, and making a difference in the lives of the patients it serves.

Practicing Excellence

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Janette Brand Miller

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

The Authoritative Guide to the Glycemic Index--The Dietary Solution for Permanent Weight Loss

The New Glucose Revolution

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Robert Wachter

Minnesota

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare's #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US

While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills.

But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization - until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital.

Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America's leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point?

Logically enough, we've pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . .

Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation's most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story.

"We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don't simply replace my doctor's scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it's not too late to get it right."

This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone - patient and provider alike - who cares about our healthcare system.

*signed* The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age

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Utah

A Rare Disease, a Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine That Cured the Incurable

The personally harrowing and medically enthralling story of a family's struggle to save a child from a deadly immune deficiency. A journey through the deepest valleys and highest peaks of parenting. When a two-month-old baby falls ill, his apparently ordinary symptoms turn out to signal a rare and lethal immune deficiency. For parents Miguel Sancho and Felicia Morton, the discovery that their son, Sebastian, has chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) upends their lives and leaves the family with few options, all of them terrifying. With Sebastian at constant risk of deadly infection, they spend the next six years in some degree of self-quarantine, with all its attendant anxieties and stressors, as they struggle to keep their son alive, their marriage intact, and themselves sane. The quest for a cure leads them into the alternate universe of the rare-disease community, and to the cutting edge of modern medicine, as their personal crises send them fumbling through various modalities of self-help, including faith, therapy, and meditation. With brutal honesty, Sancho describes how his struggles derail his career, put his marriage on life support, get his family evicted from a Ronald McDonald House, and ruin a Make-A-Wish trip. Sancho's riveting tale of the diagnosis and treatment of his son's illness takes us deep inside the workings of the immune system, and into the radically innovative treatment used to repair it. Ultimately Sebastian is saved with a stem cell transplant using discarded umbilical cord blood, a groundbreaking technique pioneered and practiced by the medical wizards at Duke University Hospital. Deeply researched and darkly humorous, this is a wrenching tale with a triumphant ending.

More Than You Can Handle

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Joe Tye

Dick Schwab

Nebraska

From Accountability to Ownership

No one has ever faced a healthcare crisis as dire as the one that confronted Florence Nightingale at the Scutari Barrack Hospital, yet despite the challenges over a 2-year period she defined the nursing profession and created a blueprint for the hospital as we know it today. Now she returns to Memorial Medical Center to help the leadership team foster a stronger culture of ownership. In this heart-warming and thought-provoking story you will learn: proven strategies to foster a culture of ownership; Why a culture of ownership requires people who are emotionally positive, self empowered, and fully engaged; How to use a construction metaphor to create a blueprint for your organization's ownership architecture; The 8 essential characteristics of a culture of ownership; How to use the pickle pledge to help people confront toxic emotional negativity and promote a more positive and productive workplace attitude; and how the 7 promises of self-empowerment can help foster a more empowering culture. -- From publisher description

The Florence Prescription

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Pennsylvania

A Novel

With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, real-life anesthesiologist Carol Cassella’s riveting national bestseller seamlessly melds compelling women’s fiction and medical drama to create an “involving debut that’s just what the doctor ordered” (People). Dr. Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height of her profession. She has worked, lived, and breathed her career since medical school, and she now practices at a top Seattle hospital. Marie has carefully constructed and constricted her life according to empirical truths, to the science and art of medicine. But when her tried-and-true formula suddenly deserts her during a routine surgery, she must explain the nightmarish operating room disaster and face the resulting malpractice suit. Marie’s best friend, colleague, and former lover, Dr. Joe Hillary, becomes her closest confidante as she twists through depositions, accusations and a remorseful preoccupation with the mother of the patient in question. As she struggles to salvage her career and reputation, Marie must face hard truths about the path she’s chosen, the bridges she’s burned, and the colleagues and superiors she’s mistaken for friends. A quieter crisis is simultaneously unfolding within Marie’s family. Her aging father is losing his sight and approaching an awkward dependency on Marie and her sister, Lori. But Lori has taken a more traditional path than Marie and is busy raising a family. Although Marie has been estranged from her Texas roots for decades, the ultimate responsibility for their father’s care is falling on her. As her carefully structured life begins to collapse, Marie confronts questions of love and betrayal, family bonds and the price of her own choices. Set against the natural splendor of Seattle, and inside the closed vaults of hospital operating rooms, Oxygen climaxes in a final twist that is as heartrending as it is redeeming.

Oxygen

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Book of Home Remedies 

Emily Maloney

Florida

Essays

The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman’s experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed. What does it cost to live? When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions. When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally, but also financially, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful, surprising ways. Shocking and often slyly humorous, Cost of Living is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers.

Cost of Living

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Alabama

Winning the Game of Modern Medicine

Most Americans are facing higher premiums and spending more of their own money on healthcare. To make things worse, the laws and rules are confusing and change almost daily. Dr. Dennis Deruelle uses the NFL like a Rosetta Stone, using simple football analogies to help you get the highest quality care at the lowest cost.

Teams are the future of healthcare. Many of the new changes to healthcare are similar to the best practices of the NFL. In Your Healthcare Playbook, Dr. Deruelle uses the NFL, the most successful franchise in American history, to break down the information so that it's easy to understand. You will hear insights from key members of the NFL as well as some of the foremost doctors and safety experts who will help you and your family stay safe.

With over 20 years in practice, Dr. Deruelle comes to the rescue with a nonpartisan explanation of the law. He uses simple football terms to help you understand how to navigate your new healthcare.

Your Healthcare Playbook

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Marshall W. Raffel

Camille K. Barsukiewicz

Book has some highlighting and owner's name on first page. Otherwise im great condition with minimal wear.

Science

Origins and Functions

Students and consumers alike will be interested in this unique perspective on the U.S. health care system. It offers not only an historical perspective detailing the origins of our health care system, but also discusses the forces that changed and shaped our system into what it is today. Underlying the comprehensive information on health care costs, finance, access, delivery and reform, is the ethical question of whether health care is a right or a privilege. You'll find real-world stories of health care organizations that must deal with delivery and financing of services, as well as references to web sites for further information. Key features:*Provides both an historical and current perspective on the U.S. health care system*Includes stories of real organizations dealing with delivery and financing of health care*Discusses ethical implications of health care delivery*Includes updated information on health care reform and information technology*Text organized into three primary sections of health care system origins, influences and changes(health care, health system, financial, health care organization)

The US Health System

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Stephen J. Williams

Paul R. Torrens

Nook has some highlighting and owner"s name.on first page. Otherwise in great condtion.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The sixth edition of this textbook maintains the earlier editions' analytical approach in the treatment of political economics. Through comprehensive discussions, appendices, tables and figures, the author illustrates the value of economics in understanding public policy issues that affect the medical services sector.

Introduction to Health Services

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Lori Beck Blackley

North Carolina

Let's Go to the Chiropractor

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Lawrence Shapiro

How Physicians Can Reduce Variation and Lower Healthcare Costs

Reducing the cost of healthcare needs to begin and is going to require out-of-the-box thinking. Reducing variation in healthcare delivery offers some promise. Using as an example, the variation-reduction program at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, the author explains how providers can use these approaches in their own efforts.

Quality Care, Affordable Care

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Jane Belk Moncure

Michigan

A little crocodile gives advice on how to have a happy, snappy smile by developing healthy habits.

"Smile," Says Little Crocodile

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Rafael Campo

A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire

The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy, and the erotic, of love itself--these are some of the themes of Rafael Campo's deeply humanistic work, as he writes not just of his attempts to heal but also of how how patients have healed him, and of how often doctors may forget to include caring among their medicines for curing.

The Poetry of Healing

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Cost of Living (ARC)

Jim Aldrich

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Career Advice from the Top on How to Succeed

Successful executives from 29 healthcare organizations around the country offer their wisdom and experience to business students and rising healthcare managers on how to advance their careers. Hospital CEOs and other adminstrators discuss the changing demands of the field, the expectations of those making the hiring decisions, and the skills, attitudes, and qualifications that contribute most strongly to reaching the top of the healthcare ladder.

Climbing the Healthcare Management Ladder

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Texas

New Wine, New Wineskins

Daniel P. Sulmasy

Light shelf wear on the jacket. Small bend on cover. Pages in great shape. Crisp and clean. Low mileage. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals

Increasingly, physicians and other health care workers are becoming alienated from their work, as medicine becomes more and more de-personalized, technologically oriented and driven by entrepreneurial concerns. The Healer's Calling addresses the longings of many people in this profession for a renewed sense of the transcendent meaning of their work, for the spiritual elements of healing.-- where God may be found in health care-- how faithful clinicians might persevere in the midst of the suffering and uncertainty that is part of daily practice-- how and when a doctor or nurse might pray-- how genuine Christian joy can still be found in the healing artsWith extraordinary grace and passion, Franciscan friar and physician Daniel Sulmasy speaks to the spiritual longing of healers. His work is at once a personal reflection and exhortation, written at a time of great turmoil in medicine. Sure to be of great interest to health care workers at all levels, it will capture the attention of anyone concerned about the spiritual dimensions of health care.

The Healer's Calling

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How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

What if your cell phone could detect cancer cells circulating in your blood or warn you of an imminent heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, including smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have brought about radical changes in our lives, providing hyper-connectivity to social networks and cloud computing. But the digital world has hardly pierced the medical cocoon.

 Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing the Web, we will soon be checking our vital signs on our phone. We can already continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature ultrasound imaging devices are replacing the icon of medicine--the stethoscope. DNA sequencing, Facebook, and the Watson supercomputer have already saved lives. For the first time we can capture all the relevant data from each individual to enable precision therapy, preventmajor side effects of medications, and ultimately to prevent many diseases from ever occurring. And yet many of these digital medical innovations lie unused because of the medical community's profound resistance to change.
 
InThe Creative Destruction of Medicine, Eric Topol--one of the nation's top physicians and a leading voice on the digital revolution in medicine--argues that radical innovation and a true democratization of medical care are within reach, but only if we consumers demand it. We can force medicine to undergo its biggest shakeup in history. This book shows us the stakes--and how to win them.

The Creative Destruction of Medicine

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Christina Dempsey

An indispensable guide to reducing the suffering―of patients and caregivers alike―and to improving healthcare delivery for all

In our efforts to treat patients, cure illness, and manage institutions, healthcare professionals too often overlook the fundamental purpose everyone in the industry shares: to alleviate suffering.

Press Ganey's Chief Nursing Officer, Christina Dempsey, has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering--physical, psychological, and emotional--of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM. 

Drawing on her 360-degree perspective, Dempsey offers a comprehensive, detailed, evidence-based plan that addresses the clinical, operational, cultural, and behavioral dimensions of care that every patient and caregiver experiences, in every setting. When suffering decreases, Dempsey argues, outcomes improve for patients and those who care for them. A virtuous cycle takes hold, leading to increases in morale, loyalty, and productivity and results in a culture that drives quality, safety, and value. It paves the path for creating a new national healthcare culture--one that values compassion, fosters efficiency, and drives innovation

The Antidote to Suffering is the first book to explore the pervasiveness of suffering in our healthcare system, and to provide the strategies and tools to: 

* Identify and measure suffering throughout your organization

* Create a system in which every clinical response is informed by compassion

* Operationalize staff behavior to promote meaning and purpose 

* Increase productivity by building a culture of collaboration

Reducing human suffering isn't just a moral imperative for healthcare providers. It's a practical way to improve organizations and fix our broken system--without sacrificing the respect, dignity, and compassion we all deserve.




The Antidote to Suffering: How Compassionate Connected Care Can Improve Safety, Quality, and Experience

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