Excellent high school level text on healthcare
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This book was selected for an MBA course I am taking . The book's depth was superficial and this was an inappropriate text for graduate students. Would be an excellent text for a high school course. I found the book boring, highly biased towards the public health point of view. As a physician I found some of the references to physician thought extremely unbalanced. I would not suggest this book. It will soon be out of date. Better to read the current literature.
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Subtitled, How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back is a new audio book and I heard it cover to cover. Elisabeth Rosenthal has an MD from Harvard but also spent 22 years as a medical reporter for the New York Times. The writing and storytelling in this book is compelling along with thorough research and multiple interviews and sources of information.

The first section of this book tells the story of how medicine and healthcare became a huge business. The examples are pointed and as a reader your anxiety grows with each chapter. You learn the focus of healthcare has turned from providing excellent patient care and health to making money at the expense of the patient. With pointed and specific illustrations, you learn how the costs of healthcare have spiraled out of controlespecially compared to other countries.

The second section gives the details for every American to become proactive with their healthcare, save money and hopefully change the system. Rosenthal provides detailed information such as when you check into a hospital, there are multiple pages of release forms you sign. One of those clauses will say that you are responsible for any expenses your insurance does not cover. Rosenthal suggests you add the words as long as the expenses are within my insurance network. Without this addition, the patient can incur incredible personal expenses. Its just one small example of the valuable content in this book.

I learned a great deal from AN AMERICAN SICKNESS. The detailed websites and resources in the Appendix are a resource I plan to use over and over. I highly recommend this book.

W. Terry Whalin is an editor and the author of more than 60 books including his latest&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Billy-Graham-A-Biography-of-America-s-Greatest-Evangelist/dp/163047231X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Billy Graham: A Biography of America's Greatest Evangelist</a>
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I got this used for my intro to U.S. Healthcare class.
I like that it is a smaller book (lots of pages but easier to carry around than a giant fullsized textbook).
It appears to cover a very broad range of topics.
If you read the whole book it is probably helpful to know about everything that is in it.
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This comes as two books - the "Text" and a workbook, which follows along with the text but gives practice at prescribing without having to flip between lots of pages. This particular book is focused on hospital based prescribing, ideal for an MD on call kind of situation.
There's a section for acute care, which is ER type situations, such as a patient with left lower quadrant pain, diagnosed with likely perforated diverticulitis, and in need of pain management. The second section is in house in the hospital, which includes things like anticoagulation issues or new onset of sepsis in an already admitted patient. The final section goes through more routine inpatient things, like reviewing medications before discharge.

The text portion first presents the scenarios, with the workbook having the space for writing out what you would prescribe. Once you're through each grouping of scenarios, the explanations are in the main text, which go into great detail on the why's of everything, along with the answers for how your written out drug charts should look. This book covers a very wide range of situations, and is a wonderful resource and refresher tool for any physician who has to prescribe things in new to them patients in a hospital setting. In the beginning of the book is also a great reference list of abbreviations, and an appendix that goes very briefly over antibiotic guidelines, as well as a summary of the case studies.

Overall, this is a wonderful tool, and certainly a great way for seasoned physicians to test their skills while also being an incredibly valuable source for residents. This also comes at a great price, and I especially like that the workbook is separate, making it easy to see the details of each case while also formulating your answers.
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This text is a wonderful book for people seeking numbers.  By that I mean some of us understand things better when we can see the numbers.  It contains all the usual information in a colorful inviting format, and it also contains all those numbers it would take hours and hours and hours of websearching to find:  the endurance, strength, cardio-vascular, BMI, calories needed,etc. all done by age and gender that help a person do a self-evaluation of their health and then set reasonable goals for attaining a better level of health.
Also, as a homeschool parent, I found it contained all the info necessary to design a wonderful program for our students.  The price can be hard to swallow, but this is one that is truly worth it.  This is the book for which we've all been waiting when it comes to health info.  It works extremely well for those trying to work with the Florida State-mandated HOPE course (~Health Opportunities with Physical Education).  Kudos to the author!
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Working in digital health myself, I must say that The Guide to the Future of Medicine should be recommended reading tfor both people working in healthcare and those simply interested in the topic. -- And that second category includes in fact almost everyone. Why? First of all, the topic is essential. News about the future of medicine is all around us -- from mainstream media to Facebook. But you likely don't have a framework for understanding and organizing the information. And that is what the author, Bertalan Mesko,  provides, by dividing this mass of information into 22 digestible themes. Secondly, the book is so well executed that  I couldn't put it down. This book provides us with an easy writing style, a simple clear lay-out, and well-chosen photos.  The end result is a very neat, easy-to-read presentation of the facts and a guide to which you can easily refer by going back to  a specific trend. So, what is the future of 3d Printing in medicine, for example...Read it and find out!
386478
It was perfect for my college course.  It helped me understand policy-making, how it affects healthcare, and how we can get involved as healthcare professionals.
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The book is extremely well written and followed my medical school's curriculum (an ivy league school) very well. The chapters are written in a way that doesn't require too much prior knowledge, because it builds from the ground up, covering the physiology that's necessary to understand the pathophysiology. I would still recommend a separate physiology text. Additionally, the writing is not too obtuse and the concepts are very well explained.

It does contain treatment information, which was a little more information than we needed in pre-clinicals, but I'm keeping it around to help me out during clerkships.
3601423
I really enjoy this book.  It is not a basic spanish book, but it is designed to supplement any education in the spanish language.  I appreciate the focus on healthcare!  Excellent transaction.
143014
This book is a required book for a University class.
It is very well written and the author's opinion is backed by research from several different institutions. This book presents the problem of Disease Management and Population Health Management as a method of trying to control our escalating health care costs and assist the aging population and those with chronic medical problems.
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This is a wonderful book which has written over a transition of American Health Care System. Its really helpful to understand real changes in system, what are the changes and how they occurred in the system, how Health Care marketing is different from other industry, what is marketing in health care and many more areas.

I believe that it will be very useful for the MPH - Health Policy and management
  MHA - Masters in Health Administration
courses.
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This is a fantastic text. It is a wonderful resource for public health and health professionals. The selected texts were hand picked with care to cover the diverse range of issues impacting LGBTQ/sexual minorities. A great reference tool on a wide variety of topics, and provides an excellent source to inspire more references.
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My wife really liked this book.  Great for anyone in a Master's healthcare program or for those needing to be kept abreast of current healthcare issues.  It includes part of the Affordable Care Act (PPACA).  She highly recommends this book!
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Ordered a new textbook for school because it was cheaper than buying/renting it on campus. Happy that it was still sealed and comes with the unique access code (as it should) for the online portion required for the class. After a quick overview of the textbook, it covers almost all medical terminology from clinical to administrative terms - definitely more than just basic, fundamental terminology.
I would recommend this for medical/ nursing students, for those who are looking towards a career in a healthcare-related field, or for self-enrichment purposes.
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I had my share of moments when the current healthcare system (or lack thereof) has made me think twice about going to a doctor.  This book is a well-organized, straight-forward look at the healthcare system, and what you need to know to navigate it.  It offers helpful tips about when you don't really need to see a doctor, and when you really should.  It also offers an easy explanation of the types of healthcare and insurance providers you may come across while navigating the system.

The most important thing I found in this book, however, was the writer's encouragement to take charge of our own health and our own care.  In fact, my mom had a diagnosis shortly after I read this book and her doctor seemed to be acting rather slowly with treatment.  It was this book's encouragment that had me press her to seek other opinions, and she was able to get the treatment she needed, and quickly.  When I was done with the book, I passed it along to her.  Now I wish I had kept it as a reference, because every home should have it!
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Adults and mature high school students could all benefit from a series of books like this that focused on "common" diseases and their leading- edge treatments. Diabetes, Atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's Disease - if such a clearly written explanation, even if Focused Ultrasound or similar procedures were always the answer, I think it would help patients and their families deal with the prognoses much more readily. Internet searches alone too often leave victims more afraid and less informed, and too many writers' primary objectives are self-serving income opportunities for themselves. I'd like to make this required reading for my pre-nursing students in Anatomy & Physiology classes. John Grisham, I've long admired your novels and now am a fan of your true humane qualities. Thank you.
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Most of us are aware of the growing crisis in our healthcare system, but might not understand the breadth of this nor how to navigate the broken system when we need healthcare. This is such a wonderful book to learn about both.

I'm not usually a fan of books that are full of anecdotes, but in this book each one is used to provide a very clear example that is anchored in the experience of the author, and many are backed up with references or resources.

The book unfolds through three parts (each with mutiple chapters) that give advice on how to select and work with your primary care physician, how to escalate to an expert and deal with an emergency, and how to cope with a serious illness. The end of each chapter has a nice summary of the points in that chapter to recap.)

A constant message throughout is that you should be an informed consumer of your medical care, that you should keep track of your own (and family members) medical history, and that you need to advocate for yourself and inform yourself.

Since we all need medical care even in the broken system, this is a book for all of us.