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"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself....
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University of California Press
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English
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"Black and Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black and Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Over the last 30 years, the health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans have become increasingly recognized, in particular for the ways in which they are distinct from those typically assessed and addressed in society. Universities and researchers are paying greater attention to LGBTQ public health issues and how they might adapt existing methods to research marginalized communities, but until now there has been no authoritative...
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English
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"Dr. Aaron Berkowitz had just finished his neurology training when he was sent to Haiti on his first assignment with Partners In Health. There, he meets Janel, a 23-year-old man with the largest brain tumor Berkowitz or any of his neurosurgeon colleagues at Harvard Medical School have ever seen. Determined to live up to Partners In Health's mission statement--to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need-- Berkowitz tries to...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics, which provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. The author describes the care we need, the care we don't, and how to deal with doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Telemedicine and healthcare apps that have become so important during the coronavirus epidemic are also explained. -- adapted from Amazon.com.
"The latest installment in the...
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Bainbridge Books]
Pub. Date
Ã2015.
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English
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Linda Gromko, MD is a Board Certified Family Physician who has worked with the transgender community for nearly eighteen years. She explains the basics of gender identity, sexual orientation, puberty, puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and gender affirming surgeries. She shares years of her patients' wisdom and practical information on getting through every day in the best way possible-from coming out to parents, to school issues, to coping with...
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Harperwave
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we're masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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This thesis examines issues underlying the health care discrepancies experienced by indigenous and minority patients, and explores the role of cultural competence in addressing these disparities. The author proposes a framework from which physicians can begin to understand the unique medical issues experienced by patients from different cultural backgrounds. This framework incorporates commonalities in indigenous healing traditions, the pervasive...
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Persephone's Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"Have you ever wondered how you will find health inside a medical system that's going bankrupt and is set up to keep you sick? How much power do you have to live in optimal health with a zest for life as our current healthcare system implodes?... Whether you have a disease or not, [this book] will teach you how to heal, change, and thrive--despite America's current healthcare crisis. You will begin deep inside our broken medical system and travel...