Training Compassion for Healthcare Providers
Compassion is the warm-hearted concern that unfolds when we witness the struggles of others and feel motivated to relieve them. Research suggests that compassion is innate and any of us can strengthen this capacity through deliberate practice, with benefits for self, for others, and for society.This ground-breaking guide offers a research-based, comprehensive approach to training compassion. While compassion is recognized as fundamental to offering quality healthcare, the field is experiencing a crisis of compassion along with a related epidemic of burnout and attrition. Designed to accompany a CBCT course, the guide supports healthcare providers by offering tools to connect more meaningfully with patients and colleagues, strengthen personal resilience, and cultivate a greater sense of efficacy in the face of suffering.All CBCT courses are led by certified CBCT teachers. Learn more at compassionu.app.
Captivated Health
Are you tired of watching your company's health insurance costs skyrocket year after year?If you're a CFO, business owner, or HR leader, you know the frustration: yet another "less bad" renewal, double-digit rate hike, and that gut-wrenching sense that your choices are limited because you have no data to actually fix the root cause and solve the problem.The American health insurance system is like a casino-the house always wins. There's no way to improve your odds without understanding the design and rules of the game.Here's the good news: Mark S. Gaunya, GBA, has a health insurance hack for you. The Captivated Health(R) platform is designed to help you improve your health insurance odds by putting the control in your hands.The Captivated Health platform will guide you to: Take Control by moving from system-decision to self-decision Gain Transparency as you free yourself from the "less bad renewal" cycle Leverage Confidence in your increased literacy to strategically influence outcomesSave Cash by reinvesting your dividends to create greater value for everyoneWhether you're directly responsible for your company's health insurance plan or you know someone who is, this book is for you. It's time to understand the health insurance casino and learn how to play to win-for your bottom line and for the health and well-being of your people.Start your journey toward taking control of your health insurance future with the Captivated Health platform today!
Failure to Treat
Stories of healthcare disasters abound in America today. Who among us does not know of one? In this anthology of composited true stories, a veteran clinician shares the details of practitioners and patients who were harmed-in some cases fatally-by a terribly broken healthcare system. Each of the twenty stories addresses a common problem: insurance denials, physician burnout, drug overpricing, limited physician access, fragmented care, frivolous lawsuits, medical deserts, misleading medical advertising, administrative harm, and corporate takeovers. Dr. Kowey discusses these issues, and more, in layman's terms, concluding each vignette with practical advice for patients and caregivers to help them avoid a catastrophe. His goal is to partner with practitioners and patients to promote real change before American medicine runs completely off the tracks."This book should be required reading for all clinicians and patients who are serious about transforming American healthcare." -Joseph S. Alpert, MD, Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Medicine"Dr. Kowey has done an outstanding job of explaining how profit has utterly corrupted the US healthcare system-driving caring, capable physicians out of practice, while lining the pockets of hospital administrators, pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers. Read and weep." -Barbara H. Roberts, MD, FACC, author of The Truth About Statins"These clinical anecdotes are poignant, precisely chosen, and fluently written." -Robert Fenichel, MD, former Director, Cardiorenal Division, FDA"An engrossing compendium of medical stories that expose serious flaws in our increasingly heartless healthcare system. This book is a call to action. Changes must occur so practitioners no longer face systemic hurdles that waste their time and block their ability to provide high quality care to their patients." -Andrea Leonard-Segal, MD, former Director, Division of Nonprescription Drugs, FDA"Dr. Kowey has illuminated brilliantly many of the pitfalls in U.S. healthcare today, along with their causes, using patient vignettes. Helpful guidance is offered to patients as they navigate our dysfunctional healthcare system until vast improvements in US healthcare delivery are in place."-Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH, MACC, Past President, American College of Cardiology
Young Black Women and Health Inequities in the United States
Digital Health for Primary Care
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of digital health technologies in primary care. Discussing the transformative potential of digital health solutions and their impact on healthcare delivery within the primary care setting, the book offers insights, considers strategies and shares practical guidance for all primary care providers interested in leveraging digital innovations to enhance patient outcomes and optimize care delivery.Key Features: - Content specific to and tailored for primary care and family medicine- Provides expert opinion and thought leadership on key enablers and hindrances of digital technology within health care systems- Includes concepts of patient and provider co-design of ideal systems and real-world examples of successful integrations of technologies into patient-centred models of care- Delivers the essential knowledge for practitioners and policy makers to develop and implement digital health innovation and service redesignThrough structured description of the spectrum of existing digital innovations, all applicable within and relevant to primary care, this timely new guide will support clinicians, innovators and policy makers to maximize the opportunities and challenges that these technologies present and enable future doctors, whatever their career aspirations, to understand the importance of digital innovation and its applications in health systems and patient-centred care.
Lean Life
Are you ready to hop off the weight-loss hamster wheel?You know how it goes: hop on lose ten, hop off gain twenty.Rinse, repeat, binge, purge, grow, shrink...and finally, end up where you started.The modern weight-loss industry is driven by tall tales, short-term results, and only the assurance that your weight loss will last as long as it takes them to come up with a new "miracle solution."What if there was a way to: - Boost your maximum strength by 50%- Drop your body fat by 50%- Improve your quality of life 100%All by following three simple pillars that will allow you to make wholesale changes to last a lifetime? Well...now there is.It's called Lean Life, and it was developed by Texas-native Dr. Mo during his years as a stressed out, overworked, weight-gaining medical student. Dr. Mo's formula is unique because it allows occasional cheating and doesn't require a rigorous exercise routine.In Lean Life, Dr. Mo uses his own experiences to show you exactly how fitness, weight loss, lower stress, and greater happiness can all become permanent parts of your routine based on what you choose to put in your mouth and how you move.
Eyes by Hand
A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making. This is a book about artificial eyes--about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changing and sometimes life-saving experience of wearing them, as author Dan Roche has done for 15 years. Eye making is done by hand, for one person at a time, by a very small number of ocularists (fewer than 200 in the US); it is a slow, intricate, and unusually intimate process of molding, fitting, and painting that brings ocularist and patient together for many hours or even days. In Eyes by Hand, Roche describes the craft that goes into the making of an eye that looks uncannily real, as well as the psychological and emotional healing that such service brings to someone who has suffered the very visible trauma of eye loss--a loss that can go to the heart of self-identity. In an engaging, frankly fascinating fashion, Roche captures the intricacies of a profession whose techniques and culture have been remarkably consistent for 200 years. He explores, too, how that profession may now be facing a digital transformation in the form of scan-print-mail possibilities. Such a change might make prosthetic eyes more easily and cheaply available, though it may also risk the aesthetic qualities and intimate connection fundamental to the process of healing.
Anti/VAX
In Anti/Vax, Bernice L. Hausman challenges the widespread perception of vaccine skepticism shaped by media, celebrities, and internet misinformation. She explores other motivations behind vaccine hesitancy, including distrust of pharmaceutical companies and the belief that illness plays a role in good health. Seeking to reframe the conversation, she shows that when resistance to vaccination is portrayed as scientific illiteracy, denial of scientific facts, or simply as irrational, we lose opportunities to understand many people's real concerns. Anti/Vax reveals that resistance to vaccination consolidates a number of cultural issues--from critiques of medicalization to concerns about government overreach--and raises questions about public health norms. Researched and published before the Covid-19 pandemic, Hausman's rich exploration of the cultural themes animating vaccine skepticism continues to illuminate controversies over vaccination today.
Review of Medicare Part B Avastin and Lucentis Treatments for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Forgotten Leaders in Modern Medicine
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. More than 65 illustrations.
Review of Medicare Part B Avastin and Lucentis Treatments for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Keys to Successful Implementation and Sustainment of Managed Maintenance for Healthcare Facilities
Globalisation and Pandemic Management
This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 in life and work experience.
Investigating the Optimal Management Strategy for a Healthcare Facility Maintenance Program
Keys to Successful Implementation and Sustainment of Managed Maintenance for Healthcare Facilities
Internalizing a Mentoring Program in the United States Air Force Medical Service Corps
Documentation of Coverage Requirements for Medicare Home Health Claims
