Resultados para "Patiënt" en Política y ciencias sociales

Cuando la historia del crimen se escribe en femenino. La idea de que las mujeres son frágiles y necesitan protección ha sido inculcada en el imaginario colectivo. Si bien es una afirmación cuestionable –por no decir falsa, derechamente–, hay algunas mujeres que han sido lo opuesto y las...

In unserem Gesundheitssystem herrschen mafiöse Verhältnisse. Um den Profit der Ärzte und der Gesundheitsindustrie zu sichern, werden überflüssige Operationen durchgeführt und Medikamente verschrieben, die mehr schaden als nutzen. Gesunde werden zu Kranken erklärt, weil Laborwerte willkürlich festgelegten Normen nicht entsprechen oder Röntgenbilder völlig unbedenkliche Abweichungen vom Ideal zeigen.

Managing your own health care—or a loved one's—can be daunting, especially if you are diagnosed with a serious illness. This book helps you weigh all the treatments, make decisions, and speak up for yourself when you need to.

Medizinische Früherkennung ist dazu da, Symptome rechtzeitig zu erkennen, um dadurch Krankheiten besser heilen zu können. Diese Vorstellung ist weit verbreitet, doch sie ist naiv. In diesem Hörbuch spricht der mehrfach ausgezeichnete Wissenschaftsjournalist und Bestsellerautor Frank Wittig über Sinn und Unsinn aller einschlägigen Screening-Maßnahmen, von der Mammografie über die Hautkrebs-Früherkennung bis zur Darmspiegelung.

Attention. Your insurer moves faster than you. Denials fire off in seconds. Prices climb without warning. Networks shrink every month. You face a system built to overwhelm you. The Patient’s Playbook 2026 shows you how to push back with a calm, structured plan that protects your health and your wallet. The rules shifted in 2026. Automated reviews replaced real conversations. Pharmacies cut hours. Deductibles grew. Patients started losing control because the system expects you to panic, accept the denial, and move on. This book breaks that pattern.

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy - these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like.

In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.

A physician’s bold critique of medical rape culture—and her call for a new model of care that centers consent and empowers patients Medical culture has a problem with consent—and it’s not just a few bad doctors. That’s the conclusion of Dr. Zed Zha in Consented, a groundbreaking look...

Don't buy a book. Buy a system. You're standing at the CPPS exam room door with years of leading RCAs, building safety dashboards, and explaining Just Culture to skeptical leaders, and no idea what will actually show up.

In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment". Much as the printing press liberated knowledge from the control of an elite class, new technology is poised to democratize medicine. In this new era, patients will control their data and be emancipated from a paternalistic medical regime in which "the doctor knows best."

25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are the struggles of those labeled...

Exciting new technology is revolutionizing healthcare in the twenty-first century. This visionary guide by the former CIO of the Cleveland Clinic shows you how to design, implement, and maximize your organization's IT systems to deliver fully integrated, coordinated, high-quality care. Using the latest advancements in IT, you'll be able to access and apply a range of online tools and field-tested strategies to any organization. Go behind the scenes at Clinic Cleveland to see how caregivers executed their IT strategy in a working environment—and how patients benefitted as a result.

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author. As a traditional...

In America's Health: The Community Is Now the Patient, Dr. Leslie Bronner delivers an urgent, evidence-based call to action that challenges how we think about healthcare in the United States. Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a doctoral background in public health, Dr. Bronner argues that the cycle of poor health in this country is driven by the social determinants of health—the conditions in the communities where people live, work, and raise their families.

Gerald Lynn spent twenty-seven years in the pharmaceutical industry, working alongside doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators, before facing the healthcare system from a completely different side as the only child caring for his mother until she was ninety-two. Surviving the U.S...

What happens when the system designed to protect you becomes the weapon used to destroy you? In Book 3 of the UNBUTCHERED series, Dr. Luke Gordon takes listeners into the courtroom — where a patient's recorded confession should have ended everything, but instead revealed just how far...

In a series of brief and personal essays, Why We Revolt describes what is wrong with industrial healthcare, how it has corrupted its mission, and how it has stopped caring. Montori rescues the language of patient care to propose a revolution of compassion and solidarity, of unhurried conversations, and of careful and kind care.

I have written this manual for patients and families navigating their way through the maze of the healthcare system, the hospital, and then a stay for physical therapy in skilled nursing. My goal is to empower patients and families to take control of their health and the process.

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POPULAR SCIENCE What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Phil Whitaker offers insight into the...

Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just sit on sofas and drink tea, don't you? It's not like you're a real nurse, in hospital.' Well, Health Visitors are real nurses, with at least three years' training, and they are out there, on their...