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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
400 pages cm
Description
"The spread of COVID-19 has brought the lives of doctors into sharper focus than ever before. We now see how the daily work of making important, even life-and-death decisions is frequently made harder. Hospitals and medical offices face budget problems, the influence of big pharmaceutical and insurance companies, as well as stress and long hours and massive amounts of bureaucracy and paperwork. And that was before the pandemic. As we engage in a public...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A memoir-expose of the health-care system by a cardiologist and much-praised author"--Provided by publisher.
A timely industry exposé and memoir calls for the reestablishment of moral practices in patient care while revealing how liability- and profit-driven practices in American healthcare are subjecting patients to unnecessary tests and high fees.
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"As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra days on average. This book attempts to help the reader understand where that progress came from and what forces keep people alive longer. The author also considers how to avoid decreases in life expectancy as public...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
ix, 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to America, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
vi, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Dr. Brawley exposes the underbelly of healthcare today--the under-treatment of the poor, the over-treatment of the rich, the financial conflicts of interests physicians face, insurance that doesn't demand the best (or even cheapest) care, and a pharmaceutical behemoth concerned with selling drugs, not providing health.
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