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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Over the past decade health care systems around the world have placed increasing importance on the relationship between patient choice and clinical decision-making. In the years since the publication of the second edition of Shared Decision Making in Health Care, there have been significant new developments in the field, most notably in the US where 'Obamacare' puts shared decision making (SDM) at the centre of the 2009 Affordable Care Act. This new...
3) Helping patients outsmart overeating: psychological strategies for doctors and health care providers
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating, written by an eating disorder therapist and a physician, offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers who treat patients with eating and weight concerns. It describes how both parties are frustrated by weight-loss plans and programs that fail in the long term, and presents a science-based explanation for why diets fail and how they, in fact, may adversely impact patients? mental and physical health....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police , and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these...
Author
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In Prepare to Defend Yourself . . . How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life, Matthew Minson, a physician and disaster medicine and healthcare policy expert, pulls back the examination room curtain on the healthcare system, empowering patients and their families to become proactive and knowledgeable users of medical services.
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The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 5
Formats
Description
When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at San Francisco Medical Center, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace, possibly the most terrifying situation they have encountered.
11) Hacksaw Ridge
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
246 p. : charts ; 25 cm.
Description
"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 490 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Korea, 1950. They were the 4077 MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. Now, as reports that the war is amost over reach the 4077 with increasing frequency, the doctors and nurses begin to tentatively make plans about what they're going to do once they get back home. But until the guns fall silent, everyone must focus on taking care of the incoming wounded whose numbers increase as the fighting intesifies during...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"From one of the fiercest skirmishes of the Vietnam War to years of seclusion in a mountain cave, Medal of Honor recipient, Gary Beikirch has faced more than his fair share of battles and overcome each of them through perseverance and faith. He inspires readers to do the same"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nearly 106 million viewers tuned in for this series finale of M*A*S*H. Even as the final ceasefire draws near, life at the 4077 is as hectic and crazy as ever. Hawkeye is reluctant to operate after recuperating from a nervous breakdown; B.J. receives erroneous orders to ship out early; Winchester forms a musical bond with a group of POWs; Hot Lips makes plans for her future; Klinger gets engaged.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 481 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis--based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting--that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic. In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn't somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would...
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