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Direct Primary Care is an affordable and highly efficient primary care delivery model that promises unrestricted access to your personal doctor with same-day appointments and 24/7 remote access for a flat monthly fee. No deductibles. No copayments. No office visit charges. No insurance required.

This audiobook series is dedicated to tackling the security challenges faced by healthcare provider organizations and enhancing the patient experience. In today's healthcare landscape, Information Technology serves as a vital lifeline. Crafting robust and secure applications and infrastructure is crucial for healthcare professionals to deliver optimal patient care while safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of both applications and patient data.

Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system.

In "Diverse Medicine: Building a Stronger and Healthier Nation," esteemed author and award-winning physician, Dr. Dale Okorodudu, presents a powerful and compelling call to action. With unwavering conviction, Dr. Okorodudu champions the transformative impact of racial diversity in medicine, revealing its potential to revolutionize healthcare for all Americans. Drawing upon personal experience as a physician and advocate, Dr. Okorodudu uncovers the deeply rooted disparities within our healthcare system and explores the profound implications of a lack of diversity. With captivating ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of people and infected millions while also devastating the world economy. The consequences of the pandemic, however, go much further: they threaten the fabric of national and international politics around the world. What will be the consequences of the pandemic, and what will a post-COVID world order look like? No institution is better suited to address these issues than Johns Hopkins University, which has convened experts from within and outside of the university to discuss world order after COVID-19.

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives. But many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless anxiety and confusion on the part of the public as to which exposures have important effects on health and which are likely to have minimal or no effect.

Inside Radical Loving Care distills the essence of Erie Chapman's three previous books into a single slender volume. It equips caregivers with stories of powerful examples and all the tools they need to live love, not fear, every day and night. Execute the ideas in this book and your life and your work culture will change for the better. As a result, every patient's care will improve.

Both memoir and self-help book, this is the remarkable chronicle of a passage from terminal diagnosis to exuberant wellness in just a few months. The Cancer Whisperer reverses our traditional adversarial relationship with cancer by teaching us how to listen to it; how to be healed by it as well as seek to cure it; and how to be emotionally free of illness even when physically curtailed.

Warum tun gute Menschen Böses? Wieso werden so viele zu fügsamen Mittätern? Und warum rebellieren sie nicht, wenn man ihnen die Freiheit nimmt? Antworten auf diese Fragen erhalten wir, wenn wir eines erkennen: Ein Virus geht um in der Welt - ein Virus des Geistes. Es macht die Menschen zu Anhängern eines Weltuntergangskults, der sie in willfährige Staatsbürger verwandelt und ihre Werte ins Lebensfeindliche verkehrt. Wie funktioniert dieser Kult und woher kommt er? Wer ist sein Gott, wer seine Priester? Und wozu ist er künftig noch in der Lage?

Press Ganey's chief nursing officer Christina Dempsey has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering - physical, psychological, and emotional - of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM.

The incendiary untold story of Ireland’s response to the most significant public health emergency of the past century, woven from a wealth of original research and dozens of interviews with ministers, politicians, public health experts, essential workers and ordinary people on whom the crisis exacted a personal toll.

Congress passed it. President Obama signed it into law. The Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional. And Obama's re-election virtually ensures the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, will be implemented in full, with the prospects of wholesale repeal all but impossible. In fact, many provisions of the new law are already becoming a reality with major new regulations set to start soon.

L'amélioration de la santé humaine est une anomalie à l'échelle de l'évolution. Pendant des dizaines de milliers d'années, les humains ne vivaient pas plus de trente ans en moyenne. La grande extension de notre espérance de vie a commencé autour des années 1750 en Occident. Lente mais continue, elle est principalement due à la désinfection et à une meilleure alimentation. C'est ainsi que, en deux siècles, notre longévité a doublé. Depuis 1950, les progrès de la médecine et de la pharmacie ont permis de gagner encore vingt-cinq années de vie.

Are you like the many other recent high school graduates wondering what degree to pursue in college? Or maybe you’ve already graduated, but are asking the question, "What do public health graduates do?!" Do you want to enter the medical field but aren’t necessarily interested in courses like chemistry and biology? Are you thinking, "What does it even mean to major in public health?" If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you... 

From the suburbs of Washington, DC, and northern Virginia to the bat-infested caves of Wuhan, China, Dr. Ravi Iyer traces the myriad networks of the virus that brought the entire world to its knees for 24 months and decimated the lives of millions in its path.

Hands sanitizers are agents put on the hands to be able to remove illness-causing pathogens. Usually, hands sanitizers are created in foam, gel, wipes, or liquid forms. Despite the fact that the using of hands sanitizer is broadly flexible, it is drafted as a moderate means of contamination control in a variety of settings which range from colleges to healthcare facilities and supermarkets. Hands sanitizers are transparent (commonly), waterless water products that tend to be used instead of conventional soap and water for cleansing the hands and work for killing bacteria.

Imagine leading your high functioning team to meet the organization's goals as an industry leader. You are followed for who you are and what you represent. Your team members willingly share adversity and pending threats. Make this a reality through understanding leadership techniques through our clinical mindset. Learn how to relate to each member of your team and know how to maximize each one's unique skills. Learn how to leverage skills of communication, coaching, conflict resolution, and much more!

Today, chronic conditions are responsible for 90 percent of the country's health-care costs, but the 180 million Americans living with these conditions are overwhelmed by the confusion and complexity embedded throughout the system. In an era when we have been given a wide range of tools, apps, and services that make every aspect of our lives more convenient, consumers are anticipating a similar spirit of innovation to make their health care simpler, easier, and more affordable.

We are on the cusp of a healthcare revolution. From wearable sensors, to improved point-of-care diagnostics to artificial intelligence and robotics, there is a growing number of breakthroughs in biomedical technology which are set to fundamentally change the way patients interact with their healthcare providers.

The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale?