Transform your understanding of healthcare leadership and discover the roadmap to executive success.Are you navigating the complexities of the U.S. healthcare system without a guide? Struggling to find comprehensive leadership training that addresses the real challenges you face? The Leadership Learning Curve: A Woman Physician's Journey as a Chief Medical Officer is your essential toolkit for mastering healthcare administration and emerging as a confident...

In her memoir, Learning to Listen, Dr. Vidhya Prakash chronicles her journey as an Indian woman infectious diseases physician in the United States Air Force. Prakash details her upbringing in a traditional Indian household in Cincinnati, Ohio, grounded in the values instilled by her parents and nurtured by loving relationships in the Indian community. She details touching and poignant experiences with her patients over the years which shaped her into the physician she is today. Prakash tal...

A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business w...

When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say,Are you a nurse?Wow. That must be really hard.What's it like?This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor.That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across the depart...

The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums—not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets.In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Teisberg reveal the underlying—and largely overlooked—causes of the problem, and pr...

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop.In this timely, provocative book, Jeffrey Pfeffer contends that many modern management commonalities such as l...

Since its first publication in 1985 psychic and healer Echo Bodines Hands That Heal has gently and thoroughly guided readers through energy or spiritual healing. Explaining her approach to healing as within the traditional Christian laying on of hands technique though the healer often uses their hands on a persons aura without touching them directly she also describes how a healing session works including how it feels to the healer and the person being healed. Case studies detail the proce...

After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother’s wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family—his principal support group, as well as a constant ...

From the thought leaders at Boston Consulting Group come lessons on how leading health systems around the world are delivering patient-centered, value-based care by focusing on the health outcomes that matter to patients.To address the growing crises confronting the global health sector, health systems need to deliver better health outcomes to patients for the money spent, an approach known as value-based health care. Contrary to traditional approaches to health-sy...

Intern is Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question our every assumption about medical care today. Residency—and especially the first year, called internship—is legendary for its brutality. Working eighty hours or more per week, most new doctors spend their first year asking themselves why they wanted to be doctors in the first place.Jauhar's internship was even more harrowing than most: ...

Following in the hugely popular ‘Angel Saved My Life’ series comes a moving new collection of real-life stories from the Afterlife.A new collection of inspiring real-life encounters with the ‘other side’, including how our guardian angels often take the form of children. From angel babies that have sent messages from the womb to children with special psychic abilities who have spoken to the dead and mysterious children who have saved lives, here are dramatic stories of amazing divi...

This much-needed text offers an authoritative introduction to strategic marketing in health care and presents a wealth of ideas for gaining the competitive edge in the health care arena. Step by step the authors show how real companies build and implement effective strategies. It includes marketing approaches through a wide range of perspectives: hospitals, physician practices, social marketing, international health, managed care, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. With Strategic Mark...