Avoiding Life Malpractice will provide residents, young physicians and more experienced health care practitioners with the information they need to better navigate the complex process of finding, evaluating, and negotiating an employment contract. You've spent decades mastering the art and science of medicine, but what do you know about the business of medicine? How much are your services worth? Will you hang a shingle and start your own business? Join a group? Work for a hospital? How wil...

Set against the backdrop of 19th-century California, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's "The Squatter and the Don" intricately weaves a tale of land, identity, and cultural conflict. Through a masterful blend of narrative styles, Ruiz de Burton employs both realism and romanticism to critique the societal tensions between Anglo settlers and Mexican landowners during the U.S. annexation of California. The novel explores themes of colonization, honor, and the complexities of race and class throug...

Are you a healthcare professional who loves what you do, but you’re stressed from working nights, weekends, and holidays?Being a healthcare professional can be incredibly rewarding, but it can also come with long hours and burnout. If you love helping patients, yet feel overwhelmed and unhappy, then clinic ownership could be the answer.After ending up as a patient at his own hospital, Jason Duprat decided something had to change—so he opened his own clinic!...

After years of school and maybe even after some years of practice, you are ready to do it on your own.Running a profitable business takes more than just being a great doctor. Start Your Own Medical Practice provides you with the knowledge to be both a great doctor and a successful business owner.Whether you are looking to open a single practice office or wanting to go into partnership with other colleagues, picking the right location, hiring the ri...

This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

P. T. Barnum narrates his early history as Clerk, Merchant and Editor, and his later career a Showman, with numerous illustrations by artist F.O.C. Darley.Transcribed from the 1855 edition.

Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”—Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty-seven and set up a successful dressmaking business in Washington, D.C. She became modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln and in time her friend and confidante, a relationship...

Employee ManualThis is the new employee handbook we have developed for use and modification. We have taken this template and expanded it for each of the practice locations. If you would like this in a MS Word format for modification please let us know or locate it on the website (DentalPracticeResourceGroup.com).The terms used to identify a practice, dentist and employee were purposely left generic to allow this manual to stand alone as is without significant modification o...

Including his most famous works, such as “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Furnished Room,” this collection of forty-one O. Henry short stories demonstrates his extraordinary technical genius.“There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.”—O. HenryReaders the world over recognize O. Henry as the best short story writer of the early twentieth century—even today a masterful surprise ...

Mark Twain's 'The Complete Speeches' is a comprehensive collection of the renowned author's speaking engagements, showcasing his wit, humor, and insightful commentary on society. Twain's speeches blend entertainment with thought-provoking social critique, reflecting the literary style and satire that made his written works so iconic. These speeches provide a unique insight into Twain's public persona and offer a deeper understanding of his views on politics, culture, and morality during hi...

Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued...

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry.Where else but the doctor’s office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in other industries drives prices down, but in health care it’s the reverse? And why, in health care, is the customer so often treated as a mere bystander—and an ignorant one at that?...