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Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy
by Jody Heymann
In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey$15.19
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Compliance 101, Fourth Edition
by Debbie Troklus and 1 more
Authors Debbie Troklus and Sheryl Vacca have updated Compliance 101 with changes in federal regulations, including HIPAA, HITECH, and the Omnibus Rule as well as new insights on what it takes to build an effective compliance program. This book reviews the fundamentals in healthcare compliance, including the seven essential elements of a compliance program. It includes: - Step-by-step instructions$48.00
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The Texas Medical Jurisprudence Exam
The most efficient, readable, and reasonable option to prepare for the Texas Medical Jurisprudence Examination, a required test for physician licensure in Texas. This is all you need. The goal of this study guide is to hit the sweet spot between concise and terse, between reasonably inclusive and needlessly thorough. This short book is intended to be something that you can read over a few times$9.99
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by Lee Gutkind
“A welcome and poignant account of the intense human and political dynamics of a major children’s hospital that will have a substantial impact on the way you view children and their care.” —The New England Journal of MedicineLee Gutkind is a master at stepping into the worlds of medicine and revealing the unique desires, characteristics, and stories of the people therein. For One Children’s Place,$11.99
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America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
This is a book of miracles—medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters. Still other essays give voice$13.59
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The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health
Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected the founding fathers and their families as it did slaves, merchants, immigrants, and everyone else in North America. As both victims of illness and$1.99
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True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
by Pamela Nagami and 1 more
We've all been bitten. And we all have stories.The bite attacks featured in this dramatic book take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history. Some are as familiar and contemporary as encounters with mosquitoes in New York City and snakes in southern California's Hollywood Hills or as exotic and foreign as the tsetse in equatorial Africa, the$7.99
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How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health$29.69
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Vegan Cookbooks: 70 Of The Best Ever Delightful Vegetarian Lunch Recipes....Revealed!
There are lots of great vegetarian cookbooks, but this one is a little different, dare I say better? I am Samantha Michaels and I love to cook. For years now I have experimented to create healthy vegetarian recipes. I love to try new things and have read through various vegetarian cookbooks but none did exactly what I wanted; namely to make vegetarian cooking easy and delicious. My life is$0.99
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Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter$9.99
