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Was Patienten sagen, was Ärzte hören

de Swen Feierabend ...

Kann eine Neuausrichtung der Arzt-Patienten-Kommunikation zu besserer Gesundheit führen?Trotz der Begeisterung der modernen Medizin für Hightech-Geräte ist das wichtigste Diagnoseinstrument nach wie vor das Arzt-Patienten-Gespräch, das den Großteil der Krankheiten aufdecken kann. Doch was Patienten sagen und was Ärzte hören, sind oft zwei völlig verschiedene Dinge.Patienten, die ihre Symptome ... Leer más

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Kann eine Neuausrichtung der Arzt-Patienten-Kommunikation zu besserer Gesundheit führen?Trotz der Begeisterung der modernen Medizin für Hightech-Geräte ist das wichtigste Diagnoseinstrument nach wie vor das Arzt-Patienten-Gespräch, das den Großteil der Krankheiten aufdecken kann. Doch was Patienten sagen und was Ärzte hören, sind oft zwei völlig verschiedene Dinge.Patienten, die ihre Symptome
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The Facemaker

A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

de Lindsey Fitzharris ...

A New York Times Bestseller**Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile**Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary ... Leer más

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A New York Times Bestseller**Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile**Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine

The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

de Paul Starr ...

“A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of the American health care system.Considered the definitive history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved ... Leer más

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“A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of the American health care system.Considered the definitive history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved
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Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

de Atul Gawande ...

**#1 New York Times BestsellerIn 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 ending**Medicine 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 ... Leer más

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**#1 New York Times BestsellerIn 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 ending**Medicine 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
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The Joy of Gay Sex

Fully revised and expanded third edition

de Charles Silverstein, Felice Picano ...

Building on the groundbreaking original work by Edmund White and Charles Silverstein, a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic, comprehensive guide to gay sex, love, and life. Featuring 50 new illustrations.One of the touchstones of the emerging gay consciousness when it was first published in the 70’s, and a standard reference for gay men throughout the 80’s and 90’s, The Joy of Gay Sex ... Leer más

$11.49 USD

Building on the groundbreaking original work by Edmund White and Charles Silverstein, a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic, comprehensive guide to gay sex, love, and life. Featuring 50 new illustrations.One of the touchstones of the emerging gay consciousness when it was first published in the 70’s, and a standard reference for gay men throughout the 80’s and 90’s, The Joy of Gay Sex
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Authentic Healthcare Marketing

Build Trust, Engage Patients, and Succeed in the Post-Truth Era

de Edwards, Shannon McIntyre Hooper ...

In today's "post-truth" era, with distrust of institutions and experts at an all-time high, healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges in connecting with the communities they serve.Drawing on more than three decades of healthcare marketing experience, Brandon Edwards reveals why traditional approaches no longer work and provides a roadmap for authentic engagement that builds trust, ... Leer más

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In today's "post-truth" era, with distrust of institutions and experts at an all-time high, healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges in connecting with the communities they serve.Drawing on more than three decades of healthcare marketing experience, Brandon Edwards reveals why traditional approaches no longer work and provides a roadmap for authentic engagement that builds trust,
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Medicare for All

A Citizen's Guide

de Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson ...

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go ... Leer más

$12.39 USD

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go
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Revenue Cycle Management

Don't Get Lost In The Financial Maze

de Shawntea Moheiser, Kem Tolliver ...

How does the revenue cycle of a medical practice actually work? It is easy to get lost in all the phases of revenue management, so how does a practice keep it all straight? Proven solutions to optimize revenue cycle are the key, and this primer is a business-critical resource to deliver just that. Whether you're new to managing the revenue cycle or a seasoned professional, the concepts covered in ... Leer más

$78.49 USD

How does the revenue cycle of a medical practice actually work? It is easy to get lost in all the phases of revenue management, so how does a practice keep it all straight? Proven solutions to optimize revenue cycle are the key, and this primer is a business-critical resource to deliver just that. Whether you're new to managing the revenue cycle or a seasoned professional, the concepts covered in
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Doctors' Riot of 1788

Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America

de Andy McPhee ...

Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the “resurrectionists” – body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical ... Leer más

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Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they needed many more cadavers to serve a growing number of medical students. Enter the “resurrectionists” – body snatchers. Resurrectionists were a cruel lot; men (almost always men and often medical
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An American Sickness

How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

de Elisabeth Rosenthal ...

**A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Leer más

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**A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking
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Intern

A Doctor's Initiation

de Sandeep Jauhar ...

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 ... Leer más

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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
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On Call

A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

de Emily R. Transue ...

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's ... Leer más

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On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's
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The Multi-Orgasmic Man

Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know

de Mantak Chia, Douglas Abrams ...

At last, simple physical and psychological techniques that allow men to fulfill their dreams and women's fantasies.Learn to Separate Orgasm and Ejaculation! Enjoy Increased Vitality and Longevity! Become Multi-Orgasmic Now! ... Leer más

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At last, simple physical and psychological techniques that allow men to fulfill their dreams and women's fantasies.Learn to Separate Orgasm and Ejaculation! Enjoy Increased Vitality and Longevity! Become Multi-Orgasmic Now!
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Borders of Care

Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States

de Beatrix Hoffman ...

Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States.For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most rely on hospital emergency rooms when they get sick, or clinics that don't inquire about immigration status. ... Leer más

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Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States.For the roughly ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, federal health care coverage is out of reach. Barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, most rely on hospital emergency rooms when they get sick, or clinics that don't inquire about immigration status.
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Getting Health Economics into Practice

de David Kernick ...

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks ... Leer más

$79.99 USD

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks
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You Bet Your Life

From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation

de Paul A Offit, MD ...

**From one of America’s top physicians, a “riveting,” “fascinating,” and “timely” (Nature) history of risk in medicine **Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

**From one of America’s top physicians, a “riveting,” “fascinating,” and “timely” (Nature) history of risk in medicine **Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse

Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

de Dan Barry ...

With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual ... Leer más

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With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual
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History of Madness

de Michel Foucault ...

Series series Routledge Classics
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world.This translation is the only English language edition of the ... Leer más

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When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world.This translation is the only English language edition of the
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Way Home

Journeys through Homelessness

de Josephine Ensign ...

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address this urgent problem in more innovative and sustainable ways? In Way Home, Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of ... Leer más

$24.59 USD

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address this urgent problem in more innovative and sustainable ways? In Way Home, Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of
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Blitzed

Drugs in the Third Reich

de Norman Ohler ...

A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post).The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping work of World War II nonfiction, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post).The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping work of World War II nonfiction, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines
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Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

Edición de Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner ...

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, ... Leer más

$68.99 USD

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education,
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The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

de Siddhartha Mukherjee ...

Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the Chautauqua Prize!Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times</... ... Leer más

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Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the Chautauqua Prize!Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times</...
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Divide and Conquer

A Comparative History of Medical Specialization

de George Weisz ...

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic
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Remembering Smell

A Memoir of Losing--and Discovering--the Primal Sense

de Bonnie Blodgett ...

In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett—a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen—was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett—a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen—was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had
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