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Download or read book Occupy Medicine written by Walter Bortz and published by Gretchen Lieff. This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and Stanford doctor Walter Bortz is recognized as perhaps our foremost authority on healthy aging as well as one of our most fervent and credible advocates of radical change in American health care. His new book is "Occupy Medicine: A Call For A Revolution To Save American Healthcare" and it is worth your reading time. Occupy Medicine is a layman's guide through the labyrinth of our present medical catastrophe. Dr. Walter Bortz, in this compact and powerful treatise, shows how American medicine has morphed into a bureaucratic industrial complex whose defining core is the perpetuation of sickness. Calling for a new paradigm he describes the Commonhealth as "a system in which every segment of society is committed to the assurance of our personal and collective potential", which he identifies as our most important national resource. He shows in compelling terms how we can achieve that. With an urgent plea for each of us to take back ownership of our personal health, Dr. Bortz calls on all of us to step up to the primary responsibility for our own health -- and shows just how to do it.
Book Synopsis Our Present Complaint by : Charles E. Rosenberg
Download or read book Our Present Complaint written by Charles E. Rosenberg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when clinical care and biomedical research generate as much angst as they offer cures, this volume provides valuable insight into how the practice of medicine has evolved, where it is going, and how lessons from history can improve its prognosis.--Thomas S. Huddle, M.D., Ph.D. "Journal of the History of Medicine"
Book Synopsis Grand Rounds by : Russell C. Maulitz
Download or read book Grand Rounds written by Russell C. Maulitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of medicine has come to occupy a significant place in our understanding of modern society and the American cultural fabric. To fully understand and appreciate American medicine in the twentieth century one must contend with the twin processes of specialization and professionalization. Grand Rounds considers the critical period for these two processes, the years between World War I and the Vietnam era. A diverse group of contributors (clinicians as well as historians and "participant-observers") outline broad themes involved in the evolution of modern internal medicine and trace the origins of subspecialties such as cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and nephrology. Paul Beeson, Rosemary Stevens, and others discuss the literature, diagnostic approaches, and therapeutic research in the field. Grand Rounds will be of interest to historians of science and medicine, students of American civilization, and medical practitioners.
Book Synopsis The Social Transformation of American Medicine by : Paul Starr
Download or read book The Social Transformation of American Medicine written by Paul Starr and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries. How did the financially insecure medical profession of the nineteenth century become a most prosperous one in the twentieth century? Why was national health insurance blocked? And why are corporate institutions taking over our medical care system today? Beginning in 1760 and coming up to the present day, renowned sociologist Paul Starr traces the decline of professional sovereignty in medicine, the political struggles over healthcare, and the rise of a corporate system. Updated with a new preface and an epilogue analyzing developments since the early 1980s, this new edition of The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of our fraught healthcare system.
Book Synopsis Let Me Heal by : Kenneth M. Ludmerer
Download or read book Let Me Heal written by Kenneth M. Ludmerer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Let Me Heal, prize-winning author Kenneth M. Ludmerer provides the first-ever account of the residency system for training doctors in the United States. He traces its development from its nineteenth-century roots through its present-day struggles to cope with new, bureaucratic work-hour regulations for house officers and, more important, to preserve excellence in medical training amid a highly commercialized health care system. Let Me Heal provides a highly engaging, richly contextualized account of the residency system in all its dimensions. It also brilliantly analyzes the mutual relationship between residency education and patient care in America. The book shows that the quality of residency training ultimately depends on the quality of patient care that residents observe, but that there is much that residency training can do to produce doctors who practice in a better, more affordable fashion. Let Me Heal is both a stunning work of scholarship and a highly engaging account of how one becomes a doctor in the United States. It is indispensable reading for those who wish to understand what it means to learn and practice medicine and what is needed to make medical education and patient care in America better. The definitive work on the subject, it is destined to become a classic that will be consulted by readers far into the future.
Book Synopsis The Crisis in American Medicine by : Marion K. Sanders
Download or read book The Crisis in American Medicine written by Marion K. Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Business and Public Administration Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :52 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Business and Public Administration
Download or read book Catalogue written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Business and Public Administration and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Architecture Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :622 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis Catalogue ... by : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Architecture
Download or read book Catalogue ... written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Architecture and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Eric J. Cassell Clinical Professor of Public Health Cornell University Medical College Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0198021941 Total Pages :277 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (98 download)
Book Synopsis The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine by : Eric J. Cassell Clinical Professor of Public Health Cornell University Medical College
Download or read book The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine written by Eric J. Cassell Clinical Professor of Public Health Cornell University Medical College and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991-10-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Suffering underscores the change that is taking place in medicine from a basic concern with disease to a greater focus on the sick person. Cassell centers his discussion on the problem of suffering because, he says, its recognition and relief are a test of the adequacy of any system of medicine. He describes what suffering is and its relationship to the sick person: bodies do not suffer, people do. An exclusive concern with scientific knowledge of the body and disease, therefore, impedes an understanding of suffering and diminishes the care of the suffering patient. The growing criticism that medicine is not sufficiently humanistic does not go deep enough to provide a basis for a new understanding of medicine. New concepts in medicine must have their basis in its history and in the development of ideas about disease and treatment. Cassell uses many stories about patients to demonstrate that, despite the current dominance of science and technology, there can be no diagnosis, search for the cause of the patient's disease, prognostication, or treatment without consideration of the individual sick person. Recent trends in medicine and society, Cassell believes, show that it is time for the sick person to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine. He addresses the exciting problems involved in such a shift. In this new medicine, doctors would have to know the person as well as they know the disease. What are persons, however, and how are doctors to comprehend them? The kinds of knowledge involved are varied, including values and aesthetics as well as science. In the process of knowing the experience of patient and doctor move to center stage. He believes that the exploration of the person will engage medicine in the 21st century just as understanding the body has occupied the last hundred years.
Book Synopsis Publications by : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Download or read book Publications written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Catalogue by : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Download or read book Annual Catalogue written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog by : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). College of Liberal Arts
Download or read book Catalog written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). College of Liberal Arts and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trusting Doctors by : Jonathan B. Imber
Download or read book Trusting Doctors written by Jonathan B. Imber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics. Patients revered their doctors as representatives of a sacred vocation. Do we still trust doctors with the same conviction? In Trusting Doctors, Jonathan Imber attributes the development of patients' faith in doctors to the inspiration and influence of Protestant and Catholic clergymen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He explains that as the influence of clergymen waned, and as reliance on medical technology increased, patients' trust in doctors steadily declined. Trusting Doctors discusses the emphasis that Protestant clergymen placed on the physician's vocation; the focus that Catholic moralists put on specific dilemmas faced in daily medical practice; and the loss of unchallenged authority experienced by doctors after World War II, when practitioners became valued for their technical competence rather than their personal integrity. Imber shows how the clergy gradually lost their impact in defining the physician's moral character, and how vocal critics of medicine contributed to a decline in patient confidence. The author argues that as modern medicine becomes defined by specialization, rapid medical advance, profit-driven industry, and ever more anxious patients, the future for a renewed trust in doctors will be confronted by even greater challenges. Trusting Doctors provides valuable insights into the religious underpinnings of the doctor-patient relationship and raises critical questions about the ultimate place of the medical profession in American life and culture.
Book Synopsis The March of Medicine by : New York Academy of Medicine
Download or read book The March of Medicine written by New York Academy of Medicine and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicine and Modern Warfare written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years at the margins of medical history, the relationship between war and medicine is at last beginning to move centre-stage. The essays in this volume focus on one important aspect of that relationship: the practice and development of medicine within the armed forces from the late nineteenth century through to the end of the Second World War. During this crucial period, medicine came to occupy an important position in military life, especially during the two world wars when manpower was at a premium. Good medical provisions were vital to the conservation of manpower, protecting servicemen from disease and returning the sick and wounded to duty in the shortest possible time. A detailed knowledge of the serviceman's mind and body enabled the authorities to calculate and standardise rations, training and disciplinary procedures. Spanning the laboratory and the battlefield, and covering a range of national contexts, the essays in this volume provide valuable insights into different national styles and priorities. They also examine the relationship between medical personnel and the armed forces as a whole, by looking at such matters as the prevention of disease, the treatment of psychiatric casualties and the development of medical science. The volume as a whole demonstrates that medicine became an increasingly important part of military life in the era of modern warfare, and suggests new avenues and approaches for future study.
Book Synopsis Doctors' Orders by : Tania M. Jenkins
Download or read book Doctors' Orders written by Tania M. Jenkins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States does not have enough doctors. Every year since the 1950s, internationally trained and osteopathic medical graduates have been needed to fill residency positions because there are too few American-trained MDs. However, these international and osteopathic graduates have to significantly outperform their American MD counterparts to have the same likelihood of getting a residency position. And when they do, they often end up in lower-prestige training programs, while American-trained MDs tend to occupy elite training positions. Some programs are even fully segregated, accepting exclusively U.S. medical graduates or non-U.S. medical graduates, depending on the program’s prestige. How do international and osteopathic medical graduates end up so marginalized, and what allows U.S.-trained MDs to remain elite? Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals. She finds that the United States does not need formal policies to prioritize American-trained MDs. By relying on a system of informal beliefs and practices that equate status with merit and eclipse structural disadvantages, the profession convinces international and osteopathic graduates to participate in a system that subordinates them to American-trained MDs. Offering a rare ethnographic look at the inner workings of an elite profession, Doctors’ Orders sheds new light on the formation of informal status hierarchies and their significance for both doctors and patients.
Book Synopsis Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine by : Joseph LaDou
Download or read book Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine written by Joseph LaDou and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clinically focused text is written for all health care professionals who diagnose and treat patients with occupational and environmental injuries, disorders, and exposures. Major topics include occupational health; occupational injuries, occupational illnesses; occupational exposures; program management; and environmental healt. A primer of biostatistics and epidemiology appears in the appendix.
