Allen, Marshall
Summary: "From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 ALLGoldhill, David.
Summary: "A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable,successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 GOLOfri, Danielle
Summary: "Physician and author Danielle Ofri investigates how medical error could be killing 10% of patients and causing 33% of hospital deaths. These stories ask us to reconsider what happens when the medical system does us harm"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.89 OFRGraedon, Joe.
Summary: Medical mistakes happen all the time. Each year, 6.1 million Americans are harmed by diagnostic mistakes, drug disasters, and medical treatments. A decade ago, the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98,000 people died in hospitals each year from preventable medical errors--and new research suggests the toll is much higher. Patient advocates Joe and Teresa Graedon came face-to-face with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 GRASummary: Explores efforts to improve patient safety in the United States health care system and reduce medical mistakes that lead to preventable deaths and harm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOCook, Robin
Summary: "Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOWeston, Gabriel.
Summary: "An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk) Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Nancy's fears about both her patient's chances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESLertzman, Richard A.
Summary: Doctor Max Jacobson, whom the Secret Service under President John F. Kennedy code-named "Dr. Feelgood," developed a unique "energy formula" that altered the paths of some of the twentieth-century's most iconic figures, including President and Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis. JFK received his first injection (a special mix of "vitamins and hormones," according to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.8 LERWatson, Gretchen LeFever
Summary: Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement, and provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 WATCook, Robin
Summary: "Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2017Harrison, Christy
Summary: ""It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle." You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison reveals in her latest book, wellness culture promotes a standard of health that is often both unattainable and deeply harmful. Many people with chronic illness understandably feel dismissed or abandoned by the healthcare system and find solace in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What is the most costly element of America's trillion-dollar healthcare system? Surprisingly, experts believe it is the medical quality gap and medical errors, which they estimate take more than 90,000 lives each year. In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines New York's tough performance reports on doctors and hospitals doing open-heart surgery; profiles a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Whether they are needed to ensure properly dispensed prescriptions, monitor a patient's recovery, or make an urgently needed diagnosis, accurate health records are crucial to a patient's safety. This program highlights the important work of health information technicians and shows how electronic health records can help make medical care both safer and more efficient. In-depth commentary on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Topol, Eric J.
Summary: One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2019
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Summary: With the staggering variety of pharmaceuticals available today, training in correct drug administration is more important than ever. This program serves to build skills and awareness that will ensure the safe and accurate administration of medicines by health care personnel, as well as by the layperson. It examines factors that lead to medication errors, explores methods of prevention, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006