Alexander, Brian
Summary: "An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ALESummary: "Your brain's destiny is in your hands. Now is the time to embrace the idea of disease prevention as it relates to brain health. We have the tools; we have the information. This is the best way to protect your brain now and for years to come."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 ALZSummary: "On this 5 DVD set, you will find the complete, full length interviews about the Alzheimer's disease, with every expert in the series. We're so excited to provide you this life-transforming information in it's entirety. Watch all 20+ full length interviews."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 ALZSummary: Director Carolyn Jones looks at how the USA's biggest public health challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the opioid crisis to gun violence and lack of insurance, collide in emergency departments. She follows emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S., shedding light on some of the biggest health care crises facing Americans today, and the opportunity that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INHutchinson, Dale L.
Summary: Looking back on this history from the perspective of the contemporary landscape of healthcare and wellness in the United States, Hutchinson points out that weaknesses in the system that became apparent amid the COVID-19 pandemic were the result of changes that have been unfolding since the founding of the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.10973 HUTSummary: Examines the national public health threat posed by Alzheimer's disease, which erodes memory, thinking, and physical ability. Experts present evidence that unless a cure is found soon, the disease will have serious impact on the U.S. economy, bankrupting Medicare and Medicaid as well as millions of Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALZMetzl, Jonathan
Summary: "With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk--and, in the end, threaten everyone's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 METMcNeil, Donald G.
Summary: "For millions of American's, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. He was a regular reporter on the New York Times's popular podcast The Daily and told listeners early on to prepare for the worst. Over the years, he'd covered AIDS, Ebola, influenza, malaria, MERS, SARS, tuberculosis, and Zika, and he quickly realized that an obscure virus in Wuhan, China,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "CONSEQUENCES examines the scope of the obesity epidemic and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight or obese. CHOICES offers viewers the skinny on fat, revealing what science has shown about how to lose weight, maintain weight loss and prevent weight gain. CHILDREN IN CRISIS documents the damage obesity is doing to our nation's children. Through individual stories, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEIFlowers, Catherine Coleman
Summary: "Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life'swork. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.72 FLOFonda, Jane
Summary: "In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda moved to Washington, DC to lead weekly climate change demonstrations on Capitol Hill. On October 11, she launched Fire Drill Fridays (FDF), and has since led thousands of people in non-violent civil disobedience, risking arrest to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 FONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 FONAbramson, John
Summary: Combining patient stories with his own experience serving as an expert in national drug litigation, the author, who has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty years, shows how Big Pharma has corrupted American health care and presents apath toward reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ABRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health AbramsonCase, Anne
Summary: "This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 CASFromke, Susan
Summary: Examines the American healthcare system and what can be done to transform it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ESCBessie, Adam
Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BESSummary: This Frontline program examines the current controversy surrounding the issue of childhood vaccination in America. Young parents are concerned over the sheer number of shots - up to 26 inoculations for 14 different diseases by age 6. Advocacy groups, such as Generation Rescue, view vaccines as responsible for rising rates of autism and ADHD. Yet public health officials tout vaccines as one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: " ... lays bare the science of vaccine safety and examines the increasingly bitter debate between the public health establishment and a formidable populist coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and activists who are armed with the latest social media tools ... and are determined to resist pressure from the medical and public health establishments to vaccinate, despite established...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VACSpinelli, Chris
Summary: "'The Vaccination Debate' takes a rational approach to discussing the science of vaccines in the context of everyday life. As Spinelli and Karinch examine the schedule of vaccines from birth through adolescence, the authors shed new light on this timely and controversial issue, writing with a tone that a pediatrician would use with curious, concerned parents. Many parents and health care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Horizon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614 SPISummary: Pro-life advocates have waged a successful campaign to reduce abortions throughout the country, using state laws to regulate and limit the procedure and creating clinics offering alternatives. This Frontline documentary investigates the steady decline in the number of physicians and facilities carrying out abortions and focuses on local political battles in the states-particularly Mississippi,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: During the 1980s, a new civil rights movement got underway-for people with disabilities. In this program, Larry Paradis, executive director of Disability Rights Advocates, speaks with NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels about the importance of litigation in pressuring companies and communities to comply with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. But are such legal actions actually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Why have America's health care costs skyrocketed? In this NBC News program, Tom Brokaw follows several cases at Staten Island University Hospital as he explores reasons behind financial turmoil in the U.S. health-care system. Among the patients: a 24-year-old man with no insurance who lost both legs in the Staten Island Ferry accident of October 2003. Another victim: a 62-year-old woman with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Currently, three-quarters of all U.S. healthcare dollars are spent on 100 million people with chronic illnesses and conditions. Will a cost-conscious healthcare system, increasingly driven by the market and oriented toward acute care, give them the proper care? This program examines how the chronically ill are faring today in seeking the high-quality, long-term care they need. Special reports...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Corporate cost-cutting, downsizing, temporary employment, and other business imperatives are making today's pricey health insurance either unavailable or unaffordable for 44 million Americans-of which 85 percent are in working families. With employers cutting back on offering insurance and with shrinking access to charity care as hospitals face their own funding shortfalls, where can America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005