Ripple of Change


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Do you trust the American healthcare system? Ripple of Change is a captivating story of a doctor and patient who lost trust and suffered moral injury in a dysfunctional healthcare system–yet still healed. Through a combined wellness journey, Todd R. Otten, M.D. and Joshua J. Judy, Patient, propose simple, elegant solutions by introducing Our Quadruple Aim (OQA). OQA offers an impressive prescription for change for EVERYONE. The reader will be inspired and moved by the poignant Yin and Yang transparency of doctor and patient. But most importantly, their story demonstrates what healthcare can and should aspire to. If you’re an American healthcare consumer, we’re speaking to you. Health care providers are burned out and subjected to moral injury Patients feel ignored and are frustrated Target Audience: the American healthcare consumer Follow our blended wellness journey and find yours Help us transform healthcare with a Ripple of Change Why is this book needed right now? It’s simple. Everyone has been a patient–yes, even doctors and nurses get colonoscopies. We hear about the Great Resignation. The Quiet Quitting. The frustration. While health care employees have faced significant burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic, the desire to opt out of one's chosen profession is happening across many industries. Why? Are we standing before a precipice, embarking upon a chance to better understand these phenomena and its meaning? Absolutely. Our Quadruple Aim is a four-pronged approach to delivering healthcare: Patient Experience, Quality Care, Lower Costs, and Provider Wellness. A multifaceted driver, it incorporates key stakeholders, and aligns with value-based care. When properly implemented: everyone wins. Healthcare has metastasized into a business model. Clinical leaders often play second fiddle. This has led to increasing burdens on the people actually delivering care and crushing patients financially. As a result, burnout rates are at unacceptable levels and patients are dysphoric. We believe if healthcare leaders embed Our Quadruple Aim into their culture, we can start to mend many wounds. So who is responsible for delivering? Shouldn’t we all be responsible? Patients, doctors, nurses, administrations, society at large… hence the “Our” addition to the Quadruple Aim. The “Our” emphatically states that we all are responsible. Intentionally nebulous? Perhaps, but medicine is a world of gray. Our Quadruple Aim is an opportunity to right many wrongs through a: Ripple of Change. The book will contain evidence-based medicine, research, editorials, recent news, humor, poetry, inspiring quotes, and a blended story of healing. The intent is to motivate conversations, provide the courage to speak up and challenge the status quo. Our hope is that thousands cast their stone, transforming ripples into: a tsunami of change.




Ripple


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How do you get people who work in pig abattoirs to wash their hands? How does painting the walls of a canteen pink make construction workers behave more safely? And how can baby faces spray painted onto shop shutters reduce anti-social behaviour? Ripple is about how small behaviour changes can have wide-reaching effects in the real world. By applying behavioural science in your working life, you can have positive ripple effects on the world around you. While nudging is now commonplace in politics, most of our daily interactions with companies, products, and services have not yet been transformed with behavioural science. Doing so is often a messy process but, armed with this book, you’ll have the practical toolkit to get started. Through storytelling and practical tips, Ripple takes you on a journey across the globe which will leave you inspired to start applying behavioural science to improve the world around you. www.ripple-book.com




The Ripple Effect


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AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate warms and world population grows, demand for water has surged, but supplies of freshwater are static or dropping, and new threats to water quality appear every day. The Ripple Effect is Prud’homme’s vivid and engaging inquiry into the fate of freshwater in the twenty-first century. The questions he sought to answer were urgent: Will there be enough water to satisfy demand? What are the threats to its quality? What is the state of our water infrastructure—both the pipes that bring us freshwater and the levees that keep it out? How secure is our water supply from natural disasters and terrorist attacks? Can we create new sources for our water supply through scientific innovation? Is water a right like air or a commodity like oil—and who should control the tap? Will the wars of the twenty-first century be fought over water? Like Daniel Yergin’s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud’homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant—and sometimes shadowy—characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud’homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource—from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud’homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. Informative and provocative, The Ripple Effect is a major achievement.




Ripple's Effect


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The residents of an aquarium learn that often a smile can turn a bully into a friend.




Ripples for Reflection


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The Ripple Effect


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In his new book, Dr. Greg Wells offers concrete strategies on how to get better and stay better—not just for a few weeks or a few months, but for life. Optimal well-being is obtained through a commitment to the “holy trinity” of healthy living—eating better, moving better, sleeping better. Together these lead to peak physical performance. With tremendous insight into the physiology of the human body and the reasons mankind has evolved the way it has, The Ripple Effect exposes exercise and diet myths, inspiring you and leading you on a clear path to achieving a health and fitness transformation. With small—and very achievable—daily changes in your life, you'll see the incredible effects of aggregate gains that professional athletes know. You'll learn how: Eating broccoli provides the body with more protein per calorie than eating steak Using one teaspoon less of sugar per day would help you lose four pounds of fat per year Walking for fifteen minutes per day decreases your risk of cancer by fifty per cent Playing games like tennis can prevent Alzheimer’s disease Losing ninety minutes of sleep reduces daytime alertness by nearly a third Replacing an hour of television with an hour of sleep could help you lose over fourteen pounds in a year And much more.




The Ripple Effect


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Beautiful, thoughtful and engaging Poetry for all ages. Poems of love, loss, victory and humour. All original works by the author Tracey Warren, ideal for parents to read aloud to their children, or, read and reflect quietly on their own situation. Something for everyone.




The Ripple Effect


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Finally. The thinking woman's guide to great sex. Bookshelves sag under the weight of guides and manuals that tell readers that their sex lives will be transformed if only they are limber enough to hoist leg A into position B. Many women have found that transformation underwhelming to say the least. Sex is physical. But as best-selling author and television commentator Dr. Gail Saltz writes, "Seeing sex in only physical terms is an old-fashioned and ineffective approach that is based on a fundamental misunderstanding, like treating tuberculosis with breathing exercises, which we did before we knew that tuberculosis was caused by a bacterium. We know better now." With a dose of good humor, Dr. Saltz explains how women can approach their sexuality from the inside out and create a ripple effect that will change how they think, feel, and behave in every aspect of life.




Pay It Forward Kids


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14 Kids, 14 Stories, countless Hearts Touched




The Changemaker Ripple Effect


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Do you believe that real, significant change in our world is possible?Do you ache to 'turn off' the negativity we are constantly being bombarded with and reconnect with a dream that will transform the lives of others?Then The Changemaker Ripple Effect is for you..."This inspirational, positive book was a delight to read, and provides the reader stories of other's success, and tools to begin to create positive change in their own lives and the lives of those around them, creating a ripple effect from their actions."-Kathleen Sandoval, First Lady of NevadaThis book shares the stories of some remarkable people who've overcome challenges and uncertainty to change lives. Inside you'll meet:Ian, a businessman and entrepreneur, who for the past 25 years devoted his life to volunteering and improving the conditions and resources for children and youth.A young man named Julian, who overcame early life challenges that led him to California, where he built a movement for musicians.Michelle, who is a triathlete, advocate for exploited children and international human resource consultant.Gerard and Stacey, a French documentary filmmaker and a U.S. social justice champion, who joined forces for hope.A woman name Cherie, who grew a small nonprofit organization into a regional force for change and a platform for addressing poverty.Ten of the key characteristics they share can be possessed or developed by anyone-giving each of us the potential to become everyday heroes in our own areas of the world.The author has committed proceeds from the book to benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada (FBNN), setting the audacious goal of writing the FBNN a $100,000 check.Begin your journey to becoming a changemaker by scrolling up and buying your copy now! Each book purchase means 16 meals for a man, woman, or child...More advance praise for The Changemaker Ripple Effect:"One of my passions is helping people to fulfill their potential. In fact, I believe that the greatest gift you can give to the people you love, and those you lead, is to fulfill your potential so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs. If this book doesn't inspire you to reach deeper to achieve your full potential, I'm not sure what will. Sarah has written a compelling book that shares the stories of other real-life people to motivate us to live up to our potential and be a force for positive change in the world. Her book is one of those that will endure, impacting our world and inspiring changemakers for years to come, and I hope that includes you."-Hal Elrod, #1 international bestselling author of The Miracle Morning"You continue to be an inspiration and testament of the power and impact a single person can make in changing the lives of those people most in need. This book is just so timely Sarah, the world needs your words right now."-Susan Gomez, CEO of Anima Nonprofit Solutions and President of Inland Empire Community Collaborative