Stay in Medicine


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We Can Save More Lives If We Save Each OtherDoctors, we know all about long hours, overwhelming workloads, lack of support from the healthcare system, and the loss of control in many aspects of our lives. Physicians and healthcare systems are at a precipice. It's time we have a serious conversation about where we want to go together. Stay in Medicine is a boots-on-the-ground guide full of practical tips to help you improve day-to-day life in your clinic and begin the conversation to change healthcare as an industry. Here are some of the tools you'll find to help you breathe again:?How to identify and handle burnout, both for yourself and for your colleagues?Strategies to help you regain a sense of control?Simple methods to reduce time-killers ?Proven team-building and leadership tactics improve collaboration in your clinic?Talking points to begin the larger conversation to change healthcare as a wholeSave Yourself, Save Your Patients, Save Medicine.




God's Hotel


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Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—“anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God’s Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern “health care facility,” revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.













Intelligent Biomedical Technologies and Applications for Healthcare 5.0


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Intelligent Biomedical Technologies and Applications for Healthcare 5.0, Volume Sixteen covers artificial health intelligence, biomedical image analysis, 5G, the Internet of Medical Things, intelligent healthcare systems, and extended health intelligence (EHI). This volume contains four sections. The focus of the first section is health data analytics and applications. The second section covers research on information exchange and knowledge sharing. The third section is on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Everything (IoE)-based solutions. The final section focuses on the implementation, assessment, adoption, and management of healthcare informatics solutions. This new volume in the Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare series focuses on innovative methods in the healthcare industry and will be useful for biomedical engineers, researchers, and students working in interdisciplinary fields of research. This volume bridges these newly developing technologies and the medical community in the rapidly developing healthcare world, introducing them to modern healthcare advances such as EHI and Smart Healthcare Systems. - Provides a comprehensive technological review of cutting-edge information in the wide domain of Healthcare 5.0 - Introduces concepts that combine computational methods, network standards, and healthcare systems to provide a much improved, more affordable experience delivered by healthcare services to its customers - Presents innovative solutions utilizing informatics to deal with various healthcare technology issues




Ways Of Staying


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As a journalist, Kevin Bloom had witnessed and reported on the rising tide of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. But when his own cousin was killed in a vicious random attack, the questions he'd been asking about the troubling political and social changes in his country took on a sickeningly personal urgency. Suddenly, it felt as though this South Africa was no longer the place he'd grown up in or the place which felt like home. Still stunned by the loss, Bloom begins to trace the path of violence from the murder of his cousin in the hills of Zululand to the fatal shooting of the historian David Rattray, linking these individual crimes to the riven political landscape, and the riots and xenophobic attacks of 2008. Visceral, complicated and compassionate, Ways of Staying is an eloquent account of how the white community is coping with black majority rule, and in particular how one family is coping in the aftermath of their own private tragedy.




The Social Transformation of American Medicine


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Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries. "The definitive social history of the medical profession in America....A monumental achievement."—H. Jack Geiger, M.D., New York Times Book Review







Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs


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Covers more than five thousand drugs with revised drug charts, information about new drugs approved by the FDA, directions, and restrictions