Caught In The Crosshairs Of American Healthcare

Author : Lloyd I. Sederer
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798886451306

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Caught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcare by Lloyd I. Sederer Pdf

The inspiring true story of how a small group of dedicated leaders achieved radical and relentless change to save McLean, Harvard’s historic psychiatric hospital Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, recounts the unfettered story of how McLean survived impending closure or sale to once again prosper and regain its international stature as the hospital where you would want a loved one to be treated for a psychiatric or substance use disorder. Only growth and innovation can reverse an institutional fiscal crisis. Dr. Sederer describes how, over six years of hemorrhaging money, McLean eluded the now pervasive corporatization of American healthcare and was clinically and financially rebuilt despite the odds, all while serving with integrity and soul more patients than ever before. Caught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcare offers leaders and aspiring leaders in healthcare and other complex organizations a candid look behind the curtain of McLean’s transformation into a hospital open to all, no longer only the rich and famous. Dr. Sederer also finely details • the corporatization of medicine putting profits before patients, • endless insurance hurdles, • how to prove clinical improvements, and • our broken and inequitable health and mental health systems of care. Caught in the Crosshairs of American Healthcareshows that with grit, brains, and support, we can still change our world.

Author : Donna M. Nickitas,Donna J. Middaugh,Veronica Feeg
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284257694

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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals by Donna M. Nickitas,Donna J. Middaugh,Veronica Feeg Pdf

"Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Fourth Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence health policy. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care.The Fourth Edition focuses on the most relevant health policy issues while taking an interdisciplinary approach to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy across interprofessional teams. In addition, global and population health issues such as war, terrorism, disease and natural disasters that impact health professionals are also covered in detail"--

Author : Robert Hartmann McNamara
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498591416

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Chiropractic Medicine by Robert Hartmann McNamara Pdf

This book explores the issues and problems relating to chiropractic medicine, particularly in light of the current health care reform occurring in the United States.

Author : Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541797727

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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel Pdf

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

Author : Belinda Bennett,Ian Freckelton AO KC,Gabrielle Wolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192896742

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COVID-19, Law, and Regulation by Belinda Bennett,Ian Freckelton AO KC,Gabrielle Wolf Pdf

COVID-19 is the most severe pandemic the world has experienced in a century. This book analyses major legal and regulatory responses internationally to COVID-19, and the impact the pandemic has had on human rights and freedoms, governance, the obligations of states and individuals, as well the role of the World Health Organization and other international bodies during this time. The authors examine notable legal challenges to public health measures enforced during the pandemic, such as lockdown orders, curfews, and vaccine mandates. Importantly, the book contextualizes the legal analysis by examining the broader social and economic dimensions of risks posed by the pandemic. The book considers how COVID-19 impacted the operation of the criminal justice system, civil litigation concerning negligently caused deaths and business losses arising from contractual breaches, consumer protection litigation, disciplinary regulation of health practitioners, coronial inquests and other investigations of unexpected deaths, and occupational health and safety issues. The book reflects on the role of the law in facilitating the remarkable scientific and epidemiological achievements during the pandemic, but also the challenges of ensuring the swift production and equitable distribution of treatments and vaccines. It concludes by considering the possibilities that the legal and regulatory responses to this pandemic have illuminated for effectively tackling future global health crises.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UOM:39015064354478

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New Internationalist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2892 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business
ISBN : CORNELL:31924109545727

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Business Periodicals Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Magee
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802146878

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Code Blue by Mike Magee Pdf

This “searing and persuasive exposé of the American health care system” demonstrates the disastrous consequences of putting profit before people (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a “Code Blue” —an urgent medical emergency—for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the pillars of our health system: Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars. Making clear for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and collusion by which our medical system was built over the last eight decades. He persuasively argues for a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by every other major developed nation.

Author : Lucian L. Leape
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030711238

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Making Healthcare Safe by Lucian L. Leape Pdf

This unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.

Author : Aaron Beam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : 0979628482

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HealthSouth by Aaron Beam Pdf

Author : Lloyd Sederer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781501179464

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The Addiction Solution by Lloyd Sederer Pdf

A groundbreaking, “timely and well-written” (Booklist, starred review) guide to addiction from a psychiatrist and public health doctor, offering practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance use and abuse. Written with warmth, accessibility, and vast authority, The Addiction Solution is a practical guide through the world of drug use and abuse and addiction treatment. Here, Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, brings together scientific and clinical knowledge, policy suggestions, and case studies to describe our current drug crisis and establish a clear path forward to recovery and health. In a time when so many people are affected by the addiction epidemic, when 142 people die of overdoses every day in the United States, principally from opioids, Sederer’s decades of wisdom and clinical experience are needed more than ever before. With a timely focus on opioids, Sederer takes us through the proven essentials of addiction treatment and explains why so many of our current policies, like the lingering remnants of the War on Drugs, fail to help drug users, their families, and their wider communities. He identifies a key insight, often overlooked in popular and professional writing about addiction and its treatment: namely, that people who use drugs do so to meet specific needs, and that drugs may be the best solution those people currently have. Writing with generosity and empathy about the many Americans who use illicit and prescribed substances, Sederer lays out specific, evidence-based, researched solutions to the prevention and problems of drug use, including exercise, medications, therapy, recovery programs, and community services. “Comprehensive…well-informed and accessible” (Kirkus Reviews), The Addiction Solution provides invaluable help, comfort, and hope.

Author : Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Mental health
ISBN : 9781615370825

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Improving Mental Health by Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D. Pdf

In Improving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight, Dr. Lloyd Sederer, a renowned psychiatrist, clinical administrator, and public health advocate, explores four foundational truths he has identified over his extensive career. These "secrets," as he calls them, are hidden in plain sight. They are epiphanies, which can enable practitioners, patients and families to better understand mental illness and improve lives. Written for clinicians in both mental health and primary care, as well as lay readers, this eloquent and concise book is full of apt, beautifully crafted patient stories designed to illuminate four secrets for a happier life. Dr. Sederer also uses historical incidents, wisdom culled from books and movies, and research findings to support his theme. Rarely are books written for mental health practitioners so richly drawn, compassionate, and insightful. Improving Mental Health: Four Secrets in Plain Sight will help clinicians understand their patients—and patients understand themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UOM:39015066399992

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Chicago Tribune Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendi Adelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Human trafficking
ISBN : 1611634571

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This is Our Story by Wendi Adelson Pdf

This Is Our Story follows the lives of Rosa and Mila, two young women from different countries who become victims of human trafficking when duped into domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation in the American Southeast. Their experiences with the underbelly of globalization here in our own backyard, and the legal battles they wage against their traffickers with their immigration attorney, Lily, are told in their own voices, and hers, in vivid and compelling detail. "Fortunately, Wendi Adelson has written a novel, based on her vast experience, that allows the reader to enter the painful and isolated world of human trafficking. She opens our minds and our hearts to the struggles of young women we would never have the opportunity to meet. We are captivated and devastated by her stories, and we want to learn more. Wendi's book deeply touched me, a grandmother with three young granddaughters, and it would certainly appeal to the high school and college students I serve every day. These are stories to be told and retold, until we work together both locally and internationally to assure that human trafficking is no longer tolerated."-- Rody Thompson, Southeast PeaceJam Director, Florida State University "In 'This Is Our Story,' Wendi Adelson has captured the reality of young trafficked women in the United States. The main protagonists are multi-dimensional, evoking sympathy and admiration as well as frustration and pity. She brings to life the utter disregard for human dignity that characterizes traffickers around the world. She movingly and persuasively demonstrates how the victims are brutalized into believing in their own lack of self-worth, lack of recourse, and lack of a future. The book ends with a bitter-sweet, frustrating, but all too real resolution that brings into stark relief the magnitude and gravity of human trafficking." -- Marisa Cianciarulo, Associate Professor of Law, Chapman University

Author : Robin West
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486019

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Civil Rights by Robin West Pdf

All of us are entitled to the protections of law against violence, to a high quality education, to decent employment that respects our dignity, and to necessary assistance with our caregiving. Our civil rights are our rights to the protections of ordinary law - not constitutional law, and not only antidiscrimination law - that will ensure that we can participate in civil society, and hence lead flourishing lives. In this innovative work, Robin L. West looks back to nineteenth-century Civil Rights Acts to argue that the point of civil rights law is not only non-discrimination, but also to assure that all of us receive the protection of legal rights that promote human flourishing. Since the 1960s, Supreme Court decisions on civil rights issues have focused on non-discrimination and thus have 'hollowed out' this broader meaning of civil rights law. This book reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.