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Author : John Griffiths
Publisher : Hancock House Publishers Limited, Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888393695
"A true story of unchecked lust, betrayal and murder" - cover.
Author : John Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798718387209
Now available in hardcover! BEWARE OF THIS FAMILY DOCTOR . . . HE MAY HIRE SOMEONE TO KILL YOU . . . and the medical authorities may not stop him in time! "Talk about abusing a sacred trust! This guy makes other infamous doctors look like choirboys!" reader Glenna B. "Extraordinary ... a remarkable story," Leeza Gibbons, NBC-TV. This stunning new Kindle true crime edition includes an eight-page photo section, index and numerous 2020 updates. An English couple move to North America, but the better life they dream of is shattered when their daughters unsuspectingly complain about sexual misconduct by their family physician. The doctor, a black belt karate expert previously suspended for coercing an underage patient to marry him, now openly tells his young bride he will silence the Simmonds sisters to prevent their testimony because it threatens to shut down his practice. "I will kill them both!" he warns. Dare his terrified young wife and office manager come forward - or will his unwitting patients keep seeing him while the medical board procrastinates? "Reads with the pace of a taut thriller," George Henderson, Gloucester Citizen; "Grippingly told ... a wonderful, powerful book," David Berner, Radio CKNW Vancouver; "Mesmerizing," Bob Stall, Vancouver Province
Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460399163
Deadly Plague There seems to be little connection between the viral devastation of a small African village and the massacre at a drug research facility in Belgium… But Mack Bolan has learned the hard way that appearances can be deceiving. In fact, a wealthy industrialist is about to expand the release of a highly contagious virus out of Africa and into the States, and use the "miracle" antidote as his ticket to the US presidency. It's up to the Executioner to take down the villain's mysterious assassin and stop the pending epidemic…
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309486484
The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Pain Management and Regulatory Strategies to Address Prescription Opioid Abuse
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309459570
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Quality of Health Care in America
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309068376
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on the Health Effects of Marijuana: An Evidence Review and Research Agenda
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309453073
Significant changes have taken place in the policy landscape surrounding cannabis legalization, production, and use. During the past 20 years, 25 states and the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis and/or cannabidiol (a component of cannabis) for medical conditions or retail sales at the state level and 4 states have legalized both the medical and recreational use of cannabis. These landmark changes in policy have impacted cannabis use patterns and perceived levels of risk. However, despite this changing landscape, evidence regarding the short- and long-term health effects of cannabis use remains elusive. While a myriad of studies have examined cannabis use in all its various forms, often these research conclusions are not appropriately synthesized, translated for, or communicated to policy makers, health care providers, state health officials, or other stakeholders who have been charged with influencing and enacting policies, procedures, and laws related to cannabis use. Unlike other controlled substances such as alcohol or tobacco, no accepted standards for safe use or appropriate dose are available to help guide individuals as they make choices regarding the issues of if, when, where, and how to use cannabis safely and, in regard to therapeutic uses, effectively. Shifting public sentiment, conflicting and impeded scientific research, and legislative battles have fueled the debate about what, if any, harms or benefits can be attributed to the use of cannabis or its derivatives, and this lack of aggregated knowledge has broad public health implications. The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids provides a comprehensive review of scientific evidence related to the health effects and potential therapeutic benefits of cannabis. This report provides a research agendaâ€"outlining gaps in current knowledge and opportunities for providing additional insight into these issuesâ€"that summarizes and prioritizes pressing research needs.
Author : Richard L. Mabry, M.D.
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426736926
What happens when the race to stop a lethal bacteria becomes a race to stop a killer? Dr. Sara Miles’ teenage patient is on the brink of death from an overwhelming, highly resistant infection with Staph luciferus, known to doctors as “the killer.” Only an experimental antibiotic, developed and administered by Sara’s ex-husband can save the girl's life. But potentially lethal effects from the drug send Sara and her colleague, Dr. Rip Pearson, on a hunt for hidden critical data that will let them reverse the effects before it’s too late. What is the missing puzzle piece? And who is hiding it? "Lethal Remedy boasts a gripping medical plot that only an insider could write so believably... Dr. Mabry takes his knowledge of the medical profession, combines it with a ticking clock, and gives the reader a problem we'd all be terrified to face. What more could the reader of a good medical suspense ask for?" —Susan Sleeman, author of Behind The Badge and The Justice Agency series "Lethal Remedy is the perfect cure for boredom: a first-rate medical thriller with humor, engaging characters, and realism that only a seasoned doctor could bring to the story." --Rick Acker, author of When the Devil Whistles and Blood Brothers
Author : Ty S. Schepis Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781440852657
This overview of prescription drug abuse includes historical background, key concepts, and discussion of the prevalence of drug abuse, treatments, and policy issues implicated in ending the epidemic. Prescription opioid medication abuse has been declared a national crisis by experts in medicine, substance use, public health, and pain management, culminating in a declaration made by the President of the United States that opioid misuse and abuse is a national health emergency. In this comprehensive text, expert scholars analyze and address a wide range of issues in, obstacles to, and potential solutions for this emergency, which caused more than 50,000 deaths in 2016 alone. It covers a variety of topics related to prescription misuse from both clinical and academic perspectives. After an opening containing background material on the most commonly misused medications, chapters examine subgroups engaged in misuse and special medical environments where misuse issues are key. They then cover U.S. policy, perspectives outside the U.S., and theories that may explain the misuse phenomena. This book will serve as a resource for students and professionals in fields related to prescription drug abuse—including psychology, sociology, medicine, and public policy—and is accessible to individuals not trained in these fields.
Author : Robert E. Marx
Publisher : Prominent Books, LLC
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1942389094
How far will some men go for money and power? Deadly Prescription shows what happens when profit becomes more important than life. Author Robert Marx-real-life doctor-tells a riveting fictional story so lifelike, you'll wonder whether it really happened or not. The twists and turns will catch you off guard, and the realistic details will keep you on the edge of your seat, turning pages. The story tells of tainted drug studies and side-effect coverups by two pharmaceutical giants. As innocent people have been severely injured by their drugs, one of which is still on the market, the protagonist confronts these giants by defending his patients as a forensic expert in current lawsuits against these companies. Their ruthless team of lawyers will stop at nothing to quiet any noisemaker. The goal is to keep their client's damaging drug available for as long as possible. It isn't until the Russian Mob gets involved that things get very messy. See Miami's culture and enjoy vivid depictions of South Beach. Read Deadly Prescription and see how men of greed actually think and act. Even worse, what lengths they will go to. After all, what's a few thousand lives destroyed when billions of dollars are being made as a result?
Author : Rae Armantrout
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819570918
Provides an expanded view of the arc of the author's writing, collecting poems dealing with the perversity of human consciousness and the confrontation of the invisible experienced during the author's bout with cancer.
Author : Mark James Estren
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781579511791
Severe, chronic pain affects at least 116 million Americans every year. But there are fewer than 4,000 pain specialists in the United States, and many insurers won’t cover physical therapy. But powerful pain medicines? They will certainly cover those. Prescriptions for powerful pain killers doubled between 1994 and 2008 — and abuse skyrocketed as well. The grim headlines are all too familiar. Celebrities such as Whitney Houston die of overdoses. Teens mix legitimate medicines — and pay with their lives. Heavy-handed government attempts to crack down on pain and anxiety medications have terrorized doctors and pharmacists and left thousands of desperate people in severe pain. Prescription Drug Abuse shows how big the problem is: how it became a problem, what is being done about it, and what readers can do. The book shows the risks, the benefits, and the safe way to use some of modern healthcare’s most miraculous medicines.
Author : Kelly Moore,Dan Reed
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Crime and criminals
ISBN : 0312915799
She killed for thrills. The sensational story of nurse Genene Jones shocked a nation as more than 30 children were murdered by an angel of mercy. This is the whole story, from the doctors that hired her to the trial that followed. Featured in Redbook. Martin's.
Author : Doris Alexander
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271072982
In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles—love against hate, doubt against belief, life against death—to an ever-expanding understanding. It presents a new kind of criticism, showing how O'Neill's most intimate struggles worked their way to resolution through the drama of his plays. Alexander reveals that he was engineering his own consciousness through his plays and solving his life problems—while the tone, imagery, and richness of the plays all came out of the nexus of memories summoned up by the urgency of the problems he faced in them. By the way of O'Neill, this study moves toward a theory of the impulse that sets off a writer's creativity, and a theory of how that impulse acts to shape a work, not only in a dramatist like O'Neill but also in the case of writers in other mediums, and even of painters and composers. The study begins with Desire Under the Elms because that play's plot was consolidated by a dream that opened up the transfixing grief that precipitated the play for O'Neill, and it ends with Days Without End when he had resolved his major emotional-philosophical struggle and created within himself the voice of his final great plays. Since the analysis brings to bear on the plays all of his conscious decisions, ideas, theories, as well as the life-and-death struggles motivating them, documenting even the final creative changes made during rehearsals, this book provides a definitive account of the nine plays analyzed in detail (Desire Under the Elms, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strange Interlude, Dynamo, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, and Days Without End, with additional analysis of plays written before and after.
Author : Mary Sue McAslan
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781452547237
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, in which it stated that nearly 98,000 people die needlessly every year due to preventable medical mistakes. In 2009, the Consumers Union published a report, To Err Is HumanTo Delay Is Deadly, stating that we are no better off today than we were ten years ago and that a million lives have been lost and billions of dollars wasted due to medical mistakes. Enter Dr. Mary Sue McAslan, pharmacist and medication safety expert. With over thirty years experience, she provides clever, easy-to-follow safety tips for the average healthcare consumer. These simple tips will prevent serious medication errors from happening at the hospital, the doctors office, the pharmacy, and at home.