Hospital Days

Author : Sheri Fink
Publisher : Crown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307718976

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Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Author : Jane Stuart Woolsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015490907

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Hospital Days by Jane Stuart Woolsey Pdf

Author : Arthur F. H. Mills
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786251060

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Hospital Days by Arthur F. H. Mills Pdf

Originally published under the pseudonym “Platoon Commander” these excellent memoirs were written by the noted novelist Arthur F. H. Mills after his service in the British Expeditionary Force in 1914-1915. Following on from Mill’s service in France, he describes his days recuperating from the debilitating wounds he received at La Bassée. His first stop is a field hospital behind the front lines where his leg wound was tended to and a bullet removed; when he was able he was sent on to England. His experiences in the officer’s wards of both the army and private hospitals are at once grim and humorous, absent is the disillusionment noted in many memoirs written well after the war.

Author : National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Hospital care
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HS64656896

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Persons Hospitalized by Number of Hospital Episodes and Days in a Year, United States, July 1960-June 1962 by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Sheri Lee Fink
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786745753

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War Hospital by Sheri Lee Fink Pdf

In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives. Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years, doctor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink tells the harrowing--and ultimately enlightening--story of these physicians and the three who try to help them: an idealistic internist from Doctors without Borders, who hopes that interposition of international aid workers will help prevent a massacre; an aspiring Bosnian surgeon willing to walk through minefields to reach the civilian wounded; and a Serb doctor on the opposite side of the front line with the army that is intent on destroying his former colleagues. With limited resources and a makeshift hospital overflowing with patients, how can these doctors decide who to save and who to let die? Will their duty to treat patients come into conflict with their own struggle to survive? And are there times when medical and humanitarian aid ironically prolong war and human suffering rather than helping to relieve it?

Author : Hannah Anderson Ropes
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870497901

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Civil War Nurse by Hannah Anderson Ropes Pdf

The chief nurse of the Union Hospital in Washington, D.C., describes life and stress in the hospital and comments on notable persons of power. Her heretofore unpublished diary and letters comprise a fresh, hightly significan document concerning the medical history of the Civil War and the contributions of women nurses in the Northern military hospitals. This book is edited, with Introduction and Commentary, by John R. Brumgardt. Published by The University of Tennessee. 150 pages

Author : Gupta Singh
Publisher : JAYPEE BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Nosocomial infections
ISBN : 9789350259061

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Hospital Infection Control Guidelines: Principles and Practice by Gupta Singh Pdf

This book Hospital Infection Control Guidelines: Principles and Practice aims to provide comprehensive, acceptable, implementable and effective guidelines on Infection Control in various healthcare facilities. The book deliberates on all aspects of infection control in healthcare facilities including prevention, processes, infrastructure and training. Analyses the existing guidelines on infection control and recommends micro- and macro-guidelines appropriate to healthcare facilities at various levels, i.e. primary, secondary and tertiary. As per the World Health Organization statistics, at any.

Author : David Bryson Delavan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UIUC:30112061174089

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Early Days of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York by David Bryson Delavan Pdf

Author : Marty Chan
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459826229

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Haunted Hospital by Marty Chan Pdf

Is this place actually haunted by ghosts? Or something even more terrifying? Xander thinks the George Wickerman Hospital would be the perfect setting for Spirits and Specters, a role-playing game where players go on “missions” to find evidence of paranormal activities. According to local legend, tuberculosis patients were used as test subjects in medical experiments that ended tragically, and their disfigured ghosts walk the hallways of this now-abandoned building. What better location to go ghost hunting? Even though they didn’t really believe the rumors, Xander and his friends soon begin to suspect that they are not alone.

Author : James Cappleman LCSW
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466957428

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Asking the Right Questions to Get the Health Care You Need by James Cappleman LCSW Pdf

Families experiencing the stress of a chronic or serious illness typically find themselves forced to make many life-altering decisions, and often with little time to contemplate the best course of action. This book serves as a practical guide to help what all of us will one day experience when we find ourselves sorting through the complex maze of obtaining good health care. Unlike other books written by doctors, nurses, and chaplains, this book comes from the perspective of a social worker who knows first hand the struggles families experience with obtaining the right information so that good decisions can be made. Written with the idea in mind that the reader may be experiencing an exorbitant amount of stress, the book is laid out in direct, straightforward, and easy language to help with the following: good communication with the health care team establishment of goals for care and getting everyone on board the different ways to ensure you're heard when you can't speak for yourself what to do (and not to do) during a hospitalization the secrets to selecting a good nursing home what to do when someone refuses to go to a nursinghome choices available when a situation becomes terminal how to help prevent a financial crisis during a health crisis ways to get needed medications when you can't afford it This is a book that all of us will need someday if not now.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309056830

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Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Changing Health Care Systems and Rheumatic Disease Pdf

Market forces are driving a radical restructuring of health care delivery in the United States. At the same time, more and more people are living comparatively long lives with a variety of severe chronic health conditions. Many such people are concerned about the trend toward the creation of managed care systems because their need for frequent, often complex, medical services conflicts with managed care's desires to contain costs. The fear is that people with serious chronic disorders will be excluded from or underserved by the integrated health care delivery networks now emerging. Responding to a request from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, this book reflects the results of a workshop that focused on the following questions: Does the model of managed care or an integrated delivery system influence the types of interventions provided to patients with chronic conditions and the clinical and health status outcomes resulting from those interventions? If so, are these effects quantitatively and clinically significant, as compared to the effects that other variables (e.g., income, education, ethnicity) have on patient outcomes? If the type of health care delivery system appears to be related to patient care and outcomes, can specific organizational, financial, or other variables be identified that account for the relationships? If not, what type of research should be pursued to provide the information needed about the relationship between types of health care systems and the processes and outcomes of care provided to people with serious chronic conditions?

Author : Ontario. Office of Prisons and Public Charities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Charities
ISBN : MINN:31951002240794W

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Annual Report of the Inspector of Asylums, Prisons, and Public Charities by Ontario. Office of Prisons and Public Charities Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : RUTGERS:43008000809519

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Hospitals by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : OSU:32435029682218

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Monthly Labor Review by Anonim Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : Francesca Grosso
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459729933

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The History of Sunnybrook Hospital by Francesca Grosso Pdf

The story of Sunnybrook is one of battle and rebellion in the pursuit of excellence. With each battle endured, Sunnybrook Hospital forged new directions, becoming stronger and greater, often exceeding goals and beating significant odds. These very challenges enabled Sunnybrook to morph into the dynamic academic health sciences centre it is today.