Hospital Time

Author : Amy Hoffman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822383031

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Hospital Time by Amy Hoffman Pdf

Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary caretaker for her friend and colleague, Mike Riegle, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1992. Hoffman neither idealizes nor deifies Riegle, whom she portrays as a brilliant man, devoted prison rights activist, and very difficult friend. Hoffman became central to Riegle’s caregiving when he asked her to be his health-care proxy, and although she willingly chose to do this, she explores her conflicting feelings about herself in this role and about her involvement with Riegle and his grueling struggle with hospitalization, illness, and, finally, death. She tells of the waves of grief that echoed throughout her life, awakening memories of other losses, entering her dreams and fantasies, and altering her relationships with friends, family, and even total strangers. Hoffman’s memoir gives voice to the psychological and emotional havoc AIDS creates for those in the difficult role of caring for the terminally ill and it gives recognition to the role that lesbians continue to play in the AIDS emergency. A foreword by Urvashi Vaid, former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, offers a meditation on the politics of AIDS and the role of family in the lives of lesbians and gay men.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264989047

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OECD Health Policy Studies Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line by OECD Pdf

The report reviews a range of policies that countries have used to tackle waiting times for different services, including elective surgery and primary care consultations, but also cancer care and mental health services, with a focus on identifying the most successful ones.

Author : Esther Hing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Emergency medical services
ISBN : UCR:31210020567309

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Wait Time for Treatment in Hospital Emergency Departments, 2009 by Esther Hing Pdf

Author : Rev. Sara Webb Phillips
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426730603

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Just in Time! Pastoral Prayers for the Hospital Visit by Rev. Sara Webb Phillips Pdf

Offering prayer is one of the most important parts of a pastor's hospital ministry. These prayers connect persons with the power of God, remind persons who they are as children of God, and sometimes put into words deep experiences of suffering, grief, and pain. These prayers are offered especially for difficult times when you may not be sure how to pray or what to pray for. Also related Bible verses are printed in full. The Just in Time! Series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price. Included are prayers related to illness or surgery. Prayers for persons facing surgery, post surgery that was successful, post surgery that was not successful, anticipating bad news, diagnosed with a serious progressive illness, recovering from heart surgery, suffering from a stroke, dealing with cancer, coping with breast cancer, undergoing chemotherapy, suffering from addiction, unable to be diagnosed with the source of illness, needing a transplant and waiting for an organ, in chronic pain Prayers related to children and youth: Celebrating the birth of a child, mourning a miscarriage, grieving the loss of a baby near birth, mother choosing adoption for her newborn, adoptive parents receiving their child, pre-mature infant, baby who is hospitalized, child who is hospitalized, youth hospitalized for drug treatment afraid to face parents, youth who most likely will not recover Prayers related to dying and death: For someone longing to die, prognosis that is not positive, does not have long to live, when death is imminent, prayer over a stillborn infant, for family members who were unable to say goodbye to loved, one before death, for surviving family who lost loved ones in the same accident, for family whose loss was due to suicide Prayers related to accident or violence: Injured due to street violence, injured due to natural disaster, rape victim, victim of domestic violence, injury due to war Prayers related to: New immigrant who has fallen ill, recent refugee, college student, suffering depression, patient who also has Alzheimer’s, enduring painful rehabilitation, facing a long recovery, farmer anxious about crops and/or animals, hospitalized while incarcerated, someone unconscious, developmentally disabled patient, attempted suicide (prayer with family present), psychotic patient, worrying over child deployed in the military, worried about paying for the hospital bill, wanting to go home but cannot, wanting prayer for family members, feels guilty about surviving an accident, grieving friends who died in the same accident Sara Webb Phillips is a United Methodist Pastor and Editor of Homily Service. She currently resides in Durham, North Carolina.

Author : Canadian Institute for Health Information
Publisher : Canadian Institute for Health Information
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : UIUC:30112075770708

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Understanding Emergency Department Wait Times by Canadian Institute for Health Information Pdf

This report explores the number and types of patients accessing Emergency Departments and how long they are waiting for care. The data source for the analyses presented here is CIHI's Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), which comprises demographic, administrative and clinical data for hospital discharges and day surgeries in Canada.

Author : Debbie Pitts
Publisher : Author House
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781452033464

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Living on Borrowed Time by Debbie Pitts Pdf

My book tells how I have struggled to live from day to day since my being diagnosed at six months of age. So you know I have lived a long time with this disease. It hadn't been easy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11368836

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hanna Z. Mieszczanska,Gladys P. Velarde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781447155171

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Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women by Hanna Z. Mieszczanska,Gladys P. Velarde Pdf

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women in the US, with more women dying from heart disease than men. Women may have different presentation from men and often need a different approach to diagnosis and treatment. There are also unique topics of management of heart disease in women, including issues during pregnancy, lactation, and menopause. Many different health care providers, as well as cardiologists are involved in treating these patients. A manual reviewing diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease in women would help providers without specific cardiology training to deliver care with greater efficiency. A practical and comprehensive guide geared towards these providers would be a highly practical and valuable resource that would be utilized in everyday practice in offices that include urban clinics, general medicine offices, obstetrics and gynecology offices, as well as in the surgical subspecialties. This book will be a highly practical resource that can be directly applied to the issues that arise in everyday practice. There is no available book on the market that focuses on a broader approach to cardiac disease in women or focuses on non-cardiology providers (and their trainees) who have the need to know more about treatment of cardiovascular disease in women.​

Author : Anonim
Publisher : First Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : 1846433363

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Hospital by Anonim Pdf

Follows a little boy as he visits the hospital to get x-rays and a little girl who will stay overnight for an operation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555014016

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The Medical times and gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gupta Singh
Publisher : JAYPEE BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : James Cappleman LCSW
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Harris Papadopoulos,Andreas S. Andreou,Lazaros S. Iliadis,Ilias Maglogiannis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642411427

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Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations by Harris Papadopoulos,Andreas S. Andreou,Lazaros S. Iliadis,Ilias Maglogiannis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2013, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in September/October 2013. The 26 revised full papers presented together with a keynote speech at the main event and 44 papers of 8 collocated workshops were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The papers of the main event are organized in topical sections on data mining, medical informatics and biomedical engineering, problem solving and scheduling, modeling and decision support systems, robotics, and intelligent signal and image processing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103079398

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The Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. Nicholas Bateman,Robert D. Jefferson,Simon Thomas,J. Allister Vale,John Paul Thompson
Publisher : Oxford Desk Reference
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199594740

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Toxicology by D. Nicholas Bateman,Robert D. Jefferson,Simon Thomas,J. Allister Vale,John Paul Thompson Pdf

A key clinical text for trainees and consultants in toxicology, acute medicine, critical care, and emergency medicine. A reader-friendly layout ensures that information is easy to find and assimilate, and topics are self-contained to aid quick diagnosis.