Second Opinion

Author : Jerome Groopman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140298628

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Second Opinions by Jerome Groopman Pdf

A unique insider's view of today's complex and often contentious world of medicine Anxious about the prognosis, lost in a blur of technical jargon, and fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily overwhelmed by treatment choices. Told through eight gripping clinical dramas, Second Opinions reveals the forces at play in making critical medical decisions. Dr. Jerome Groopman illuminates the world of medicine where knowledge is imperfect, no therapy is without risks, and no outcome is fully predictable. He portrays moments of astute diagnosis and misguided perception, of lifesaving triumphs and shattering failures. These real-life lessons prepare us to navigate the uncertain terrain of illness, and enable us to balance intuition and information, and thereby make the best possible decisions about our health and future.

Author : Michael Palmer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429920124

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The Second Opinion by Michael Palmer Pdf

Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world, and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston's sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic. Thea's rewarding life in Africa is turned upside-down when Petros is severely injured by a hit-and-run driver. He is in the Beaumont ICU, in a deep coma. No one thinks he will survive. Thea must return home. Two of Petros' other children, both physicians, battle Thea and her eccentric brother, Dimitri, by demanding that treatment for their father be withheld. As Thea uncovers the facts surrounding the disaster, it seems more and more to be no accident. Petros, himself, is the only witness. Who would want him dead? The answers are trapped in his brain . . . until he looks at Thea and begins slowly to blink a terrifying message. In The Second Opinion, Michael Palmer has created a cat-and-mouse game where one woman must confront a conspiracy of doctors to uncover an evil practice that touches every single person who ever has a medical test. With sympathetic characters and twists and betrayals that come from the most unlikely places, The Second Opinion will make you question...everything.

Author : Jennie Mary Hornosty,John Germov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Health
ISBN : 0199018138

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Second Opinion by Jennie Mary Hornosty,John Germov Pdf

Taking an intersectional approach to the study of health and illness, Second Opinion introduces students to the field through an accessible yet authoritative overview of key theories, debates, and research findings. Written in a clear, straightforward style, with contributions from bothCanadian and international scholars, this comprehensive volume examines a wide range of topics including racialization, disability, aging, the environment, Aboriginal health, and the political economy of the health industry. Themes such as the social determinants of health, health inequalities,intersectionality, and the roles of both structure and agency in creating and maintaining the status quo are integrated throughout. The array of pedagogical features fosters engagement with the material, while providing study support and suggestions for further learning. New content and examples -on maternal mortality rates, the latest in sociological theory, health care inequalities in Canada, obesity, appearance norms, healthy aging, physician-assisted death, drug costs in Canada and the world, and integrated health care - encourage students to think critically about health-care practicesand policies in Canada within a global health perspective. Thoroughly revised and up-to-date, with a new visual program to appeal to visual learners and a new chart on the inside cover that details the coverage of social determinants throughout the text, the second Canadian edition of Second Opinion ensures that students of health sociology have everythingthey need to understand this complex discipline, right at their fingertips.

Author : Radha Gopalan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Health
ISBN : 1612680232

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Second Opinion by Radha Gopalan Pdf

Most people would agree that we aren't taught much about 'wellness.' And while there seems to be an increased awareness related to 'fitness, ' more often than not we only think about 'health' or doctors when we're sick. What's left in the middle of those two extremes is a life-long struggle to stay healthy and productive in a world of mixed medical messages. For the first time, Dr. Radha Gopalan, gifted heart transplant Cardiologist, Acupuncturist and Yoga Teacher, clears up the confusion around health, wellness, and illness. And he does it in a way that will change the way you think about yourself--and medicine--forever. Dr. Gopalan merges his education and experience in both Eastern and Western medicine to look at health and wellness from a unique and powerful perspective and delivers not only concepts and philosophies that can change the way you think about health and wellness, but assesses the most common medical conditions that impact our world--from cancer and diabetes to heart disease, obesity, and chronic illnesses. In Second Opinion, Dr. Gopalan will explain: - how Eastern and Western medicine can work together for optimum health and wellness ? - how you can influence the outcome of your health--and disease ? - how the five levels of the H-I Triangle shape your personality, reactions, health, and ?happiness ? - how insurance and finances are affecting your healthcare ? - why some people who eat healthy, exercise, and lead a healthy lifestyle still have a heart ?attack ? - how being healthy has more to do with who you must be than what you must do ?

Author : John A. McDougall
Publisher : New Win Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Diet Therapy
ISBN : UOM:39015010669524

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McDougall's Medicine by John A. McDougall Pdf

With his question-and-answer format, John McDougall leads the readers to an understanding of an approach to their health that puts them in charge of their own health and/or treatment.

Author : Isadore Rosenfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0671252429

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Second Opinion by Isadore Rosenfeld Pdf

Championing the value of consulting more than one doctor when disabled with a serious disease or disorder, Rosenfeld describes a number of alternative treatments for one hundred of the most common disorders.

Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735275140

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The Second Sleep by Robert Harris Pdf

From the international bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich, a gripping mystery and a fascinating cautionary tale. "All civilizations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is." 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote English village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? As Fairfax is drawn more deeply into the isolated community, everything he believes--about himself, his faith and the history of his world--is tested to destruction.

Author : Gary Null
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1583220623

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AIDS by Gary Null Pdf

In this first book to bring both establishment and dissenting views of the AIDS crisis into one volume, Gary Null unravels the halftruths that many argue have marred the study of this disease from the start. In clear, jargon-free prose, the book offers an unbiased, unflinching discussion of all sides of each issue. AIDS: A Second Opinion argues that the AIDS drama has exposed problematic issues having to do with the functioning of U.S. medical institutions. Null explores a new type of health care, grounded in patients' own choices and dispositions, that poses a challenge to the top-down, expert-controlled medical systems favored by the establishment. Drawing from Null's many years of study of alternative, traditional, and orthodox medicine as well as from interviews with many long-term survivors, the book dissects the claims of the AZT and drug-cocktail approach to treating AIDS and offers a trilogy of treatment strategies based on wide views of how to enhance the immune system and improve overall functioning.

Author : Dr. Eric A. Rose
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781466890909

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Second Opinion by Dr. Eric A. Rose Pdf

Second Opinion is the definitive resource for any of the 15 million people each year who are told they need surgery. This is the one book to turn to when you are sorting out whether or not to have surgery. Dr. Eric Rose and his collegues provide patients a reassuring arsenal of approaches and alternatives so they can participate fully in this important process to assure the best possible outcome. You'll want to bring Second Opinion with you for note-taking, list making, references, and support. It will help you be your own best advocate. Other features include: *45 of the most common operations described in detail *Full illustrations *Reasons to have the operation *What can happen if you don't *Possible complications *What to expect after surgery *Extensive, unbiased resources for getting a second opinion *Patient's worksheets, notes, and rights

Author : C. Robert Umana
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595158249

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Second Opinion by C. Robert Umana Pdf

Confronted with severe heart pain, Rodolfo Marquez MD goes to his best friends for treatment. A few months after his heart surgery, the heart pain returns. His friends decide there is nothing else to do. Rodolfo goes to a different city for a Second Opinion and discovers that all his bypasses have been placed on the wrong arteries. As he consults local doctors, he finds non of them wants to get involved in his case. Affraid of any legal or financial repercussions, they abandon him to his fate. The pain worsens; death seems imminent. Rodolfo, finally, goes to an out of state university and gets his heart treated. At his return, he finds the local doctors and his hospital had turn against him.

Author : Emily Maroutian
Publisher : Maroutian Entertainment
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781440452321

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A Second Opinion by Emily Maroutian Pdf

A Second Opinion is a collection of philosophies, theories, and observations that will alter your sense of self and the world around you. Through simple observations and questions, it awakens readers to discover insights into their own consciousness and uncover personal truths that lead to their own enlightenment. Emily Maroutian uses the simple approach of awareness to guide the reader to be wakeful of false beliefs, negative thoughts, destructive feelings, hindering habits, and myths about happiness and security. Journey inside for a mind-expanding reexamination of the human condition.

Author : Rosemary Gibson,Janardan Prasad Singh
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781566639149

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The Treatment Trap by Rosemary Gibson,Janardan Prasad Singh Pdf

With health reform enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the subject matter of The Treatment Trap is a compelling component in the national debate. Taking advantage of Rosemary Gibson's knowledge gleaned from extended experience in the field of medical care and Janardan Singh's similar knowledge but from a financial perspective, the authors explore the most neglected issue in American medicine today: the overuse of medical care, including needless surgery and other invasive procedures, out-of-control x-ray imaging, profligate testing, and other wasteful practices that have become routine among too many American doctors. Their combined reporting and analysis concentrates on the human aspects of this disturbing trend in health care, with personal experiences that reflect poorly on hospitals as well as physicians. They show how money spent for questionable and even useless care is diverting major funds that could be better used to treat patients who are genuinely sick and sometimes cannot afford the extravagant charges of the American health-care system. Their suggestions for reforming the delivery of health care, and their cautions to individual consumers about how to deal with situations they may encounter, make The Treatment Trap essential reading for medical care consumers, health-care professionals, and policymakers alike.

Author : Arnold Relman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781586485825

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A Second Opinion by Arnold Relman Pdf

Dr. Arnold Relman, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine brings together sixty years of experience in medicine in a book that holds the keys to a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. Timely, provocative, and newly updated, A Second Opinion is a clarion call to action. If we heed Dr. Relman's plan, Americans could at last achieve a lasting, sensible solution to national healthcare.

Author : Arnold S. Relman,Arnold S Relman M D
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781458798862

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A Second Opinion by Arnold S. Relman,Arnold S Relman M D Pdf

Relman's 60 years as researcher, clinician, teacher, government consultant, licensing board member, and editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine give him enormous credibility on the subject of health-care reform. He's for national single-payer insurance but believes America's health-care system must change, too, or spiraling costs--and spiraling inequity--won't be contained. The greatest threat to U.S. health care, as he sees it, is the commercialization of medicine since the late 1960s, which, according to free-market ideology, should bring better care at lower cost but hasn't delivered (and never will, Relman believes). Doctors need to renew the sense of themselves as disinterested and compassionate healers rather than money-grubbing entrepreneurs. Relman proposes that most physicians be salaried by a national financing system, associate in self-run group practices to pool expertise and resources, and reclaim the professional self-regulation lost in a 1943 Supreme Court antitrust decision (exemption from antitrust law should be sought, Relman thinks). Everyone interested in its issues must read Relman's argument. Ray Olson

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Medicaid
ISBN : UCSD:31822024319048

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The Effect of a Mandatory Second Opinion Program on Medicaid Surgery Rates by Anonim Pdf