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  • The $800 Million Pill

    The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs

    by Merrill Goozner ...
    Why do life-saving prescription drugs cost so much? Drug companies insist that prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development. In this gripping exposé, Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research and again by paying astronomically high prices for prescription drugs. Goozner demonstrates that ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • What Seems to be the Trouble?

    Stories in Illness and Healthcare

    by Trisha Greenhalgh, Merrill Goozner ...
    This is published in association with the Nuffield Trust. There is a foreword By Sir Kenneth Calman Vice Chancellor, Durham University and former Chief Medical Officer. 'Excellent. [The book's] analytical and methodological approach is invaluable. It is a real privilege to listen to the stories of patients and their families, to hear details of personal events, comedies and tragedies, and to use ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

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    Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

    Edited by Marie Drolet, Pier Bouchard, Jacinthe Savard ...
    Series series Health and Society
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Treatment Kind and Fair

    Letters to a Young Doctor

    by Perri Klass ...
    If you've ever gotten wrapped up in the arcana of "E.R." or "House," or been absorbed by a piece in The New Yorker by Gawande, Groopman, or Nuland, or sat on that exam table wondering what's really going on in your doctor's head, then this book is for you. Expertise versus commonsense practice; moral judgments on young patients or their parents; asking tough questions; death and physician-assisted ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Prescription for Excellence: Leadership Lessons for Creating a World Class Customer Experience from UCLA Health System

    by Joseph A. Michelli ...
    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!“Like any business, a hospital must be true to its core values in order to succeed. ‘Trickle-down values’ start at the top with the best leadership, so that all the stakeholders understand and carry out the institution’s mission. That is the gift that David F einberg has brought to U CLA. I am in awe of his management skills.”—Lynda Resnick, ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

  • The Body Multiple

    Ontology in Medical Practice

    by Annemarie Mol, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Lean Hospitals

    Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Third Edition

    by Mark Graban ...
    Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology and mindsets to improve safety, quality, access, and morale while reducing costs, increasing capacity, and strengthening the long-term ... Read more

    $71.39 CAD

  • Hunger

    An Unnatural History

    by Sharman Apt Russell ...
    Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to seven days and beyond. What Russell finds-both in our bodies and in cultures around the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Surviving Your Doctors

    Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive

    by Richard S. Klein ...
    Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special ... Read more

    $63.39 CAD

  • The Carpal Tunnel Helpbook

    by Scott Fried ...
    There are more than 500,000 carpal tunnel surgeries done annually in the United States but approximately 30 percent of these patients will be no better as a result. The truth is, most physicians are too quick to consider surgery as the first line of defense against carpal tunnel and other repetitive-strain injuries. In this comprehensive guide to recognizing and treating these debilitating ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care

    by Rick Iedema, Donella Piper, Marie Manidis ...
    In response to the growing emphasis on clinicians' capacity to practise effective communication, Communicating Quality and Safety in Health Care provides real-time communication scenarios and interprofessional case studies. The book engages healthcare trainees from across medicine, nursing and allied health services in a comprehensive and probing discussion of the communication demands that ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Business of Healthcare Innovation

    Edited by Lawton Robert Burns ...
    The Business of Healthcare Innovation is a wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry. It provides a thorough overview and introduction to the innovative sectors fueling improvements in healthcare: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, platform technology, medical devices and information technology. For each sector, the book examines the basis and ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD