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In World War II, 59,000 women voluntarily risked their lives for their country as US Army nurses. For more than half a century these women's experiences remained untold, almost without reference in books, historical societies, or military archives. After years of research and hundreds of hours of interviews, Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have created a dramatic narrative that at last brings to light the critical role that women played throughout the war.

Award-winning author and birth options expert Henci Goer has done it again. In this, the second book in her groundbreaking Take Charge of Your Birth series, Henci tackles induction. Focusing on precautionary reasons for induction—suspected big baby, release of membranes, impending postterm, and routine induction at 39 weeks—Henci brings her forty years of experience analyzing and synthesizing obstetric research to the table and creates a judgment-free zone where you can decide what’s right for you.

An overview of US physician experiences and the unprecedented rates of physician resignation. With first-hand accounts from physicians, the book covers topics of burnout, moral injury, depression, anxiety, addiction, and physician suicide, summarizing how the healthcare ecosystem was built for failure, while still offering hope and a plan for the future of US healthcare.

When it comes to our healthcare, we all want the same thing: the care we need, when we need it from people we choose, at a price we can afford. Americans are confused about how to achieve this. Why must all Americans have the same healthcare structure? If Californians want a single-payer system, if Texans want market-based medicine, and if New Yorkers want Obamacare, why should Washington say no to 86 million Americans?

Introducing The Disrespectful Relationship Between Doctors and Their Patients, an empowering guide that offers the right tools and guidance to help transform your fragile patient-doctor relationship into a more harmonious one for an easier and smoother healthcare journey.

Når det drejer sig om helbredelse af sygdom og skader, hvordan kan det da være, at nogle mennesker gør alt det rigtige, men bliver ved med at være syge, og andre tilsyneladende ikke gør noget særligt, men alligevel bliver helt raske? Lægen og bestsellerforfatteren Lissa Rankin har brugt 10 år på at finde svarene. Resultatet er "Holistisk medicin", der både tager os med på et spirituelt eventyr og er en vigtig guide til de metoder, der er til rådighed for patienter, når hverken ændringer i livsstil eller lægebehandling har hjulpet dem.

Death exposes the dangerous state of affairs in our "sick-care system" and the dangers of the current medical/pharmaceutical complex. Doctors causes over 800,000 deaths and millions of life-threatening complications each year. Or, as Harvard Professor Lucian Leape testified before Congress, it’s equivalent to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day!