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Witness how groundbreaking CRISPR therapies are turning once-fatal genetic mutations into treatable conditions. Whether you are navigating a complex healthcare journey, caring for a loved one facing chronic illness, or simply commuting and hungry for medical breakthroughs, this urgent and...

Master clinical data to end charting burnout and elevate patient safety on busy hospital floors. Whether commuting to a grueling shift or decompressing afterward, this reassuring guide turns tech-heavy burdens into empowering bedside tools. Stop feeling like an overwhelmed IT specialist and...

In America's Health: The Community Is Now the Patient, Dr. Leslie Bronner delivers an urgent, evidence-based call to action that challenges how we think about healthcare in the United States. Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a doctoral background in public health, Dr. Bronner argues that the cycle of poor health in this country is driven by the social determinants of health—the conditions in the communities where people live, work, and raise their families.

A doctor explores diet culture in medicine from both sides of the stethoscope—offering a clear-eyed look at the weight prejudice embedded in every aspect of modern healthcare, and showing how patients, doctors, and health advocates are finding new, compassionate ways to care for all bodies. Dr...

Most healthcare organizations aren't failing. They're underperforming - held back by the silent creep of indecision and governance structures that reward polished silence over early truth. Strategic Leadership When Time Is the Constraint is a practical governance framework for healthcare executives, board members, CFOs, and nonprofit leaders navigating the structural pressures now reshaping complex institutions.

In this riveting account of the pandemic and its devastating ripple effects, Gale captures the pandemic's messy realities the panic it spurred, the misinformation and political infighting that stood in the way of controlling it, and the heroic efforts by scientists and health care workers to contain it. Gale exposes what went wrong, what worked, and what continues to threaten us. From the pandemic's chaotic beginnings to the hidden toll of Long Covid, he examines how governments shaped and sometimes warped the public narrative around the pandemic.

The erosion of local news, the polarization of national media, and the rising flood of misinformation continue to jeopardize public health and trust. In Information Sick, Joanne Kenen, Lymari Morales, and Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, examine the dire consequences of a fractured information ecosystem, where misinformation spreads unchecked and undermines science, policy, and health.

Trace the dramatic medical history of how terrifying wards of death transformed into modern temples of healthcare reform. Whether you are navigating your own health journey, studying medicine, or commuting to a clinical shift, this empathetic and urgent narrative brings the sights and sounds of...

Discover the global health triumphs and invisible epidemiology breakthroughs that rescued billions from deadly pandemics. Perfect for a thought-provoking commute, this deep dive into historical science reveals how clean water and relentless political willpower defeated humanity's greatest...

Passion is the spark. Strategy is the loom. Integrity is the thread. Most people enter the world of advocacy by accident—driven by a personal crisis, a systemic injustice, or a heartbreaking diagnosis. They lead with raw passion, only to find themselves exhausted by bureaucracy, stalled by partisan gridlock, and ultimately burned out before reaching the finish line.

Byja Blueprint: An Introductory Guide to Direct Primary Care for Doctors, Patients, and Businesses by Dr. Byron Jasper is a comprehensive exploration into the innovative healthcare model of Direct Primary Care (DPC). This book seeks to educate readers on the fundamental differences between DPC and traditional healthcare models, highlighting the financial, operational, and relational benefits of adopting DPC.

This book presents a bold and comprehensive proposal for addressing the ongoing health care crisis in the United States, focusing on a hybrid health organization (HHO) plan that aims to improve access to care while controlling costs. The author, Dr. Eugene H. Schmitt III, draws upon his sixty years of extensive experience in health care to highlight the systemic issues plaguing the current health care delivery model. The book identifies critical problems within the current health care system, including rising costs and limited access to care.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if your documentation almost wrote itself? If an early warning system alerted you before a patient fell? And if you suddenly had time again for what truly matters: conversations, attention, humanity? That is exactly what AI enables in care. Not...

Have you ever felt a quiet knot in your stomach when a colleague mentions what AI is now doing in their practice — and wondered, privately, whether you've already fallen behind? You haven't. You're exactly where most thoughtful clinicians are. Written by Dr. Cary Yurkiw, DC — a chiropractor with thirty years in clinical practice — AI in Healthcare, Step 1 cuts through both the hype and the fear. This is a short, calm, plain-language guide you can finish in an evening and act on the next morning. No computer science required, and your clinical judgment stays firmly in charge throughout.

Every story in this audiobook begins with a life shaped by love. Assisted dying is a question that reaches into the deepest parts of us, sitting at the intersection of medicine, morality and personal liberty. For decades, debates around legalisation have played out across the world, even as...

An Instant #1 National Bestseller Finalist for the Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious, and deeply personal call for action...

The digital tools available to every patient today enable you to better monitor and manage your health and improve your outcomes. From better medical adherence and effective communication with your providers, to how to use wearables; from clear detail about how your smartphone can check your vitals and sound advice on which websites offer reliable health information, this book provides the listener with a vital resource when interacting with our confusing healthcare system.

We all know that malaria is an infectious disease spread by mosquitos. Female Anopheles mosquitos spread the infection, a microorganism called a plasmodium, when taking a blood meal. But as the quotation often attributed to Mark Twain says “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so”.

In this manifesto, Dr Cross takes a deep dive into mental illness – who suffers, why, how we treat them and what we need to do better. Written in Dr Cross's warm and entertaining style, Mental State includes his own stories of working inside the system, as well as the experiences of patients attempting to navigate it and the practitioners working within it.

A gripping expose of the murky underbelly of the Indian healthcare system 95 per cent of healthcare facilities have less than five workers 30 million people are pushed into poverty by healthcare costs 9 lakh C-sections are preventable 7.04 lakh children under the age of five die of pneumonia and...