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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Money-driven medicine provides the essential introduction Americans need if they are to better understand and address the unmet challenges of healthcare reform during the coming decade. Produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the dark side; Enron: The smartest guys in the room) and inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money driven medicine: the real reason health care costs so much, the film goes beyond health insurance to offer...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Otis Brawley discusses fighting patient mistreat in the United States. Finance, Brawley asserts, is inextricably linked to health care in America's current system. The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its members for events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A panel of health-care insiders dissect the Supreme Court's decision on Obama's health-reform plan (Obamacare), focusing on California's providers and patients. The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, bringing together its members for events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A primary care doctor examines the ways that such factors as race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and income have a negative impact on medical outcomes and offers solutions for overcoming systemic medical bias.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This program explains the nature and purpose of the Patient Self- Determination Act. Everyone has the right to consent to or refuse medical treatment. By making advance directive decisions prior to incapacitation, patients can have their wishes regarding medical treatment carried out in the event that they have lost their ability to communicate. This program presents simulated conversations between patients, family members, and health professionals,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A report on the failures of America's medical system is told through the experiences of its victims, from a worker whose wife died from cancer after his employer stopped providing insurance, to a disabled infant's mother who fought to get therapy coverage.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic...
12) The slippery slope of healthcare: why bad things happen to healthy patients and how to avoid them
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Steven Kussin, physician and a pioneer in the Shared Decision movement, takes readers through the steps of how to avoid the many pitfalls of unnecessary and sometimes even dangerous medical care."--From publisher's description.
A slippery slope describes how events progress from an initially innocent step to a cascade of subsequent misfortunes that are increasingly inevitable, difficult to stop, and more harmful than the last. In the attempt...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The author calls for the rational and skeptical practice of medicine that does not neglect or favor patients based on wealth or insurance coverage and follows scientifically-based protocols that do not kowtow to trendy drugs.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system"--
Author
Publisher
Silicon Valley Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and actions. Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, worked together on the early laws concerning organ donation and the first heart transplants, the emergence of the...
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Maintains that the current Medicare payment structure favors aggressive care that can negatively impact quality of life over palliative and home care which often yields better results, and argues for cost-effective changes that can make Medicare more humane.
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