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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"GET WHAT'S YOURS FOR MEDICARE explains for those 65 and older how to make the best choice in the annual Medicare enrollment period to maximize your health coverage without overpaying -- just as GET WHAT'S YOURS advised older Americans about the right Social Security decisions"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comic Art
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
What's Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams's graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams's own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like: immunodeficiency; cancer; endometriosis; alcoholism; severe depression; PTSD. Western medicine, which intends to cure illness...
67) Doctor's tools
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Defines the basic tools used in the field by doctors. Straightforward definitions along with labeled images help kids understand the uses and value of each device. Simple sentences and tool-in-use photos will have young readers ready to get to work!
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting. There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as health care--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the health care system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 19 cents go to health care. What are we paying for, exactly?...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Analyzes the impact of the digital revolution on the practice of medicine, examining how new technologies are giving patients more control over their diagnosis and selection of treatment, resulting in better care for more patients.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and...
71) Trans care
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices have trans subjects and communities cultivated in the wake of widespread transphobia and systemic forms of trans exclusion? Trans Care is a critical intervention in the ways that care labor and care ethics have heretofore been thought, arguing that dominant modes of conceiving and critiquing...
73) Born to be
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, where all transgender and gender nonconforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. This feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor's work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Exposes that all medical models -- in research and practice -- are male-centric and shows how the biological, biochemical, psychological, and neurological differences between men and women affect issues such as preventative care, emergency care, drug prescriptions, and pain management. Also looks at how race, class, and gender identity are disproportionately affected by this.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother's open arms after an unexpected c-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a baby latches to her mother's breast. Or the moment that mother decides to switch to formula. Each of these, and so many more, are stories...
Author
Series
Leo (Anna McQuinn) volume 3
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Now that Leo is growing up and doing some things by himself, it is time for him to go to the doctor for a checkup, where they check his height, weight, eyes, ears, and heart, and give him a shot to keep him healthy.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role -- from opioid addiction to global pandemic -- and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care. Each patient eventually lands at Ben Taub, the county hospital where Dr. Nuila has worked for over a decade. Nuila delves with empathy...
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