Health Care

Anyone who has fallen off the conveyer belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a dark place it is to land. Where is the infrastructure, the information, the guidance? What should you do next? In Rebel Health, Susannah Fox draws on twenty years of tracking the expert networks of patients, survivors, and caregivers who have come of age between the cracks of the health care system to offer a way forward.

Becoming a Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS) validates your foundational knowledge in healthcare IT, data security, compliance, and system interoperability. Conquer the HIMSS CAHIMS Exam: Your Concise Guide to Becoming a Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems provides a clear and structured summary of essential topics, making it a valuable supplement to more detailed study materials. This guide covers health information systems, electronic health records (EHR), healthcare cybersecurity, regulatory compliance (HIPAA, ...

Your whole life you’ve been programmed to believe that your body is like a car and your doctor is like a mechanic. This limiting belief has led to TRILLIONS of dollars generated by an industry with no competition. Those that have been strategically tricked to trust this monopoly have been over-tested, over-diagnosed and over-treated. This vicious cycle has left millions of people in darkness. In this book, Dr. Kevin Reese exposes the secret schemes of this Medical Monopoly. Pray for him.

Entrepreneurs are born to disrupt—but disrupting established industries like healthcare is no small feat. Drawing from her twenty-plus years of experience as a founder and business leader, Kara Trott reveals her secret sauce to succeeding in a field that’s notoriously resistant to innovation. A former lawyer turned accidental entrepreneur, Kara founded Quantum Health in 1999, spearheading healthcare navigation—and a new industry in the process.

Everything you wish you had known before you got your first horse! And many AHA moments for experienced horse owners. Do you ever wonder, "What is my horse really feeling? If your horse could talk, they might say things like: "I have a spasm in my back and it won't go away." “I can't move the way you're asking me to, it hurts." “My right shoulder can't move correctly, so cantering on that side is very painful." "I feel so gassy and bloated, I just want to lay down and roll." "My teeth haven't been balanced properly and it hurts to chew." "My vision has been bad since I banged my head, ...

Feeling like life’s got you juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle? Take a deep breath—you’re not alone. The Balanced Life Blueprint is here to rescue you from the chaos and help you reclaim your calm, one small, actionable step at a time. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill self-help guide. Nope, it’s your no-nonsense, laugh-a-little, do-a-lot toolkit for thriving in mind, body, and soul—even when life feels like a three-ring circus. Packed with practical strategies, relatable advice, and a sprinkle of humor, this book shows you how to: Tame stress before it turns you ...

ObamaCare 2014?!? Yes - 2014 is the year that Washington began to require everyone to maintain a certain level of health insurance. That means our law will then require each and every one of our citizens in the United States of America to purchase a health insurance product. Yes – in the land of the free & the home of the brave – our decision for health care will be forced upon us by our own government as a condition of citizenship. This would be a first in the history of our free America that such a requirement to purchase a private product will be forced upon us in order to create a ...

The steady beating back of infant and child mortality is one of our greatest human achievements. Interweaving her own experiences as a medical student and doctor, Perri Klass pays tribute to groundbreaking women doctors like Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, and Josephine Baker, and to the nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas about sanitation and vaccination to families.

Press Ganey's chief nursing officer Christina Dempsey has worked everywhere in healthcare, from the ward floor to the hospital boardroom. She has also experienced the system as a patient and as a family member of a critically ill patient. In The Antidote to Suffering, this 30-year healthcare veteran and patient-experience thought leader argues that the key to improving healthcare is to reduce the suffering - physical, psychological, and emotional - of patients and caregivers alike through Compassionate Connected CareTM.

The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

At the age of 28, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the seriousness of his condition. Cancer had quite literally whacked him in the guts, after all. But what he didn't expect was how being a patient, and a young one at that, would make him feel. Why hadn't he been better prepared for the embarrassment and vulnerability of lying naked on the radiation table?

How do you prioritize self-care amidst the demands of client appointments and business operations? Have you experienced burnout or emotional exhaustion in your career as a beauty professional? How do you maintain boundaries with clients while still providing exceptional service? Have you encountered situations where client interactions impact your emotional well-being, and how do you handle them? Did beauty school prepare you for the mental health challenges and the need for self-care in this career? If you are a cosmetologist, hairstylist, barber, esthetician, makeup artist, nail care ...

Adopting or fostering a child brings its own unique set of challenges only another parent facing the same uphill climb could possibly understand. From parenting children with traumatic pasts, to dealing with attachment issues, to raising a children with special needs, it can sometimes be a struggle just getting through the day. Mike Berry knows the loneliness and isolation you can easily feel in your particular parenting role - because he's been there.

Unlock the secrets of global healthcare with "Healthcare Systems Abroad," a comprehensive guide to understanding the complexities and innovations shaping medical practices worldwide. Dive into a journey that unveils the diverse approaches countries take to manage healthcare coverage and costs, providing a rich tableau of information that is both enlightening and essential. Start with an exploration of how healthcare systems are defined and why they matter universally. Uncover the historical backdrop that has influenced today's healthcare models, emphasizing major global milestones. From ...

The 20th century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart disease, stomach ulcers, cancer, and metal illnesses. These, along with the introduction of the oral contraceptive, have altered all of our lives. There has also been an increase in the recreational use and abuse of drugs in the Western world. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, gives a nontechnical account of how drugs work in the body.

Freelancing offers freedom—but it shouldn't cost your mental health. Freelance and Fulfilled is a practical and compassionate guide for gig workers, self-employed professionals, and creative entrepreneurs who are done romanticizing the hustle and ready to start protecting their peace. If you're feeling burned out, overwhelmed, isolated, or struggling to balance your life and work—you’re not alone, and this book is for you. Whether you're a freelancer, creator, consultant, or part-time gig worker, this book dives into the real emotional and psychological challenges of independent work....

In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don't yet have it, and how it can be won. He identifies the actors that have misled us for profit and political gain, dispels the myth that healthcare needs to be personally expensive, shows how we can smoothly transition to a new model, and reveals the slate of humane and progressive reforms that we can only achieve with single payer as the springboard.

The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.

Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients.

Self-Care for Mental Health— Key to Well-Being Relieve Anxiety, Stress, and Burnout; Increase Resilience and Healthy Choices; Live Your Best Life! Ken Vanderlip, Ph.D. And Susie Vanderlip, CSP, CPAE No matter what you’ve been told, self-care is never selfish… It’s the secret to a healthy and happy life. Discover its power! One in five adults in the US experiences mental health issues every year… and that means that even if you’re okay now, you need to take action. The world is fast-paced and stressful, and pressures come at you from every angle. Perhaps you’re juggling your ...