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Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It
by Shantanu Nundy
"A physician-entrepreneur who works with Fortune 500 companies presents how healthcare needs to change and work for everyone in a post-pandemic world. If the healthcare system were an emperor, Covid-19 tragically revealed that it had no clothes. Healthcare had to adapt, and quickly-hundreds of thousands of lives were being lost to the ravaging pandemic. Driven by necessity, we witnessed a dramatic acceleration of virtual care, drive-thru testing, and home-based services. In the process, old rules were rewritten and, perhaps surprisingly, largely in a good way. To come out ahead, all healthcare stakeholders-patients, caregivers, health systems, employers, investors, and policymakers-need to understand this new landscape and change their behaviors and strategies accordingly. In Care After Covid, practicing physician, technologist, and business leader Dr. Shantanu Nundy, Chief Medical Officer at Accolade, which provides healthcare services to Fortune 500 companies-including Facebook, United Airlines, American Airlines, Lowe's, Comcast, and Fidelity-shows how to transform healthcare along three dimensions: Distributed: healthcare will happen where health happens. It will shift from where doctors are to where patients are-at home, in the community, and increasingly on their phones. Digitally enabled: healthcare and the relationships that are central to care will be strengthened by data and technology. It will shift from being siloed to connected, from being episodic to continuous, from one-size-fits-all to more personalized. Decentralized: healthcare decisions and resources will be in the hands of those closest to care. The power to determine who gets care and how they get it will shift away from governments and insurance companies to communities, employers, doctors, and patients. What this pandemic has necessitated and set in motion is nothing short of a reinvention of how healthcare is delivered. Care After Covid shows all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem exactly what needs to change and, more importantly, how to do it. We can't afford not to"
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Medicare For All: A Citizen's Guide
by Abdul El-Sayed
Going beyond partisan talking points, this citizen’s guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting offers a serious examination of how Medicare for All would transform the way we give, receive and pay for health care in America.
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Which Country has the Best Health Care?
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
A prominent doctor and bioethicist sets out to find the world’s best country for healthcare, including Taiwan, Germany, Australia and Switzerland, and how the most effective health providers handle the challenges of providing good care.
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Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex
by Mike Magee
The Health Commentary blogger exposes the practices of the Medical Industrial Complex network of big business, academic medicine, patient-advocacy organizations, hospitals and government that have made America's healthcare system the highest-costing, but poorest performing among major developed nations
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Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare
by David McBride
In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care—caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination—since the arrival of African slaves in America.
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
by Maya Dusenbery
"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today--leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens women's lives and well-being. Modern medicine is failing women. Half of all American women suffer from at least one chronic health condition--from autoimmune disorders and asthma to depression and Alzheimer's disease--and the numbers are increasing. A wealth of research has revealed that women often exhibit different symptoms than their male counterparts, suffer disproportionately from many debilitating conditions, and may react differently to prescription drugsand other therapies. Yet more thantwenty years after the law decreed that women be included in all health-related research and drug development, doctors are still operating with a lingering knowledge gap when it comes to women's health. And they're not immune to unconscious biases and stereotypes that can undermine the doctor-patient relationship. The consequences can be catastrophic: Too often, women are misdiagnosed, poorly treated, and find their complaints dismissed as "just stress" or "all in your head." Meanwhile, they're getting sicker. Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from regular women to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today. In addition to offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its effects, she suggests concrete steps we can take to cure it. Eye-opening and long-overdue, Doing Harm is an empowering call to action for health care providers and all women"
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by Beth Macy
In a book that includes deeply human and unforgettable portraits of the families and first responders affected, the author takes readers into the epicenter of its America's more than 20-year struggle with opioid addiction. By the author of the national best-seller Factory Man.
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. Rosenthal spells out in clear and practical terms exactlyhow to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship, explaining step by step the workings of a profession sorely lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate a byzantine system and also to demand far-reaching reform. Breaking down the monolithic business into its individual industries--the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, drug manufacturers--that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal tells the story of the history of American medicine as never before. The situation is far worse than we think, and it has become like that much more recently than we realize. Hospitals, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Americans are dying from routine medical conditions when affordable and straightforward solutions exist. Dr. Rosenthal explains for the first time how various social and financial incentives have encouraged a disastrous and immoral system to spring uporganicallyin a shockingly short span of time. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. An American Sicknessis the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart"
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Unaffordable: American Healthcare From Johnson to Trump
by Jonathan Engel
Written for nonexperts, this is a brisk, engaging history of American healthcare from the advent of Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s to the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the 2010s. Step by step, Jonathan Engel shows how we arrived at our present convoluted situation, where generic drugs prices can jump 1,000 percent in a day and primary care physicians can lose 20 percent of their income at the stroke of a Congressional pen.
Unaffordable covers, in a conversational style punctuated by apt examples, topics ranging from health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician training to health maintenance organizations and hospital networks. Along the way, Engel introduces approaches that other nations have taken in organizing and paying for healthcare and offers insights on ethical quandaries around end-of-life decisions, neonatal care, life-sustaining treatments, and the limits of our ability to define death. While describing the political origins of many of the federal and state laws that govern our healthcare system today, he never loses sight of the impact that healthcare delivery has on our wallets and on the balance sheets of hospitals, doctors' offices, government agencies, and private companies.
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Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
by Nancy Tomes
In this book, author Nancy Tomes presents readers with an examination of the impact of marketing on the behavior of Americans when experiencing illness, arguing that advertising used by the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries have had a profound impact on the behavior of Americans. The author has organized her substantiating material chronologically by era, examining the main themes in healthcare and healthcare marketing during the period between 1920 and 1940, the years between 1940 and 1960s, and between the 1960s and the 1990s.
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Medical Billing and Coding Demystified
by Marilyn Burgos
This self-teaching guide provides clear explanations and practice tests for those looking to become familiar with the current coding practices used by medical offices, hospitals and healthcare companies, as well as a recently-updated review of medical billing software.
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