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Author: Eric Topol Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465094473 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 386
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The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"-but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see, unless they indicate further (and more invasive) tests, most of which will probably prove unnecessary (much like physicals themselves). And your bill will be astronomical. In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your vital signs both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system. The change is powered by what Topol calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable real-time, real-world research on massive populations. There's no doubt the path forward will be complicated: the medical establishment will resist these changes, and digitized medicine inevitably raises serious issues surrounding privacy. Nevertheless, the result-better, cheaper, and more human health care-will be worth it. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better health care. That is, for all of us.
Author: Eric Topol Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465094473 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
The essential guide by one of America's leading doctors to how digital technology enables all of us to take charge of our health A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"-but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll likely never see, unless they indicate further (and more invasive) tests, most of which will probably prove unnecessary (much like physicals themselves). And your bill will be astronomical. In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to be that way. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your vital signs both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system. The change is powered by what Topol calls medicine's "Gutenberg moment." Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which "doctor knows best." Medicine has been digitized, Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable. Massive, open, online medicine, where diagnostics are done by Facebook-like comparisons of medical profiles, will enable real-time, real-world research on massive populations. There's no doubt the path forward will be complicated: the medical establishment will resist these changes, and digitized medicine inevitably raises serious issues surrounding privacy. Nevertheless, the result-better, cheaper, and more human health care-will be worth it. Provocative and engrossing, The Patient Will See You Now is essential reading for anyone who thinks they deserve better health care. That is, for all of us.
Author: Great Britain. Department of Health Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780101626828 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 94
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This document sets out the priorities for the NHS up to 2008 based on the process of reform set out in the NHS Plan (Cm. 4818-I ISBN 0101481829). It is in three sections. The first 'Laying the foundations' looks at the progress so far in NHS reform. The second section 'Offering a better service' sets out the objectives of the policy under the headings of personalised care, supporting people with long-term conditions, and a healthier and fitter population. One of the aims is to change the NHS from a sickness service to a service that gives a higher priority to the prevention of disease and a reduction of health inequalities. The third section is called 'Making it happen' and it covers investment and diversity of provision, staff and working practices and information systems.
Author: Marie-Fleur Bernard Publisher: ISBN: 9782757308530 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 164
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Cet ouvrage pratique est destiné aux professionnels de santé: il présente les éléments de connaissance indispensables à la prise en charge des soins bucco-dentaires pour les personnes âgées, dépendantes et en fin de vie. L'auteur, cadre de santé et hygiéniste, détaille l'anatomo-physiologie bucco-dentaire, les pathologies rencontrées lors du vieillissement (mais aussi lors de la maladie et du handicap), ainsi que les outils et les thérapeutiques bucco-dentaires à mettre en place au quotidien.
Author: Ross Smith Stagg Publisher: ISBN: 9780646477770 Category : Spitfire (Fighter plane) Languages : en Pages : 124
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Spitfire pilot Ross Smith Stagg was one of 33 Allied airmen to defend Darwin against Japanese invasion on May 2, 1943. As one of 14 pilots shot down or experience mechanical failure in the ensuing battle, he parachuted into the sea 18 km from land, 100 km southwest of Darwin in the Fogg Bay area. He reached the shore in a dinghy. For the next 15 days he trudged through inhospitable country in a futile attempt to return to Strauss airbase. What should have been a few days walk turned into his worst possible nightmare as he stumbled aimlessly through mosquito and crocodile infested swamps. "It was almost six days I'd been without sleep, apart from a short period of unconsciousness and those few moments before I fell out of that tree," he said. " I became demented by the cavalcade of mosquitoes and hallucinating badly". His experience was only to worsen - he waded halfway across a tidal river to be confronted by a large saltie. Darwin historian John Haslett help Stagg map the original route by retracing his steps, even managing to relocate an American Kittyhawk Stagg found crashed in the middle of nowhere.
Author: Peter Ridgway Schmidt Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa features some of the foremost archaeologists from Africa and the United States and presents cutting-edge proposals for how archaeology in Africa today can be made more relevant to the needs of local communities.
Author: Peter Ridgway Schmidt Publisher: Rowman Altamira ISBN: 9780759109650 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.
Author: Véronique Dupuis Publisher: Elsevier Masson ISBN: 2294717112 Category : Medical Languages : fr Pages : 311
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Longtemps sous-estimée, la santé bucco-dentaire des personnes âgées est devenue un problème de santé publique au cœur d'une réflexion d'amélioration des soins et de prise en charge adaptée à ces patients particuliers. L'odontologie gériatrique occupe un champ spécifique au sein de la médecine bucco-dentaire et, compte tenu de l'augmentation de la durée de vie, prend une place croissante dans l'activité quotidienne du chirurgien-dentiste. Afin d'aider le praticien, peu ou pas formé aux spécificités de ces patients, cet ouvrage donne toutes les clés pour réussir ses soins. Après un rappel de gériatrie générale, ce guide aborde les notions de vieillissement normal et pathologique ainsi que les aspects psychologiques. Sont détaillés ensuite les soins conservateurs, les prothèses spécifiques et l'accompagnement au long terme avec les mesures d'hygiène propres aux seniors et les liens avec les réseaux de soins (personnel de maisons de retraite, infirmières à domicile, etc.). Cet ouvrage pratique, illustré par plus de 150 figures et schémas en couleur, propose également des protocoles de soins qui guideront pas à pas le chirurgien-dentiste dans sa prise en charge.Le guide pratique des soins et de la thérapeutique en odontologie gériatrique. - La gériatrie, le vieillissement normal et pathologique, les aspects psychologiques. - Les soins conservateurs et les prothèses spécifiques. - L'accompagnement au long terme et les mesures d'hygiène propres aux seniors. - Les liens avec les réseaux de soins. - Plus de 150 figures et schémas en couleur. - Des protocoles de soins pour guider le chirurgien-dentiste pas à pas.
Author: David M B Hall Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191015628 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 423
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Since publication of the fourth edition of this highly successful book, there have been a number of Government initiatives, reports and policies on how the health of children can best be protected and promoted. This revised fourth edition incorporates recent material on the National Service Framework, 'Every Child Matters', the public health report 'Choosing Health', and the Children Act. It has also been informed by new research on a variety of topics including Sure Start, obesity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and language acquisition. Health for all Children 4/e (revised) continues the themes of previous editions, in particular highlighting the growing evidence that behavioural problems and educational failure are not inevitable, and can be prevented. Thus the role of screening for developmental problems, while not ignored, is set in the context of what can be done to promote language development, reading, and enthusiasm for learning. Changes made to the fourth edition, and continued in this revised edition, include dealing with the health care needs of children of school age as well as pre-school children. It also outlines the needs of special groups of children, including those who are vulnerable or disabled and those living in unusual circumstances. The legislative framework is outlined and hallmarks of good practice described. Promoting children's health is a key focus, with updated information on nutrition and injury prevention, and emphasis on the importance of parent education and support, language, and literacy skills, with a review of behavioural management programmes for parents. It also describes the duties laid on PCTs with regard to education and social services support. This established and successful book continues to be essential reading for all health professionals who work with children, whether in the community or at the receiving end of referrals. It will also provide vital background knowledge for those charged with the responsibility of planning, commissioning and monitoring. This revised fourth edition provides the most up to date evidence in a rapidly changing field.
Author: Joanne Clarke Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited ISBN: 9781782971726 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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Contrary to much perceived wisdom, the Sahara is a rich and varied tapestry of diverse environments that sustain an array of ecosystems. Throughout its history, the Sahara has been a stage for human evolution, with human habitation, movement and lifeways shaped by a dynamic environment of successive phases of relative humidity and aridity driven by wider global climatic changes. The nature of human utilization of the landscape has undergone many changes, from the ephemeral and ill-defined lithic scatters of the Early Holocene to the dense and complex funerary landscapes of Late Holocene Pastoral period. Generally speaking, the living have left very little trace of their existence while funerary monuments endure, stamping the landscape with a cultural timelessness that marks certain regions of the desert as "special". During the last ten years, the Western Sahara Project has undertaken large scale archaeological and environmental research that has begun to address the gaps in our knowledge of the archaeology and palaeoenvironments of Western Sahara, and to develop narratives of prehistoric cultural adaptation and change from the end of the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene and place it within its wider Saharan context. A detailed discussion of past environmental change and a presentation of results from the environmental component of the extensive survey work are provided. A typology of built stone features - monuments and funerary architecture is presented together with the results of the archaeological component of the extensive survey work, focusing on stone features, but also including discussion of ceramics and rock art and the analysis of lithic assemblages. Chapters focusing on intensive survey work in key study areas consider the landscape contexts of monuments and the results of excavation of burial cairns and artifact scatters.
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La spectaculaire augmentation de l'espérance de vie au XXe siècle a entraîné un véritable bouleversement de la pyramide des âges, attestant d'une population de seniors croissante en longévité et en nombre : une population qui représentera un pourcentage sans cesse grossissant de la patientèle des professions de santé pour les années à venir. Le vieillissement, phénomène différentiel, crée de larges divergences au sein de cette population et ses effets génèrent des modifications qui font de la personne âgée un être toujours plus vulnérable. Cette abondance démographique met à jour la désastreuse situation bucco-dentaire de milliers de bouches âgées abandonnées et constitue, de fait, un défi majeur pour les odontologistes. Polypathologie et médicaments accompagnent souvent cette période de la vie définissant alors un âge biologique différent de l'âge civil. L'évaluation précise des aptitudes physiques et cognitives persistantes comme la connaissance des effets des pathologies et de leurs traitements constituent autant de préalables indispensables à la prise en charge bucco-dentaire de toute personne âgée. Cet ouvrage propose les précautions et conduites à tenir face au vieillissement physiologique et pathologique, pour une médecine bucco-dentaire du troisième millénaire qui s'inscrive dans la qualité de vie jusqu'au bout !
Author: Eric Topol
Author: Eric Topol
Author: Great Britain. Department of Health
Author: Marie-Fleur Bernard
Author: Ross Smith Stagg
Author: Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Author: Peter Ridgway Schmidt
Author: Véronique Dupuis
Author: David M B Hall
Author: Joanne Clarke
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