Author: American Medical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Suggestions to Medical Authors and A.M.A. Style Book
Author: American Medical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: Complications
Author: Atul GawandePublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429972106
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Proceedings
Author: Pathological Society of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pathology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Journal
Author: Missouri State Medical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Problem that Won't Go Away
Author: Henry AaronPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780815719595
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did they do wrong? How can the mistakes of that experience be avoided in the future? What steps can now be taken to achieve some measure of reform in smaller pieces? In The Problem That Won't Go Away, economists, political scientists, sociologists, public opinion experts, and government staff offer answers to these and other crucial questions. They recount the history of the Clinton health care plan, present several alternative strategies the administration might have pursued, and conclude that none was likely to achieve the administration's goals of universal coverage and cost containment. Many support the view that the administration, Congress, and the nation lacked the political consensus and the information to credibly describe the effects of any single bill to reform the U.S. health care system. In that case, was the only option available to the administration to reach for goals far more modest than those it sought? Health care financing as a national political issue will not go away. Pressure to cut public spending to balance the budget means that medicare and medicaid will stay in the legislative spotlight; the retirement of the baby-boom generation in the beginning of the next century promises large increases in the cost of medicare; and a flood of new and costly medical technologies will continue to put financial pressure on everyone responsible for paying for health insurance. But, as this book illustrates, the nature of the debate in the years after the demise of the Clinton plan will be altogether different from that of the past several decades.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
American Medicine
Author: Public Health Ethics and Practice
Author: Peckham, StephenPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1847421024
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate.