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Author
Publisher
Nolo
Language
English
Description
"This book shows the reader how to plan for the future by preparing the following official California documents using easy-to-follow instructions: An Advance Health Care Directive, also called a "living will." It lets the reader state his or her wishes for health care if he or she becomes incapacitated and names a trusted person who will work with health care providers to be sure to get the kind of care he or she wants. A Durable Power of Attorney...
24) Collective
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Romanian
Description
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
Author
Publisher
Westview Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Medical costs are out of control and Americans are paying outrageous amounts to cover their medical needs. On top of that, healthcare is filled with medical jargon that is confusing and hard to understand. Most of us quickly get lost - and then billed beyond belief! How can you fight what you don't understand? Well you don't have to be an M.D. or a translator to understand healthcare and get your costs under control. Now, the experts at change:healthcare...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Arline T. Geronimus coined the term "weathering" to describe the effects of systemic oppression on the body. Based on more than 30 years of research, she argues that health and aging have more to do with how society treats us than how well we take care of ourselves. She explains what happens to human bodies as they attempt to withstand and overcome the challenges and insults that society leverages at them, and details how this process ravages...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Memorial Sloan Kettering radiologist, nationally recognized patient advocate, and Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier argues that we can't fix the American healthcare system until we fix ourselves."--
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