Health Systems

A courageous memoir that spans 40 years of Dinaaz Lentin's life experiences within our health care system. The story is raw, thought-provoking, and a brilliant look at complications and uncertainties when a medical challenge being faced is rare and uncertain. An extremely powerful example of how self-belief and trusting your own gut instinct can allow you to overcome any of life's challenges.

Anti-Inflammatory Diet will show you how you can easily improve your diet so that you can avoid inflammation-related health issues you didn't know about. This audiobook takes out the overwhelm with easy-to-follow meal plans and drinks. It uses ingredients you can find almost everywhere. It comes with a meal plan and recipes for fighting inflammation through proper food and nutrition.

This book provides the listener with nine foundational values that transform a healthcare organization, outfitting it to succeed in the modern environment of high accountability and value-based medicine. Plagued by traditional leadership paradigms, the healthcare industry continues to deliver status quo results. Transformational thinking must dominate by embracing the values that have been vetted over 25 years in healthcare settings that are described in The Culture Cure.

Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish?

Corridors of Contagion brings to light the experiences of five people incarcerated across the United States as they navigate the onset of the pandemic-and the many months, stretched into years, that followed. Journalist Victoria Law combines this storytelling with a trenchant analysis of the structural failures of the US carceral system: failures that made prisons uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks, from overcrowding to solitary confinement, from insufficient healthcare to life sentences.

If I had not taken my health into my own hands I would have been a gold mine for Big Pharma. High blood pressure. Chronic back pain. Arthritis. Insomnia. Anxiety. Excessive sweating. Allergies. Insanely huge ulcers in my mouth misdiagnosed as herpes. Ulcers in my nose misdiagnosed and treated as allergies. Not to mention the disaster that was my stomach.

Reduce inflammation through a healthy and correct diet! Thanks to Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners you can promote the healing of your body in a simple and natural way. Chronic inflammation causes excruciating pain, as well as fatigue and health problems such as food allergies, arthritis, gastrointestinal disorders, and much more. With the anti-inflammatory diet, you can finally free yourself from the daily malaise. It is difficult to know where to start, but this book will help you step-by-step to gain knowledge on the subject and to adopt a healthy and correct lifestyle.

Qu'est-ce que la polyneuropathie ? Quelles causes peuvent entraîner cette maladie et quels symptômes y sont associés ? Quelles sont les formes de traitement conventionnelles et que puis-je faire moi-même pour mieux vivre avec le diagnostic de polyneuropathie ?

In The Long Fix, physician and health-care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health-care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's paying, it's what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better - and that is both backward and dangerous.

In Dying to Save You, Dr. William Queale takes you behind the scenes of our sickcare system. He uses deeply personal stories to explain how we got here and how systems thinking can get us out. But Dying to Save You isn’t just about medicine, science, and healthcare policy. This book is about you—and how you can stay out of the sickcare system altogether.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it.

What if chronic pain wasn't something wrong with your body—but your nervous system trying to protect you with outdated information? You've done everything they told you to do…but the pain is still here. You know the cycle: appointments, scans, treatments. Nothing changes. And somewhere deep down, you've started to wonder if this is just who you are now.

For fans of The Body Keeps Score and How to Do the Work, trauma therapist Simone Saunders bridges the gap where talk therapy falls short – showing you how to move beyond self-awareness and reconnect with the sensations, signals and emotions your body has been shaped by, finally...

Thyroid disease patients can experience a number of different complications as a result of their hypothyroid (underactive thyroid) or hyperthyroid (overactive thyroid) conditions. Two of these complications are nerve pain and dysfunction, referred to as "peripheral neuropathy" and muscle weakness with possible atrophy (shrinkage of muscles), referred to as "thyroid myopathy".

Any comprehensive understanding of autoimmune personality traits must take into account, gifted intelligence. After researching personality types related to autoimmune disease, the literature reveals that we fall into several types - one of which includes gifted traits...Type G. While much of the research on personality type related to autoimmune disease has focused on Type A, C, and D traits and coping styles...we will also consider gifted personality traits, stress, inflammation, and the dominant brain networks and underlying neurobiological needs.

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy - these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current US health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful reform might look like.

Are you tired of feeling anxious, inflamed, or constantly drained? It may be time to reset your nervous system from the inside out. Unleash the Power of a Vagus Nerve Reset reveals a simple, science-backed 7-step plan to shift out of fight-or-flight and into calm, balance, and energy. With 97 practical techniques, this guide helps you regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your body’s natural intelligence.

Are you ready to detox your body and lose weight? Do you love the taste of smoothies? Would you like an audiobook that shows you how to make great smoothies that will help you lose weight and get healthy? Smoothies are a delicious treat for anyone, but when it comes to those who are losing weight, they can also help you by detoxing your body and ridding it of the accumulated garbage it has stored.

In Curable journalist and health care advocate Travis Christofferson looks at medicine through a magnifying glass and asks an important question: What if the roots of the current US health care crisis are psychological and systemic, perpetuated not just by corporate influence and the powers that be, but by you and me? Curable outlines the future of medicine, detailing brilliant examples of new health care systems that prove we can do better. It turns out we have more control over our health (and happiness) than we think.

For every woman struggling with exhaustion, gut issues, inflammation or hormonal imbalance who’s been told it’s ‘just part of being a woman’ – this audiobook is your turning point. In this transformative guide, hormone health coach and somatic healing expert Isabella Mainwaring reveals...