Health Systems

At a time when many Americans may be seeking alternatives to current health care choices, Dr. Knope offers an option that allows patients to directly contract with healthcare providers for individualized care. Using first-hand accounts and plenty of examples of how concierge medicine works, Knope offers a plan for patients looking to make a change to a medical system that is negotiated between doctor and patient, rather than through insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

Warum ist das Immunsystem immer noch unerforscht unverstanden, ungelehrt, unterschätzt und Angst einflößend? Weil die Ausbildung unserer Medizin ungenügend ist. Weil wir glauben, das Immunsystem stärken würde bedeuten Nahrungsergänzungsmittel im nächsten Drogeriemarkt zu kaufen. Für unsere gehobenen Störungen des Immunsystems, der Abwehr, gar der gesamten Darm-Gehirn-Achse, reicht dieses Wissen nicht aus. Das Wissen über unser Immunsystem - also Dünndarm, Darm, Leber, Nieren, Lunge, Herz, und Milz - sollte eigentlich das wichtigste Hauptfach für uns selbst sein, um gut vorbereitet für diese Zeiten gewappnet zu sein.

In this groundbreaking new book, a Harvard-trained neurologist shows how you can attain lifelong mental fitness. Utilizing the latest breakthroughs in research, Dr. Jeff Victoroff has developed a definitive, life-changing plan that provides you with the powerful, scientifically based methods you need to protect your brain from aging and memory loss. Starting today, you too can save your brain.

I've tried many ways to improve my colitis flare ups and upset stomach with little success until now. Once I figured out what works since having this autoimmune disease since the mid 1990's, I decided to share my story in hopes that it can help others to achieve remission. I have reached remission and have learned how to stop fistulas from developing from getting my gut healthy and allowing my body to cure itself with the right foods, supplements, etc. I have listed my journey and the regiment that has helped me achieve remission.

You survived a stroke, but now you’re dealing with the painful uncertainty, anxiety, and depression left in its wake. You’re ready to take control and take back your mental health—you just need a little help. You never had this level of anxiety or depression before, but your stroke changed everything. That was my story, too. Until I reached my breaking point and had to get help.

With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about it - from pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapies - is becoming more complex, not less?

In this must-listen book, immunologist Leo Nissola provides a comprehensive overview of your body's defenses, revealing what can cause problems, how to recognize warning signs, and how to fight back. Every day, bacteria, viruses, and other germs attack you, but you stay healthy most of the time. While you can't live forever, there's more to fighting disease than you might think, including diet, lifestyle habits, and environment.

The second edition of this text advocates for a transformational change in the way doctors protect their mental health, look out for their colleagues, create a kinder, more humane work culture and lead health system reform. Brimming with poignant and hopeful stories and quotes from a diverse array of doctors from many different specialties and at all career stages, the book is a celebration of the growing global interconnectedness and the changing face of the medical profession.

States of Health identifies the practical relevance of federalism to people facing ethical decisions about health and health care, and it considers the theoretical justifications for permissible differences among states. It asks whether authority over important aspects of health is misaligned in the United States today, with some matters problematically left to the states while others are taken over by the federal government.

В новой книге Василий Генералов говорит о катастрофической динамике нарастания количества тяжелых аутоиммунных заболеваний у детей и взрослых, о причинах снижения репродуктивной функции у молодых людей, о факторах, приводящих к общему снижению здоровья. Почти 30 лет ежедневной практики в стационарах, палатах интенсивной терапии и амбулаторном приеме с самыми сложными заболеваниями позволили автору выявить закономерности развития болезни как на протяжении жизни конкретного человека, так и у его детей и родителей.

Navigating the complexities of the American healthcare system can be a daunting task for any medical professional, but it presents unique challenges for foreign medical graduates. "Guide to the American Healthcare System for the Foreign Medical Graduate" is an essential resource designed to demystify these challenges and provide a comprehensive roadmap to success.

Longevity Secrets Decoded is your comprehensive guide to maintaining health while aging, boosting your immune system, and living your best life. In this book, we integrate the latest scientific research with time-tested wisdom to provide you with a holistic approach to longevity.

Die Faszination für die Tiefen der menschlichen Seele begleitet uns seit Jahrhunderten: Wenn Mediziner*innen Fallgeschichten aus ihrer Praxis erzählen, dann hört man ihnen zu. Das Ärzteehepaar Nicole und Christian Knobloch behandelt in seiner Praxis seit über zwanzig Jahren Menschen mit psychiatrischen und neurologischen Erkrankungen. In zahlreichen Fallgeschichten berichten sie nun erstmals aus dem breiten Spektrum der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. So begegnet ihnen eine junge Mutter, deren ALS-Diagnose bereits ihr Leben überschattet – doch ihr Schlafzimmerblick bringt die Ärzte auf eine rettende Spur.

More than half of Americans live with a digestive disorder or autoimmune disease like IBS, Crohn's, colitis, or celiac. Finally, the simple solution is revealed by someone who put his “impossible” autoimmune disease into remission. Our modern world is set up with systems and processes that lead us to a weakened immune system and depleted microbiome, which in turn can cause disease.

Lina was a precocious toddler - charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute discomfort by biting, screaming, hitting, laughing maniacally, and throwing violent tantrums.

Richard C. Schwartz, der Begründer des Systems der Inneren Familie (IFS), führt leicht verständlich in die grundlegenden Konzepte und Methoden seines therapeutischen Modells ein. Der Durchbruch von IFS besteht in der Erkenntnis, dass jeder Mensch aus unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeitsanteilen, einer »inneren Familie« besteht. Wenn wir diesen inneren Teilen mit Wertschätzung, Neugier, Respekt, Achtsamkeit und Einfühlungsvermögen begegnen, erweitert das unsere Fähigkeit zur Selbstheilung enorm und ermöglicht uns nachhaltige, positive Veränderungen. Fallbeispiele und praktische Tools zeigen, wie jeder einen Weg zu mehr Selbstführung finden kann.

When is the last time you really pushed yourself? What defines disruptive thinking, and can anyone access it? There are people who, for thousands of years, have been setting new standards, defining our direction, breaking boundaries that were once thought to be unbreakable.

Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff. Health care costs the United States more than $11,000 for each person in the country each year - more than double what it costs in most Western European countries to deliver equal or even better care.

Renowned gastroenterologist and nutritionist shares his seven-point digestive restoration plan that targets the gut-immune-skin-brain axis based on medical evidence and decades of experience. True health care reform begins with your gut! The roots of your future health were laid while you were in the womb and during your early years. Genes are only a small part of it! If you are at a loss as to what is wrong and why you can't be healthy, think about your gut.

Autism Amalgam and Me - Jodi's Journey Continues is the second in a series of books about my son Jodi Shaw, and the often humorous and informative true story deals with two subjects - autism and mercury poisoning caused by dental amalgam. Narrated as if by Jodi and myself, I explain why I think my son developed autism and you'll discover why my research points to mercury.