Medical Industry

Ein einzigartiges Hörbuch, das Sie nicht gleichgültig lassen wird! Von den dunklen Anfangszeiten der Chirurgie, als noch ohne Betäubung amputiert wurde, über königliche Operationen bis zu den heutigen High-Tech-OPs – der Chirurg Arnold van de Laar beschreibt in seinem Hörbuch so packend wie allgemeinverständlich die Geschichte der Chirurgie, und gibt einen spannenden Einblick in sein Fach. In 28 Kapiteln erzählt van de Laar anhand berühmter Operationen, was genau im Operationsaal geschieht.

In these hard times of global financial peril and growing social inequality, injuries to dignity are pervasive. "Indignity has many faces," one man told Nora Jacobson as she conducted interviews for this book. Its expressions range from rudeness, indifference, and condescension to objectification, discrimination, and exploitation. Yet dignity can also be promoted. Another man described it as "common respect," suggesting dignity's ordinariness, and the ways we can create and share it through practices like courtesy, leveling, and contribution.

As one of America’s most celebrated vascular surgeons, Dr. Frank Veith’s career was anything but conventional—from working undercover with the CIA to fighting to make vascular surgery an independent specialty to creating the largest vascular conference in the world.

心臓外科医が患者を四人連続死なせたがそれを「トレーニング」とうそぶいた（東京医大）、未熟な医師がマニュアルを見ながらの内視鏡手術で死なせた（慈恵医大青戸）、人工心肺の操作ミスで死なせたあとカルテを改竄（東京女子医大）……

Medical negligence, Government corruption, deliberate, dangerous surgical procedures, this book has it all. Never agree to corrective surgery before listening to this book. Learn from those directly involved, prime witness accounts like you have never seen before. This book charts the harrowing primary account of Dr Morris Waxler, vision scientist, Neuropsychologist, and former Science Manager (Branch Chief) of the PRK/LASIK team at the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) who has spent many years trying to end the corrupt, harmful, and sometimes fatal consequences of LASIK eye surgery.

Myth: People from marginalized backgrounds have poorer health outcomes because of poor decision-making. Through extensive research and interviews, Health Care of a Thousand Slights: Connecting Legacy to Access to Healthcare debunks this myth, demonstrating that the historical legacy of discriminatory policies and culture has had an enduring impact on healthcare access and outcomes among marginalized communities.

Direct Primary Care is an affordable and highly efficient primary care delivery model that promises unrestricted access to your personal doctor with same-day appointments and 24/7 remote access for a flat monthly fee. No deductibles. No copayments. No office visit charges. No insurance required.

Dr. Sâra Aytaç, Oberärztin in der Unfallchirurgie, liefert einen schonungslosen Bericht aus ihrem Klinikalltag: Sie berichtet von den vergessenen Alten, deren adäquate Behandlung keinen Profit verspricht. Sie erzählt von lebensgefährlichen Kommunikationsproblemen im Schmelztiegel Krankenhaus, ebenso fatalen Personalengpässen, unqualifizierten Aushilfskräften und dem Ausverkauf des ärztlichen Ethos.

Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient's forbidden or unrealistic expectation. This book leaves us with new knowledge of and insights into what we might hope for, and what might go wrong, or right, in the most intimate clinical moments.

A los mandos de un microscopio ultrapotente y un catéter de alta precisión, el doctor Marsh se abre camino por los intersticios del cerebro. Con frecuencia, de su pericia y de su pulso dependen que un paciente recupere la visión o acabe en una silla de ruedas. Hay días en los que salva vidas, pero también hay jornadas nefastas en las que un pequeño error o una cadena de infortunios lo hacen sentirse el ser más desdichado sobre la faz de la Tierra.

Journalist Sarah Dingle was 27 when she learned that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah had been conceived using a sperm donor. The man who’d raised her wasn’t her father; in fact, she had no idea who her father was. Or who she really was. As the shock receded, Sarah began to investigate her own existence. Thus began a 10-year journey - digging through hospital files, chasing leads and taking a DNA test - that finally led to her biological origins.

Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work in the 'ministry of bodies', that huge complex where people come to be cured and to die. From unexpected deaths to moral quandaries and bureaucratic disasters, O'Mahony documents life in the halls and wards that all of us will visit at some point in our lives with his characteristic wit and dry and unsentimental intelligence.

A panoramic overview of biotechnologies that can endlessly boost human capabilities and the drastic changes these "superhuman" traits could trigger. Biotechnology is moving fast. In the coming decades, advanced pharmaceuticals, bioelectronics, and genetic interventions will be used not only to heal the sick but to boost human physical and mental performance to unprecedented levels.

Margaret Mohrmann has devoted most of her professional life to caring for children, and in Attending Children she shares the remarkable education those children and their families have given her. Her narratives are both painful and hopeful, tragic and funny, full of remarkable characters and sometimes bizarre families.

In The Doctor’s Future, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli tackles the challenges posed by the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, driven by artificial intelligence, robotics, and the shifting roles of doctors. As healthcare professionals confront unprecedented demands, from technological advancements to changing patient expectations, the future may seem uncertain. The author’s Healthcare Convergence Framework provides clarity, actionable strategies, and profound insights for healthcare decision makers and doctors to survive and thrive in this new era where AI and robotics are essential.

In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged her from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies...

In Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes listeners through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. Gershun and Lantos analyze the differences that arise depending on whether the organ comes from a living donor or one who has died. They observe the expertise and the shortcomings of doctors, nurses, and other professionals and describe the burdens that we place on people who are willing to donate.

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live? Gabriel Weston worked in the big-city hospitals of the 21st century; a woman in a place dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival.

Every year, thousands of International Medical Graduates from all over the world seek to advance their careers with a residency training in the United States. Only a handful succeed. The core principles outlined in Making the Match will help prepare the mind of the International Medical Graduate for the daunting but rewarding challenge of pursuing residency in the US.

Published to commemorate Cleveland Clinic’s centennial, To Act as a Unit tells the epic story of the hospital system’s conception and rise to prominence. You’ll meet pioneering researchers and clinicians whose innovations are the basis for today’s advanced medical care - from Dr. F. Mason Sones, whose fortuitous accident with a cigarette proved that coronary angiography was possible, to the surgical team that performs groundbreaking, life-changing face transplants.