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Max goes to the doctor / by Klein, Adria F.(Adria Fay)1947-; Gallagher-Cole, Mernie.;
When it is time for his yearly checkup, Max goes to the doctor and gets very good news.
Subjects: Physicians; Medical care;
© c2008., Picture Window Books,
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Blind spots : when medicine gets it wrong, and what it means for our health / by Makary, Marty,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict recommendation that parents avoid giving their children peanut products until they're three years old. Getting the science perfectly backward, triggering intolerance with lack of early exposure, the US now leads the world in peanut allergies-and this misinformation is still rearing its head today. How could the experts have gotten it so wrong? Dr. Marty Makary asks, Could it be that many modern-day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment? Experts said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonized natural fat in foods, driving Americans to processed carbohydrates as obesity rates soared. They told citizens that there are no downsides to antibiotics and prescribed them liberally, causing a drug-resistant bacteria crisis. When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem. The path to medical mishaps can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping-but the truth is essential to our health.
Subjects: Medical care.; Medical errors.; Medical policy.; Public health.;
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When politics comes before patients : why and how Canadian medicare is failing / by Whatley, Shawn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-[337]) and index.Using searing analogies and first-hand accounts, Dr. Shawn Whatley makes the argument that the current Medicare system is unsustainable and unless critical choices and changes are made soon, the publicly funded, single-payer system in Canada will implode. Whatley is the past President of the Ontario Medical Association and a physician leader with experience in emergency medicine and primary care.
Subjects: Medical care; Health care reform;
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Anna : outpost nurse : the story of Anna Moller, NP-PHC / by Smith, Linda S.;
"As a young nurse, Anna Moller's sense of adventure brought her to choose outpost nursing. Adventure is surely what she found in Canada's north."--from Publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Local author.; Medical care; Nurse and patient.;
© c2019., Linda Smith,
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My fight for Canadian healthcare : a thirty-year battle to put patients first / by Day, Brian,1947-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."On July 15, 2022, the British Columbia Court of Appeal ruled that patients in BC were suffering, and many risked dying, as a result of delayed access to care. The ruling included a conclusion that the delays were caused by planned and deliberate government strategies to limit resources and capacity. Despite that, they upheld laws that cause patients to die. Their rationale was that allowing non-government options, which is something every other country on the planet allows, might negatively impact our existing, grossly underperforming, health system. Canada is currently ranked 10th out of 10 universal health systems in highly developed countries. The Appeal Court made its decision despite an admission that the trial data "represents real people, with real pain, a real setbacks, and real risk of dying prematurely" and that "waiting inherently carries the risk of death." This book traces a personal journey through a Canadian health system that has reached the point of imposing serious harm on patients. Governments have stubbornly adhered to principles developed over 60 years ago. Medicare was supposed to act as a safety net. Instead, it has become a trap in which patients are forced to suffer. Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize winner for literature, once stated: "Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth." While this book may not strike terror in those who have opposed me over the years, I hope it will at least promote guilt in the hearts of those who fought us in the courtroom, many of whom have benefitted from their own extensive use of private clinics, including ours"--
Subjects: Clinics; Health care reform; Medical care; Medical care; Right to health;
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Doctors help / by Ready, Dee.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index."Simple text and photographs present doctors and their role in the community"--Provided by publisher."RL: K-1, IL: PreK-2"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Medical care; Physicians; Health;
© c2013., Capstone Press,
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Froggy goes to the doctor / by London, Jonathan,1947-;
Froggy isn't looking forward to his check-up because he might get a shot but when it's over and he's pronounced a very healthy frog, Dr. Mugwort is the one who dreads Froggy's next visit.002-006.
Subjects: Physicians; Frogs; Medical care; Humorous stories;
© c2002., Viking,
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Owning the sun : a people's history of monopoly medicine from aspirin to COVID-19 vaccines / by Zaitchik, Alexander,1974-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations. Since the Second World War, federally funded research has facilitated most major medical breakthroughs, yet these drugs are often wholly controlled by price-gouging corporations with growing international ambitions. Why does the U.S. government fund the development of medical science in the name of the public, only to relinquish exclusive rights to drug companies, and how does such a system impoverish us, weaken our responses to global crises, and, as in the case of AIDS and COVID-19, put the world at risk? Outlining how generations of public health and science advocates have attempted to hold the line against Big Pharma and their allies in government, Alexander Zaitchik's first-in-kind history documents the rise of medical monopoly in the United States and its subsequent globalization. From the controversial arrival of patent-wielding German drug firms in the late nineteenth century, to present-day coordination between industry and philanthropic organizations-including the influential Gates Foundation-that stymie international efforts to vaccinate the world against COVID-19, Owning the Sun tells one of the most important and least understood histories of our time"--
Subjects: Medical care, Cost of; Medicine;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The nurses : a year of secrets, drama, and miracles with the heroes of the hospital / by Robbins, Alexandra,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Medical care; Nurse and patient.; Nurse and physician.; Nurses.;
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A sick history of medicine : a warts-and-all book full of fun facts and disgusting discoveries / by Poleksic, Jelena.; Kasperowicz, Ella.;
A disgusting history of medicine through the ages from Jelena Poleksic, featuring hilarious illustrations by Ella Kasperowicz.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Medicine; Medical care; Diseases;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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