Best health care delivery books according to redditors

We found 102 Reddit comments discussing the best health care delivery books. We ranked the 40 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/Dr_Midnight · 256 pointsr/SubredditDrama

The book's title is "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland". It's available on Amazon.

It was profiled pretty heavily back in March by several outlets, journalists, and pundits. Here's the PBS segment on it.

u/Infidel8 · 52 pointsr/politics

The book Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl, the author they interrupted, is excellent. If you don't want to bother reading the whole thing, he did a good podcast with Chris Hayes where he breaks down the main points.

u/low_selfie_steam · 26 pointsr/news

The life expectancy for white males in America has gone down for several years in a row. Upon closer examination, it turns out the causes of death that have brought about this are "deaths of despair." Alcohol related deaths, suicide, opiate-addiction related deaths. Here's one book that has examined the problem:

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https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980

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This is unprecedented in a thriving society, and it is a very big deal, sociologically speaking. What I mean is, sociologists really want to understand why it's happening, so they study it. Is that wrong, to study a phenomenon that is remarkable and probably indicative of something deeply interesting and serious about our culture?

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Okay, so they have been studying it, and they have found, guess what! that white males in America are in despair and they are angry. Relative to previous years and relative to other demographics. So is it wrong to study this more and try to understand *why* it's happening? And if it's not wrong to do that, why is it inaccurate or wrong to call the study "angry white men" since that's exactly what is being studied?

u/AnyelevNokova · 20 pointsr/breakingmom

There's a great book that I recommend left and right to people - Atul Gawande's Being Mortal. It covers a huge breadth of topics regarding aging, end of life, terminal illness, cancer, hospice/palliative care, nursing homes, death, and modern medicine.
One of the recurring issues that comes up is the struggle for many doctors to effectively communicate expectations and outcomes with patients and their families. They find it challenging to have those very necessary, but difficult, conversations that basically boil down to "you have a disease that is 99% going to kill you and there's nothing more we can realistically do to extend your life without causing more suffering."We have encouraged doctors to change healthcare from a service to a conversation -- to involve patients in their care -- and it is overall a very good thing, but this has has an unintended consequence; doctors are afraid to dispense bad news. So they beat around the bush; they say, "you have stage IV renal cell carcinoma, with mets here, here, and here. What questions do you have for me?" The patient asks, "how do we treat it?" -- the doctor says, "well, we can do chemo, radiation... there are some medications, and a few clinical trials we could see if you qualify for..." (note how, at no point, the doctor says "there is no cure; this is terminal.") Time prognoses are scary (not to mention a potential liability!), so we tell them to try to avoid them - so we don't tell the patient they are likely going to be dead less than 3 months from now. The family member interjects that they want "everything possible" done to save their loved one, accompanied by printouts of google searches and random crap they found online. The doctor entertains this, even though they know it won't do anything - again, they're afraid to tell the patient no, this random experimental treatment or drug you're requesting isn't going to save your life, and you're still going to die.
So when the patient with stage IV cancer declines and winds up in the hospital, and all signs begin to point towards impending imminent death, the family is shocked, horrified, but most of all surprised. "I didn't expect her to die so fast", posted one of my facebook acquaintances after her mother rapidly declined; they had been on the "pray the terminal cancer away" and "we're waiting to get her into an experimental treatment, if her numbers improve juuuust a little bit!" denial train.
There was a study not too long ago that found that most patients with end-stage cancer didn't evaluate themselves as terminal. We see facebook walls filled with people posting about their loved ones or even themselves - I have stage 3, stage 4 cancer, prayers, more prayers, send hope; she's a warrior, she can beat this, he's so strong and will fight! Either we are promoting a culture of delusion or doctors aren't being blunt enough with their patients and their families about the realities of these kind of illnesses.
Because you're right - ask any doctor or nurse and they'll tell you, stage 4 means say your good-byes, tie up your loose ends, go on that vacation you always wanted to but never got around to, and find a means to end your life while you still have the autonomy to do so with the least suffering.

u/eramos · 18 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

>Is there some kind of phone service to call for medical advice?

Not only is the answer yes, but Canada basically took that idea from America.

Source: this book, the chapter on Canada's system.

u/Carlos-Dangerzone · 17 pointsr/ChapoTrapHouse

I listened to an interview with the World Bank President recently. At one point in the interview, he talks about the so-called 'migration crisis' in Europe as a precursor to the much larger relocations of people that will be necessitated by climate change over the next century. He makes a very similar point to the one Matt made, that this has triggered a cogent reaction among the far-right who are perfectly content with genocide as a policy response. However, where Matt argued the only possible alternative is massive transfers of wealth and reorganization of society, Dr. Kim's only prescription is that there should be much more public-private partnerships in the developing world.

Hearing him say that perfectly clarified the limits of liberalism for the coming century as well as anything I'd ever read.

Ironically, Dr. Kim once wrote a very good book about the failures of the World Bank and the IMF and calling for them to be abolished. Now, he's reduced himself to working with Ivanka Trump on a "women's entrepreneurship program" to advance women's rights around the world .... funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

u/spamelita · 15 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

I think things have to change with malpractice insurance. It has to. We are losing MDs doing births at all because of this. Our cesarean rate is also rising - we are losing any resemblance to natural birth in the hospital. In fact, I hear the word "natural birth" to mean "vaginal birth".

Doctors are given lower malpractice premiums when they have higher cesarean rates. This is not acceptable!

We used to be shocked at Brazil's 95% cesarean rate. I think we're well on our way. In my community, 40% of first time moms have cesareans.

I hope that we can find inroads that are free from malpractice protocols that allow docs to collaborate with midwives for teaching, safety, and general empowerment of women. I see other countries doing it, but unfortunately, our healthcare and malpractice system does little to help this goal of mine. :(

Our maternal and infant mortality rates are dismal. And it's not because we're using less technology or interventions. It's because we're using more. I really recommend a book called Expecting Trouble: The Myth of Prenatal Care in America by Thomas Strong, MD. He's a third generation MD, second gen OB and he has some amazing insights. Mainly, leave high risk and surgical birth to OBs, turn all other care over to midwives for better outcomes...and look at technology more judiciously.

Other books I recommend are:

Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First by Marsden Wagner, MD

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block

Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy

Lying In: A History of Childbirth in America

Above all, I wish that more providers would see that the motherbaby is one unit. They are not antagonists towards each other. Less intervention is better and if we could move towards more evidence-based practices we might see better outcomes.

Again, it all boils down to allowing doctors to practice freely. We have to see malpractice reform.

u/jorgeLaPuerta · 14 pointsr/PublicFreakout

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Couldn’t find any more info about the book though, are you sure that’s the right title?

edit: Here’s the book, never heard of it before but now it’s on my radar. Wonder if white nationalists have heard of the Streisand effect

u/ItsAConspiracy · 9 pointsr/politics

Canada and Britain arguably have better healthcare than us. But France, Germany, and Japan have better healthcare than anyone, at a much lower price than we pay, and they aren't single-payer. Here's how they all work:

  • Private, non-profit insurance plans
  • A mandate
  • Subsidies for anyone who can't afford the mandated coverage
  • No denials or discrimination for preexisting conditions
  • A nation-wide standard price list for providers
  • No claim denials for anything on the price list
  • Effective electronic medical records

    Everybody is covered, period. Doctors don't need administrative staff, insurance companies don't need medical underwriters. Japan is the cheapest with healthcare at 6% GDP, despite the fact that they have almost no waits and they go to the doctor an average of 14 times a year. Germany is the most expensive, but they cover things like week-long visits to the spa for stress relief, and they still spend a lot less than the U.S.

    Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
u/eyedoctor · 8 pointsr/politics

MD here. Many of my elderly patients ask me, "Why do the politicians want to mess with the greatest health care system in the world?" I try to explain to them that we (USA) have one of the very worst systems in the world. Propoganda has worked on these patients. I tell them to read the book, "The Healing of America". (link below)
IMO, Americans are uninformed or misinformed about healthcare and our political system will prevent meaningful reform until a crisis arises which breaks the current system, or until there is a huge, national public outcry demanding change. We're just not there yet.
http://www.amazon.com/Healing-America-Global-Better-Cheaper/dp/1594202346/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268663520&sr=8-1

u/bustedhip · 7 pointsr/medicine

A fantastic read for anyone trying to get a high level view of how modern healthcare systems work: [The Healing of America] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Healing-America-Global-Cheaper/dp/B004KAB348)

Also a short film on PBS a few years ago: Sick Around the World

u/soobaaaa · 7 pointsr/slp

Since you're not in a communication disorders program, it will be hard for you to find any opportunities to observe SLPs providing treatment - unless you know somebody who can help arrange it for you. Most people are in a similar situation as you when they begin their training and, based on the survey's we have, they complete their training and are satisfied with their job choice (even though while reading this subreddit you might think no one is happy being an SLP).

There are a number of different career paths you can take as an SLP but, overall, it is worth remembering that the disabilities we are in charge of diagnosing and treating are amongst the most complex human behaviors (much more so than what other rehab professionals are faced with). As a consequence, the job is intellectually demanding. If you are the type of person who wants to engage in a lifelong path of learning and enjoys such challenges then that's one indicator that you will like the job. The more you know in this profession the more interesting and satisfying it becomes but, realistically, it takes years to develop the kind of knowledge where the job becomes truly creative. Until then, we work to keep our head above water...

You might try purchasing a intro text to communication disorders. This will give you a broad overview of the types of work SLPs do. Here's one example of a text https://www.amazon.com/INTRO-Guide-Communication-Sciences-Disorders/dp/1597565423/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537463622&sr=8-1&keywords=robb+intro+to+communication+disorders

u/SiberianGnome · 7 pointsr/personalfinance

I'd start by reading "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805095152/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480885429&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=being+mortal+book&dpPl=1&dpID=51C9yK9VzzL&ref=plSrch

Basically you need to prioritize what matters for you when you go into your treatment. With a child at home I would think that a high probability treatment method would take precedence over finances. But if you have an aggressive form of cancer with a lower probability of curing, it sounds like you will have substantially different priorities than most Americans (and that's a good thing IMO.)

You'll want to maximize quality of life for as long as possible while allowing you to continue to support your family and spend time with your child. Your treatment plan should be based around this, rather than throwing everything you can at the cancer hoping for a miracle.

u/ScoutFinch12 · 5 pointsr/nursing

Yes, If Disney Ran Your Hospital is an actual book that we were required to read in my last hospital. It's definitely become an interesting paradigm, the shift to customer service and patient sat above all else. I think you need to find (and defend) your sweet spot. It sounds like you are actually already doing a lot of the customer-centric things. Where do you think the disconnect is?

u/res0nat0r · 5 pointsr/politics

Yes, that is the dominating factor. It was measured after the 2016 election the biggest indicator if you were going to vote for Trump was racial resentment. No 'economic anxiety' or other nonsense. Sure you might have 'anxiety' your job left town, but you blame non white people for that as the underlying cause.

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Also I'm reading this very good book right now that goes into this very subject and analyses the data: https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980

> In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.

> Physician Jonathan M. Metzl's quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America's heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. And he shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise.

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https://portside.org/2019-03-13/dying-whiteness

> Early in his book, “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland,” physician and social scientist Jonathan M. Metzl introduces a Tennessee man named Trevor. Trevor is 41 and dying of liver disease. He lives in a low-income housing facility and he doesn’t have health insurance.

> “Had Trevor lived a simple thirty-nine minute drive away in neighboring Kentucky, he might have topped the list of candidates for expensive medications called polymerase inhibitors, a life-saving liver transplant, or other forms of treatment and support,” Metzl writes. But Tennessee officials repeatedly blocked efforts to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

> But Trevor is not mad at the state’s elected officials. “Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he tells Metzl. “I would rather die.” When Metzl prods him about why he’d choose death over affordable health care, Trevor’s answer is telling. “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want

u/PHealthy · 4 pointsr/politics

It's not like she's quoted on the back of a wildly anti-vaccine book: https://i.imgur.com/Tu4p1yv.jpg

In case anyone wants to remind Amazon they have tons of anti-vaccine misinformation still for sale: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1937584836/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_hSeQDbXDPQFT9

u/Kitjack · 3 pointsr/nursing

I recommend this book
http://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/0805095152

It is a good read and addresses this issue.

u/Ixistant · 3 pointsr/medicalschool

We tend to use MacLeod's Clinical Examination here in Scotland and it is pretty great! Good detail, nice simple steps and explains what findings might mean, and it has an online resource too. There's a new edition coming out in June 2013 though so if you want the latest edition I'd hang fire or pre-order it.

u/SGDFish · 3 pointsr/TumblrInAction

In a nutshell, I think it's trying to fix a broken system with an equally broken system.

There are two students from the Washington University School of Medicine that came and delivered a lecture to my class (I'm also in med school) about the breakdown of the US healthcare system and how it's really more of an amalgamation of 8 different systems. One of the standout points they mentioned was that while we are currently in a crisis in terms of trying to pay for everyone to have some form of healthcare, just about every other country out there that uses a more socialized system is eventually going to hit where we are, we just happened to get there first.

The sad truth of the matter is that there are limited medical resources (both in terms of equipment and staff), and some people are going to fall through the cracks. I distinctly remember during my interview process a discussion I had with one of my interviewers, who was a doctor and a long time administrator himself. He asked me if I thought healthcare was a right or a privilege. I said I thought it was a right, but it doesn't seem to be implemented that way. He responded that while the ideal is that it's a right, it currently is a privilege and will stay that way until we develop a much better system of managing healthcare. For the time being, there are too many people being forced into a system with too little resources and not enough money behind it to alter how care is given. Other problems are also related to the fact that the existence of insurance has greatly driven up the price of many procedures, there are often an overabundance of procedures (CT, MRI) performed emergently that don't need to be (out of fear of litigation, billing for insurance, or even just trying to give in to a overly-concerned parent), people are very ill-informed about their own health, and even the idea of what base-level care actually means (which is something that Obamacare is supposed to offer to everyone).

All that being said, I won't pretend to have a solution because the situation is so complicated and goes so far beyond just healthcare that I wouldn't know where to begin. Also, my own experience in dealing with healthcare is pretty one-sided, so there are probably some major points I'm missing here.

On a final note, the students I mentioned earlier actually wrote a book, so if you'd like to read up on the whole situation, here's the link-

http://www.amazon.com/The-Health-Care-Handbook-ebook/dp/B0088CMAUU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1367512148&sr=1-1&keywords=the+health+care+handbook

Also, sorry this ended up being super long. The TL;DR version is just this basically: In a nutshell, I think it's trying to fix a broken system with an equally broken system.

u/yourboysaf · 3 pointsr/Mcat

I really like the Healthcare Handbook https://www.amazon.com/Health-Care-Handbook-Concise-United-ebook/dp/B0088CMAUU

It's very concise and covers a lot of crucial topics that you should be aware of going into medicine. For social/economic/political issues ... This is a tough one. A lot of your answers will depend on where you are on the political spectrum. So wherever you lie on that, stick to your conviction and back it with evidence. I am on the left with issues so that's what my answers reflect. So bottom line, be well read in those areas. I'd recommend "Sociology: The Essentials"

u/zealotarchaeologist · 3 pointsr/soma

I highly recommend the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, it's the best thing I've ever read on this subject.

Interestingly, I've yet to talk to anyone who left Lindwall alive. Everyone I discussed the game with thought that would be cruel, and I agree, but I'd be interested to see other perspectives.

u/shatana · 3 pointsr/nursing

Not a book recommendation, but I really, really recommend watching the documentary Alive Inside. I believe it's still on Netflix? What I learned about music therapy from it has helped me connect very deeply with multiple dementia and Parkinson's patients over the years.

The late, great Oliver Sacks also stars as an expert on it, and he wrote Musicophilia, of which there are a couple of chapters that deal with music & memory. I really enjoyed reading that.

Edit: Found my booklist. Here's a really simple handbook that helps guide you in having difficult conversations with seriously ill patients and their families about the patient's condition. It's aimed primarily at doctors (it was made for oncologists originally), but many of its tenets and suggestions can be applied to any level of caregiver.

u/MisterE_MD · 3 pointsr/premed

Buy the healthcare handbook 2nd edition. That's what med students use for a general overview.

u/TheDocJ · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

> They really do rely on you pushing for your own treatment.

Margaret McCartney - GP, often on Radio 4, covered this in part of her excellent-but-depressing book The Patient Paradox.

After an earlier comment I made about mental health service management, it occured to me that it is quite helpful for those who want to buff the apparent quality of the service that they run to discourage the more difficult patients. Easier to get good results with the less unwell. Got a difficult patient? Well, provide them with inadequate or inappropriate support until they stop engaging, and you can exclude them from your quality figures because it is 'their fault' for not completing treatment.

Cynical? Me? Yes, but I like to call it Evidence Based Cynicism (and I got that one from a refreshingly honest service manager.)

u/Radico87 · 2 pointsr/science

TR Reid, The Healing of America is a great read about this topic.

u/mymyhehe · 2 pointsr/badwomensanatomy

If she's pretty healthy, it's ultimately up to momma. VBAC is generally a lot safer and better for mom and baby than repeat cesareans. If she wants to attempt trial of labor, she needs to find an OB or midwife that will support her decision. Sometimes the Dr might say they don't recommend a vbac, but the Dr has a high cesarean rate. Most times when Dr's recommend cesareans, it's out of convenience (for the Dr) and fear of litigation, not what's best for mom and baby. Look up hospitals' cesarean rates in your area. Meet with different doctors/midwives until you find the one the supports your decisions and won't "bait and switch." Do your research and ask questions. Lots and lots of questions. Houston, TX has the largest medical center in the world and there's only one hospital that will allow vbacs after 2+ cesareans, and even though vbac is proven to be safer, Houston still has a high cesarean rate (33%), but also the highest maternal mortality rate in the country🤦🏽‍. So depending on your area, it may be hard (or easy) to find a hospital that will allow mom to attempt a vbac. A cesarean should never be an elective option and should only be reserved for emergencies. It's a major abdominal surgery that takes 6wks to heal from. The "postpartum period" is generally 6wks as well (as far as maternity leave goes, but postpartum can be as long as 2yrs). Do your research and make your own informed decisions, and find a Dr/midwife that supports your decisions. You have a choice in EVERYTHING when it comes to the birth of your child. Here are some links for more info and a few good books on the U.S. maternity system and the industrialization of birth. Also, finding a doula would be beneficial as well. Look up evidence based birth, and maternity care.

Source: I'm a doula, and have doula'd for multiple successful vbacs

https://vbacfacts.com
https://m.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Vaginal-Birth-After-Cesarean-Delivery
https://www.amazon.com/Pushed-Painful-Childbirth-Modern-Maternity/dp/0738211664
https://www.amazon.com/Born-USA-Broken-Maternity-Children/dp/0520256336
https://www.amazon.com/Farmer-Obstetrician-Michel-Odent/dp/1853432040

u/probably_apocryphal · 2 pointsr/premed

The Healthcare Handbook

Blurb:

> The American health care system is vast, complex and confusing. Books about it shouldn't be. The Health Care Handbook is your one-stop guide to the people, organizations and industries that make up the U.S. health care system, and the major issues the system faces today. The Handbook's five chapters (250 pages) cover:

> * Inpatient and outpatient health care and delivery systems

  • The different types of health insurance and how they're structured
  • Health policy and government health care programs
  • Concise summaries of 31 different health professions
  • Medical research, technology, and drugs
  • A clear summary of the Affordable Care Act, challenges to the law, and other reform options.
  • Economic concepts and the factors that make health care so expensive
  • The Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries

    In my opinion, this book has a great balance of completeness/readability - I had a pretty fragmented knowledge of the healthcare system, and this book tied everything together and filled in the gaps.

    Full disclosure: The Healthcare Handbook was written by two students at the med school that I attend, and our class was given free copies of the book - but I totally think it's worth the $8.
u/sasky_81 · 2 pointsr/medicine

Found it: The Health Care Handbook

As I said - not a deep, immersive book, but it gives a very good, detailed pespective of the health care system as it exists today, written by people inside it.

u/fivehundredpoundpeep · 2 pointsr/lostgeneration

Racism is running some of the show, where people chose their own demise. This is where the propaganda machine, pushed the idea welfare is for "those people".

https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980

u/crocoduck_hunter · 2 pointsr/healthcare

I've heard that The Healing of America by T.R. Reid is good, though I haven't read it myself.

I can't recommend enough The Social Transformation of American Medicine, although I doubt it would "be assigned in an intro course." It's not exactly a light read, though.

u/Mrpchristy · 2 pointsr/globaldev

Hi - not a mod here but I would be disappointed if this were a place where cynicism was unwelcome. So: welcome!

I'm not sure where to find updated information to resolve the issue of the outdated Wikipedia article.

ODA (Official Development Assistance, or foreign aid) is a messy, complicated, sometimes helpful and sometimes harmful thing that exists. There are myriad reasons why ODA is ineffective, starting with the phenomenon itself. Some economists argue that aid helps, some argue that it doesn't. Then, when it is given, there are issues of corruption, challenges in using the funds with the donor's restrictions, or misguided/uninformed/politically-motivated directives as to how funds must be used. Money is not usually just given to foreign governments (unless in the form of loans), it is given for specific uses - i.e. HIV/AIDS. And, then it is also not always given directly to foreign federal governments, it may be given via a contractor or NGO. So then you have a middle-man, so to speak, and there are numerous issues with that system as well.

There are inefficiencies and lack of knowledge or disagreement on evidence-based practices at best, and corruption at worst. A good place to answer these questions would be to check out a few books on foreign aid written since ~2000. I'm currently reading Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, which gives a good overview of some aspects of foreign assistance.

Your cynicism is well-placed, this is a system that was designed to be, has always been and remains very, very broken. That doesn't mean it hasn't done some good, however it also continues to do some great harm. If you don't find the answers you're looking for here, I encourage you to find them in the books, lectures, articles, etc. that exist to try to answer those questions.

Source: 6 years' work experience in international development and masters in public health with a global health focus.

u/allthehedgehogs · 2 pointsr/AskScienceDiscussion

I would start with textbooks then move to reviews then to original research (but you probably won't get that far until actually in the job.)

Perhaps go by system if you want and look at the relevant basic sciences (anatomy/physiology/biochem/pharm etc), clinical medicine/surgery and then clinical skills (history taking/examination/procedural skills etc) for the major systems eg CVS, resp, endo, GI, gen surgery, neuro. I've linked an example textbook I used.

It's pretty tough to teach yourself the material to be honest so focus on the patient not the underlying science, go through cases (such as those featured in NEJM) to get a picture of the ambiguity involved in medicine. Visit websites such as almostadoctor, handwrittentutorials, trickcyclists, geekymedics123, DoctorNajeeb, teachmeanatomy, become familiar with the language and the feel of medicine as well as establishing some knowledge foundations. It's knowledge, skills and attitude that make a professional not just knowledge.

u/Eloquent_Macaroni · 2 pointsr/breakingmom

So, this book isn't written for 5 year olds and it's not specific to your plan, but it is a really good overall explanation of the healthcare system in the US. You don't have to read it all at once, there are sections on different aspects. I highly recommend it. It looks like the paperback is only through 3rd party sellers but you could get the kindle version and just read it in a web browser on your computer if you don't have a kindle

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PWQ93M8/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_QLIlDb3NTV643

u/hbarSquared · 1 pointr/NeutralPolitics

If you want an excellent read on both the cost and the morality of excessive, interventionist end-of-life care, I can't recommend Atul Gawande's Being Mortal enough. IMO, it's one of the most important books written in the last 5 years.

u/calypsocasino · 1 pointr/premed

hey buddy.

Health Care Handbook by Elizabeth Askin & Nathan Moore. I read it when applying in 2013 and at the time it was a free pdf. Now it's a book but I remember reading like 20 pages every morning in bed and it was like a kid's book. So easily digestible. I was accepted to USC (Los Angeles), Tulane and Miami and all interviewers said I was very well versed in Obamacare. Also, google "Redditor explains obamacare" by /u/CaspianX ...I read that everyday for a month and it melted into my memory, didn't even have to actively memorize. And it was...dare I say...even enjoyable to read haha.

I haven't read the other one's posted here but they may be just what you're looking for too!

Amazon link (can get digital and have it in 2 seconds!): http://www.amazon.com/Health-Care-Handbook-Elisabeth-Askin-ebook/dp/B0088CMAUU

Review of the book: http://healthcarehandbook.wustl.edu/


good luck and please PM for any help with the admissions process. I answer loads of PMs every week and have been since this time last year. I received help from a friend a year above me and feel the need to pay it forward!

:)

u/OwnTheInterTubes · 1 pointr/AdviceAnimals

I am currently reading surgeon Atul Gawande's book Being Mortal. The books deals with end of life care. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to see the research on this topic. Amazon

u/iulius · 1 pointr/userexperience

This has been asked recently, so I'd recommend browsing the archives, but...

There are a ton of UX-focused books out there that focus on different areas. If you have an area you're trying to grow your skills in, let us know. There maybe better or worse books for that.

  • If Disney Ran Your Hospital — I love this book because it's about user experience, but has nothing to do with websites or apps (which is pretty much all we think about when we say UX anymore). This really opens the world of UX to everything that the user experiences, from how they hear about your service, find it, consume it and remember it.

  • The Essential Persona Lifecycle — This book helps you understand how to research your customers and users, which, at the end of the day, are the only thing that matters in true UCD. If toy can get buy-in for personas at your organization, the whole UX world opens up.

  • The Anatomy of Type — This gets a little design heavy, but words, labels, and copy are so important to good usability, that understanding type at a deeper level is a must for me.

    I tend to shy away from books with UX in the title. It's just to trendy right now. UX isn't new by any stretch, though, so finding books that expand your horizons a bit is a good thing.
u/Semisonic · 1 pointr/politics

Mmmm. I smell trollbait.

If you're really interested in educating yourself on healthcare, I sincerely suggest taking an hour and watching this lecture lecture. T.R. Reid provides one of the clearest, most politically objective overviews of world healthcare I've ever heard. The lecture is essentially a free run-through of his book. If you're capable of stepping beyond the American political echo chamber and really looking at what works and what doesn't work, then save yourself $13 and check out the lecture. I think you'll find it edifying.

u/ejpusa · 1 pointr/Alzheimers

Check out this book. Amazing writer. Think you’ll find it interesting.

If you don’t die a fairly painless death from ALZ, you’ll die a painful death from cancer. That’s just what the data says. I’ll take the ALZ path myself.

Eventually the decision will have to made, shut down a children’s vaccination program and divert the $$$s to ALZ research, that’s the issue coming up. What would you do?

The Atlantic Article :

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/dying-better/384626/


The book:

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805095152?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title


“Beautifully written . . . In his newest and best book, Gawande . . . has provided us with a moving and clear-eyed look at aging and death in our society, and at the harms we do in turning it into a medical problem, rather than a human one.” ―The New York Review of Books

PS. I don’t usually say “Nazi”, you can say the German people. They were just everyday people. Could have been anyone. Just like anyone you or I know.

Thanks for the reply, always enjoy thinking about it all.

u/ButGravityAlwaysWins · 1 pointr/PoliticalDiscussion

If anybody is interested in reading on the subject I highly recommend Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End"

https://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/0805095152

But if the conversation around the ACA proves anything, if that logic goes out the door when you get an easy signed by like "death panels" and can convince a large number of Americans that the government is actually going to set up a board to decide what kind of Americans live and die.

u/WinterCharm · 1 pointr/offmychest

> I want to live again. I want to go out and enjoy every single minute God gives me here on Earth. I don't want to schedule my day around taking pills, or my week around when I am going to have to go in for an infusion. I am at peace with my choice and I just wish someone understood.

You should share this article with your parents: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/07/06/413691959/knowing-how-doctors-die-can-change-end-of-life-discussions

Here's an excerpt:

> In 2011, Murray, a retired family practice physician, shared his observations in an online article that quickly went viral. The essay, "How Doctors Die," told the world that doctors are more likely to die at home with less aggressive care than most people get at the end of their lives. That's Murray's plan, too.

And, if they still aren't convinced, have them read this: http://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/0805095152

In short, I think you made the right choice. Also, read both of those things yourself.

And if anyone tries to guilt you into resuming treatment, tell them they're grasping at false hopes, emotionally manipulating you, and that treatment is miserable, and you don't want to spend what little time you have left being miserable.

If there isn't a cure, there isn't a cure. Everyone's life ends anyways at some point. You have the blessing of knowing that you only have so long left. Make every second count, and tell anyone who thinks otherwise to kindly fuck off.

<3 best of luck OP.

u/ohmylemons · 1 pointr/medicine

I liked this book.

u/PsychedelicPill · 1 pointr/politics

Heard an interview with this author recently, you aren’t alone in your realizations: https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980

Interview:

u/NeinNeinNein1 · 1 pointr/Anarcho_Capitalism

(Note: I'm an Anarchist too)

>When people are forced, through taxation at the threat of gunpoint or jailtime, to give their property to the State, then people become less likely to care about their fellow man.

I don't agree with this. Take the example of Cuba, I am no expert in Cuba (and nor do I claim that this is a good country in any other aspect other than the inhabitants' goodwill), but there's a really interesting thing about this country

>Now the state was expected to help these people out, and the couple thought that they would get the help they needed.

I think the answer I’d give you here if I were a Democratic Socialist is pretty obvious: There’s no reason why the would not receive that help in a Democratic Socialist country (“…have combined with cuts to welfare state budgets to undermine those efforts.”)

>If people had more money to spend, and gave nothing to the state, then we'd all be able to help everyone out. Abolish the state, and there is plenty of money to go around, and you are more likely to care for your neighbors.

Firstly, money is not the only important thing, you can have less money but more time to take part of voluntary groups, and it’s clear that while one might be lead to think that higher taxes mean that you will spend more time working to compensate the loss, it is not quite so (“More than 80% of males in the US and 60% of female workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Compare this with a Scandinavian country such as Norway where about 20% of males and 7% of females work more than 40 hours of week.”).

The lack of money is not a problem, we already have more than enough right now, and it is hard for me to believe the State is the source of the problem, or that a transition towards an AnCap society without some source for those claims.
Furthermore, you are ignoring the main argument the Author gives, that social isolation is a problem and that in Capitalist countries without big welfare states people have less time to help each other (From the article: "More than 80% of males in the US and 60% of female workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Compare this with a Scandinavian country such as Norway where about 20% of males and 7% of females work more than 40 hours of week."), if you hope to debunk his arguments that's where you'll have to concentrate.

>When the State is supposed to help people, and doesn't, then people can just blame the State. Which is why I'm more of an anarcho-capitalist/voluntarist.
There’s no reason why the existence of welfare makes voluntary groups impossible, in fact, if people vote for said groups (and therefore agree to pay taxes that fund the welfare) there is little reason to believe they cannot coexist, at least in my opinion.

u/sacca7 · 1 pointr/personalfinance

It's actually not good to have parents move in if you can help it. Emotionally, they are your parents and may try to run your life, your kitchen, your household, your waking and sleeping hours, in all sorts of unimaginable ways.

Yes, it is financially inexpensive, but the emotional tolls are very, very high. Divorce level high.

Look into reading Atul Gawande's book, Being Mortal, if you haven't already.

u/allenahansen · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Anymore, the focus is on industrializing the hospice business, making it an adjunct of existing nursing homes, and moving as many bodie$ through the system as possible.

Which is a damned shame. Atul Gawande has a wonderful new book out that discusses end-of-life care in great and compassionate depth. Highly recommended for anyone facing these painful decisions.

u/reo_sam · 1 pointr/india

Not really.

Chemotherapy is horrible for some patients making them feel even worse than death.

If you can, you should read up Being Mortal. I cannot recommend it enough. It will change your perspective about death, and also about life. Review 1, 2.

More.

> our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; and that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, culture, and conversations to transform the possibilities for the last chapters of all of our lives.

u/hoppityhoppity · 1 pointr/healthcare

Does your new job give you any journal access?

Beyond these Walls may be a good place to start. I'm personally working through a couple of books byAtul Gawande, including Being Mortal - not directly related to your field, but he's a great storyteller.

If your clinic has a research focus, it also couldn't hurt to take a look through any publications by your physicians. Amazon has bestseller lists in about any category, so you can get recommendations there too.

u/e4gleeye · 1 pointr/indonesia

I have not read it, but this book seem to be recommended if you want to try understand the mind of white far right. Might be close enough?

https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980

u/currently-on-toilet · 1 pointr/politics

I think the poster was pretty spot on.

Here's a book that discusses, at length, white identity