Health Systems

When Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington became a cancer patient, she faced insurmountable medical bills. That’s when she took her insider industry knowledge and put it to work. In Crush Medical Debt, she shares her secrets to help individuals, families, and veterans protect against America’s number-one cause of bankruptcy—medical debt. Filled with practical and step-by-step strategies, this guide provides the tools you need to stop spending money you don't owe and save yourself from becoming a victim of a predatory health care system.

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.

Just say "no" to sugar, learn how to control and get over your sugar cravings, and learn better eating habits with this guided meditation and relaxation program, from certified hypnotherapist, Joel Thielke. It's as easy as turning on the tracks and falling asleep! The special inductions will gently guide you into your REM stage of sleep, working with your subconscious to make lasting change that you can see.

From two of the world's top scientists and one of the world's top science writers (all parents), Dirt Is Good is a Q&A-based guide to everything you need to know about kids and germs. "Is it OK for my child to eat dirt?" Jack Gilbert and Rob Knight are bombarded with questions like this every week from parents all over the world. Google a question like this, and you'll be overwhelmed with answers. The Internet is rife with speculation and misinformation about the risks and benefits of what most parents think of as simply germs, but which scientists now call the microbiome.

Do you feel exhausted? Experience foggy thinking and mysterious symptoms that come and go - symptoms your doctors can’t figure out and yet they keep prescribing more and more medications? Do you have headaches, congestion, or allergies? Do you suffer from joint pain, sleep challenges, hormone imbalances, skin problems such as eczema and psoriasis, thyroid dysfunction, or any other autoimmune disorder? Holistic healthcare expert Kristin Grayce McGary reveals that the answer to resolving your health challenges may lie in comprehensive gut repair.

This guide is intended for adult sons and daughters of their aging parent to help retain either staying in their home safely or identify what level of care is optimal in the community. I review levels of care and precisely what a person's abilities look like at each level, which will help patients and families understand their options for meeting specific care needs. This often translates to the cost you may pay, for example, at your chosen assisted living facility.

What is lupus disease? It's a question that has baffled doctors and medical researchers for decades, and there's still not a real good answer to that question. There are many things that one should know about this disease. Lupus is an uncommon disorder that can be quite challenging. Multiple organs can be impacted, and it can manifest differently in various people. Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus could present with a blood issue as their first symptom, although this may be hard to believe. This essay describes five indications that should never be disregarded.

Who doesn’t want to be smarter, think faster, have a better memory? This book, combining inspirational Chicken Soup for the Soul stories written just for this book and accessible leading-edge medical information from Harvard Medical School neurologist and instructor Dr. Marie Pasinski, will motivate listeners to get more out of their gray matter!

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.

This audiobook is a practical, evidence-based guide to seven key leadership disciplines that will help anyone working in health care to pursue brighter futures. In this audiobook, Andrew Garman looks at the major changes facing health-care organizations and the leadership competencies required to successfully meet those challenges. He explains how people become more effective leaders over time and what science tells us works best in making this happen.

The paleo diet, in general, aims to recreate the peak health conditions of paleolithic humans by copying what they ate. The autoimmune paleo diet modifies the overall approach by restricting foods that trigger unpleasant immune responses. This audiobook provides useful information to help you know what to eat so you can get the most pleasure and nutrition from food.

Buy this audiobook by Amazon best-selling author Dr. M Kotb! Have you struggled with fatigue, muscle pains, inflammatory arthritis, diabetes, or have a family history of cancer? This audiobook gives you the step-by-step game plan to achieve recovery with fun and easy steps.

Do you feel tired and exhausted all the time? Does your constant joint pain make you feel like doing nothing all day? Is your face puffy, and is your hair thinning? Is your skin dry and patchy? Or are you frustrated and depressed often? Then you may have Hashimoto's disease! Oftentimes your doctor and family may make you feel like it's all in your head - that there's nothing wrong with you. But you know something's wrong. You're not alone! Many like you are suffering from this autoimmune disease, and there's hope for you!

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?

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.

You don't have to live with them! In this concise audiobook you'll discover valuable, usable information that can help you get rid of headache pain! Learn biblical secrets on health and the latest medical research on how to break free from the grip of headaches.

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.

If you're exhausted and in terrible pain, concerned about bills and need to take back your health, then Crystal's story is for you! The solution she used was a simple, powerful anti-inflammatory diet which promotes natural healing - at the source of the problem. With the right autoimmune protocol, you can quickly begin to reduce painful symptoms from lupus, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, arthritis, and other A.I. disease.

Get more excited and motivated to exercise, and start losing weight and tone your muscles with this soothing program from the world-renowned Sleep Learning System, narrated by best selling hypnotherapist, Rachael Meddows. Just turn on the tracks, relax, and let your subconscious mind do the work for you. The Sleep Learning System is specially designed to work with your subconscious mind during your sleep cycle.

In the multibillion-dollar business of American medicine, doctors are often portrayed as culprits—opportunistic millionaires who prey on the misfortune of their hapless patients and drive up the cost of health care. But often they are the real victims of a system designed to increase profits for the insurance companies, shady businessmen, and Big Government.