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Health professionals need to learn the communication skills that will create collaborative and mutually satisfying relationships with patients.

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Explores the development of patient-consumerism from the 1960s to 2010 in relation to seven key areas: patient autonomy, representation, complaint, rights, information, voice and choice. -- .

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Examining both positive and negative effects, Rosser shows that the spread of the HIV virus was actually accelerated by a national education campaign utilizing fear, and contrasts this result with four international gay-sensitive education campaigns that produced positive changes in behavior and lifestyle.

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Birenbaum, a health-policy analyst, has created a synthesis of research studies and analyses of trends to chronicle these developments and to suggest remedies to correct the most unjust aspects of managed care.

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Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models, and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models.

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Philosophical debates over the fundamental principles that should guide life-and-death medical decisions usually occur at a considerable remove from the tough, real-world choices made in hospital rooms, courthouses, and legislatures. This title seeks to change that.

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Covering a wide range of topics in medical economics, the author provides a comprehensive study of cost containment and financial management. The issues of health care competition, regulation, marketing, and the impact of health finances on the quality of care are addressed.

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This book examines the relationship between medical law and ethics, and how the law sees medical ethics.

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Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars and engage with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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The book includes a short history of medical licensure and the surveys of law governing medical practice in the U.S. The later chapters deal with legal background for disciplinary actions taken by the licensing boards.

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An examination of US medical malpractice issues using statistical analysis. It introduces various tort reforms that have been proposed or implemented by some states, and analyzes the impact of these reforms on medical malpractice payment rates, claim payments and malpractice insurance.

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Medical Misadventure considers the doctors whose careers were disrupted or entirely derailed by misfortune, ineptitude, or temptation to crime. Conflicts with colleagues, and threats to medical masculinity, gave rise to extraordinary stories of loss, distress, and occasional recovery. -- .

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An introduction and reference to the legal principles of obtaining, reviewing, interpreting, and understanding the documents in a medical record. The review and analysis of medical records is a part of any personal injury or malpractice case. This book provides an introduction to the law and basic principles as they apply to medical records.

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This book analyses how nineteenth-century doctors gathered in medical societies to discuss, evaluate, publish and celebrate their studies. It reveals how the codes of conduct that regulated scientific practice corresponded to the values of social engagement, polite debate and a free press of the urban bourgeoisie. -- .

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Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and the critical judgment needed to solve them. According to Dr. King, modern technological advances are really new ways of answering old questions, while the basic modes of medical thinking have not changed.

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and the significant impact of medical tourism on health care systemsthat of the United States, and those of the destination countries.

The book highlights many contemporary problems, controversies, and implications of medical tourism both for individuals and health care systems, and presents thought-provoking potential solutions.

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This wide-ranging resource serves as a guide for understanding America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.