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Making medical decisions is overwhelming.Dr. Archelle Georgiou has helped thousands of people make choices thatbalance the bestmedical optionswith individual preferences. Now she shares her 5-step formula so you can make smart decisionstailored to the care you want and need.

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An honest, personal, lyrical investigation into the suicidal mind

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While plenty can be said about the dysfunction of our health care system, rarely do business and private players in health care innovation get a good rap. This book takes on skeptics of the partnership between the medical community, political groups, and private businesses, by illustrating how such cooperation can result in world-class innovation and health care delivery.

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A study of medical care pricing and its social, political, and economic consequences.

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This title drills deeply into the broken American health care industrydemonstrating how the medical industrys self-serving interests have run afoul of safe care. Written by passionate experts in multiple relevant fields, this book shows readers how the system works, why it works this way, how it harms and often kills people and how we can fix it.

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A top expert on decision-making explains why it's so hard to make good choices-and what you and your doctor can do to make better ones

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In time for the 2008 US presidential elections and following on the heels of Michael Moore's Sicko, 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care offers powerful ammunition in favour of a fundamental change to American health care

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This report highlights changes in general practice activity in Australia over the most recent decade (April 2001 to March 2011) of the BEACH program, a national cross-sectional study of general practice activity. Over this time 9801 participating GPs provided details of 981,000 GP-patient encounters.

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A travelling exhibition celebrating a national institution and colourful part of Australian life. Captures the events, personalities and the innovations that have made surf lifesaving in Australia the vibrant movement it is today.

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This is an account of the changing provision for the insane in north Wales from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the millennium. It sets the history of insanity in the area against a background of social and cultural issues.

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An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco.

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Clinical data mining in an allied health organisation: a real world experience shows how data-mining methodology can be used to promote quality management and research in the work of allied health professions. Australian authors.

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As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Why have costs risen in the first place And how can we improve the quality and affordability of care This book argues that these fundamental questions must be answered.

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Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). If you're looking for information on these benefits and services, look no further than the newest edition of "Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents, and Survivors."

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The cleaner's cupboard at the old Moe Hospital is the now-legendary birth place of what has become the Monash University School of Rural Health. This is the history of the formation of Australia's first multidisciplinary rural health academic unit in 1992 and its evolution into a school.

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This book offers an introduction to many aspects of health and society in 20th century Wales, ranging from public health, to personal life-styles and household budgets, birth control and the incidence of deaths from childbirth.