[PDF] Health Care Half Truths eBook

Author : Arthur Garson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0742558304

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Are you tired of hearing that the American health care 'system' is broken? Well, it is. You can't understand your bill--or pay it; you wait an hour before seeing the doctor for ten minutes; and that was your child who was just laid off, and whose family has no health insurance. Health Care Half-Truths shows the ways in which American health care is tarnished and ways in which it shines, explaining that if we are going to make our health care system work for us we must begin with a common set of information. Unfortunately, our current information comes from sound bites that on their surface seem perfectly reasonable, but on closer examination are wrong. Health Care Half-Truths untangles the misinformation, misperceptions, and confusion that have confounded the American public and our elected officials. Dr. Arthur Garson identifies twenty myths about the U.S. health care system and uses his extensive knowledge and keen insights to blow them apart.

Author : Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2006-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1422154580

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The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.

Author : Adam Hamilton
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1501813889

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They are simple phrases. They sound Christian—like something you might find in the Bible. We’ve all heard these words. Maybe we’ve said them. They capture some element of truth, yet they miss the point in important ways. Join Adam Hamilton in this 5-week Bible study to search for the whole truth by comparing common Christian clichés with the wisdom found in Scripture. The clichés include: Everything happens for a reason. God helps those who help themselves. God won’t give you more than you can handle. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Author : Aaron Carroll
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 014192926X

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Men with big feet have big penises You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day Sugar makes kids hyper Eating at night makes you fat Chewing gum stays in your stomach for seven years You lose 40% of your body heat through your head Every day, you hear or think things about your body and health that are just not true. Maybe you saw them on TV, read them in magazines or heard them from friends (or even a doctor). This book is for anyone who has wondered about the truth behind these myths. Funny, wacky and full of fascinating facts, Don't Swallow Your Gum explains why so many of those weird and worrisome things we think about our bodies are mistaken.

Author : Ferdinand Gul
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1780632770

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Truths and Half Truths is aimed at economic and social science academics and students who are interested in the dynamics of China’s institutional development and societal transformation. Covering the complexity of the social, economic, and governance reforms behind the economic miracles achieved by China since its reform in 1978, and particularly in the past twenty years, this book provides much needed insight and critical thinking on major aspects of China’s reform. Topics include employment, environment, anti-poverty; urbanization and rural development; education, corruption, political regime and media. Readers will be able to re-evaluate the costs and benefits of China’s modernization from a point-of-view of sustainability. Written by highly knowledgeable and well respected academics in law and economics with decades of experience in China studies Provides an insight from academic points of view written in a reader-friendly journalistic style An integrated monograph; each chapter addresses a particular area of reform and can be read independently

Author : C. Robert Adams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781477120330

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The X-rayed Book of Medical Care is a carefully selected collection of medical essays. Village rulers (politicians), surreptitious academic researchers, and medical savants know whats best for us. They give us the truth and nothing but the truth, but not necessarily the whole truth. What you dont know can hurt you. Death panels (rationing of care), hospitalists, inane limitations in cancer screening, and frivolousness in heavily funded medical research are detailed. Issues as regards to use of over-the-counter herbs and supplements, alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana are discussed. Means are suggested to approach such fuzzy problems as hyperactivity, dizziness, psychiatric misdirection, retired tiredness, childhood insurrection, as well as irresistible or impossible sleep. Sinister forces and preposterous political proclamations are insidiously trying to dumb down our medical IQ. Elitist leaders are justifying this by touting advances in software and sterile computerized medical decision making. Physicians are being made to fear the consequences of violations of protocols of care (algorithmic sequence). Common sense, evidence-based medicine, experience, honest data analysis, tradition (custom), and receptive flexible logic need to be blended to make a more perfect union of human and cyber capabilities. Our medical monolith is becoming a foreboding juggernaut of evolution and revolution. Thomas Jefferson was poignant when he stated, it is safer to have the whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.

Author : Aaron E. Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Human physiology
ISBN : 9780141044224

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The truth behind all those weird and worrisome things you think about your body - EXPOSED! Face it-you have more access to medical information than ever before, and yet you still believe 'facts' about your body and health that are just plain wrong. Don't Swallow Your Gum! Takes on these myths and misconceptions and exposes them for what they are. Inside these pages, the following myths (and many more!) are dispelled: You need to drink eight glasses of water a day Chewing gum stays in your stomach for seven years. A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's. Dr. Carroll and Dr. Vreeman blend authoritative research with a breezy sense of humour, providing the ultimate myth-busting collection of more than eighty enlightening, practical, and quirky facts about your health and well-being.

Author : John Leifer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1442225963

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The American health care system is terminally ill. It is astonishingly expensive, remarkably variable in quality, and incapable of stemming the rising tide of chronic illness in our population. Yet, the majority of Americans believe it is the best system in the world and cling to the belief that, far from ailing, it delivers care superior to those of countries across the globe. The system has obliged us by providing an elaborate set of myths and misconceptions about American health care that significantly shape our beliefs. These myths keep us blissfully ignorant about the true quality, safety, and value of the care we receive. This ignorance has a price: it leads us to draw erroneous conclusions about our conditions, fail to properly evaluate potential treatment options, and rarely question our providers’ competency. The Myths of Modern Medicine looks at the real issues contributing to the dysfunction of our healthcare system and how these issues affect the care we receive. The book, based upon John Leifer’s 30 years of immersion in the healthcare industry, challenges some of our most commonly held misperceptions about this vitally important industry. Leifer strips away the elaborately constructed myths that conceal the ugly underbelly of healthcare and lays bare the truth about an industry that serves special interest groups far better than it serves its patients. A survival guide for anyone entering the healthcare system, this timely work helps consumers better research provider competency; ask the right questions to evaluate potential treatment options; and communicate the information that will help yield the right treatment decisions. Several studies have shown patients today have only about a 50 percent chance of getting the generally accepted best treatment for their conditions. This book helps consumers increase these odds with step-by-step directions on how to interact more productively with their doctors and become true partners in making what may be the most crucial decisions of their lives.