The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet. Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government. You can't solve a problem if you don't know what the problem is. One of Lustig's singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to "connect the dots" for the general reader, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the "real story of food" and "the story of real food."&nbsp; Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:&nbsp; <ul> <li>Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself</li> <li>You can diagnose your own biochemical profile&nbsp;</li> <li>Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable"&nbsp;</li> <li>Processed food isn't just toxic, it's addictive</li> <li>The war between vegan and keto is a false war--the combatants are on the same side</li> <li>Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side</li> </ul> Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what's needed to fix all three.

Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lustig, Robert H

Diets & Weight Loss

Harper

Already the number one text on health policy and rapidly becoming a classic, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 3E covers such fundamental topics as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Extensive case histories, drawn from the authors' actual practice, bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the healthcare system. 
 New to this Edition 
 * More information on 2-tier model of reimbursement * Greater emphasis on defined contribution approach to controlling costs * Includes comparative information on health care policy in Canada, the UK, and Germany * "Questions &amp; Discussion Topics" provided for each chapter to stimulate classroom discussion 
 Please consider this important new edition for your course. Your students will gain an engaging text, that according to a review by the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law of the prior edition, "goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system has worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."

Understanding Health Policy

Science & Math

Grumbach, Kevin

Bodenheimer, Thomas S.

Biological Sciences

McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange

"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States." -Annals of Internal Medicine, on the First Edition 
The #1 text on health policy, this well-known book provides a short introduction to U.S. health care policy by two leading experts who are themselves practicing physicians. The Fourth Edition features the latest information on cost containment, health insurance, managed care, hospital payment, and the new two-tier model of physician reimbursement.

Understanding Health Policy (LANGE)

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

McGraw-Hill Medical

This is the only reference currently available that focuses on the treatment of patients living with chronic diseases in poor and minority populations.

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, and Populations

King, Talmadge E.

Wheeler, Margaret B.

Fernandez, Alicia

Schillinger, Dean

Bindman, Andrew B.

Villela, Teresa J.

McGraw-Hill Education / Medical

An engaging and clinically applicable work on the principles and structure of the U.S. healthcare system A Doody's Core Title for 2011! "Eminently readable...Anyone wanting to gain insight into the forces that shaping health policy and the future of health care will appreciate this book."--Critical Care Nurse Magazine Understanding Health Policy is the best-written, most informative book available on the subject--and it's the #1 choice for healthcare students and professionals alike. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues both interesting and understandable. Fully updated to reflect current issues in the ever-changing world of healthcare, the newest edition addresses all the topics that affect you most, from the structure and organization of the industry to issues regarding government and private insurance, to access to healthcare. Everything you need to understand how the healthcare system works - and your role in it: <ul>
<li> Clinical vignettes in every chapter illustrate key points </li>
<li> Detailed treatment of both U.S. and international issues </li>
<li> A complete chapter of review questions </li>
<li> NEW Expanded coverage of healthcare workers other than physicians </li>
<li> NEW Closer scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry </li>
<li> NEW Brand-new chapter on the medical education system</li>
</ul>

Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

Bodenheimer, Thomas

Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it
Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act
A Doody's Core Title for 2015!
The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and professionals need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues.
Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system―from the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand―so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Coverage of structure, organization, and financing of the health care system</li>
<li>Key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples are skillfully interwoven in each chapter to make important issues interesting and understandable </li>
<li>Clinical vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations </li>
<li>Comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learned</li>
</ul>
Understanding Health Policy, 6e will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems.

Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach

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The leading reference and text on caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirements – updated and expanded in full color
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019! 
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations, Second Edition is designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best practices and compliance with legislation, such as the Affordable Care Act, when caring for patients living with chronic diseases in poor and minority populations. How do these laws affect you, your practice, and patient care?
 Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients is ideally suited for clinical and educational programs and policy-oriented institutions concerned with addressing health disparities and caring for the underserved and vulnerable patient. Comprehensive in scope and authored by many of the leading names in the field, the book takes complex concepts and issues and helps you understand them, resulting in a “roadmap” to guide real-world applications and compliance with the terms of the law. Each chapter integrates key concepts, core competencies, and common pitfalls and concludes with useful lists of web resources and stimulating discussion questions. 
Highlights of the Second Edition:

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations

Talmadge E. King Jr

Margaret B. Wheeler

Andrew B. Bindman

Alicia Fernandez

Kevin Grumbach

Dean Schillinger

Teresa J. Villela

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The leading textbook of hospital medicine – completely updated to reflect today’s challenges 
A Doody’s Core Title for 2019! 
Since its publication in 2012, Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition has become the field’s premier resource. Comprehensive, authoritative, and practical, this landmark text provides a solid grounding in clinical, organizational, and administrative areas central to the practice of hospital medicine. 
The Second Edition has been completely updated to reflect the evolving practice responsibilities of hospitalists. Examples include value-based medicine, expanded surgical content, bedside clinical reasoning, and a new segment devoted to rehabilitation and skilled nursing care. This edition also features a more accessible and streamlined full-color design enriched by more than 600 illustrations. Each clinical chapter opens with boxed Key Clinical Questions that are addressed in the text and summarized in hundreds of tables. Case studies demonstrate how to apply this information specifically to the management of hospitalized patients.
Representing the expertise of more than two hundred renowned contributors, Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition is logically divided into six sections:
• The Specialty of Hospital Medicine and Systems of Care • Medical Consultation • Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Care • The Approach to the Patient at the Bedside • Diagnostic Testing and Procedures • Clinical Conditions in the Inpatient Setting
Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition is essential reading for clinicians who strive to optimize inpatient care and sharpen their leadership skills.

Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, Second Edition

Scheurer, Danielle

McKean, Sylvia C.

Ross, John J.

Dressler, Daniel D.

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? Logically enough, we’ve pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . . Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation’s most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story. "We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don’t simply replace my doctor’s scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it’s not too late to get it right." This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.

Business & Money

Wachter, Robert

Industries

McGraw-Hill.

Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions

Stephen Barrett

McGraw-Hill College

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