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Current and future mental health providers will find much value in this carefully edited book. Driven by the mandates of emerging managed care on mental health services, "Managing Care" explores creative ways to develop an effective and cost-conscious continuum of mental health care for children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of settings. Realistic clinical case histories are used to guide the reader into the reexamination of the effectiveness...
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"The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition - but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality." "Dranove pays special attention to the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a new direction...
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This book helps nurse managers define their role in the managed care system, learn strategies in financial management and focus on preventative care, while working on re-engineering patient care delivery systems, utilization, and outcomes management. It addresses topics from defining managed care andexplaining how a company works, to addressing ethical and legal issues that arise in the managed care system.
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"Building on his nearly ten years with the acclaimed think tank, the Institute for the Future, Morrison shows why structural change within the evolving health care system has the potential to create unprecedented growth and opportunity for everyone in the field. The book is filled with visionary thinking, including resolving the fundamental tensions of cost, quality, access, and security of benefits; selecting the best from health care systems around...
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In his book How Doctors Think, Dr. Jerome Groopman provides insight onthe thought processesbehind decisions that doctors make and explores the important relationship between doctor and patient. In this interview, Groopman discusses why he wrote the book, the prevalence of misdiagnosis, and more.
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One of the nation's most respected health care analysts, Herzlinger exposes the motives and methods of those who have crippled America's health care system - figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental and academic sectors. She proves how our current system, which is organized around payers and providers rather than the needs of its users, is dangerously eroding patient welfare and is pushing costs out of the reach of millions.
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Court, a nationally recognized consumer advocate and founder of a health care watchdog project, and Smith, an attorney and president of a public policy consulting firm, expose appalling practices of HMOs and the corrupt world of managed care. They telltrue stories of patient victims who got caught and killed in the system, and expose the profit motive behind the misery, revealing the collusion of the insurance industry's powerful lobbyists with Congress...
12) A Right to Die?
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Should doctors be allowed to help suffering patients die? Twenty-five years ago, with his homemade suicide machine, Dr. Jack Kevorkian raised that question. It's an issue Americans still struggle with today.
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