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In the five years since Willow O'Keefe was born with a rare congenital disorder, her parents have endured sleepless nights, mounting medical bills, and the pitying stares of strangers. A whip-smart child, kind, brave, and an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom, she is beloved by her family--but the burden of her care has strained them to the limit. And when her mother seeks to do Willow justice, alienating those closest to her in the process, she must...
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"From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system-- and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least, this is what the health care power players want you to think....
3) Patch Adams
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
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2016.
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"A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees' income and Medicare guarantees them affordable health insurance. But few people know what Medicare covers and what it doesn't, what it costs, and...
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One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections, and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games in...
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2021.
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x, 355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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A concise guide to healthcare and health insurance basics, which provides tools that patients need before, during, and after they get medical care. The author describes the care we need, the care we don’t, and how to deal with doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. Telemedicine and healthcare apps that have become so important during the coronavirus epidemic are also explained.--Adapted from Amazon.com.
"The latest installment...
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[2020]
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295 pages ; 24 cm
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"Health care is killing our economy and, in many cases, killing us. Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can't get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business. In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's...
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Tippi and Grace. Grace and Tippi. For them, it's normal to step into the same skirt. To hook their arms around each other for balance. To fall asleep listening to the other breathing. To share. And to keep some things private. The two sixteen-year-old girls have two heads, two hearts, and each has two arms, but at the belly, they join. And they are happy, never wanting to risk the dangerous separation surgery. But the girls' body is beginning to fight...
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2022.
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xvi, 222 pages ; 25 cm
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"What does it cost to live? When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions. When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally, but also financially, sending...
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[2017]
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xxii, 300 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance...
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2022.
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xvii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
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"This book tells the story of the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations. Since the Second World War, federally funded research has facilitated most major medical breakthroughs, yet these...
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2013.
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viii, 369 pages ; 20 cm
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"A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill was for several hundred thousand dollars--and Medicare...
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