How to Reduce Medical Errors in Your Practice. (TIPS FROM PAST AMA PRESIDENT).(Brief Article): An article from: Family Practice News
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Title: How to Reduce Medical Errors in Your Practice. (TIPS FROM PAST AMA PRESIDENT).(Brief Article)
Author: Doug Brunk
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 15, 2001
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 31 Issue: 20 Page: 33(1)
Article Type: Brief Article
Distributed by Thomson Gale
The Impact of Medical Cost Offset on Practice and Research: Making It Work for You : A Report of the First Reno Conference on Medical Cost Offset (Healthcare Utilization and Cost Series, V. 5)
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The United States is facing a healthcare crisis. Managed care was created in an attempt to contain these spiraling costs. And it was temporarily successful. However, managed care lost a complex public relations battle, and now is being dismantled. And once again, prices are again rising dramatically. Healthcare premiums in 2001 increased an average of 14% (about 4 times the general rate of inflation).
Costs are escalating and yet few seem satisfied with the current state of healthcare delivery. What can be done to contain costs? If restricting the supply of medical services is not an acceptable answer, then what is? Can demand be legitimately reduced? If so, how? How can we have more quality in our healthcare system? This volume, the result of a national conference sponsored by The Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno, examines these and attempts to provide empirically-supported answers.
Introduction: Reflections on the Medical Cost Offset Effect by William T. O’Donohue, Kyle E. Ferguson, & Nicholas A. Cummings
Medical Cost Offset as a Roadmap to Behavioral Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Hawaii Project by Nicholas A. Cummings
Medical Cost Offset: A Review of the Impact of Psychological Interventions on Medical Utilization Over the Past Three Decades by Jeremy A. Chiles, Michael J. Lambert, & Arlin L. Hatch
Identifying and Capitalizing on the Economic Benefits of Primary Behavioral Health Care by Kirk Strosahl
Roles for Psychological Procedures, and Psychological Processes, in Cost-Offset Research: Cost - Procedure - Process - Outcome Analysis by Brian T. Yates
Measuring Medical Cost by Jeanne Wendel
Psychopharmacology and Medical Cost Offset by Janet L. Cummings
Treating Depression in Primary Care: What Are the Cost-Offset Opportunities? by Patricia Robinson
Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: Implications for Medical Cost Offset by Michael J. Telch, Jasper A. Smits, Matt Brown, & Victoria Beckner
Prevention of Excess Disability in Geriatric Patients through Integrated Care by Debra W. Fredericks, Jane E. Fisher, Jeffery A. Buchanan & Valeria Luevano
A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice: Toward a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions
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Paul Tournier’s Medicine of the Whole Person 39 Essays Honoring the Founder of a School of Medical Practice Dedicated to Treating Each Patient as a Human Being
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This book, intended as a homage for the great lover of people, Dr. Paul Tournier, presents ideas and experiences of many friends of his last but not least - from his person himself and the person of his companion of life and work, Nelly Tournier (taken from the foreword).
Mediscams: Dangerous Medical Practices and Health Care Frauds–and How to Prevent Them from Harming You and Your Family
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Customer Review: Good intro for the unaware
Chuck Whitlock begins with a horrific tale about John Ronald “Butcher” Brown, whom he dubs “America’s worst doctor.” Dr. Brown comes to final light in 1998 after butchering an amputation job in a National City, California hotel room. The victim, 79-year-old Philip Bondy, was found dead with blood everywhere and his face “frozen in a twisted mask of pain.” (p. 24) Turns out that Bondy was just a stand-in for his Jungian shrink, one Dr. Gregg Furth who first sought the operation for himself. It seems that both he and his patient suffered from “a fetish or paraphilia known as apotemnophilia.” Whitlock explains: “The fetish is also referred to as a self-demand amputation, and involves primarily men who wish to have amputation of a lower extremity for psychological and sometimes sexual reasons. Dr. Furth stated he had been aware of wanting his own leg removed since his early childhood.” (p. 29) Whitlock, who has appeared on TV’s Oprah, Regis and Kathie Lee, Hard Copy, Extra and Inside Edition, follows this with Chapter 2, “A Brief History of MediScams: From Snake Oil to Cancer Quackery.” Then he returns to contemporary times and shares what he has found out about “Dangerous Doctors,” managed care, nursing homes, “Dental MediScams,” etc. He comes down heavily on incompetent and fake doctors and on the medical profession for not weeding them out. Seems that you have to be a combination of Dr. Dracula and the Son of Sam to get the profession to notice that you’ve gone astray. He also goes after bogus cures and questions the efficacy of some alternative medical approaches. There’s a chapter on the placebo effect including some material about the so-called psychic healers of the Philippines. Chapter 12, which he subtitles, “Buying a Pig in a Poke” is on food supplements. Another chapter is on just how botched things can get in the world of plastic surgery. A chapter on nursing homes is alternately titled, “Warehouses for the Elderly?” All in all this is a breezy read and a good, if a bit stringent, intro into the dangers that face the unaware in medical land. There is a “resources” appendix with websites and a Bibliography (no index). Buy this for your medically innocent friends and relatives before they are initiated into the realities of medical science and pseudoscience the hard and expensive way.
Customer Review: Mediscams or medibiases?
Whitlock examines both “traditional” and “alternative” medical practices with results that are hit and miss. He ‘hits’ the HMO debacle right on the head, and his discussion of his mother’s experience with and subsequent death due to HMO ‘mangled care’ will certainly hit a resonant chord with many. Unfortunately, his bias towards ‘traditional’ medicine and the medical establishment is obvious in his discussion of everything from chiropractic care to therapeutic touch. Chiropractors are little more than cheats and charletans, according to Whitlock and his proof that therapeutic touch is bogus? - a ninth grade science fair project. I doubt that had a science fair project had positive results, it would have been cited as proof that an alternative modality works. If you are looking for a balanced, unbiased assessment of both traditional and alternative medical practices, this isn’t the book for you.
Examination in Physical Therapy Practice: Screening for Medical Disease
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This text provides therapists with all the necessary skills to screen patients for symptoms that may need a physician’s expertise and to ensure that patients receive appropriate and timely medical care. It aims to enhance professional communication between therapists and physicians, facilitating the referral of patients from therapists to physicians.
Luckmann’s Core Principles and Practice of Medical-Surgical Nursing
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All of the authority of a medical-surgical nursing classic condensed into a textbook of need-to-know information! This text features concise reviews of anatomy and physiology; key information on pathophysiologic processes, clinical manifestations, and patient teaching in special, easy-to-locate boxes; Critical-to-Remember boxes that stress key points and nursing interventions; discussions of critical pathways, with real-world examples; and critical thinking skills with study questions and exercises in each chapter.
Customer Review: A Wealth of Information
This book is a wonderful source of information. I am a senior nuring student in my final semester, and we have been using this book for three semesters now. There are areas that are sometimes confusing to read, but on the whole, it gives pretty good assessment criteria, nursing diagnoses and interventions.
Resident’s Guide to Starting in Medical Practice
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…developed to help residents prepare for the important non-medical aspects of starting a private medical practice …outlines a timetable for their last year of residency to ensure that they are ready, & also offers legal advice.
John Hall and his patients: The medical practice of Shakespeare’s son-in-law
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Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems (Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology)
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