(Part 2) Best health care delivery books according to redditors
We found 102 Reddit comments discussing the best health care delivery books. We ranked the 40 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Texts and Reference Books
Days in the Lives of Social Workers
DSM-5
Child Development, Third Edition: A Practitioner's Guide
Racial and Ethnic Groups
Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond
[Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life]
(https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Feelings-Harbinger-Self-Help-Workbook/dp/1608822087/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3ZW7PRW5TK2PB0MDR9R3)
Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model
[The Clinical Assessment Workbook: Balancing Strengths and Differential Diagnosis]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0534578438/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_38?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ARCO1HGQTQFT8)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children
Essential Research Methods for Social Work
Navigating Human Service Organizations
Privilege: A Reader
Play Therapy with Children in Crisis
The Color of Hope: People of Color Mental Health Narratives
The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner
Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood
Deviant Behavior
Social Work with Older Adults
The Aging Networks: A Guide to Programs and Services
[Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society: Bridging Research and Practice]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415884810/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change
Ethnicity and Family Therapy
Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Perspectives on Development and the Life Course
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Generalist Social Work Practice: An Empowering Approach
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents
DBT Skills Manual
DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets
Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need
Novels
[A People’s History of the United States]
(https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511070674&sr=1-1&keywords=howard+zinn&dpID=51pps1C9%252BGL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Death Class <- This one is based off of a course I took at my undergrad university
The Quiet Room
Girl, Interrupted
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Flowers for Algernon
Of Mice and Men
A Child Called It
Go Ask Alice
Under the Udala Trees
Prozac Nation
It's Kind of a Funny Story
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Bell Jar
The Outsiders
To Kill a Mockingbird
Generally monasteries, convents and abbeys were available to the passing poor, pilgrims, and the ill for shorter-term relief, not permanent residency. This service was a natural outgrowth of the Christian duty of shelter and continued to grow through the high Middle Ages and the Crusades (up until the Reformation).
The services provided by groups like the Benedictine monks and the Knights Hospitaller became early versions of hospitals and were among the first institutions to take on long-term care of the disabled, infirm, or those unable to otherwise function in society.
By the thirteenth century, with the growth of urban areas in Europe, a lot of secular institutions, almshouses and "madhouses" sprung up in cities. (There are still a lot of almshouses standing in Europe.) Milan, Paris and Florence all had several large hospitals.
And remember that the word "hospital" shouldn't be confused with meaningful medical care as we understand it. The medieval concept of the body is intertwined with the soul, and treating illness or disability was tied to religious philosophy. (For example, a Middle Ages epileptic with frequent dissociative seizures might just be prescribed more frequent confessions...)
I've wandered a little far from the original question about our friend with a missing arm, and my original reply still probably represents the most likely outcome: You'd continue to live and work in your community unless it became insupportable.
Further Reading: Risse GB. Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: a History of Hospitals
I don't know the full answer to your question. But Renee Fox and Judith Swazey, in their book The Courage to Fail have a chapter on this. In 1973 surgeons began to think that they had the ability to do heart transplants successfully. One of the things I don't like about the chapter, though, is they don't explain why they thought this. Dogs were still dying in post-op recovery, so I don't know why they thought it would be any different for humans.
Anyway, two hospitals, one in Chicago and a Canadian hospital (I think in Manitoba) began doing heart transplants. Only no one was living very long. Some died in two weeks, others lasted six or eight months. These were all patients with very low life-expediencies without surgery, mind you.
After nine surgeries, all with very low success, those in the Canadian hospital fought about whether to do a tenth. The main surgeon wanted to move forward. The director of the hospital didn't. I should have said that the surgeon at the Chicago hospital was the mentor of the surgeon at the Canadian hospital and he was faring no better. Finally, the director of the Canadian hospital said to his surgeon "Do you think you're a better surgeon than your mentor? Because he's failing left and right [paraphasing]" He admitted that he was not. They decided not to do the tenth surgery. That patient wound up living six more years on his own, far beyond what would have been expected with surgery.
Heart transplants in the Chicago hospital stopped shortly thereafter. What followed was a long voluntary moratorium on heart transplants until anti-rejection drugs were invented. It's an interesting story in professional medical ethics.
There's a really, really excellent chapter in Lori Freedman's Willing and Unable: Doctors' Constraints in Abortion Care that discusses miscarriage management in Catholic hospitals- basically, what happens when a woman comes into the hospital actively miscarrying a pregnancy prior to viability and is potentially at risk of infection, but the doctors' hands are tied by the Catholic Church's Directive 47. One story I've transcribed before and can easily copy and paste here to share:
>The restrictions that Catholic hospitals place on reproductive services bothered Dr. Smits, but the catalyst for his quitting came about through an issue that he had, until working in St. Mary’s, seen as relatively uncontroversial in the world of obstetrics: miscarriage management. As a perinatologist, much of his work revolved around trying to save high-risk pregnancies. But for previable fetuses (less than approximately twenty three weeks old), little can be done to save the pregnancy if the membranes of the amniotic sac are ruptured. After that point, it is only a matter of hours before infection can threaten the health of the pregnant woman. Therefore, using the same procedures by which abortions are performed, the physicians of this study were routinely trained to facilitate spontaneous abortion (evacuate the contents of the uterus) when a woman showed up at the hospital who was less than twenty-three weeks pregnant, bleeding and cramping, and had ruptured membranes. This means the pregnancy is over. The woman can either continue to labor as she would in childbirth to deliver the previable (or nonviable) fetus, often with the help of pain and labor-inducing medications, or, if a physician with the appropriate training can be found, the woman can choose a surgical procedure in order to expedite spontaneous abortion and to reduce the risk of infection. The surgical procedure in the second trimester typically takes between fifteen and thirty minutes to complete and, in contrast with the hours (or sometimes days) of labor, is often seen as an easier and more comfortable option for a woman experiencing a miscarriage.
>A problem arose for Dr. Smits when he took care of a patient whose fetus had not yet died, even though her membranes had ruptured and she was infected and sick Because the fetus was still alive, the Catholic hospital ethics committee viewed evacuation of the uterus as an abortion, and it would not approve the procedure. Dr. Smits recounted the details of the case: “I had this one situation where- I’ll never forget this, it was awful- where I had one of my partners accept this patient at nineteen weeks And the pregnancy was in the vagina. It was over. But she [the patient] wanted everything done. And so he takes this patient and transferred her to [our] tertiary medical enter, which I was just livid about, and, you know [sarcastically] ‘We’re going to save the pregnancy.’” Dr. Smits was angry because the pregnancy was only nineteen weeks along, and given the extent to which the patient had already begun to expel the pregnancy, there was really no chance of fetal survival. Therefore, he saw the fact that she would occupy a coveted hospital bed and physician care in the tertiary medical center- a specialized enter for high-risk pregnancies- as wasteful of time and resources that could be allocated to the management of other precarious but viable pregnancies. He continued: “So of course, I’m on call when she gets septic, and she’s septic to the point that I’m [using medication] to keep her blood pressure up and I have her on a cooling blanket because she’s 106 degrees. And I needed to get everything out [of the uterus]. And so I put the ultrasound machine on and there was still a heartbeat, and [the hospital ethics committee] wouldn’t let me [do the procedure] because there was still a heartbeat. And this woman is dying before our eyes.
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>Returning to Dr. Smits, his concerns were comparatively straightforward compared with those of Dr. Gray. He needed to save the life of his miscarrying, now dying patient. His attempts to gain approval for uterine evacuation from the ethics committee had failed, so like Dr. Gray, he took matters into his own hands: “And so I went in to examine her, and I was able to find the umbilical cord through the membranes and just snapped the umbilical cord and … ‘Oh look. No heartbeat. Let’s go.’ And she was so sick she was in the ICU for about ten days and very nearly died. And I said, you know, I can’t do this. I just can’t do this. I can’t put myself behind this. This is not worth it to me.” And so he quit his job at the Catholic hospital and joined a secular academic medical center. When I asked Dr. Smits how the hospital administration and ethics committee had responded to the bad medical outcome of the case, he told me they saw it as a problem of a “bad transport”: “Nobody thought that the hospital did anything wrong. I think that the biggest issue was that they took this nineteen-weeker on transfer … They just said that she didn’t need to be in the tertiary medical center . . The point is that for a nineteen-week pregnancy, you’re not going to be able to do anything to save the pregnancy anyway.”
>When I asked what ultimately happened to the patient, he said: “She was in DIC, which means that her coagulation profile was just all out of whack. So they bleed internally And her bleeding was so bad that the sclera, the whites of her eyes, were red, filled with blood … She actually had pretty bad pulmonary disease and would up being chronically oxygen-dependent, and as far as I know, [she] still is, years later. But, you know she’s really lucky to be alive.”
$16.03 used, shipped
http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Modern-Beauty-Plastic-Surgery/dp/0822348012 - Less about medicine, more of an ethanography, there was a huge brazilian population where I used to live.
>http://www.amazon.com/Improvising-Medicine-Oncology-Emerging-Epidemic/dp/0822353423 - your call, I've read others that are similar in the past (dark african hospitals, mom was a doctor, it came up) but this is apparently more popular now. 10 years ago it was the horror of aids, those books are almost unreadable, if it were any other subject you'd simply have trouble suspending disbelief. http://www.amazon.com/The-Paradox-Hope-Journeys-Borderland/dp/0520267354 is another similar book.
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Shamans-Apprentice-Ethnobotanist-Medicines/dp/0670831379 - Is probably better if you don't want all the doom/gloom view of african medicine.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10235.Mountains_Beyond_Mountains - Figure you've read this, it's highly recommended and extremely popular now, part of the whole 're-imagining medicine' movement.
>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161121.My_Own_Country - Speaking of my mom, she was a doctor near here, it's definitely a different world.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949 - Read it because of the neuroscience aspect, but I suppose you could consider it a very specialized ethanography of sorts.
Honestly the most popular nowadays is probably the one about the Hmong girl in my first post. I'd recommend it more because I've known a few Hmong and the cultural differences are fascinating.
Almost all our textbooks this year are required new editions. We can’t buy used ones - this is because the medicine behind Nursing practise is constantly changing.
Porth’s pathophysiology - $186.50
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/porth-pathophysiology-concepts-of-altered/9781451192896-item.html
Canadian fundamentals of nursing - $155
https://www.elsevier.ca/ISBN/9781926648538/Canadian-Fundamentals-of-Nursing
Communication in nursing - $87.70
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0323354106/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile
Calculate with confidence - $71.96 (USD)
https://www.elsevier.com/books/calculate-with-confidence-canadian-edition/unknown/978-1-927406-62-5
The practice of nursing research - $83.20 (USD)
https://www.elsevier.com/books/burns-and-groves-the-practice-of-nursing-research/gray/978-0-323-37758-4
Maternal child nursing care in Canada - $150
https://www.elsevier.ca/ISBN/9781771720366/Maternal-Child-Nursing-Care-in-Canada
Community health nursing: A Canadian perspective (4th ed.) - $140
https://www.amazon.ca/Community-Health-Nursing-Canadian-Perspective/dp/0133156257
A syllabus for adult health assessment. $12
Canadian Jensen's nursing health assessment: A best practice approach – enhanced reprint. - $166.50
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/product/9781451192032-item.html?mkwid=sHJM65blR_dm&amp;pcrid=44154474422&amp;pkw&amp;pmt&amp;s_campaign=goo-Shopping_Books&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMInoTtp6al1wIVRGV-Ch2ieAUzEAQYASABEgLJ9fD_BwE
Plus all our supplies:
Stethoscope (Littman Classic Stethoscope ~ $120-160)
Penlight (~$4)
Sphygmomanometer with calibrated cuff and certified gauge blood pressure unit (latex free) (~$25)
Watch with a second hand or digital display ($7)
Currently I’m at $1,052.86 for textbooks (plus a bit extra since two of my sources were in USD) and $1,208.86 for supplies. That’s just for this semester - there’s more for next semester. I’m pretty sure I’m not grossly overestimating considering I know how much I’ve already spent on my books.
A1:
I believe this is correct, but the part that complicates this matter is interstate commerce. There is a difference between a state dictating its regulations regarding health insurance companies and entirely preventing individual citizens from being a customer of an out-of-state insurance company that does not have the same regulations. The way I see it, it's the difference between being forced to work in the state in which you live and having the opportunity to, say, live in New Jersey and work in NYC.
A2:
Insurance companies would flock to states with the least amount of regulation, but that doesn't mean that only the lowest-covered plans with the lowest prices will be bought. It depends on what people want.
Let's say there's a state with no insurance regulations. Now, a company can offer a plan that includes pregnancy services, or it can offer a plan that does not include pregnancy services, based on the age and sex of the consumer. Obviously, the former would be more expensive, but it is up to the consumer to decide.
The issue is if you have regulations that dictate that every insurance company and plan must offer pregnancy services, that's an unnecessary cost to a husband and wife in their 50s.
B/C:
Yes, it would be very unpopular to offer a service for free to a specific group while forcing all others to pay for it, and then right the ship by having individuals be responsible for their own payments in order to increase efficiency and lower overall cost.
Regarding Canada, yes, it has "free" health care, but in socialized industries, either costs are high due to inefficiency or shortages are inevitable. So, when you see that costs are lower per capita in socialized health systems such as the one in Canada, there also exist absurd wait times because of said shortage. The average wait time in Canada is 47 weeks for neurosurgery, 38 weeks for orthopaedic surgery, 28.5 weeks for eye surgery, and 26 weeks for plastic surgery. The shortest wait time for a specialist is that for oncological services, and even that is a full month - quite a period when every treatment counts in the fight against cancer. (Source: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/healthcare-wait-times-hit-20-weeks-in-2016-report-1.3171718)
In addition to long wait times, health care shortages manifest as a shortage of capital and health care equipment. The US has at best a mockery of a market health care system. Yet, in 1992, compared per capita to Canada, we had 8x more MRI machines (Washington state had more MRI machines than all of Canada), 7x more radiation therapy units for cancer treatment, 6x more lithotripsy units, and 3x more open-heart surgery units (Source: Patient Power, by John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave). We've become more centrally planned since then regarding health care, yet still have 5x more MRI machines and 3x more CT scanners per capita (Source: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649).
Think about the fact that despite Canadians' "free" access to care, people are still choosing to go to another country to pay for medical services that would be free in their own country.
We all want lower costs, but the way to lower them is not to deny care for those who either legitimately need or are willing to pay for it. It is to decrease overconsumption on others' dime and increase supply and competition.
Of course, part of increasing supply includes increasing the number of doctors, but so long as the United States places caps on the number of residency positions available for medical school graduates, there won't be a significant increase in the supply of PCPs and specialists, at least for the near future.
>medicine doesnt give a fuck about women
Seems like someone has been reading Gena Corea.
I actually have a copy of this book.
There's a chapter on it in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Health-Robbers-Quackery-America-Consumer/dp/0879758554
I note that some of the Amazon comments look as if they were written by people who've just been told there's no Santa Claus.
This book! It's $0.13 used, plus shipping.
You shouldn't gift me because you hardly know me, and we all know that saying... Don't give candy to strangers!
Like I want anything from YOU.
Israel's book is what I've used.. It focuses on health though.
This is the first textbook I was required to use for my public health classes. http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781284089233/
but as others have told you, PH is very, very broad. This is a beginner book.
Here's one for the US healthcare system https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-U-S-Health-Care-System/dp/082610214X
More of a textbook style but you can check out "The Medicalization of Society" by Peter Conrad. It touches on different topics such as characteristics being transformed into treatable, medical illnesses (maybe an extreme example but take for instance a child's excitement and curiosity being framed as a form of ADD.) Conrad provides case studies and several years of research to strengthen his arguments presented in the book.
traces the origin of the American healthcare system and traces it's problems up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Congratulations! I can only speak to my own experience, but I took a (non-required) introduction to communication sciences and disorders online class before really starting my postbacc year and we used this book. Having read most of this book for class has been SO helpful for me! I don't know how your program is structured, but I started my postbacc year with language development, anatomy and neuroanatomy so there was no real "introduction." This book/class gave me a framework to put everything I was learning into and made sure that it wasn't all brand new to me. Just a thought! And obviously, I've linked the 2nd edition because there's no need to spend $130 on the new shiny one when you're not using it for class or therapy! :) Best of luck.
In contrast, Israeli Surrogacy is regulated by law and is a positive experience for all involved. See the insightful ethnographic account by Dr. Elly Teman ‘Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self’ http://www.amazon.com/Birthing-Mother-Surrogate-Body-Pregnant/dp/0520259645/
https://www.amazon.com/Medicare-Medicaid-50-Entitlement-Affordable/dp/0190231548/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499484513&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=medicare+and+medicaid+at+50
has anybody read this, and if so, would you recommend it?
Looking for PDFs of these books ($4 PP each)
https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Race-Class-Health-Schulz/dp/0787976636
https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Sociology-William-C-Cockerham/dp/113866832X
I have not confused anything. If you wish to understand why I believe this, I highly suggest reading Paul Farmer's Pathologies of Power. Actually, I suggest you read it regardless, as it is one of the best works of applied anthropology that our discipline has ever produced, and is interesting even to a layperson.
In short, Farmer argues that if we are to discuss human rights and freedoms, we must consider freedom FROM things as well as freedom TO things. Lack of access to food, water, and healthcare, and other barriers to a healthy, productive life are referred to as "unfreedoms", and must be addressed to build a truly free and just society.
Farmer has a brilliant analysis and critique of "human rights" based on his work as a medical anthropologist around the world. An interesting and informative read.
I believe healthcare is a fundamental human right.
>Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.
>Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
-Amazon.com