(Part 2) Best medical administration & economics books according to redditors

I listened to an interview with the World Bank President recently. At one point in the interview, he talks about the so-called 'migration crisis' in Europe as a precursor to the much larger relocations of people that will be necessitated by climate change over the next century. He makes a very similar point to the one Matt made, that this has triggered a cogent reaction among the far-right who are perfectly content with genocide as a policy response. However, where Matt argued the only possible alternative is massive transfers of wealth and reorganization of society, Dr. Kim's only prescription is that there should be much more public-private partnerships in the developing world.

Hearing him say that perfectly clarified the limits of liberalism for the coming century as well as anything I'd ever read.

Ironically, Dr. Kim once wrote a very good book about the failures of the World Bank and the IMF and calling for them to be abolished. Now, he's reduced himself to working with Ivanka Trump on a "women's entrepreneurship program" to advance women's rights around the world .... funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Since you're not in a communication disorders program, it will be hard for you to find any opportunities to observe SLPs providing treatment - unless you know somebody who can help arrange it for you. Most people are in a similar situation as you when they begin their training and, based on the survey's we have, they complete their training and are satisfied with their job choice (even though while reading this subreddit you might think no one is happy being an SLP).

There are a number of different career paths you can take as an SLP but, overall, it is worth remembering that the disabilities we are in charge of diagnosing and treating are amongst the most complex human behaviors (much more so than what other rehab professionals are faced with). As a consequence, the job is intellectually demanding. If you are the type of person who wants to engage in a lifelong path of learning and enjoys such challenges then that's one indicator that you will like the job. The more you know in this profession the more interesting and satisfying it becomes but, realistically, it takes years to develop the kind of knowledge where the job becomes truly creative. Until then, we work to keep our head above water...

You might try purchasing a intro text to communication disorders. This will give you a broad overview of the types of work SLPs do. Here's one example of a text https://www.amazon.com/INTRO-Guide-Communication-Sciences-Disorders/dp/1597565423/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537463622&sr=8-1&keywords=robb+intro+to+communication+disorders

They mention France and Germany, but neither has single-payer healthcare. They have top-rated results and lower costs than the U.S., but their systems use private, non-profit insurance (along with a mandate, price controls, and electronic medical records).

Japan is the same, spending only 6% of its GDP on healthcare and getting great results, despite an aging population that smokes heavily. Everyone has their choice of 2000 different non-profit plans, which market themselves heavily.

Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.

I really wish people would start getting this right.

It's not like she's quoted on the back of a wildly anti-vaccine book: https://i.imgur.com/Tu4p1yv.jpg

In case anyone wants to remind Amazon they have tons of anti-vaccine misinformation still for sale: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1937584836/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_hSeQDbXDPQFT9

https://www.amazon.com/Danse-Macabre-Stephen-King/dp/1439170983/ref=sr_1_1

https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Demons-Psychopaths-Psychiatry-Horror/dp/1498717853/ref=sr_1_1

> They really do rely on you pushing for your own treatment.

Margaret McCartney - GP, often on Radio 4, covered this in part of her excellent-but-depressing book The Patient Paradox.

After an earlier comment I made about mental health service management, it occured to me that it is quite helpful for those who want to buff the apparent quality of the service that they run to discourage the more difficult patients. Easier to get good results with the less unwell. Got a difficult patient? Well, provide them with inadequate or inappropriate support until they stop engaging, and you can exclude them from your quality figures because it is 'their fault' for not completing treatment.

Cynical? Me? Yes, but I like to call it Evidence Based Cynicism (and I got that one from a refreshingly honest service manager.)

Sorry for being slow to respond!

Yes, probably the single best resource to look at is a book called Choosing to train in public health which gives a pretty great overview of the area and the application process.

There is also a lot of information from the UK Faculty of public health https://www.fph.org.uk/.

The final source of information is to consider contacting a Training Programme Director directly in the UK. The programme run out of Oxford has a strong international focus so that might be one to consider. This this is the website for the School.

Feel free to message me if you have any other questions.

Hi - not a mod here but I would be disappointed if this were a place where cynicism was unwelcome. So: welcome!

I'm not sure where to find updated information to resolve the issue of the outdated Wikipedia article.

ODA (Official Development Assistance, or foreign aid) is a messy, complicated, sometimes helpful and sometimes harmful thing that exists. There are myriad reasons why ODA is ineffective, starting with the phenomenon itself. Some economists argue that aid helps, some argue that it doesn't. Then, when it is given, there are issues of corruption, challenges in using the funds with the donor's restrictions, or misguided/uninformed/politically-motivated directives as to how funds must be used. Money is not usually just given to foreign governments (unless in the form of loans), it is given for specific uses - i.e. HIV/AIDS. And, then it is also not always given directly to foreign federal governments, it may be given via a contractor or NGO. So then you have a middle-man, so to speak, and there are numerous issues with that system as well.

There are inefficiencies and lack of knowledge or disagreement on evidence-based practices at best, and corruption at worst. A good place to answer these questions would be to check out a few books on foreign aid written since ~2000. I'm currently reading Joseph Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents, which gives a good overview of some aspects of foreign assistance.

Your cynicism is well-placed, this is a system that was designed to be, has always been and remains very, very broken. That doesn't mean it hasn't done some good, however it also continues to do some great harm. If you don't find the answers you're looking for here, I encourage you to find them in the books, lectures, articles, etc. that exist to try to answer those questions.

Source: 6 years' work experience in international development and masters in public health with a global health focus.

Expensive, but I like it, and hand it to new hires as an orientation:
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Health-Interoperability-Information-Technology/dp/3319303686/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/141-0682925-0155659?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0378NFKFSYSY53T73X1N

The overview of v2 is 20 pages long, so it's digestable enough to get you started without boiling the ocean on the HL7 site...

I took the AAPC exam, used the AMA book. There is no AMA exam that I'm aware of, sorry for the confusion.

This is the book I used:
https://www.amazon.com/ICD-10-CM-Complete-Official-Icd-10-Cm-Codebook/dp/1622024044/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_9?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5CK553W7P1V6ZB58W1HS

This may be what you're looking for: https://www.amazon.com/Medication-Reconciliation-Handbook-Second-Commission/dp/1599403099/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Ah you again.

Dr. Stoller uses the latest medical research in his medical practice. You can read all about it in his book (Incurable Me: Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510707980/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Pa4-Bb1YBW0QT). It’s because of him I am even functional enough to reply and write this. He’s arguably saved my life.

Are his methods conventional? Not at all. Do they work? Yes, many of them do because they’re backed by the latest clinical research.

When it comes to Lyme disease, he’s well researched and educated. He’s successfully treated people with Lyme disease for over 30+ years.

His opinions on vaccinations aren’t relevant to treating Lyme disease. With that said, I personally know people who have experienced health problems due to vaccines. One of my old clients son was disabled for many years by an HPV vaccine, and now requires blood pressure medications to function again. While I don’t know if vaccines can cause autism, I do know that there are sometimes negative side effects to vaccines.

In fact, a senator just died after receiving a flu vaccine that he himself was promoting. https://www.learntherisk.org/other/senator-dies-of-flu-shot/

Anyhow, I would much rather see a doctor who is suspicious of the current medical system and uses the latest medical research to treat patients then the dozens of doctors who misdiagnosed me and allowed my infections to become chronic and nearly killed me. Dr. Stoller saved my life, I can’t say that for any other doctor since childhood.

“Democracy in America”- Alexis de Tocqueville

For anyone interested in more classical liberal approaches to fixing our current healthcare system, here are a few contemporary publications I highly recommend:

“Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Healthcare” - Charles Silver and David A. Hyman

“Big Brother In The Exam Room” - Twila Brase

Another short book written by a libertarian Medical Doctor surrounding the erroneous focus on data to solve humanistic problems:

“Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine” - Michel Accad, MD

Wisdom of Whores is an excellent and informative book on the spread of HIV and AIDS, and the strategy of various organisations to track and control it.

Amazon Link

Well written and easy to read and digest, for what can be an incredibly complex topic.

I found this helpful in outlining a medical research career (and helpful in deciding what I did NOT want to do): http://www.amazon.com/The-Physician-Scientists-Career-Guide/dp/1603279075

Inoculated by Kent Heckenlively

>In November of 2013, Simpson University biology professor, Dr. Brian Hooker got a call from Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working in vaccine safety. Their conversations would lead to explosive revelations that top officials at the CDC engaged in a systematic cover-up of data showing that earlier administration of the MMR vaccine caused increased rates of autism in children, particularly African-American males. Thompson would eventually turn over thousands of the documents to US Congressman William Poesy.

>Science teacher and author, Kent Heckenlively, was granted access to this unprecedented trove of documents and uses them, as well as ground-breaking interviews with any of the key players in this debate, to tell the story of how vaccines have become a thirty-year disaster since passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act which gave pharmaceutical companies complete immunity for damages caused by their products.

Why Hospitals Should Fly by John Nance.

(Note: I'm an Anarchist too)

>When people are forced, through taxation at the threat of gunpoint or jailtime, to give their property to the State, then people become less likely to care about their fellow man.

I don't agree with this. Take the example of Cuba, I am no expert in Cuba (and nor do I claim that this is a good country in any other aspect other than the inhabitants' goodwill), but there's a really interesting thing about this country

>Now the state was expected to help these people out, and the couple thought that they would get the help they needed.

I think the answer I’d give you here if I were a Democratic Socialist is pretty obvious: There’s no reason why the would not receive that help in a Democratic Socialist country (“…have combined with cuts to welfare state budgets to undermine those efforts.”)

>If people had more money to spend, and gave nothing to the state, then we'd all be able to help everyone out. Abolish the state, and there is plenty of money to go around, and you are more likely to care for your neighbors.

Firstly, money is not the only important thing, you can have less money but more time to take part of voluntary groups, and it’s clear that while one might be lead to think that higher taxes mean that you will spend more time working to compensate the loss, it is not quite so (“More than 80% of males in the US and 60% of female workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Compare this with a Scandinavian country such as Norway where about 20% of males and 7% of females work more than 40 hours of week.”).

The lack of money is not a problem, we already have more than enough right now, and it is hard for me to believe the State is the source of the problem, or that a transition towards an AnCap society without some source for those claims.
Furthermore, you are ignoring the main argument the Author gives, that social isolation is a problem and that in Capitalist countries without big welfare states people have less time to help each other (From the article: "More than 80% of males in the US and 60% of female workers spend more than 40 hours a week at work. Compare this with a Scandinavian country such as Norway where about 20% of males and 7% of females work more than 40 hours of week."), if you hope to debunk his arguments that's where you'll have to concentrate.

>When the State is supposed to help people, and doesn't, then people can just blame the State. Which is why I'm more of an anarcho-capitalist/voluntarist.
There’s no reason why the existence of welfare makes voluntary groups impossible, in fact, if people vote for said groups (and therefore agree to pay taxes that fund the welfare) there is little reason to believe they cannot coexist, at least in my opinion.

Google is pretty awesome for first-pwrson research, but here's some specific articles:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unnecessary-surgery-usa-today-investigation/2435009/

https://www.bluegrassjustice.com/practice-areas/medical-malpractice/unnecessary-procedures/

This industry expose is also pretty enlughtening:

https://www.amazon.com/Malpractice-Neurosurgeon-Reveals-Health-Care-Patients/dp/1510712593

Please get it from this link

http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Ebola-Natural-Symptoms-Outbreaks-ebook/dp/B00OKUZEIY