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Das neue Hörbuch von Bill Gates, das zeigt, wie sich Pandemien in Zukunft verhindern lassen. Die COVID-19-Pandemie ist noch nicht überstanden. Doch während Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt noch versuchen, sie unter Kontrolle zu bringen, wird bereits diskutiert, wie es weitergehen kann und was als nächstes passieren sollte. Wie können wir verhindern, dass eine weitere Pandemie Millionen von Menschen tötet und der Weltwirtschaft verheerende Schäden zufügt? Können wir das überhaupt schaffen?

The American health insurance system is anything but simple to maneuver. Health plan enrollees become entangled in an intricate and opaque maze of confusion, often resulting in frustration, regret, and deep debt. Health plan and health care technology veteran Marc S. Ryan seeks to demystify the US health care system, helping Americans become wiser consumers and allowing them to navigate the maze with more confidence and certainty. Using his decades of experience, Marc outlines a bipartisan blueprint to transform America’s unique system without upending the employer-based system.

Stoppt das Krankenhaussterben! Krankenhäuser in Deutschland und Europa sind längst zum Spekulationsobjekt international agierender, privater Klinikkonzerne geworden. Die Folge: Die Konzerne erzielen Renditen aus dem solidarischen System unseres Gesundheitswesens. Thomas Strohschneider war selbst jahrelang als Chefarzt in einer privatwirtschaftlich geführten Klinik tätig.

Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend. Emily Mendenhall spoke with over 100 people and observed a community that rejected public health guidance, revealing deep-seated mistrust in outsiders and strong commitments to local thinking.

In the multibillion-dollar business of American medicine, doctors are often portrayed as culprits—opportunistic millionaires who prey on the misfortune of their hapless patients and drive up the cost of health care. But often they are the real victims of a system designed to increase profits for the insurance companies, shady businessmen, and Big Government.

"Este tipo de generación de narrativas de golpe a veces se ha conectado en Latinoamérica con golpe, golpe, golpe de Estado, y esta idea de los niños con cáncer que no tienen medicamentos cada vez la vemos más posicionada como parte de una campaña, más allá del país, de los grupos de derecha internacionales, que están buscando crear esta ola de simpatía en la ciudadanía mexicana, ya con una visión casi golpista [...]", Hugo López-Gatell, Subsecretario de Salud.

Written by one of the country's leading experts on heart failure, this completely new audiobook provides a personalized approach, information, and advice, guiding you and your family towards getting optimal heart failure care. Heart failure still affects over 6 million Americans, fill our hospitals and consumes enormous healthcare resources in the US and worldwide. Much of the impact of heart failure is lack of process and coordination of care with patients firmly inserted as team members.

Many doctors are at a crossroads. How to find a career that you feel passionate about, protects your autonomy, and provides a growing and sustainable income? You create it. This audiobook details one doctor’s journey from burnt-out employee to successful entrepreneur, providing you a road map in becoming your own boss. You will learn ho to: Leverage your medical expertise into lucrative opportunities, escalate your financial level through multiple streams of income, start a side business while still employed, and work smarter, not harder without trading time for dollars.

Ein hochdringlicher Weckruf und ein starkes Plädoyer für eine Politik, die sich der Realität stellt. Wir leben in einer Zeit nie da gewesener Herausforderungen. Zum ersten Mal seit Beginn der Zivilisation ist sogar das Überleben der Menschen auf dem Planeten Erde gefährdet. Der sich beschleunigende Klimawandel macht das Erreichen des 1,5-Grad-Ziels mit jedem Tag unwahrscheinlicher. Kipppunkte des Klimawandels werden von der Wissenschaft warnend beschrieben und trotzdem überschritten.

Eine Streitschrift über die Missstände der Schulpolitik von der Stimme einer empörten Generation. Deutschlands ehemaliger oberster Schülersprecher Dario Schramm ist einer der schärfsten und profiliertesten Kritiker der Schulpolitik seit dem ersten Lockdown und klagt an: Wie kann es sein, dass Kinder und Jugendliche nicht nach ihren Bedürfnissen gefragt werden? Warum werden sie wenn überhaupt nur als allerletzte mitgedacht? Und wieso wird die Lufthansa mit einem Milliarden-Paket gerettet, während es an Schulen immer noch mit Luftfiltern und schnellem Internet hapert?

With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the ways that this undermines the health of minority populations.

Who cares? Ricardo Lange, Intensivpfleger, liebt seinen Beruf - und leidet an ihm. So sehr, dass er seinem Ärger über die Missstände in der Pflege auf Facebook Luft macht und an die Öffentlichkeit geht. Deutschlandweite Berühmtheit erlangt er, als er von Jens Spahn zur Bundespressekonferenz eingeladen wird und dort vom Krankenhausalltag berichtet: von den katastrophalen Arbeitsbedingungen, der permanenten körperlichen und emotionalen Überlastung und dem sicheren Gefühl, dass sich die Politik nicht wirklich dafür interessiert.

Published to commemorate Cleveland Clinic’s centennial, To Act as a Unit tells the epic story of the hospital system’s conception and rise to prominence. You’ll meet pioneering researchers and clinicians whose innovations are the basis for today’s advanced medical care - from Dr. F. Mason Sones, whose fortuitous accident with a cigarette proved that coronary angiography was possible, to the surgical team that performs groundbreaking, life-changing face transplants.

The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Because while no one could have predicted that a pandemic would strike when it did, we did know that a pandemic would strike, sooner or later. We're still not ready for the next pandemic. But we can be - we must be.

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses listeners in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family in the neighborhood, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises.

Patients are critical to healthcare delivery, yet their concerns and perspective are frequently lost in translation or, at worst, blatantly ignored. Patients don’t even have a place in organizational charts. Yet patients deserve their own branch of science, and author Pamela J. Brink, RN, PhD, FAAN, has started a conversation about giving patients that niche in a new area of study called “patientology”. This work is a brief overview of concepts such as medical sociology and nursing, and will prompt further research and delineation.

With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about it - from pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapies - is becoming more complex, not less?

The Infodemic lays bare the mechanisms of modern censorship and shows how they were used to undermine the response to the greatest global pandemic in a century. Beginning in China, the book charts the onslaught of COVID censorship through Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, India, and inside the Trump White House. Modern censors not only restrict the flow of information but also open the floodgates to overwhelm the public with lies and half truths.

Are you like the many other recent high school graduates wondering what degree to pursue in college? Or maybe you’ve already graduated, but are asking the question, "What do public health graduates do?!" Do you want to enter the medical field but aren’t necessarily interested in courses like chemistry and biology? Are you thinking, "What does it even mean to major in public health?" If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you...

Based on the film by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science chronicles the history of this unique organization, from its roots as an unlikely partnership between a country doctor and a Franciscan order of nuns to its position today as a worldwide model for patient care, research, and education. The book demonstrates how the institution’s remarkable 150-year history continues to inspire the way medicine is practiced there today.