Metropolitan Library System

Physical is the story of a hard living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in the light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that...

Healthcare Elsewhere is a medical tourism show that shares the success stories of medical tourism patients. Host John Cote interviews Doctors, healthcare experts and patients worldwide to help educate people about the affordable and cutting edge options available globally. Many patients find that the cost, time frame or availability of a particular procedure is too expensive or not available in their country so they travel elsewhere to get their treatment....

No todas las actividades preventivas son inocuas y beneficiosas. Algunas de las acciones para prevenir enfermedades son invasivas y perjudiciales, y no hay argumentación científica que avale el riesgo frente al posible beneficio. Los doctores Juan Gérvas y Mercedes Pérez-Fernández desgranan en este libro algunos de los casos más importantes, mientras hacen una reflexión fundamental sobre la excesiva medicalización de la sociedad actual y la...

"The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation: Everything You Need to Know If You Give (or Get) the Greatest Gift" offers nontechnical information and practical advice, and the multifaceted guidance that potential and past donors and kidney patients need. The book explains what to expect before and after the donation and helps recipients deal with the often-neglected, nonmedical aspects of their experience. Deciding to be a living kidney donor,...

"The Man Behind The Mask: Why I Choose To Not Receive The Flu Shot" details the many issues related to mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers and why the author chose to wear a mask during flu season in lieu of receiving the flu shot. Topics include analysis of the size and scope of the flu, flu shot science, how flu shots are studied and evaluated, documented harm from the flu shot, legislation and financial implications associated with mandatory...

"When I was in the hospital I was poked and probed and ultraviolated, but never touched, " a patient told Dr. Jeff Kane. Over the past forty years he's heard thousands of such stories from patients and their families. They appreciate medicine's awesome technology, but yearn for low-tech contact. They want their suffering treated as well as their illness. Dr. Kane shows that our current "healthcare crisis" isn't fundamentally economic, but social:...

There's a type of person out there who is better at helping others than they are at looking after themselves. Maybe you're one of them. Maybe you know someone who is. They are the backbone of the caring professions, giving strength to our schools, clinics, care homes and hospitals. But you will also find them in offices, gyms, community groups and charities—everywhere you look. There's usually one in every family. But these people, who do so much...

Imagine losing a child because of lack of health insurance. Imagine trying to do everything possible to try to get him the proper care that would save his life. What parent wouldn't give their life to save their child? Then imagine your child being ignored and left to die because his health-care providers thought money was more important than his life. This didn't happen in some third-world country. It happened right here in the USA. My son's death...

The American Health-Care Crisis puts into layman's terms the simple truths about health-care insurance in the United States. The book gives an accurate history of health insurance in the United States and how we got to where we are today-describes how health care has become our biggest industry and how the industry has used their lobbying money and power to influence our legislators. The book details the huge profits of the large insurance carriers...

In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing...