A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
by Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried
A New York Times Bestseller
Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental healthcare’s history in the country alongside his and every family’s private struggles.
ProvenCare: How to Deliver Value-Based Healthcare the Geisinger Way
by Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD, David T. Feinberg, MD
The gold standard in reengineering healthcare delivery
When it comes to providing high quality care in the most efficient, cost effective way possible, ProvenCare has proven to be the gold standard in the industry. Developed at Geisinger Health System and praised by healthcare leaders worldwide, this pioneering approach provides an essential blueprint for healthcare executives who want to provide higher levels of care for their patients, greater incentives for practitioners, and smarter solutions at lower costs.
This Is Your Do-Over: The 7 Secrets to Losing Weight, Living Longer, and Getting a Second Chance at the Life You Want
by Michael F. Roizen, MD, Mehmet Oz, MD (Foreword), Ted Spiker (Contributor)
From the bestselling coauthor of the YOU series, the ultimate guide to reversing damage, optimizing health, and living a life filled with energy and happiness. No matter what kind of lifestyle you lead, no matter what your bad habits, whether you’re a smoker, a couch potato, or a marshmallow addict, it’s never too late to start living a healthy life. You do not have to be destined to a certain health outcome because your parents were on the same path, or because you think you’ve already done the damage. And you can even change the function of your genes through your lifestyle choices.
What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food
by Michael Roizen, MD, Michael Crupain, MD, Ted Spiker
New York Times best-selling author Dr. Michael Roizen reveals how the food choices you make each day—and when you make them—-can affect your health, your energy, your sex life, your waistline, your attitude, and the way you age.
What if eating two cups of blueberries a day could prevent cancer? If drinking a kale-infused smoothie could counteract missing an hour’s worth of sleep? When is the right time of day to eat that chocolate chip cookie? And would you actually drink that glass of water if it meant skipping the gym? This revolutionary guide reveals how to use food to enhance our personal and professional lives—and increase longevity to boot. What to Eat When is not a diet book. Instead, acclaimed internist Michael Roizen and preventive medicine specialist Michael Crupain offer readers choices that benefit them the most—whether it’s meals to help them look and feel younger or snacks that prevent diseases—based on the science that governs them.
The Familiar Physician: Saving Your Doctor In the Era of Obamacare
by Peter B. Anderson, MD, Bud Ramey, Tom Emswiller
Powerful forces of change are at the core of Obamacare—and they could either strengthen or destroy our family doctors. It’s a perfect storm that threatens our hope for more effective and personalized medical care and it holds the potential to drive our trusted Familiar Physicians toward extinction. In the midst of the storm is a new and promising approach called the medical home.
Learn what you can do to help assure that the Familiar Physician, the basis for a strong physician-patient relationship, survives the approaching storm
Fractured: America’s Broken Health Care System and What We Must Do to Heal It
by Ted Epperly, MD
In America, we spend over $2.6 trillion on healthcare each year, yet we rank 37th in the world for outcomes. Even more shocking, millions of Americans don’t have any sort of health insurance. These harrowing statistics reflect that, as a nation, we focus more on disease and sickness than on wellness and health, creating a society where many are living sick and dying young. The reality is clear: we suffer from a dysfunctional, have versus have-not healthcare system where medical miracles are performed for some, while access to care is denied to others. In Fractured, Dr. Epperly draws on his decades of experience as a family physician to identify the systems gaps and disparities and propose a compelling strategy to mend them, with the goal of creating an integrated, accessible, patient-centered approach to health and medicine.
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. Reid
Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world—France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond—to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal healthcare systems. Now updated with new statistics and a plain-English explanation of the 2010 healthcare reform bill, The Healing of America is required reading for all those hoping to understand the state of healthcare in our country, and around the world.
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
by Eric Topol, MD
In The Patient Will See You Now, Dr. Eric Topol, one of the nation’s top physicians, shows why medicine does not have to involve long waits and impersonal care. Instead, you could use your smartphone to get rapid test results from one drop of blood, monitor your vital signs both day and night, and use an artificially intelligent algorithm to receive a diagnosis without having to see a doctor, all at a small fraction of the cost imposed by our modern healthcare system.
The change is powered by what Dr. Topol calls medicine’s “Gutenberg moment.” Much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the mobile internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic system in which “doctor knows best.” Medicine has been digitized, Dr. Topol argues; now it will be democratized. Computers will replace physicians for many diagnostic tasks, citizen science will give rise to citizen medicine, and enormous data sets will give us new means to attack conditions that have long been incurable.
The Dream of AO
by Jim Polus
An imaginary historical tale set in the historic civilizations of South Asia, “The Dream of AO” depicts the challenges of a moral and ethical life, the fight for equality and the human drive for purpose. The backdrop is the clash and convergence of four vastly different peoples, each claiming cultural superiority. It is also a romantic tale of the genuine love of three couples who bridge these cultural divides. At the heart of the story is an epic mental battle of survival between two leaders of warring peoples, one led by a woman of superior intelligence and insight versus her deadly opponent, a man of extreme cunning. The fictional events and characters convey classical themes of courage and treachery, love and hate, the power of redemption and deep motivations of revenge.”
The Code Breaker
by Walter Isaacson
“The Code Breaker is another Walter Isaacson must read. This time he has a heroine who will be for the ages; a worldwide cast of remarkable, fiercely competitive scientist; and a string of discovery’s that will change our lives than the IPhone did. The tale is gripping. The implications mind-blowing.” Atul Gawande.