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Cell
The New York Times-bestselling Author And Master Of The Medical Thriller Returns With A Top-notch Fusion Of Groundbreaking Medical Science And Edge-of-your-seat Suspense. George Wilson, M.d., A Radiol...ogy Resident In Los Angeles, Is About To Enter A Profession On The Brink Of An Enormous Paradigm Shift, Foreshadowing A Vastly Different Role For Doctors Everywhere. The Smartphone Is Poised To Take On A New Role In Medicine, No Longer As A Mere Medical App But Rather As A Fully Customizable Personal Physician Capable Of Diagnosing And Treating Even Better Than The Real Thing. It Is Called Idoc. George's Initial Collision With This Incredible Innovation Is Devastating. He Awakens One Morning To Find His Fiancée Dead In Bed Alongside Him, Not Long After She Participated In An Idoc Beta Test. Then Several Of His Patients Die After Undergoing Imaging Procedures. All Of Them Had Been Part Of The Same Beta Test. Is It Possible That Idoc Is Being Subverted By Hackers-and That The U.s. Government Is Involved In A Cover-up? Despite Threats To Both His Career And His Freedom, George Relentlessly Seeks The Truth, Knowing That If He's Right, The Consequences Could Be Lethal. -- Robin Cook.
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Despite Having Access To More Resources Than Ever, Our Doctors Are Overloaded With Demands For Their Time And Expertise. In Deep Medicine, Leading Physician Eric Topol Shows How Artificial Intelligenc...e Can Help. Natural-language Processing Can Record Our Doctor's Notes, Make Sense Of Our Medical Histories, And Read More Deeply Into The Scientific Literature Than Any Human Ever Could. Deep-learning Algorithms -- Applied To Wearable Sensors, Genomic Information, Blood Work, Scans, And All Of Our Medical Data -- Can Create Bespoke Treatment Plans. And Virtual Medical Assistants, Powered By Personalized Ai, Can Provide Us With Coaching To Promote Our Health, Shape Our Diet, And Even Prevent Illness. Bust Most Importantly, By Freeing Physicians From The Tasks That Interfere With Human Connection, Ai Will Give Doctors The Gift Of Time -- To Restore The Care In Healthcare. Innovative, Provocative, And Hopeful, Deep Medicine Shows Us How The Awesome Power Of Ai Can Make Medicine Better, And Reveals The Paradox That Machines Can Make Humans Healthier -- And More Human-- Introduction To Deep Medicine -- Shallow Medicine -- Medical Diagnosis -- The Skinny On Deep Learning -- Deep Liabilities -- Doctors And Patterns -- Clinicians Without Patterns -- Mental Health -- Ai And Health Systems -- Deep Discovery -- Deep Diet -- The Virtual Medical Assistant -- Deep Empathy. Eric Topol. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 313-355) And Index.
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
A Professor Of Medicine Reveals How Technology Like Wireless Internet, Individual Data, And Personal Genomics Can Be Used To Save Lives. Part I. Setting The Foundation. 1. The Digital Landscape : Cult...ivating A Data-driven, Participatory Culture -- 2. The Orientation Of Medicine Today : Population Versus Individual -- 3. To What Extent Are Consumers Empowered? : Clicks And Tricks -- Part Ii. Capturing The Data. 4. Physiology : Wireless Sensors -- 5. Biology : Sequencing The Genome -- 6. Anatomy : From Imaging To Printing Organs -- 7. Electronic Health Records And Health Information Technology -- 8. The Convergence Of Human Data Capture -- Part Iii. The Impact Of Homo Digitus. 9. Doctors With Plasticity? -- 10. Rebooting The Life Science Industry -- 11. Homo Digitus And The Individual. Eric Topol. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
The New York Times Science Bestseller from Robert Wachter, Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician-Executive in the US While modern medicine produces miracles, it also delivers care that is ...too often unsafe, unreliable, unsatisfying, and impossibly expensive. For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare’s ills. But medicine stubbornly resisted computerization – until now. Over the past five years, thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Yet once clinicians started using computers to actually deliver care, it dawned on them that something was deeply wrong. Why were doctors no longer making eye contact with their patients? How could one of America’s leading hospitals give a teenager a 39-fold overdose of a common antibiotic, despite a state-of-the-art computerized prescribing system? How could a recruiting ad for physicians tout the absence of an electronic medical record as a major selling point? Logically enough, we’ve pinned the problems on clunky software, flawed implementations, absurd regulations, and bad karma. It was all of those things, but it was also something far more complicated. And far more interesting . . . Written with a rare combination of compelling stories and hard-hitting analysis by one of the nation’s most thoughtful physicians, The Digital Doctor examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age. It tackles the hard questions, from how technology is changing care at the bedside to whether government intervention has been useful or destructive. And it does so with clarity, insight, humor, and compassion. Ultimately, it is a hopeful story. "We need to recognize that computers in healthcare don’t simply replace my doctor’s scrawl with Helvetica 12," writes the author Dr. Robert Wachter. "Instead, they transform the work, the people who do it, and their relationships with each other and with patients. . . . Sure, we should have thought of this sooner. But it’s not too late to get it right." This riveting book offers the prescription for getting it right, making it essential reading for everyone – patient and provider alike – who cares about our healthcare system.
Natural Health, Natural Medicine
The best-selling books of Andrew Weil, "the guru of alternative medicine," (San Francisco Examiner) offer a comprehensive blend of traditional and alternative methods that help to achieve better ...health in the modern world. Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil’s theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers’ most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This edition includes up-to-the-minute scientific findings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer’s, attention deficit disorder, reflux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the flu, and much more.
Pocket Medicine: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Internal Medicine
Edited By Marc S. Sabatine. Pocket Notebook. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Coyote Medicine
In this book, Lewis chronicles horrifying cases of misdiagnosis and malpractice, from the surgeons who compete to break the record of "Fastest Cesarean Section," endangering the lives of mothers and b...abies, to the doctor who actually causes kidney failure in an otherwise healthy patient. But his objective is not to point an accusatory finger or to dismiss the undeniably productive aspects of traditional Western medicine. Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis's goal is to enlighten his patients and his readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine is not a book that will tell you to turn your back on hospitals and medications. If a simple course of antibiotics will cure an infection, Dr. Mehl-Madrona does not recommend prayer over penicillin. But when a patient returns to a hospital again and again with recurrent symptoms, or a sick person is not responding to medication, or doctors have simply given up on a "terminal" case, alternative healing methods are available and should be explored. "The author's Cherokee grandmother conducted healing ceremonies and her beliefs inspired this book, which teaches other options patients have when answers in traditional Western medicine are not clear."
Clinical Medicine [with Student Consult Online Access]
Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine is a comprehensive and authoritative singlevolume textbook of internal medicine that is consulted by students and doctors throughout the world. Its aim is to explai...n the management of disease, based on an understanding of scientific principles and including the latest developments in treatment. It is written for medical students and doctors preparing for specialist exams, and is an ideal general reference text for all practising doctors. The new edition is part of Elsevier's new STUDENT CONSULT electronic community. STUDENT CONSULT titles comes with full text online, a unique image library, case studies, questions and answers, online notetaking, and integration links to content in other disciplines ideal for problembased learning.
What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
do Sleek High-tech Hospitals Teach More About Medicine And Less About Humanity? Do Doctors Ever Lose Their Tolerance For Suffering? With Sensitive Observation And Graceful Prose, This Book Explores So...me Of The Difficult And Deeply Personal Questions A 23-year-old Doctor Confronts With Her Very First Dying Patient, And Continues To Struggle With As She Strives To Become A Good Doctor. In Her Travels, The Doctor Attends To Terminal Illness, Aids, Tuberculosis, And Premature Birth In Small Rural Communities Throughout The World. what Patients Taught Me Is A Compelling Memoir Of The Emotional Complexity Of Treating Patients When Their Lives Hang In The Balance. kirkus Reviews straightforward Account Of Young's Time In A Program That Apprentices Students To Rural Physicians. The Author, Now A Staff Physician At The University Of Washington, Was A Medical Student There When She Learned Of Wwami, A Program That Exposes Medical Students To Rural Medicine In Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, And Idaho. Her First Placement Was A Month-long Tour Of Duty In A Remote Eskimo Outpost Where The Standard Garb For Doctors Consisted Of Jeans, Hiking Boots, And A Stethoscope; Her First Lessons Came Mainly From Watching And Listening. Subsequently, She Did Hospital Rotations In Pocatello, Idaho (pediatrics), And Missoula, Montana (internal Medicine). With Each Assignment, Young's Responsibilities Increased And She Became More Of A Participant In Patient Care. She Learned The Art Of Connecting With Patients And The Importance Of Listening To Their Stories. By The End Of Her Third Year, In Love With Medicine As She Had Seen It Practiced And Yearning To Move Beyond The Rural Pacific Northwest, She Took A Residency Position In South Africa. The Lessons There Were Harsher. With Resources Extremely Limited, Hiv Skyrocketing, And Tuberculosis And Diabetes Widespread, Young Found That Doctors Had To Choose Whom To Help; The Choice Was Often Simply To Help Those Who Had A Chance To Survive. Overwhelmed By Disease And Death, She Nevertheless Completed Her Residency And Returned As A Full-fledged General Internist To Seattle, Where She Took On The Care Of Patients In A Community Of Refugees And The Homeless. Wwami, Young Avers, Gave Her Intense Glimpses Into The Human Experience And Taught Her That The Patient's Story, The Most Human Element In Medical Practice, Is Often Thehighest Reward Of Doctoring. As She Puts It, Sometimes I Enter A Story And Find I Can Bring A Little Light And Relief To Human Suffering.welcome Evidence That The Art Of Medicine Is Still Being Taught And Practiced In A World Where Technology Has All The Glamour. Agent: Max Gartenberg
Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine
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