How We Do Harm

How We Do Harm
Author: Otis Webb Brawley, MD
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429941502

A startling and important exposé on the state of medicine, research, and healthcare today by the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer Society How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm. Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based on payment they will receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results; hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based, scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the peddling of hot new drugs. Brawley's personal history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today. How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.

The Bio-Breakthrough

The Bio-Breakthrough
Author: Isabelle Benarous
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780982915790

The Bio-Breakthrough offers a new vision on health, one that uncovers the emotional origins of physical disorders and provides a powerful self-help protocol for anyone wanting to get to the root of their own health or life challenges. Isabelle Benarous, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) Trainer, offers in this book a synthesis of major breakthroughs regarding the origin of illness that can permit individuals to directly take control of their health through self-awareness and perceptual changes. The author's research uncovers the undeniable logic regarding the mind-body connection and reveals new hypotheses regarding ancestral impacts as well as in-utero distress and the type of effects they can produce in one's life. This book contains a comprehensive dictionary of organs and conditions with their corresponding meanings. The Bio-Breakthrough represents an extensive introduction to new findings, which will in the years to come revolutionize the world's vision about the origin of illness.

Searching ...

Searching ...
Author: Donna Linn
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1982211865

Perhaps the way you have been living is no longer working for you—or maybe you feel there must be more to life. Do you feel you would like to try a different path? Are you looking for something new? You already have the answers to your questions; you just need to reach out and take them. Discover how to access them through the world of energy and healing. You can create positive, lasting change and experience new possibilities, insight, and understanding. Searching ... A Peek into the Invisible World of Energy and Healing explores the many options for healing available: • Healing yourself, receiving healing, and learning to give to others • Twenty-first-century healing modalities • Innovative modalities • Established healing modalities • Healing with the body • Kick-starting your healing In this simple and accessible guide, coauthors Donna Linn and Suzan J. Wells share their wisdom, describe the things they wish they had known earlier, and provide resources for further exploration. You can change your energy—and change your world!

Cracking the Chronic Illness Code

Cracking the Chronic Illness Code
Author: Karrie Wilson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1546232915

Throughout her experience, Karrie Wilson has learned from her Crohn’s how to be able to make her own choices on healing her body, not letting other people make choices on cutting out or learning to deal with a new pain. She shows you other ways you never even knew was an option. Why throw a piece of the puzzle away to make someone else richer? This should be your choice as you will live with your body the rest of your life! With the help of doctors, toxicologists, bacteriologists, and nutritionists, she shows you fast, easy, and painless ways to a path of healing your way. We usually believe if we are in pain, we should go to a doctor and let them tell us to cut out the disease. As our bodies have 75 trillion cells in it to help it repair and make stronger, so we can have a new body every seven to ten years. Why not learn and use the tools our bodies gave us? Learn where and why something will heal. You will make better and faster choices on healing. You should never learn to live with pain. Pain is only a tool that is telling us to change something in our bodies. Karrie has gone through all the experiences and mistakes so that she can give you an easy way of healing. Let Karrie show you how to find yourself, show you how far you can go, and learn to crack the chronic illness together.

The End of Illness

The End of Illness
Author: David B. Agus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1451610173

From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers comes a monumental work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life.

A Break in Your Cycle

A Break in Your Cycle
Author: Theresa Francis-Cheung
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2008-04-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0470311444

As many as one in ten women experience amenorrhea--the absence of menstrual function in women who have not yet reached menopause--in varying degrees of severity, at some point in their lives. This book offers women guidance and information about a subject that is often difficult to discuss.

Breaking the Male Code

Breaking the Male Code
Author: Robert Garfield
Publisher: Avery
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1592409628

Shows how men can develop a deeper friendship with other men.

Breaking the Age Code

Breaking the Age Code
Author: Becca Levy, PhD
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0063053187

Yale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years. The often-surprising results of Levy’s science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. She demonstrates that many health problems formerly considered to be entirely due to the aging process, such as memory loss, hearing decline, and cardiovascular events, are instead influenced by the negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and other ageist countries. It’s time for all of us to rethink aging and Breaking the Age Code shows us how to do just that. Based on her innovative research, stories that range from pop culture to the corporate boardroom, and her own life, Levy shows how age beliefs shape all aspects of our lives. She also presents a variety of fascinating people who have benefited from positive age beliefs as well as an entire town that has flourished with these beliefs. Breaking the Age Code is a landmark work, presenting not only easy-to-follow techniques for improving age beliefs so they can contribute to successful aging, but also a blueprint to reduce structural ageism for lasting change and an age-just society.

Codependent No More

Codependent No More
Author: Melody Beattie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2009-06-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1592857922

In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to someone else's, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book--Codependent No More. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency--charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness. Melody Beattie is the author of Beyond Codependency, The Language of Letting Go, Stop Being Mean to Yourself, The Codependent No More Workbook and Playing It by Heart.

A. Woman's Jurisdiction

A. Woman's Jurisdiction
Author: A. Joseph
Publisher: A. Joseph
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2024-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Criminal justice advocate Madison Paige spends her days in Santa Monica’s ravines and hills with one sole purpose: close unsolved missing persons cases and murders. Determined to understand the darkly sinister minds of escaped killers, she faces her own personal conflicts as her personal life unfolds chaotically while her career spirals and explodes. She careens between her real life freelance chasing and analyzing killers for the Santa Monica Police Department and her life as a bestselling author sharing the grim, disturbing psyches of those who have stacked boxes of dusty files of missing persons left unpunished. As her early years form around her obsession to catch them, they ultimately define her future as a forthright wrathful tracker, undeterrable even when the despicable threatens to make her cave. The interweaving plot propels into the depths of the corrupting forces that trigger savagery, driving her into a complex fight for survival and to untangle the merciless in her obsession with the dynamics of justice. Conflicted with a myriad of implications in the turmoil of her development in a harsh environment of deceit, biased, and death, Madison is made malleable by subtle departmental corruption for her own sake … until she is left with unfathomable choices to test the boundaries of a woman’s jurisdiction and risk forever letting the missing down. This the first in a darkly sinister series that tests her in the depths of depravity and the rotting nature of man. A Woman’s Jurisdiction foretells events with a speculative fiction conclusion.