Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Author : Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.

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How Doctors Think By Jerome Groopman

Author : Jerome Groopman

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences.

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Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming Practice

Mary Koloroutis; Marie Manthey; Jayne Felgen; Colleen Person; Leah Kinnaird; Donna Wright; Sharon Dingman (Author)

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Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Wendell Potter (Author)

Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare.
In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform.

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Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals

How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out

Author : Peter Pronovost, Eric Vohr

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Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence

Author : Judith D. Singer , John B. Willett 

Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful.

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Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction

William Byham, Jeff Cox (Author)

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