Quacks: Two Years as a Patient in a Veterans Affairs Nursing Home

Quacks: Two Years as a Patient in a Veterans Affairs Nursing Home

Author: Fred Dungan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1257749714

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A while back, I made the mistake of walking into the VA hospital in Loma Linda, California, to get a right knee implant. How was I supposed to know the surgeon was lying about his rate of success? He lost my upper partial dental plate, the titanium prothesis became infected, and my right knee is now frozen in a bent position. I can't stand up, I'm not comfortable lying down, I'm horribly scarred, I can't drive, and I'm stuck in a rickety wheelchair that desperately needs a front end alignment. They addicted me to morphine and sent me home to die. God help me before I'm dead and gone. Quacks is about negligence, malpractice, and abuse in VA nursing homes. Read it to find out how to change the VA system for the better.


Random House Word Menu

Random House Word Menu

Author: Stephen Glazier

Publisher: Random House Reference

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1034

ISBN-13:

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A revolutionary tool that has changed the way we use words, the Random House Word Menu functions in four ways: it is a thesaurus with definitions; a dictionary divided into word categories; a reverse dictionary; and a collection of glossaries. A writer's right hand and a browser's delight, this reference contains thousands of entries in over 800 categories.


Best Care Anywhere

Best Care Anywhere

Author: Phillip Longman

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1609945816

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Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA's example.


Working Mother

Working Mother

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.