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Problems in Health Care Law

Problems in Health Care Law by John E. Steiner; Robert D. MillerOnline resource added to the Library of RUSH University Medical Center e-collection April 24, 2025. ISBN: 9781449604622Publication Date: 2013-03-15The Tenth Edition of Problems in Health Care Law continues to be the authoritative foundational textbook that covers the key components of our legal system and its application to our healthcare system. Students will come away with a clear understanding of how individual rights are defined and protected in the health care setting; how healthcare services are defined, insured and paid for; how individual providers organize and govern themselves and many other core features of how our healthcare system is organized and administered. The Tenth Edition is an extensive revision that covers HIPAA, health care reform, and offers several chapters not included in previous editions. Under the guidance of new lead editor John E. Steiner, Jr., Esq., Problems in Health Care Law, Tenth Edition, brings together the work of authors who represent some of the best thinking and analyses of the issues by legal practitioners and business advisors in the thick of health care reform, delivery, payment, client counseling and contested legal matters. Key Features:Each chapter provides a combination of broad concepts, learning objectives, practical examples, and instructor led questions.Offers more robust pedagogical features including art work, diagrams, checklists, side bars, and more.Includes a rich diversity of material from leading authorities with private law firm experience, national trade association advocacy and policy work, significant 'hands-on' healthcare institutional work and diverse publishing experiences....

White Philanthropy

White Philanthropy by Maribel MoreyOnline resource added to the Library of RUSH University Medical Center e-collection April 14, 2025. ISBN: 9781469664750Publication Date: 2021-10-20Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.S. race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: An American Dilemma was not commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of challenging white supremacy. Instead, Morey reveals it was commissioned by Carnegie Corporation president Frederick Keppel, and researched and written by Myrdal, with the intent of solidifying white rule over Black people in the United States. Morey details the complex global origins of An American Dilemma, illustrating its links to Carnegie Corporation's funding of social science research meant to help white policymakers in the Anglo-American world address perceived problems in their governance of Black people. Morey also unpacks the text itself, arguing that Myrdal ultimately complemented his funder's intentions for the project by keeping white Americans as his principal audience and guiding them towards a national policy program on Black Americans that would keep intact white domination. Because for Myrdal and Carnegie Corporation alike, international order rested on white Anglo-Americans' continued ability to dominate effectively....

Case Files. Surgery, 6th edition

Case Files Surgery, Sixth Edition by Eugene C. Toy; Terrence H. Liu; Andre R. Campbell; Barnard PalmerPrint copy added to the Library of Rush University Medical Center on April 2, 2025.Call Number: WO 18.2 T756c 2022ISBN: 9781260468809Publication Date: 2021-10-22Real-life cases sharpen your critical thinking skills for your clerkship and the shelf exam The 60 cases in Case Files Surgery feature realistic clinical scenarios designed to help you enhance and hone your clinical decision-making skills. Each case includes an easy-to-understand discussion correlated to key concepts, definitions of key terms, clinical pearls, and Board-style review questions to reinforce learning. The format allows you to review a patient vignette and then explore/examine the case in a contextual, application-based manner. The book is ideal for both quick-access and slow and careful study. Realistic cases are accompanied by questions that encourage you to think through the differential diagnosis and treatment options Real-life surgery cases with high-yield discussions aligned to clerkship guidelines USMLE-style review questions and clinical pearls accompany each case Primer on how to approach clinical problems and think like an experienced doctor...

In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us

In Covid's Wake by Stephen Macedo; Frances LeeUnlimited copies added to the Library of RUSH University Medical Center e-collection March 28, 2025. ISBN: 9780691267135Publication Date: 2025-03-11Featured on the New York Times' The Daily podcast and CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world's population--3.9 billion people--were living under quarantine. People were told not to leave their homes; businesses were shuttered, employees laid off, and schools closed for months or even years. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this eye-opening book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Were the voices of reasonable dissent treated fairly? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options? And, aside from vaccines, did the policies adopted work as intended? With In Covid's Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive--and candid--political assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan's lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Hard choices were obscured by slogans like "follow the science." Benefits and harms were distributed unfairly. The policies adopted largely benefited the laptop class and left so-called essential workers unprotected; extended school closures hit the least-privileged families the hardest. Science became politicized and dissent was driven to the margins. In the next crisis, Macedo and Lee warn, we must not forget the deepest values of liberal democracy: tolerance and open-mindedness, respect for evidence and its limits, a willingness to entertain uncertainty, and a commitment to telling the whole truth....

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