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The real heroes of the medical practice or hospital unit are the medical assistants and the front desk staff. Our newest book celebrates these men and women who support healthcare delivery. If you are part of this important team, this book was written for you.
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Unpacking Global Health:
Key Concepts and Challenges Facing Our World Today
The aim of this book is to provide readers with an insightful overview of the basics of global health, highlighting some of the main areas of the discipline. We have used examples and statistics from various regions around the world to illustrate the interconnectedness of global health challenges and solutions. By examining these diverse perspectives, we show the importance of a global approach to health issues. Our goal is to inspire a greater understanding and appreciation of global health issues and to encourage readers to think critically about the role they can play in improving health outcomes for everyone everywhere.
Addressing Ableism: Navigating Disability in the American Healthcare System
We explore the history of disability in the United States, and then share personal narratives of people with disabilities discussing what people with disabilities go through and what their thoughts are on their treatment within the healthcare system. The book also explores the clinical side of this issue by delving into how medical professionals treat and view people with disabilities. In addition we look at what it is like to be a doctor with a disability and how their ability to work within the field has had a positive impact within the healthcare system. The book also explains the major legal and healthcare policies affecting the care of the disabled including a section on the effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on patient care. The book also gives the reader an overview of how today’s healthcare providers are being trained to treat people with disabilities. This is an important aspect of the book, because we get to understand the basic foundation of their knowledge and what can be done to improve their approach to care. The overall goal of this book is to examine the quality of care given to this patient population, and how patient care can be positively improved.
Improving Maternal & Infant Healthcare
in the United States
Pregnancy, while a natural process, can also pose significant risks to women’s health, including infections, chronic conditions, anxiety, and depression. Postpartum Depression (PPD) affects between 10% and 15% of women in the United States after childbirth, yet many struggle to access adequate treatment due to various barriers, particularly among low socioeconomic status (SES) women who face additional challenges. The goal of this book is to raise awareness about these disparities and challenges in maternal and infant healthcare. By providing a thorough examination supported by research and insights from healthcare professionals and experts, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of these issues. Our ultimate goal is to advocate for meaningful changes that can improve healthcare access, outcomes, and support systems for all women, especially those from marginalized communities affected by structural racism and socioeconomic inequalities.
Harmony in Healthcare:
Visions for the Mental Healthcare System
Mental health is not something to just brush over. It is just as critically important to one’s overall well-being as physical health. This is an idea that this book’s talented authors understand very well. We live in a time where mental health is slowly becoming a commonplace conversation, but we are not quite there yet. This book is meant to be a stepping stone. This book's mission is to begin a conversation about where we currently are with mental healthcare delivery and where we must go in the near future..
Protecting America:
Exploring New Needs from Our Public Health System
Prior to the pandemic, very few people truly understood the dynamics of our public health system. That all changed in March of 2020, when the public health system guided our every move and advocated every day for our protection. This book explains public health and then looks at some of the issues that currently face America and the rest of the world in terms of public health initiatives. Issues such as women's health, men's health, access to healthcare, population health, taking care of the elderly, dealing with a changing healthcare system, and providing needed services and resources in the area of mental health are all addressed by insightful contributors from the fields of public health and healthcare policy.
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Reasonable Expectations:
The Patient Side of Patient Centered Care
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Co-authored by a team of 23 contributors, this book addresses how patients view patient-centered care. Using the Social Determinants of Health as a basis, the book explores if patient-centered care is really being practiced by the country's hospitals and medical practices. The book explores a wide range of issues including how a patient's education, gender and sexual orientation, economic status, age, social circle, and access to healthcare all affect the patient's perception of whether they are receiving the most patient focused care possible. The book also explores how throughout a patient's life, those perceptions change, and what are reasonable expectations of a patient throughout their life. The book ultimately answers whether the healthcare delivery system is meeting the reasonable expectations of patients, and if so, how, and if not, what needs to be corrected.
Beyond Boundaries:
Has Telemedicine Really Improved Access to Healthcare?
This is a book about telemedicine and its impact on the practice of medicine from the provider's perspective and from the patient's perspective. Now that telemedicine has become part of the American fabric and is now an accepted option for patients and providers, the question we have set out to answer is whether telemedicine has increased access to healthcare in the United States or whether it has not, since its adoption in 2020.
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The Hodge Podge of Health:
A Collection of Insightful Commentaries About Our Health & Wellness
From the pages of Today's Patient, the online monthly magazine of The Power of the Patient Project: The National Library of Patient Rights and Advocacy, this is a collection of contributions from a talented group of columnists, who address the current issues in patient care and medicine in an easy-to-understand way. The book covers a wide range of subjects including wellness and exercise, healthy eating, women's health, men's health, mental wellness, patient rights, understanding treatment options, and improving the patient experience.
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Other Important Books
Nancy Tomes
James E. Harper, M.D., F.A.C.P.
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular — and largely unexamined — idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as “health care,” Tomes considers what it means to be a “good” patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today.
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Dr. James E. Harper, a board-certified Internal Medicine physician, recently announced the release of his compelling new book, The Decimation of U.S. Healthcare, now available on Amazon and through IngramSpark. The book offers a rare and powerful insider's perspective on the systemic decline of the American healthcare system, drawing from Dr. Harper's decades of firsthand experience.
The Decimation of U.S. Healthcare
Unlike most critiques of the industry, The Decimation of U.S. Healthcare is written by a physician who spent nearly 30 years as a full-time volunteer doctor in New York. Dr. Harper worked without pay, billing, or insurance interference, solely focused on patient care. "For decades, I was shielded from the corporate mechanisms that now dominate our healthcare system," says Dr. Harper. "But after leaving my volunteer position and returning to private sector, I was shocked at how much had changed—and not for the better."
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One month after leaving New York, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. What Dr. Harper witnessed during that time: hospitals on the verge of collapse without enough ventilators for people who needed this to survive, a shocking shortage of protective gear and the tragic loss of frontline colleagues inspired a thorough investigation by the physician. Forced to practice telemedicine during the height of the crisis, and later opening a private practice in Johns Creek, Georgia, he experienced the full weight of modern healthcare bureaucracy for the first time. "Between handling billing, coding and dealing with insurance companies, I was confronted with the reality of a system that had become dominated by third party health insurers and corporate giants whose sole objective is to amass huge profits and not to provide good patient care", he explains.
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The book chronicles how corporate interests have gradually taken control of government-funded programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act. While premiums and drug prices have soared, payments to physicians have declined, contributing to a looming physician shortage and a nationwide healthcare crisis.
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Dr. Harper also addresses a quiet but significant shift: the increasing replacement of physicians with non-physician practitioners. "Patients often don't realize they're being seen by someone with dramatically less training," says Dr. Harper. "This is affecting the quality of care in ways we're only beginning to measure."
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Praise for the book has been strong. A neurosurgeon described it as "extremely well-written and researched," adding that "it was impossible not to become emotional while reading it." A computer specialist working in AI called it "a great read and very eye-opening."
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As the U.S. population continues to age and chronic diseases rise, Dr. Harper warns of a "perfect storm" on the horizon. He hopes this book will raise awareness among policymakers, healthcare professionals, and the general public.
More information about Dr. Harper and the book at www.harpercareclinic.com.
James E. Harper M.D. F.A.C.P.
Phone: (470)-546-3510