My healthcare is killing me! is one woman's journal as she battles cancer on an HMO. Throughout her ordeal, she is forced to confront indifferent medical workers, insensitive doctors, and ridiculous bureaucratic policies that prevent her from getting timely and appropriate care. Julie relays her story with gut-wrenching honesty and unexpected humor. She poignantly juxtaposes her battle to save her life in sharp contrast with the bureaucrats she encounters who see her struggle as just another boring day at the office. Her journal is told through the eyes of a fiercely independent and lovable woman who is forced to be the heroine of her own story in order to survive. Julie gives a voice to millions of Americans who struggle in silence.

Medical costs are out of control and Americans are paying outrageous amounts to cover their medical needs. On top of that, healthcare is filled with medical jargon that is confusing and hard to understand. Most of us quickly get lost - and then billed beyond belief! How can you fight what you don't understand? Well you don't have to be an M.D. or a translator to understand healthcare and get your costs under control. Now, the experts at change: healthcare - who have learned much thanks to their own personal experiences - share what they know about the system and how to survive it. Inside, you'll find how to: Make sense of your medical bills and EOBs Negotiate with the big boys - and end up paying less Find the most reliable service when it comes to your family's health Spot the differences and cost trade-offs in insurance plans What Other People Have to Say: My Healthcare is Killing Me does a great service in demystifying some of the complexities of the American healthcare system. It encourages individuals to be engaged in healthcare reform by asking them to become a part of the solution, reminding us that truly changing healthcare will be a responsibility shared by all. -Clayton McWhorter, Chairman of Clayton Associates At last a clear, concise, entertaining and practical read on the fundamentals of healthcare in America. Having the facts and figures so clearly laid out has a calming effect. Push aside the piles of paper and read this book first! -Fred Eberlein, Founder/CEO ReliefInsite.com

A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year caused by medical error. The bill was enormous—and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how world-class technology and personnel could coexist with such carelessness—and how a business that failed so miserably could be paid in full. Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result. Blending personal anecdotes and extensive research, Goldhill presents us with cogent, biting analysis that challenges the basic preconceptions that have shaped our thinking for decades. Contrasting the Island of health care with the Mainland of our economy, he demonstrates that high costs, excess medicine, terrible service, and medical error are the inevitable consequences of our insurance-based system. He explains why policy efforts to fix these problems have invariably produced perverse results, and how the new Affordable Care Act is more likely to deepen than to solve these issues. Goldhill steps outside the incremental and wonkish debates to question the conventional wisdom blinding us to more fundamental issues. He proposes a comprehensive new way, where the customer (the patient) is first—a system focused on health and maintaining it, a system strong and vibrant enough for our future. If you think health care is interesting only to institutes and politicians, think again: Catastrophic Care is surprising, engaging, and brimming with insights born of questions nobody has thought to ask. Above all it is a book of new ideas that can transform the way we understand a subject we often take for granted.

Jonathan Foiles weaves together psychology and public policy, exploring the trauma underlying urbanization in a book Kirkus Reviews calls an "urgent call for reform." When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate studen

Common health conditions and diseases in women of all ages can often be traced to one root cause: hormone imbalances and deficiencies, and women can have them from the onset of puberty.

Dr Coleman has been a passionate advocate of patient's rights for over thirty years, and in writing this book he has drawn together a vast amount of information which will help readers to live longer and healthier lives. It shows how patients can protect themselves against an increasingly incompetant and dangerous medical profession.

This book is dedicated to those who seek the truth about total wellbeing and believe they are being slowly killed by their primary care physicians who continue to prescribe copious amounts of drugs for each and every malady. We are having a medical crisis. Do not wait until the morgue can not process the bodies fast enough to have doubt in the medical system. My goal is to inform the general public about the dangers of our fake health care system. Most people do not know that the medications their trusted doctor is prescribing them are killing them slowly! Our health care model is designed to confuse patients and minimize physician responsibility. This book will help you understand how your body works and how YOU can manage your own complete health care, not just specific medical conditions such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, cancer, heartburn, depression, insomnia, allergies etc. Instead of empowering patients to know more about their illnesses, doctors have instilled fear in them and prescribed unnecessary drugs, tests, and surgeries to justify large medical bills and make the drug companies obscenely wealthy. Doctors get paid well at our expense (body and wallet). Most of my patients have benefited greatly from my extensive education, deep-rooted culture, diverse background, and utmost honesty in teaching them about medicine the way it should be taught (basic and true), and it was through their inspiration that I wrote this book. In truth I feel I had no choice. No doctor would dare expose the awful truth regarding our broken medical system for fear their financial status will be compromised. My ultimate intention is to help every person maintain an independent mind and body until they breathe their last breath with dignity.