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Flatlined lifts the veil of secrecy on twenty-first century health care and delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system. Dr. Guy L. Clifton, a practitioner as well as a policy advocate, reveals first-hand accounts of needless tragedy, such as the young man who died after a car wreck for lack of a bed in a qualified hospital and the surgeon who was dejected by the scarcity of resources needed to enable him to perform heart surgery on an uninsured man. Arguing that a lack of coordinated care and quality medical practice benchmarks result in high levels of redundancy and ineffectiveness, Clifton proposes that the key to reducing health care costs, improving quality, ...
"How Big is a Placenta Bowl? And Other Weird Questions You'll Ask When Planning a Home Birth" tackles your most outrageous and irreverent home birth questions and delivers practical advice for couples preparing to give birth at home. From cord blood banking and circumcision to newborn immunizations and insurance coverage, "How Big is a Placenta Bowl?" answers all your home birth questions, including: -How messy is home birth? -How much will it cost? -How do I get the gunk out of the birth tub? -How do I choose a midwife? -How can I convince others I'm not crazy? -What should I wear? -Why the heck do I need olive oil? -Should I have my other kids at the birth? One of the only guides to home birth written specifically for a United States audience, the book also includes a special section for husbands and partners on what they need to know, and it contains detailed state-by-state information about midwifery regulations, insurance coverage, and newborn testing procedures. Also included is a birth kit checklist and a sample birth plan for home birthers.
Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." How would we go about finding those things? What method would enable us to retrieve them, and by doing so, to understand better how Hollywood films got made? The ABCs of Classic Hollywood attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at four movies from the 1930-1945 period when the American Studio System reached the peak of its economic and cultural pow...
The articles contained in [this book] are a collection of facts, issues, and perspectives designed to provide the reader with a framework for examining current drug-related issues.--Preface.
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The 100 best logos by Ansver Oksman. Ansver Oksman is a designer, an artist and a businessman from Varkaus, Finland. Apart from his career in design and marketing, he is also known for his own champagne brand and multiple competition victories in breakdance with a group called Moonfreeze he founded in 1998. Ansver opened his first studio and gallery on Iso Roobertinkatu in Helsinki in 2006. He has worked as a designer for dozens of international companies and has left a legacy of hundreds of personally crafted quality logos. Along with logos, he has designed complete visual looks for many brands and designed products, flavours, clothing lines and shoes. He is an accomplished artist in his own right. After spending years working in England and France, he has started his own design agency in Lauttasaari, Helsinki - OKSMAN.DESIGN.