Health Care Reform

Aftershock: what to do when the doctor gives you–or someone you love–a devastating diagnosis. Jessie Gruman. 616.075 GRU
The American health care paradox: why spending more is getting us less. Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor. 362.109 BRA
American psychosis: how the federal government destroyed the mental illness treatment system. E. Fuller Torrey. 362.1968 TOR
America’s bitter pill: money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system. Steven Brill. 362.109 BRI
The antidote: inside the world of new pharma. Barry Werth. 338.4761 WER
The battle over health care: what Obama’s reform means for America’s future. Rosemary Gibson, Janardan Prasad Singh. 368.42 GIB
The best care possible: a physician’s quest to transform care through the end of life. Ira Byock. 616.029 BYO, Large Type 616.029 BYO
Better: a surgeon’s notes on performance. Atul Gawande. 617 GAW
Bitter pills: inside the hazardous world of legal drugs. Stephen Fried. 615.5 FRI
The body hunters: testing new drugs on the world’s poorest patients. Sonia Shah. 362.1782 SHA
Born in the USA: how a broken maternity system must be fixed to put mothers and infants first. Marsden Wagner. 362.1982 WAG
Catastrophic care: how American health care killed my father–and how we can fix it. David Goldhill. 362.1042 GOL
Chasing medical miracles: the promise and perils of clinical trials. Alex O’Meara. 615.507 OME
The checklist manifesto: how to get things right. Atul Gawande. 610.28 GAW
The complete idiot’s guide to Social Security and Medicare. Lita Epstein. 368.43 EPS
Coronary: a true story of medicine gone awry. Stephen Klaidman. 362.1961 KLA
Critical condition: how health care in America became big business– and bad medicine. Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele. 362.1 BAR
Critical decisions: how you and your doctor can make the right medical choices together. Peter A. Ubel. 610.696 UBE
Critical: what we can do about the health-care crisis. Tom Daschle. 362.1 DAS
Curing Medicare: a doctor’s view on how our health care system is failing older Americans and how we can fix it. Andy Lazris. 368.382 LAZ
Deadly spin: an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans. Wendell Potter. 362.1 POT
The decision tree: taking control of your health in the new era of personalized medicine. Thomas Goetz. 613 GOE
The doctor crisis: how physicians can, and must, lead the way to better health care. Jack Cochran, Charles Kenney. 362.1068 COC
Doctor, your patient will see you now: gaining the upper hand in your medical care. Steven Z. Kussin. 610.696 KUS
Doctored: the disillusionment of an American physician. Sandeep Jauhar. 610.92 JAU
The empowered patient: how to get the right diagnosis, buy the cheapest drugs, beat your insurance company, and get the best medical care every time. Elizabeth Cohen. 615.7051 COH
Empowering the patient: how to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve its quality. Glen E. Miller. 610.696 MIL
False hopes: why America’s quest for perfect health is a recipe for failure. Daniel Callahan. 362.1 CAL
Fresh medicine: how to fix reform and build a sustainable health care system. Philip Bredesen. 362.1 BRE
Generation Rx: how prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies. Greg Critser. 615.1 CRI
Gesundheit!: bringing good health to you, the medical system, and society through physician service, complementary therapies, humor, and joy. Patch Adams. 362.1 ADA
Get what’s yours for Medicare: maximize your coverage, minimize your costs. Philip Moeller. 368.426 MOE, Large Type 368.426 MOE
Getting what we deserve: health and medical care in America. Alfred Sommer. 362.1 SOM
The gift of caring: saving our parents from the perils of modern healthcare. Marcy Cottrell Houle, Elizabeth Eckstrom. 362.1989 HOU
God’s hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine. Victoria Sweet. 610.92 SWE
The good doctor: a father, a son, and the evolution of medical ethics. Barron H. Lerner. 174.2 LER
The healing of America: a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care. T.R. Reid. 362.1 REI
Health care. 362.1 HEA
Health care on less than you think: the New York Times guide to getting affordable coverage. Fred Brock. 368.382 BRO
Health care: opposing viewpoints. 362.1 HEA
The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world. Michael Marmot. 362.1042 MAR
Health insurance resource manual: a guide for people with a chronic disease or disability. Dorothy E. Northrop, Stephen E. Cooper. 368.42 NOR
Healthcare, guaranteed: a simple, secure solution for America. Ezekiel J. Emanuel. 362.1 EMA
The healthy workplace: how to improve the well-being of your employees–and boost your company’s bottom line. Leigh Stringer. 658.382 STR
The heart of power: health and politics in the Oval Office. David Blumenthal, James A. Morone. 362.1 BLU
The hippocratic myth: why doctors are under pressure to ration care, practice politics, and compromise their promise to heal. M. Gregg Bloche. 362.1042 BLO
Hospital: man, woman, birth, death, infinity, plus red tape, bad behavior, money, God, and diversity, on steroids. Julie Salamon. 362.11 SAL
How doctors think. Jerome Groopman. 610.696 BRO
How to save your own life: the Savard system for managing–and controlling–your health care. Marie Savard. 610 SAV
How we do harm: a doctor breaks ranks about being sick in America. Otis Webb Brawley. 362.109 BRA
Howard Dean’s prescription for real healthcare reform: how we can achieve affordable medical care for every American and make our jobs safer. Howard Dean. 362.1 DEA
In the kingdom of the sick: a social history of chronic illness in America. Laurie Edwards. 362.196 EDW
Insurance for dummies. Jack Hungelmann. 368 HUN
Insuring national health care: the Canadian experience. Malcolm G. Taylor. 368.42 TAY
It’s enough to make you sick: the failure of American health care and a prescription for the cure. Jeffrey M. Lobosky. 362.1 LOB
Last rights: rescuing the end of life from the medical system. Stephen P. Kiernan. 179.7 KIE, Large Type 179.7 KIE
Less medicine, more health: 7 assumptions that drive too much medical care. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch. 362.1 WEL
The life you save: nine steps to finding the best medical care–and avoiding the worst. Patrick Malone. 362.1068 MAL
Losing Tim: how our health and education systems failed my son with schizophrenia. Paul Gionfriddo. 362.26 GIO
Making them pay: how to get the most from health insurance and managed care. Rhonda D. Orin. 368.382 ORI
Managed care beware: 5 steps you need to know to survive HMOs and get the care you deserve. Harvey M. Shapiro. 368.382 SHA
Marketplace medicine: the rise of the for-profit hospital chains. Dave Lindorff. 362.11 LIN
Mavericks, miracles, and medicine: the pioneers who risked their lives to bring medicine into the modern age. Julie M. Fenster. 610.92 FEN
Medicare. Tanya Feke. 368.426 FEK
Medicare for dummies. Patricia Barry. 368.426 BAR
Medicine: a history of healing: ancient traditions to modern practices. 610.9 MED
Money driven medicine: the real reason health care costs so much. Maggie Mahar. 362.1 MAH
The new health care system: everything you need to know. David Nather. 368.382 NAT
Our daily meds: how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs. Melody Petersen. 615.1 PET
Outsmarting managed care: a doctor shares his insider’s secrets to getting the health care you want. Bruce A. Barron. 362.1 BAR
Overtreated: why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer. Shannon Brownlee. 362.1 BRO
The patient will see you now: the future of medicine is in your hands. Eric Topol. 610.285 TOP
The patient’s playbook: how to save your life and the lives of those you love. Leslie D. Michelson. 610.696 MIC
Pharmageddon. David Healy. 338.4761 HEA
Physical: an American checkup. James McManus. 362.1 MACM
Powerful medicines: the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs. Jerry Avorn. 615.1 AVO
Predictive health: how we can reinvent medicine to extend our best years. Kenneth Brigham, Michael M.E. Johns. 362.1 BRI
Prepare to defend yourself: … how to navigate the healthcare system & escape with your life. Matthew Minson. 610.696 MIN
Prescription for a healthy nation: a new approach to improving our lives by fixing our everyday world. Tom Farley, Deborah A. Cohen. 362.1 FAR
Pushed: the painful truth about childbirth and modern maternity care. Jennifer Block. 362.1982 BLO
Reinventing American health care: how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex, blatantly unjust, outrageously expensive, grossly inefficient, error prone system. Ezekiel J. Emanuel. 362.1 EMA
Remedy and reaction: the peculiar American struggle over health care reform. Paul Starr. 362.1 STA
A second opinion: rescuing America’s health care: a plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit. Arnold S. Relman. 362.1 REL
Second opinions: stories of intuition and choice in a changing world of medicine. Jerome Groopman. 610 GRO
Sick: the untold story of America’s health care crisis– and the people who pay the price. Jonathan Cohn. 362.1 COH
Social security, medicare & government pensions: get the most out of your retirement & medical benefits. Joseph L. Matthews. 344.023 MAT
The take-charge patient: how you can get the best medical care. Martine Ehrenclou. 615.5071 EHR
Taking care of our own: a year in the life of a small hospital. Susan Garrett. 362.11 GAR
The treatment trap: how the overuse of medical care is wrecking your health and what you can do to prevent it. Rosemary Gibson, Janardan Prasad Singh. 362.1 GIB
The truth about the drug companies: how they deceive us and what to do about it. Marcia Angell. 338.436 ANG
Uninsured in America: life and death in the land of opportunity. Susan Starr Sered, Rushika Fernandopulle. 362.1 SER
Universal health care. 368.42 UNI
Where does it hurt?: an entrepreneur’s guide to fixing health care. Jonathan Bush. 362.1042 BUS
White coat, black hat: adventures on the dark side of medicine. Carl Elliott. 174.2 ELL
Why do men have nipples?: hundreds of questions you’d only ask a doctor after your third martini. Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg. 610 LEY
Why our health matters. Andrew Weil. Large Type 362.1 WEI
Work of mercy: a picture history of hospitals. Grace Goldin. 362.11 GOL
Worried sick: a prescription for health in an overtreated America. Nortin M. Hadler. 362.1 HAD
You, the smart patient: an insider’s handbook for getting the best treatment. Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz. Large Type 610.696 ROI
Your child in the hospital: a practical guide for parents. Nancy Keene, Rachel Prentice. 362.1 KEE
Your critically ill child: life and death choices parents must face. Christopher Johnson. 362.1989 JOH

REFERENCE

The health care system. Barbara Wexler. R 300.7 REF
TheStreet.com ratings’ guide to health insurers: a quarterly compilation of health insurance company ratings and analyses.

FICTION

Critical. Robin Cook. Fic COO, Large Type Fic COO, CD Fic COO
Critical conditions. Stephen White. Fic WHI
The Delta factor. Thomas Locke. Rel. Fic LOC
The 5th horseman. James Patterson, Maxine Paetro. Fic PAT, CD Fic PAT
Harmful intent. Baine Kerr. Fic KER
Oxygen. Carol Wiley Cassella. Fic CAS, Large Type Fic CAS
So much for that. Lionel Shriver. Fic SHR
Willful neglect. Mary Morgan. Fic MOR

DVDS & VIDEOS

Critical condition. DVD 362.1
Doctored. DVD 362.1
East meets west: Oriental medicine and the future of healthcare in America. DVD 615.5
Escape fire: the fight to rescue American healthcare. DVD 362.1
John Q. DVD Drama J
Patch Adams. DVD Comedy P
Remaking American medicine health care for the 21st century. DVD 362.1
Rx for survival: a global health challenge. DVD 614.5
Sicko. DVD 362.1
The waiting room. DVD 362.18

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

The doctor & you. Diane Swanson. E 618.92 SWA
Hospital. John Malam. J 362.1 MAL