"Health care is killing our economy and, in many cases, killing us. Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can't get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business. In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's...

"Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina -- and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately...

When Pat is released from a mental health facility after being treated for bipolar disorder, he meets a recent widow and the two develop a unique friendship.

During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia...

In the 1990s, NASCAR racing star Jeff Gordon became a household name for his extraordinary wins on the track. Today he is equally well known for his charitable work with the Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation. This book takes an in-depth look at Gordon's successful efforts to raise funding for cancer research, as well as the construction of pediatric hospitals and health facilities. Packed with colorful photographs and "Star Stats," this book shows...

Diana, a young woman who had everything in her life, wakes up confused at a mental health facility and doesn´t remember why she´s in there, but rather her friends and family members, she thinks about Samuel and how everything has changed in just over a month. The psychiatrist who had been taking her case, found a better job. It was said that the new one was humane. She hadn´t met him yet, but she was willing to try with all her might to convince...

Almond's past haunts her in the darkest way and she cannot face the truth. It gets worse as reality seems to slip away into a world she cannot make any sense of. She struggles accepting her new reality as it gets harder to tell the difference from what is real or not. Despite it all Almond fights to save the creatures who have crossed her path in a world that once only existed in her mother's bedtime stories. After many dangerous encounters with deceitful...

So Loved ... This is an emotional play that is essentially about the force of love ---and also how devastatingly powerful its effects can be when it is absent in young lives. The lives of two families merge ---that of Stephen, a child of Rich & Sarah; and that of Ruth, the only child of Roy & Genny. Stephen and Ruth have a childhood friendship which seems to fade as Ruth's family moves away. The move to the wonderful state of Michigan is not the...

After creating a whirlwind of turmoil, Rhonda Jackson is set to be a free woman. Before she's cleared to leave the mental health facility, an assault in her room leaves blood literally on her hands. She can't bear the thought of being a burden on the few people who still love her, so she sees no other option than to disappear.Jameson Brown's spotless record and law career take a hit when his childhood crush comes back into his life like a tropical...

Cuyahoga County, located on the shores of Lake Erie and the banks of the Cuyahoga, has recently marked its bicentennial, celebrating two centuries of history and achievement. From the county's creation in 1808, to the World War II era and beyond, Cuyahoga County was transformed from a frontier community into a vibrant urban center. Today this part of northeastern Ohio is envied for its distinctive neighborhoods, embrace of various religious creeds,...