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Author: DiabeticLiving.com Publisher: McGraw-Hill – 366 pages Book Review by Laxmi Chaandi This 366-page book in the form of a large and convenient ring binder with multicolor tabs is a highly useful reference guide for people with diabetes, either type 1 (those who take insulin) or type 2 (those who take oral medication). Diabetics (referred by the editors of this book as PWD or people with diabetes) use other means to keep the level of their blood glucose under control. Health-conscious diabetics not only take medication regularly but also know and watch what to eat and what not to, and do physical exercise. A well-balanced approach using all these three lifestyle requirements is the best way for diabetics to live healthy and enjoy life. The symptoms of diabetes – frequent urination, feeling tired and thirsty much of the time day and night – crimp one’s way of life. But the severe ravages of diabetes in an advanced state – amputation of limbs, blindness, heart disease, holes on the soles of feet, loss of eyesight and other debilitating effects – are too dreadful to ignore and precautions must be taken by PWD to avoid further progression of this disease in their bodies. More than avoiding further progression of diabetes, the good news is that it has been demonstrated that it possible to actually reverse this disease through these three means...

Author: Mark Levin Publisher: Ben Bella Books – 337 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book by Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity points out how President Obama is using his power and influence by appointing liberals to numerous government agencies that issue regulations that violate, subvert or override existing laws as well as provisions of the Constitution. He examines – through research and facts – some of the specific major ways Obama is “implementing his radical agenda unilaterally through his regulatory agencies and czars…and exactly what makes his methods unconstitutional.” Among them are: the EPA’s assault on affordable energy the FCC’s Internet takeover the secret plan to force you into a union. Kerpen points out such actions need the approval of the American people through the U.S. Congress. He presents a plan to stop Obama from violating the Constitution and disregarding the people. In nine chapters of this book Kerpen shows at least in as many ways how Obama is imposing his socialist ideas upon the people through regulatory rulings that are in effect legislative in nature. Legislative power – the power to make laws – resides solely with Congress – the legislative branch of the U.S. government, which is Congress, and not with the executive branch headed by the President. This is clearly stated in the very first section of Article 1...

Author: Alan S. Whiteman, PhD, Jerry Hermanson, MBA and Dennis Falkon, PhD Publisher: Greenbranch Publishing – 149 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This is a compact book on the accounting and general business aspects of physician practices, whether they are solo or group operations. Consisting of 10 chapters, this book applies to both existing physician practices and new ones being formed. It was written by three people with backgrounds in health administration. Dr. Alan Whiteman is an associate dean for health sciences and professor of graduate health administration studies at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. He has 35 years of experience in all facets of the healthcare industry. Jerry Hermanson is CEO of Health Integration Consultants, a Florida-based healthcare solutions company. He has 27 years of experience in healthcare and provides services to hospitals, physicians and medical societies. Dr. Dennis Palkon is a full professor and past chairman of Health Administration at Florida University in Boca Raton. He is executive editor of Hospital Topics and serves on numerous editorial boards. If you and your physician partners are working in a running practice, this book will help you and-or your office manager identify areas of immediate savings as well as additional cost-cutting opportunities in other areas of your operation as you compare each expense category over the last several years and discover why in some years those expenses...

Author: Aliza Sherman Publisher: Alpha-Penguin Books. 320 pages Book Review by Paiso Jamakar What is “crowdsourcing”? This is not a new word. This term was first used about five years ago by Jeff Howe in an article in Wired Magazine. Aliza Sherman, who is described in the book as a web pioneer, social media innovator and a commentator on the subject of the Internet, says the crowdsourcing “is set of processes that leverage the Internet and our ability to gather groups or crowds of people online to get something done. The range of things that one can get done through crowdsourcing is virtually unlimited. Think of what you have been able to do through the Internet, which includes social media. In the case of BIZ INDIA for example, by establishing a presence on Facebook, with a little bit of help from a couple dozen friends we made on that social medium, we now have about 7,200 “fans”. Without the power of Facebook we would have had to do a lot of work to get people to go to our site. The effect of other activities to get people to go to the Facebook site of BIZ INDIA would have been very limited. Mass emailing, speaking at events, mailings, would have had very limited results, if our objective was to get thousands of people to go to our site. Facebook...

Authors: Eric Lister, MD and Todd Sagin, MD Publisher: – Health Administration Press – 232 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnanai The authors of this book point out in the Preface itself that the health care system in the United States needs to improve dramatically in three basic ways. At the very core of this system are the provider and the recipient of care: the doctor and his patient. This book deals essentially with how to deliver care to the satisfaction of the patient and his doctor in terms of best outcome or effect, reasonable cost, and overall enhancement of health. Drs. Lister and Sagin show that when the characteristics of such ideal care are achieved in the basic unit of care, which is the doctor-patient relationship, all the other people and institutions involved in health care –  the patients’ families, the hospitals and their staff members, the employers, the insurers and other entities – benefit. In this book, they lay out their plan to bring about lasting positive change in the United States health care system by improving one critical aspect of health care:  the hospital-doctor working relationship. They look at the different types of employment arrangements and compensation that have existed over the past, how they have changed, and what exist today. They spell out the advantages and disadvantages of each type. Then they point out what...