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You can do some independent practice and study on your own time. This seems like something you are very passionate about. One technique that is widely used is called motivational interviewing, and it applies so well to nursing that I wish hospitals would provide nurses with this kind of training, but there is a book on amazon that is specifically geared toward healthcare providers.
Absolutely.
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewing) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593856121/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_MZPEKRHYJCQRHRP7HRKX
It's the single greatest resource I've ever encountered in practice and I can't recommend it enough. Very short, easy to understand and implement, and it works! This book is basically a series of Jedi mind tricks and Inception techniques to get patients to take control over their oral health.
Research is NOT clear on that, and is rather in contention. I highly recommend the recent book by an academic authority on the subject, Christopher Exley.
https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-You-Are-Aluminum-Atom/dp/1510762531
This is a horrible idea IMHO. Aluminum is a known neurotoxin. I recommend looking up the work of Professor Christopher Exley who has been studying Aluminum toxicity for the last 40 years. He has recently released a book "Imagine you are an Aluminum Atom" about the dangers:
https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-You-Are-Aluminum-Atom/dp/1510762531/
The US health industry makes 3.2% profit on all capital investment. That is pathetic. If you have $1k to invest somewhere, you can probably just open a regular bank savings account than invest it in pharma companies.
They spend the vast vast majority of their money on meeting regulations.
you are making several assumptions here, and may not even realize it
- That a giant regulatory agency staffed with unelected bureaucrats is necessary to mandate labeling/safety/efficacy of drugs instead of just, you know, a LAW written by our elected representatives and passed by said reps
- that counterfeit or simply deceptive 'medicine' vendors are an externality that the free market has never been good at handling ** See the safety of Heroin Pre FDA ** See how other industries (games, consumer electronics) manage to solve this problem without any government regulation or oversight
- That the FDA has no externalities built into itself. E.g. the very regulations passed by the FDA could in fact be KILLING PEOPLE. Its called 'unintended consequences' or 'the seen vs unseen' or the 'broken window fallacy' ** https://www.amazon.com/Death-Regulation-Robbed-Golden-Reclaim/dp/0963233610
- That the people running the FDA don't first prioritize their own self interest first, just like everyone else does, and this could cause perverted incentives where the FDA pursues policies that kill more americans because it means they get more money in funding next year
Two that immediately come to mind are:
- "Climate Change - What Everyone Needs to Know": Climate Change is going to affect them whether they like it or not, so they should at least have a basic understanding of how it works.
- "Weapons of Math Destruction": Similarly, if they're going to continue to have a hardon for Big Data they should at least know the risks.
And these ones are just the politically neutral ones I have in mind.
Very nice. Each of these is good in its own way but in my eyes the last one kind of stands out because:
- there's more than a handful reviews for it
- after reading a couple of them on goodreads, it's evident that the author embraces futurology to a degree, which I think is ~~necessary~~helpful when you're trying to open yourself up to possibilities. In this sense it somewhat resembles sci-fi, so it should also be easier to read.
- it's pretty affordable.
I think I'll end up getting her this one and recommending the others.
I can't thank you enough.
> There's always one on Reddit ;)
Oh, you open up with a personal insult... Nice.
Well, this is it, then. The thing is, I do not disagree with the nuclear experts; in fact, I agree with them.
I also do not really care about making a point for nuclear power; I don't work for the nuclear industry. However, I don't like factually incorrect posts in "serious" subs.
Anyhow; since you don't seem to be really keen on respectful conversations I don't really want to waste my new year arguing. (And it makes no difference to me, either way. I dislike people with agendas, anyhow.)
Go to a library, read the following book (http://www.amazon.com/Radiation-Protection-Dosimetry-Introduction-Physics/dp/0387499822) and then you can come back to me if you have questions.
And when phony science isn't enough, throw some Doubt in to the real science.
"Early Detection" when there are no symptoms is a way oversold myth (but it IS a big money-maker).
>•Doctors don't know as much as you think they do. For example, they don't know what causes most cases of back pain or what makes it better. > >•Doctors do know that many of the tests, drugs and procedures they order and prescribe either do not work or have not been proved to work. Case in point: They keep prescribing antibiotics for colds and bronchitis. > >•Doctors disagree, often, about everything, including whether that chest X-ray you just had really shows pneumonia. > >•Doctors like ordering tests better than they like listening to you. > > Above quoted from article about a revealing book Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine by David Newman MD, a New York City emergency department physician who also has studied philosophy, worked as a paramedic and served at an Army hospital in Iraq. He now trains medical students and residents at Columbia University and St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center.
Another excellent book is What doctors don't tell you
Mostly what "physicals" do is set you up for a bunch of unnecessary tests based on "borderline" data from whatever the current "fad" is (blood pressure, PSA levels, cholesterol, etc) -- which then leads to a lot of anxiety and unneeded (questionable) medications.
What the "health care" system has really managed to achieve is to turn the majority of Americans into quasi-hypochondriacs.