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Author: Marshall O. Zaslove, MD Publisher:  Jones and Bartlett Learning – 307 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This is a very useful book for time-challenged physicians by Dr. Marshall O. Zaslove, who has conducted over 500 seminars on personal and professional productivity for major medical organizations. Among those are American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the International College of Surgeons and Kaiser Permanente. The purpose of this book is to help doctors become more productive streamlining, modernization and improvement in efficiency.  Part of that process means getting organized on a professional as well as a personal level, since each affects the other closely. It contains some 140 practical ways to reduce hassles, pressures, risks, urgencies and worries. The productivity techniques laid out in this book to help doctors save time on non-essential chores and enable them to focus on the essential tasks of their practice were compiled by the author from doctors through many means. Among them are: emails, interviews, letters, phone calls and questionnaires. Insight and detailed understanding of the problems doctors face on a day-to-day basis was gained from discussions in Dr. Zaslove’s seminars on physician productivity. The author also spoke to medical technicians, nurses, office managers, operating room personnel, pharmacists, physician assistants and others in the medical field. Learning never stops, as has been said, and much can be learned by doctors...

Author: Jeffrey T. Gorke Publisher: Greenbranch Publishing  –  155 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani Books on the business aspect of medicine are rare, and rarer still are good ones on this subject. This one is not just good; it is truly exceptional. We cannot expect doctors of medicine to be masters of business, so this book helps fill the gaps in business knowledge and experience that physicians typically have. This useful guide, written basically for the young doctor getting into private medical practice, is divided into two “books.” Book One is entitled “The Job Search” and Book Two is named “On to Business.” The author Jeffrey T. Gorke, taking into account the prevalent condition of doctors not having sufficient business knowledge and experience, explains in simple sentences how to not only take a telescopic view of the finances of a medical practice but also look at it under a microscope. And after that, how to make both pictures better. Do you want to hold the line down on your expenses so that your net income is larger? You can do that by eliminating unnecessary outflows of money. Want to make your financial picture look even prettier after keeping your expense structure stable? You can do that with some creative thinking by offering some new services or adding to your list of patients, thereby increasing your revenues. Want to...

Author: John Torinus Jr. Publisher:Ben Bella Books – 210 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram With health care expense in the United States totaling around $2.4 trillion, it constitutes   nearly 16 percent or almost a whopping sixth of the country’s current gross domestic product (GDP) of $15.1 trillion. This is by far the single largest component of the U.S. economy and its annual rates of growth over the last two decades have been no less than alarming. The Obamacare law, while it got health insurance coverage for some of the uninsured, did nothing to slow down the rising premiums of health insurance firms. On the contrary, its provisions will do the exact opposite for employers: raise further the already fast-rising premiums for health insurance coverage for their employees. In 2010, the rate of increase of health insurance premiums for most companies ranged from at least 10 percent to more than 20 percent, according to the author of this book. Out-of-control prices for health care have affected all levels of government in the United States, all States, all companies and all individuals. The Federal government continues to pay more and more every year to provide health care to each person over 65 covered under Medicare and each lower-income person covered by Medicaid. State governments’ budgets have gone out of balance due to insuring their employees for health care. Perhaps the...

Authors: T.Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell, MD Publisher: Ben Bella Books – 417 pages Book Review by Sonu Chandiram The China Study is essentially a well documented book on the relationship between nutrition and the various diseases that afflict people particularly in the United States and Western countries, mainly in Europe. Mostly importantly, these are various types of cancer and heart disease, but also diabetes, obesity, and diseases that affect the brain, bone, eye and kidney. The Campbells point out that improper nutrition and diet – mainly consumption of meat – also have causative factors on some 40 autoimmune diseases, which occur when the body attacks itself, and in many cases, the patients are the losers. This is a bestselling book (read about the ranking below) and I suspect that it is because health and disease-fighting has become a top issue in America. Notice I said disease-fighting and not disease-prevention. Prevention is obviously less costly in terms of money, time and effort than fighting disease through medication and hospitalization. And disease-prevention is an effort that does not produce stress but requires knowledge and an action plan. This excellent book provides you both. Add your discipline in carrying out your action plan to become healthier and less disease-prone. Read this book carefully several times and understand closely one term you may have not heard before: death by food....