So instead of doing individual reviews on each single book, I'm just going to pick out parts of the book that stood out to me to post. It could be a quote, something I learned, something I found interesting etc. The following five books are honestly all great and I'm so thankful that I had the opportunity to read them through HOSA. For those that don't know what HOSA is, it's an international competition for the Health CTE for those that want to pursue a career in the medical/health field. Anyways, happy reading!
Title: Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients
Author: Jeremy N. Smith
Publisher: Harper Wave
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Pages: 352
Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.
Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. While it is one of the largest scientific projects ever attempted—as breathtaking as the first moon landing or the Human Genome Project—the questions it answers are meaningful for every one of us: What are the world’s health problems? Who do they hurt? How much? Where? Why?
Murray argues that the ideal existence isn’t simply the longest but the one lived well and with the least illness. Until we can accurately measure how people live and die, we cannot understand what makes us sick or do much to improve it. Challenging the accepted wisdom of the WHO and the UN, the charismatic and controversial health maverick has made enemies—and some influential friends, including Bill Gates who gave Murray a $100 million grant.
In Epic Measures, journalist Jeremy N. Smith offers an intimate look at Murray and his groundbreaking work. From ranking countries’ healthcare systems (the U.S. is 37th) to unearthing the shocking reality that world governments are funding developing countries at only 30% of the potential maximum efficiency when it comes to health, Epic Measures introduces a visionary leader whose unwavering determination to improve global health standards has already changed the way the world addresses issues of health and wellness, sets policy, and distributes funding.
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This book follows Christopher "Chris" Murray through ups and downs from the beginning of the Global Burden of Disease. It starts with an experience Chris had when he was in the Sahara Desert with his family. At the young age of ten, he saw how badly disease and other health conditions plagued Africa. Then on, he decided that he would be the one to not only stop the factors, but also find our why they happen, how to stop them from spreading farther on, the causes, and better cures for them.
For example, malaria and its cures. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, IHME, studies showed that malaria killed 1.2 million people in 2010 but that amount was twice as given by the WHO. To back up this fact, people had to take records and data from 105 countries about the past 30 years. As they did this, they also saw the effects of two drugs used to battle malaria: chloroquine and the artemisinin combination treatment. Chloroquine was the most common drug used for malaria treatment but the artemisinin combination treatment was more reliable and more accessible to the public. After looking at the newer cases, IHME came to a conclusion. All people, no matter their age, needed help to fight this disease with proper treatments.
Title: Identity Leadership: To Lead Other You Must First Lead Yourself
Author: Stedman Graham
Publisher: Center Street
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Pages: 240
New York Times bestselling author Stedman Graham's Identity Leadership is a very personal and prescriptive guide that is based on his philosophy that a leader can't lead others until he can first lead himself-the more he works on himself -- the more he can give to those around him. To know our purpose in life, we begin with our passions, skills, and talents, and with this book we learn how to channel the best of who we are to achieve success for ourselves and those we lead.
In Identity Leadership, Graham examines why self-awareness matters, how leaders lead, the importance of communication, and much more. He then shows the reader how to step into their role as a leader and create their identity leadership plan. Key to the journey is believing in yourself, knowing your competence, continually challenging yourself, and being patient with yourself. Graham uses anecdotes from his own life, as well as discussing successful leaders, to illustrate the importance of identity leadership in each of our lives.
Self-leaders can create a roadmap that leads to personal growth, development, and improvement of performance in every area of life. Identity Leadership provides the tools-self-awareness, emotional intelligence, discipline, and more-needed to continually plan and execute learning and development of our talents and skills. These tools enable readers to commit to a personal vision and lead with purpose.
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A Couple Quotes For Motivation
Identity leadership is self-leadership, and it is based on the philosophy that if you can't lead yourself, you can't lead anyone else.
It's like being able to live on your own before taking care of the kids.
Identity leadership helps you perform at your highest possible level, maximizing your potential in all that you undertake.
You never know what you can do until you understand yourself through identity leadership. Then using identity leadership, you go and make a difference!
When you have a strong sense of identity, you are not afraid to be transparent, because you have nothing to hide, and what others think or say of you doesn't alter your understanding of who you are.
You've got to have that strong will to keep pushing and doing your doing you know? What others think or say to you will not change your goal, don't let it affect you, don't even show a response to them. Having a high EQ is also a big part of leadership. :)
Identity leadership helps you perform at your highest possible level, maximizing your potential in all that you undertake.
When you have a strong sense of identity, you are not afraid to be transparent, because you have nothing to hide, and what others think or say of you doesn't alter your understanding of who you are.
Title: Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference
Authors: Stephen Trzeciak, Anthony Mazzarelli, & Cory Booker
Publisher: Studer Group
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Pages: 375
A 34-year-old man fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit is on an artificial respirator for over a month. Could it be that his chance of getting off the respirator is not how much his nurses know, but rather how much they care?
A 75-year-old woman is heroically saved by a major trauma center only to be discharged and fatally struck by a car while walking home from the hospital. Could a lack of compassion from the hospital staff have been a factor in her death?
Compelling new research shows that health care is in the midst of a compassion crisis.
But the pivotal question is this: Does compassion really matter?
In Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, physician scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli uncover the eye-opening data that compassion could be a wonder drug for the 21st century.
Now, for the first time ever, a rigorous review of the science - coupled with captivating stories from the front lines of medicine - demonstrates that human connection in health care matters in astonishing ways. Never before has all the evidence been synthesized together in one place.
You will see compelling evidence that:
- Compassion has vast benefits for patients across a wide variety of conditions
- Missed opportunities for compassion can have devastating health effects
- Compassion can help reverse the cost crisis in health care
- Compassion can be an antidote for burnout among health care providers
- 40 seconds of compassion can save a life
After seeing all the evidence, the answer is crystal clear: Compassion matters...in not only meaningful but measurable ways.
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Facts & Quotes
Compassion is defined as the emotional response to another's pain or suffering, involving an authentic desire to help.
Compassion and empathy are two different things but can be related to each other. For example, compassion is an action while empathy is a feeling. You need empathy to have compassion so it's like a precursor you know?
Fact #1:
Nearly half of Americans believe that the U.S. health care system and health care providers are not compassionate.
Fact #2:
There are three hallmarks of burnout according to research: emotional exhaustion, a lack of personal accomplishment, and depersonalization.
Fact #3:
There are three hallmarks of burnout according to research: emotional exhaustion, a lack of personal accomplishment, and depersonalization.
It's up to individual physicians. nurses, and other healthcare workers and administrators to decide what they wat to role model. Their choices will have a lasting impact that echoes through trainees, mentees, and those that are less senior to them, all across the organization.
Fact #4:
A Johns Hopkins study found that resident physicians on inpatient services spend only 12 perfect of their time seeing their patients at the bedside in direct patient care, compared to 40 percent of their time doing computer work away from the patients.
Fact #5:
Compassion for other is not just what you say.
Non-verbal actions like your body language can also be considered compassion. It's not about what we say but also what we do.
Fact #6:
Among patients with diabetes, the odds of optimal blood sugar control were 80 percent higher with high compassion physicians.
Dalai Lama:
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Title: The Real Grey's Anatomy: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Real Lives of Surgical Residents
Author: Andrew Holtz
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Pages: 318
Do surgeons talk about their sex lives while cutting a heart open? How do surgeons respond to death? How do they react when asked to save the life of an abuser, criminal, or addict?
Since its debut, the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy has asked such questions. With an emphasis on the personal lives of the surgical interns, residents, and attending physicians, the show has generated interest in how these professionals survive this rigorous educational program. How much of its drama is entertainment, and how much is accurate? Here, a medical journalist provides answers. He examines a group of new surgical residents in the Pacific Northwest as they tackle long hours, fascinating procedures, and emotional ups and downs that comprise the life of a student of surgery.
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Summary
Residency is glamourized in Grey's Anatomy. Not a surprising fact though, because that's just for entertainment purposes. In this book, I got a glimpse of what actual surgical residency was like. Most residents were sleep deprived and barely got a chance to eat before being paged. It also talked about switching from paper to electronical record keeping for the patients.
It took longer electronically but it also benefited the doctors in many ways like transferring medical records between different hospitals. Honestly, this book was really eye-opening as I never thought residency was so complex yet simple at the same time. Though at first I found that a little weird because I thought they did that already but then I realized that this book was written in 2009. Overall, I did learn a lot from this book and found it interesting.
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