The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History By Elizabeth Kolbert WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Note […]
Bottle of Lies: Ranbaxy and the Dark Side of Indian Pharma The book that will rock the Indian pharma industry In 2004, Dinesh Thakur, a senior employee of Ranbaxy, then India’s largest pharma company, discovered a terrible secret. Ranbaxy had been fabricating the test results of its drugs, endangering millions of patients. Thakur resigned and […]
RETHINKING THE FACILITY PLANNING PROCESS Excerpted from: SpaceMed Guide: A Space Planning Guide for Healthcare Facilities By: Cynthia Hayward About The Author: Cynthia Hayward, AIA, is principal and founder of Hayward & Associates, LLC in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a national consulting firm specializing in predesign planning planning for healthcare facilities. She has assisted hundreds of […]
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture: A Book SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE Second Edition Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP Gail Vittori, LEED Fellow Chapter 3: Environment and Medicine “The mirage of modern medicine (to use Rene Dubos’s image) is one facet of the dream of progress as increasing material comfort and mastery over nature, a dream that is drifting […]
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End By Atul Gawande Is it time the medical profession rethought its approach to the old and terminally ill? In what way? Should doctors be trained to prepare people to die rather than simply be kept alive as long as possible? In Being Mortal, Atul Gawande addresses […]
Florence Nightingale:What Lessons Would She Teach us Today? Florence Nightingale was born into a two-class society characterized by the pauper and the aristocrat. The latter believed it was his God-given right to rule and be served by all the others. The Nightingale family, however, was different. It saw itself as having a philanthropic duty […]
Two Books, One Good, One Excellent! Reverse Innovation in Health Care:How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work By Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti Healthcare Solutions From A Distant Shore Health care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. For more than a decade, leading thinkers, […]
CENTRAL STERILE SUPPLY DEPARTMENT: Planning Considerations A hospital consumes a large quantity of new material that needs sterilization before use. It also processes other material that has to be cleaned and sterilized before it can be used again. Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) is a service whereby medical/surgical supplies and equipment – both sterile and […]
Ian Ritchie was born in Hove on the south coast of England. He studied architecture at the Polytechnic of Central London where he graduated with distinction in1972. He worked with a number of prominent architects, and in 1981 he formed Ian Ritchie Architects and co-founded the special design engineering firm of Rice Francis Ritchie (RFR) […]
Emotional Alchemy: How Your Mind Can Heal Your Heart By Tara Bennett-Goleman Foreword by the Dalai Lama We all desire happiness and do not want suffering. Because the very purpose of life is to be […]
