The right prescription to start, or add to, a home health library.
A thoughtful, comprehensive guide to taking control of your health and making better-informed healthcare decisions.
Confusing, complicated and often slow-moving, today’s medical system can be ineffective and frustrating for even the savviest healthcare consumer. This practical guide can make maneuvering around–even mastering–that system easier. No doubt it’s Russo’s 20 years of experience as a lawyer and health-management expert that gives her the authoritative, yet friendly, voice she uses to offer reliable, well-researched information on everything from choosing the best medical provider, to effectively communicating with physicians, to managing health information. Interspersed stories about her daughter’s struggle with epilepsy illustrate the many challenges patients and loved ones can face. Though even with this human touch and storyline, it’s not a book most will read cover to cover. Early chapters like “Becoming a Visionary Healthcare Consumer” and “Playing an Active Role in Creating Your Healthcare Story” may not appeal to those looking for nuts-and-bolts advice on more pressing issues, such as how to get a second a opinion or care when you’re uninsured. The structure allows readers to tackle chapters in any order. For example, those more interested in complementary medicine than medical coding can skip the latter, choosing instead to read about the “Six Principals of Naturopathic Medicine” or “Five Major Types of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.” Throughout, charts, diagrams and graphics make complex medical information easier to understand. And for those impatient with the author’s frequently wordy prose, each chapter ends with a review of key ideas and recommended actions. Names of health-related books, websites, agencies and businesses Russo has found useful are also listed, including an oddly out-of-place directory of raw-food experts. But from someone whose five previous books deal with medical record-keeping and coding (most recently Management of Medical Records, 2006), it’s a hard point to criticize. Tips on where to find ice cream made from coconut meat and agave adds an appealing, quirky touch.
The right prescription to start, or add to, a home health library.Pub Date: Jan. 1, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9799061-0-7
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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