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Featuring six real x-rays printed on mylar, Jessica's X-Ray is a unique and fun look inside our bodies and the world of x-rays written by a professional x-ray technologist who has worked extensively with children. In the book, kids follow Jessica, who has broken her arm, as she tours the hospital seeing x-ray rooms and looking at actual x-ray, CAT-scan, MRI and ultrasound images. These real x-ray images are printed on mylar so readers can see firsthand...
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What would it be like to have x-ray vision?
Beyond diagnosing illness or injury, can images of ourselves tell us more about life?
What if you could see that an accident victim will never walk again; that a young mother has breast cancer; or that a teenager is brain-dead and will be removed from life support? Can imaging help us better appreciate the complexity of existence, our strengths and vulnerabilities? Does looking into the body give insight...
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From Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital resident and Attending radiologists For general radiologists, residents, and students. Over 100 trials included. A new addition to 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics Series™.
Radiology relies on well-conducted scientific evidence that must stand the test of time. 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Radiology™, a manageable handbook, provides original summaries of the landmark studies...
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Hold Your Breath, and Breathe is a dual timeline medical memoir. The tale of the diagnostic imaging technologist is one of many dualities. Of course, there is the wave-particle duality of incident photons, but there is also the precision of the field juxtaposed by the seemingly intuited feel and skilled muscle memory required in emergency scenarios. There are neat and orderly textbooks, and there is the dizzyingly complex reality. There is the routine,...
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Hundreds of books, long and short, have been written about the Chernobyl tragedy. Few people are left indifferent once they understand a little about the biggest technological catastrophe in history. Wladimir Tchertkoff's book "The Crime of Chernobyl - the Nuclear Gulag" occupies a central place in this library aboutChernobyl. Many journalists, like Wladimir Tchertkoff, a documentary film maker for Swiss television", were shocked by what they saw...
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“The Unofficial Guide to Radiology: 100 Practice Orthopaedic X Rays” is the sequel to “The Unofficial Guide to Radiology”, which has been recommended by the Royal College of Radiologist, and won awards from the British Institute of Radiology and the British Medical Association. This book teaches systematic analysis of Orthopedic X Rays. The layout is designed to make the book as relevant to clinical practice as possible, the X-rays are presented...
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Co-published with the Association for Radiologic and Imaging Nursing and ANA. This new edition contains up-to-date information on this exciting and dynamic specialty that combines cutting-edge technology with the art and science of nursing. It builds upon the previously published Radiology Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice (2007) by incorporating the broader practice environment that nurses working in this specialty are encountering in their...
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"The Unofficial Guide to Radiology: 100 Practice Chest X Rays" is the sequel to the Unofficial Guide to Radiology, which has sold 1500 copies in just eight months. This book teaches systematic analysis of Chest X Rays. The layout is designed to make the book as relevant to clinical practice as possible, the X-rays are presented in the context of a real life scenario. The reader is asked to interpret the X-ray before turning over the page to reveal...
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