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Chapter 32 includes: Three Months Out... - Applying for Licensure - Negotiating Insurance Contracts - Contacting a Laboratory Equipment and Supply Distributor and a Technical Consultant - Selecting a Test Menu - Selecting Analyzers, Test Systems, and Test Kits Two Months Out... - Personnel and Laboratory Support Staff Members - Reagent and Analyzer Contracts - Laboratory Information Systems - Completion of Physical Site One Month Out... - Hire Personnel...
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In this book, Robert Bryson, a mechanical engineer specializing in automated manufacture and robotics, who certainly thinks outside the box, discusses aging, breast cancer, and AIDS. He explains how the solution to many of our health problems may be, easier to find than most of us have thought. Bryson reveals how a new type of medicine, which uses engineered viruses, could eliminate diseases that are presently, deemed incurable. He maintains that...
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Elizabeth Ambler started compiling her household book of cures in the early eighteenth century, including in it treatments which were much older and had been passed down to her. These intriguing remedies include Sir Walter Raleigh's Receipt against Plague, Viper Broth, Snail Milk Water and Tobacco for the Eyes, as well as Ginger Bread and Apricot Ratafia. In addition to traditional flowers and herbs, ingredients consist of precious stones, exotic...
344) Human Heart
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A chart of the human heart would show the details of the valves and arteries. It shows the aspects of the circulatory system in relation to the heart. Details are given about it being a muscle as well as how many times it should beat for children and adults at various ages in life. Chambers are labeled, the mitral and tricuspid valve are labeled and the blood vessels are shown in color to help designate those that take blood from the heart and those...
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America's broken medical system is breaking our doctors-even as they're lauded as heroes.
Physician burnout annually costs the medical industry-run by insurance companies, administrators, and electronic record systems-$5 billion. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 70% of physicians said they would not recommend a medical career to their families.
It's time for change.
In Determined, academic physician and certified coach Dr. Jimmy Turner lays out...
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Cette deuxième édition, par des chapitres inédits ou renouvelés et de nouveaux collaborateurs, représente un recueil des interventions de pointe élaborées afin de favoriser le rétablissement des personnes vivant avec un problème de santé mentale important. Des auteurs du Québec, du Canada, des États-Unis et de l'Europe y partagent leur expertise.
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Around the world, a swelling tide of people are discovering an astonishing, life-altering truth. This book tells their extraordinary stories:
• an anxious PhD student builds his confidence by changing his workout
• back exercises help one woman negotiate a fix to a botched home repair
• a Microsoft executive grows credibility by shifting her stance
• an executive team leads their company to a 30% increase in valuation by dancing together
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This handbook is aimed at clinicians and others who are engaged in caring for ageing adults with developmental disabilities. It is intended to inform understanding, promote assessment, assist in care planning, and especially to improve everyday living for this needy but sadly often neglected group of vulnerable individuals. The authors base their guidance on evidence, focusing on important insights that are likely to be valuable to the clinician interested...
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'Neurology Multiple Choice Questions with Explanations (Volume I)' is meant for medical students, residents and other healthcare professionals. This volume contains 140 questions covering nerve, muscle, junction, motor neuron, cerebellum and spinal cord. Each question is followed by a brief discussion, answer and references. Uniqueness of this format ensures that the reader is able to view a logical flow i.e. question followed by explanation, answer...
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Familial chylomicronemia syndrome' (FCS) is an ultra-rare genetic disorder characterized by the abnormal build-up of chylomicrons, the largest type of lipoprotein, which transport dietary fat from the gut to the rest of the body. Patients with FCS often experience severe symptoms, the most feared of which is acute, potentially life-threatening, pancreatitis. This resource is intended to raise awareness of FCS among all members of the healthcare team...
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Cooking and Baking Recipes with Raw and Superfoods The Cooking and Baking Cookbook introduces the Superfoods diet and the Raw Food diet, both of which are highly nutritious and helping in maintaining a very healthy lifestyle. The belief that certain foods are so good, so high in nutrition they are deemed "super." Including these foods and the raw food diet in a good meal plan helps people to beef up their immune systems, thus helping them to treat...
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B is for Balance is about the individual nurse – the professional, the multi-tasker, the 'be all things to all people' leader. While the first edition of B is for Balance was well-received and has been a great resource to nurses and other professionals, the second edition has been updated to focus on 12 steps to balance, including engagement, focus, sleep deficits, fatigue, diet, re-inventing one's career, and the need for each of us to live longer...
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Mit "Du bist dein eigener Therapeut" zeigen die Autoren Andreas Alt und Bernard C. Kolster den von Nackenschmerzen geplagten Leserinnen und Lesern verblüffend einfache Wege, Beschwerden loszuwerden und eine aktive Rolle in der Therapie zu übernehmen. Dieses Buch enthält alles, was Betroffene brauchen, um ihre Nackenbeschwerden in Eigenregie therapieren und nachhaltig beseitigen bzw. entscheidend lindern zu können – von der einfachen Selbsteinschätzung...
354) On a Scalpel`s Edge
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"On a Scalpel`s Edge" is set in a medical hospital in Australia and follows the fortunes of the various personnel employed there and those with whom they come in contact such as patients. It also covers a court case dealing with medical malpractice. The main character is Professor John Taylor, head of Hazeldene Medical Centre who is joined at the centre by an attractive gynecologist, Kerry-Ann Armstrong. Their burgeoning romance is beset by substantial...
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Nursing Beyond the Bedside: 60 Non-Hospital Careers in Nursing introduces nurses and nursing students to career opportunities outside of the hospital setting-in areas where RN job growth is projected to remain strong as patients live longer but with more chronic illnesses. The goal of this book is to provide practicing nurses and those pursuing a career in nursing a thorough understanding of the many career options available outside the hospital....
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Patients and their loved ones are the reason hospitals exists. Providing safe, compassionate and expert care is the overarching goal of your doctors, nurses and other caregivers in the hospital. Navigating Your Hospital Stay: A Guide Written by Expert Nurses was written to enhance the experience of all hospitalized patients. It was written by expert nurses who are committed to alleviating suffering, preventing complications and promoting healing...
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Mycotic diseases are gaining importance because of the increase in opportunistic fungal infections in patients whose immune systems are compromised. The identification of fungi isolated from clinical material has posed a variety of problems to many laboratories because of lack of expertise and experience, especially in the identification of recently emerged rare fungi that had not been previously reported. A Guide to the Study of Basic Medical Mycology...
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This newly expanded and completely revised guide provides all the comprehensive information needed to master the official certification exams. Inside are:
Five complete practice exams based on the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAP) standards;
A complete breakdown of the exam and practical information on state requirements and how to become a CNA; A sample practical skills assessment to master the tasks and prepare candidates for the...
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Cracking the Mind-Body Cipher
Dr. Niall (Jock) McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who uses philosophical analysis to show that modern psychiatry has no scientific basis. This startling conclusion dovetails neatly with the growing evidence that psychiatric drug treatment is crude and damaging. Needless to say, this message is not popular with mainstream psychiatrists. However, in this book, he shows how the principles of information processing give...
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