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Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.
Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay...
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Through the comments of a woman with arthritis, the place of spirituality in the management of arthritis is explored in this video. Spiritual needs are also addressed, such as the need for meaning and purpose, hope, and love and relatedness. How clinicians can integrate spirituality into their work with arthritic clients is described, including assessing clients' spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, and assisting them to meet their spiritual...
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Life After Residency: A Career Planning Guide is an insightful, step-by-step guide to achieving a successful and fulfilling career in medicine. As professors at Stanford University Medical Center, Drs. Melissa Berhow, William Feaster, and John Brock-Utne began running seminars to advise their residents not only on creating a curriculum vitae and landing a great job, but also on how to manage student loan payments and avoid pitfalls in the life of...
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This book is about the sh*t. The bad stuff. The things that happen to people with autoimmune disease when no one else is paying attention. This is my follow-up to The Marvelous Transformation: Living Well with Autoimmune Disease (TMT) in which I explored how I've managed to have a happy life despite being ill.However, I want to be very clear that this is not an extension of The Marvelous Transformation; it is almost its inverse. While still being...
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#1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable.
#2 The key to healing from the Western world's emphasis on knowledge...
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Your brain controls and powers virtually every aspect of your life, and like the rest of your body, it changes with age. In Keep Your Brain Young, two of the world's leading brain doctors guide you through the changes you may encounter as you get older and as your brain matures. Based on state-of-the-art research and supplemented with dramatic case histories, this comprehensive resource shows you the latest techniques for maintaining memory, managing...
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#1 This book is a collection of stories about the effects of aging on patients, doctors, and nurses. It is both conventional and countercultural, fact- and story-based, affectionate and opinionated, part battle cry and part lament.
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This book is an illumination of the most fundamental, yet powerful Encouraging Principles for nurses and other health care workers. In this book, each principle can be used as a tool to be implemented in a practical, yet inspiring way. Additional, benefits, is to heighten our communication skills, within the care environment, to avoid complaints, and to improve patients care satisfaction.
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#1 The hospital at the Yambuku Catholic Mission in Zaire, Africa, was filled with African oil palms and tropical vegetation. The buildings were made of brown bricks and had open porticoes running along their sides. The maternity ward was a modest pavilion with a room that contained nineteen beds.
#2 The experience of Sister Beata, a nurse at the Yambuku hospital, demonstrates...
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#1 The reading brain is the result of our intellectual evolution, and it has changed over time as we have learned to read new things. It has expanded our capacity to think, feel, and infer, and it has changed how we communicate.
#2 The brain's ability to learn new things is based on its plastic design, which allows it to make new connections among structures and circuits...
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The purpose of this book is to provide the practice ways to maximize their opportunities, in regard to patient treatment, patient outcome, and provide a multifactorial approach to pain management. The goal of the practitioner should be to provide exceptional patent care and develop an outstanding process. This book will help the practice develop an exceptional process. The ideas that are discussed in this book will help with the treatment of patients...
74) Just Another Day
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They do not need a reason to act selflessly since they have pledged to do so, their love for mankind is unconditional; under the greatest adversity exists their tremendous potential to heal the sick, wounded, and those in pain. Time magazine illustrated them as 'Warriors' during the worst-hit Covid era of 2020. At last, they earned their lifelong overdue recognition. They may not change the entire world in a day but certainly change life for many...
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#1 Nausea is worse than pain. I remember thinking this during the early days of my first pregnancy, a pregnancy I had prayed and wept for, despaired about, and agonized over. But 6 weeks in, I found that I was hating every moment.
#2 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a common problem that affects 70 to 90 percent of pregnant women. It is unclear if it is a disease...
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MENDELS GARDEN: SELECTED MEDICAL TOPICS contains a collection of short non-fiction texts covering a wide variety of medical issues. Dr. Holcombe intends each short text for the lay audience, and there are consequently no rigorous references as would be found in scientific publications. Instead, the topics are intended to introduce the average reader to a number of current issues that affect the public, from cancer to Cyclospora and from contingency...
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The Fabric of Health shares John's discovery journey from misery to a quality life.
While medical assistance is valuable, personal involvement is essential. We can understand how body, mind, emotions and spirit weave together a full satisfying life.
Breath is essential for life. John learned it's importance in knowing love, awareness, confidence, and more. Life's simple ingredients can open vast insights for a quality life. Directed breath, choosing...
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Every year, approximately 200,000 deaths occur in the US healthcare system that could have been prevented, akin to experiencing twenty weekly crashes of Boeing 747 airliners. This grim reality highlights the dire state of our nation's healthcare delivery system, where lives are needlessly lost in hospitals every single day. In his book "Find the Black Box," Dr. Ira Williams delves deep into the inherent issues plaguing the American healthcare system...
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The book opens with the birth of Sean, the son of Joe and Mary, in this continuing story of Joe, a medical doctor of hematology and his search for the ultimate reason for life here. Throughout the book, Joe suffers occasionally from complications of his sarcoidosis disease with episodes of confusion labeled as encephalopathy. We follow approximately a year and a half in the life of Joe, Mary, his wife, and Sean and their interactions as a family,...
80) The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Sillima
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The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler
The Evolution of Modern Medicine "consists of a series of historic lectures delivered by William Osler at Yale University in 1913. In these lectures, of which exists only one in-print edition, the renowned physician and medical historian Osler chronicles the history of medical science from its most ancient...
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