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The Cherokee Physician Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy.: With General Ru - Paperback

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by Jas W. Mahoney (Author), Richard Foreman (Author)The Cherokee Physician, Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book...

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by Sandra Block (Author)She helps people conquer their demons. But she has a few of her own... In the halls of the psychiatric ward, Dr. Zoe Goldman is a resident in training, dedicated to helping troubled patients. However, she has plenty of baggage of her own. When Zoe becomes obsessed with questions about her own mother's death, the truth remains tauntingly out of reach, locked away within her nightmares of an uncontrollable fire. And as her adoptive mother loses her memory to dementia, t...

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The Power of Teamwork: How We Can All Work Better Together - Paperback

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by Brian Goldman (Author)The national bestseller from the host of CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art--now in paperback!In the high-pressure and complex setting of health care, a new approach to teamwork is leading to healthier patients, happier staff and more efficient operations. Doctors are learning art appreciation to improve diagnostic skills. Hospitals are adopting airplane-style "black boxes" in operating rooms to reduce errors and create better teams. And lessons from the medical world ...

Katrina Through Our Eyes: Stories from Inside Baptist Hospital - Paperback

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by Michael Budo (Illustrator), Lori Budo R. N. (Author)Trapped inside Baptist Hospital after Hurricane Katrina, staff, patients and family members endured suffocating heat in a facility that lacked running water, sewerage and basic medical services. Follow the personal journeys of the ICU nurses as they persevere through the physical and emotional aftermath of the storm. In stories that are both disheartening and inspiring, the heroes from inside the hospital give their own accounts of witnes...

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Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships - Hardcover

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by Rob Wipond (Author)Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated "for their own good" than at any time in history. In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, Your Consent Is Not Required exposes how rising numbers o...

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El Cerebro Y La Inteligencia Emocional / The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights - Paperback

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by Daniel Goleman (Author)En este fascinante y persuasivo libro, Daniel Goleman sostiene que nuestra visión de la inteligencia humana es estrecha, pues soslaya un amplio abanico de capacidades esenciales para la vida. El cerebro y la inteligencia emocional: nuevos descubrimientos reúne los hallazgos más recientes de la investigación cerebral y otras fuentes sobre temas que van de la creatividad y el rendimiento óptimo a la conexión entre dos cerebros en el terreno del liderazgo, pasando por l...

Which Poison Will Change Your Life?: An MCS Survivor's Eye-Opening View into the Socio-Political Forces Which Make Today's

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by Glenna J. Chance (Author)- Are chemicals and electro-smog in your home and workplace making you sick? - Does your doctor tell you that your symptoms are not real? are all in your head? - Has your condition been dismissed or labelled "idiopathic" (and then dismissed)? Turn on any newscast. Open any newspaper. Read any blog. What are they talking about? Pollution, global warming, and our skyrocketing disease rate. With so many research studies, how can these intricately-related topics still ...

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The Healing Code: 6 Minutes to Heal the Source of Your Health, Success, or Relationship Issue - Paperback

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by Alexander Loyd (Author), Ben Johnson (With) With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges.The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you know about, and repair the ones you don't. The book also includes: The Seven Secrets of life, health, and prosperity The 10-second Instant Impact technique f...

Shaken Baby Syndrome or Vaccine Induced Encephalitis - Are Parents Being Falsely Accused? - Hardcover

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by Harold Buttram M. D. (Author), Christina England (Author)In 1971 Norma Guthkelch, retired neurosurgeon, published the first description of the Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). Within the next several years John Caffey, pediatric radiologist, wrote several articles supporting the SBS theory. Very soon after, when infants were brought into hospital emergency rooms in the U.S.A. with brain hemorrhages without known accidental explanations such as auto accidents or high distance falls, almost routi...

Workbook for Pharmacology: Principles and Applications: A Worktext for Allied Health Professionals - Paperback

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by Eugenia M. Fulcher (Author), Robert M. Fulcher (Author), Cathy Dubeansky Soto (Author)Corresponding to the chapters in Pharmacology: Principles and Applications, 3rd Edition, this workbook provides practice exercises that will build your skills with basic terminology, math, dosage calculation, medication administration and more. Developed by Pharmacology authors Eugenia M. Fulcher, Robert M. Fulcher, and Cathy Dubeansky Soto, this workbook makes it easier than ever to learn and apply pharm...

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by John J. Nagelhout (Author), Karen Plaus (Author)Small enough to keep with you on the job, this well organized and fully updated reference created just for nurse anesthetists helps you find important information quickly. Descriptions of surgical procedures include patient monitoring and assessments that happen before, during, and after. Drugs are listed by generic name, and information on trade names, dosages, indications, adverse effects and more is provided with each. Disease descriptions...

Hippocrates Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Hippocratic Readings - Paperback

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by Patrick Guinan (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 24, 2011

Hippocrates Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Hippocratic Readings - Hardcover

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by Patrick Guinan (Author) Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 24, 2011

Follow Your Star: From Mining to Heart Transplants - A Surgeon's Story - Hardcover

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by Terence English (Author)The central part of this story is a fascinating account of the trials and tribulations associated with the author's determination to establish a heart transplant programme in Britain. He eventually performed Britain's first successful heart transplant at Papworth Hospital near Cambridge in 1979. At the time there were only four other centres in the world performing heart transplants. However, within a decade over 4,000 patients a year were being transplanted worldwi...

Stories from the Emergency Department - Paperback

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by Mary Beth Engrav (Author)Stories accumulated by an Emergency Physician about patients seen in a busy Emergency Department. These are case reports of real situations seen in the practice of a 20-year-veteran physician of the Emergency Department. The following is an except: Another child who stands out, for different reasons, was a three year old with a scalp laceration who I will call Max. Max was there with his mother who seemed even more unhappy than the average parent to be at the ER. M...

Change Your Diet, Change Your Health: How Food Can Maintain Our Health or Cause Disease - Hardcover

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by Jorge Bordenave Facp (Author)"The doctor of the future will prescribe no medicine, but will want to educate their patients in the care of the body, proper diet, and disease prevention." Thomas A. Edison. What was old, is very new again. Food is medicine, and the foods we eat can either help us maintain our health, or be a principal cause of illness. The epidemics of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, digestive disorders, cancers and even Alzheimers disease, have been associated with the inc...

Erin's Gift: Never Drive Faster than your Guardian Angel can Fly - Hardcover

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by Luke T. Lawrence (Author)When Luke and RoseMarie Lawrence welcomed their son Jared into the world in 1989, they looked forward to raising their baby and his big sister Erin as a family. However, RoseMarie soon learned the devastating news that she had an extremely rare and deadly stomach cancer. What no one knew is that it is hereditary. Sixteen years after RoseMarie passed away, Erin developed the same deadly disease. With singular determination, Luke Lawrence pushed the medical system fo...

Healing Animals & The Vision of One Health: Earth Care & Human Care - Paperback

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by Steve Marsden (Introduction by), Alan Wittbecker (Editor), Michael W. Fox (Author)This book provides a new vision, based on sound science and ethics of compassion, which connects the healing of animals with Earth care and the human rights and health care revolution whose time has come. The well-being of animals, wild and domesticated, and the health of the natural environment are found to be inseparable from the health and well-being, and the ultimate fate of our own kith and kin. Written ...

Beyond Menopause: New Pathways to Holistic Health - Hardcover

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by Carolyn Torkelson (Author), Catherine Marienau (Author)Beyond Menopause uncovers the unique healthcare needs of postmenopausal women. It offers women integrative holistic approaches that bridge the gap between conventional medicine and systems of holistic healing. The book highlights integrative strategies in the context of common health conditions, including anxiety, fatigue, sleep disturbance, sexual health, weight concerns, bone health, and brain health. It provides information on the u...

Understanding Medicare MDS 3.0 for the Rehabilitation Professional: Billing, Documentation and Ethics for Subacute Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing - Paperback

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by Caroline Joy Co Pt (Author)There is a newer version of this book. You are viewing the first edition of this title. Check out the second edition for more up to date information. On August 8, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the final ruling and commentary for the new implementation of the MDS changes set to take effect on Oct. 1, 2011. The Reimbursable Therapy Minutes will be the deciding factor in determining whether a Change of Therapy (COT) OMRA (Other Medi...

An Oral History of Neuropsychopharmacology: The First Fifty Years, Peer Interviews: Volume Four: Psychopharmacology - Paperback

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by Jerome Levine M. D. (Editor), Thomas A. Ban M. D. (Editor)THE SERIES The 10 volumes in this series record a fifty year history of neuropsychopharmacology related by 213 pioneer clinical, academic, industrial and basic scientists in videotaped interviews, conducted by 66 colleagues between 1994 and 2008. These volumes include a preface by the series editor placing its contents in an historical context and linking each volume to the next. Each volume is dedicated to a former President of the...

Peripheral Neuropathy: When the Numbness, Weakness, and Pain won't Stop (EasyRead Large Edition) - Paperback

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by Norman Latov (Author)Peripheral neuropathy affects 10 to 20 million people in the U.S, including ten per cent of all people who have diabetes. This condition has numerous causes, but can be associated with diseases such as HIV, alcoholism, and lupus, and may result from treatments for other medical conditions, such as cancer chemotherapy. Symptoms include pain, numbness, loss of balance, and tingling in the extremities. Although a widespread condition, most people don't know about it, and ...

The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching by Handling (Large Print 16pt) - Paperback

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by Yochanan Rywerant (Author)The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching By Handling is a presentation of the system of Functional Integration devised by the Israeli scientist Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. The Feldenkrais system is a way of handling the body by communicating specific sensations to the central nervous system in order to improve the functions of the motor-system. Functional Integration is unique in that it evokes changes in the human brain at a level heretofore thought unachievable by any known ...

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by Garet Hil (Author) Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 09, 2011

Psychedelic Shamanism, Updated Edition: The Cultivation, Preparateion, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants (Large Print 16pt) - Paperback

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by Jim DeKorne (Author)Psychedelic Shamanism presents the spiritual and shamanic properties of psychotropic plants and discusses how they can be used to understand the structure of human consciousness. Author Jim DeKorne offers authoritative information about the cultivation, processing, and correct dosages for various psychotropic plant substances including the belladonna alkaloids, d - lysergic acid amide, botanical analogues of LSD, mescaline, ayahuasca, DMT, and psilocybin. Opening with v...

Informed Consent: The U.S. Medical Education System Explained - Paperback

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by Benjamin J. Brown MD (Author)Learn how to make the most of your time and tuition. Informed Consent is the indispensable guidebook for anyone considering or studying toward a career in medicine. Achieving a career as a doctor, nurse or any other role associated with the medical profession is a long, costly and demanding process. Informed Consent, written from an insider's perspective, will save anyone embarking on this journey a huge amount of time, money and confusion. With a wealth of pra...

Your Body, Your Voice: The Key to Natural Singing and Speaking (Large Print 16pt) - Paperback

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by Theodore Dimon Jr. (Author)In this innovative book, Theodore Dimon, EdD, shows how each part of the vocal organ (breathing, larynx, throat, and so on) works as part of a larger musculoskeletal system that is often interfered with, and how identifying this larger system and understanding in a practical way how it works allows a person to train and improve the voice, whether speaking or singing. Traditional vocal training methods, says Dimon, cannot be effective without restoring the functi...

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This May Hurt a Bit: Reinventing Canada's Health Care System - Paperback

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by Stephen Skyvington (Author), Brian Day (Foreword by)Some painful news: Canada no longer has the best health-care system in the world. How might we fix Canada's health-care system? Why would we want to? What's stopping us from doing so? These three questions lie at the heart of this in-depth exploration of one of the biggest political and personal issues facing Canadians. Skyvington explains why change has to occur, in light of the implications of doing nothing, and describes how Canadians ...

The Eczema Diet: Eczema-Safe Food to Stop the Itch and Prevent Eczema for Life (Large Print 16pt) - Paperback

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by Karen Fischer (Author)Eczema is a painful, itchy and incredibly uncomfortable condition for sufferers. The bad news is it's on the rise. Babies are developing skin inflammation soon after birth. Toddlers with severe itchy skin and uncontrollable scratching are drawing blood. And teenagers and adults ashamed of their skin are wearing long - sleeved shirts in summer. Eczema is a unique skin disorder with many of the standard health foods that are good for the skin actually increasing the itc...

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Locked in Locked Out: Surviving a Brainstem Stroke - Paperback

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by Shawn Jennings (Author)Can there be life after a brainstem stroke? After Dr. Shawn Jennings, a busy family physician, suffered a brainstem stroke on May 13, 1999, he woke from a coma locked inside his body, aware and alert but unable to communicate or move. Once he regained limited movement in his left arm, he began typing his story, using one hand and a lot of patience. With unexpected humour and tender honesty, Shawn shares his experiences in his struggle for recovery and acceptance of ...

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Loving Large: A Mother's Rare Disease Memoir - Paperback

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by Patti M. Hall (Author)If not me, then who will save my child? A mother must confront the unthinkable when her son is diagnosed with a rare medical condition. Patti M. Hall's life is pitched into an abyss of uncertainty when a golf ball-sized tumour is discovered in her teenage son's head and he is diagnosed with gigantism, a disease of both legend and stigma. After scrambling to access a handful of medical experts in the field, Patti learns that her son could grow uncontrollably, his mobil...

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by William Kowalski (Author)Linda is a young, hardworking single mom struggling to get by from paycheck to paycheck. When she learns that her son Dre needs a kidney transplant, her family's already precarious financial situation takes a turn for the worst. Then she discovers that the only one who can help Dre is his half-brother LeVon, a drug-dealing gangbanger who thinks only of himself. Somehow Linda must get through to LeVon in order to save her son. Though she is deathly afraid of LeVon a...