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Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Hartnell (Author)A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagram The Wound Man--a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases--was reproduced widely across the medieval and early modern globe. In this panoramic book, Jack Hartnell charts the emergence and endurance of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments. Taking readers on a remarkable...

The Surgery Center Handbook: A Guide to Architecture, Operations, and the Future of Outpatient Surgery

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Report copyright infringementby Shakeel Ahmed (Author)In The Surgery Center Handbook: A Guide to Architecture, Operations, and the Future of Outpatient Surgery, Dr. Ahmed offers a comprehensive and practical blueprint for building and operating state-of-the-art outpatient surgery centers. From design and furnishing to staffing and equipping, this handbook is an essential resource for healthcare entrepreneurs, administrators, and surgeons seeking to understand the intricacies of efficient, pat...

The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist's Reflections on Healing in a Changing World

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Report copyright infringementby Dora Calott Wang (Author)A look at the realities of free-market medicine in America. A Yale-trained psychiatrist, Dora Calott Wang explores the seismic shifts that have shaken the entire medical profession. Through the prism of her own research and experience, readers watch as she struggles to maintain her professional standards as health care's priorities veer away from the compassionate care of patients toward improving the bottom line. And the stories of s...

The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope

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Report copyright infringementby Cornelia Griggs (Author)A NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this "essential work that provides lasting insights and lessons for the individual and society" (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Times bestselling author), a young pediatric surgeon and mother reveals her dramatic, cathartic diary, written as she worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City's busiest hospitals. For many of us, the experience of the peak pandemic was eerily incongruous...

Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon

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Report copyright infringementby Nick Trout (Author)From the front lines of modern medicine, Tell Me Where It Hurts is a fascinating insider portrait of a veterinarian, his furry patients, and the blend of old-fashioned instincts and cutting-edge technology that defines pet care in the twenty-first century. For anyone who's ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at your veterinarian's office, Tell Me Where It Hurts offers a vicarious journey through twenty-four intimate, eye-opening, hea...

What I Wished I Knew 30 Years Ago: Bipolar Mixed Mood

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Andrews (Author)A delightful new beginning for Nicola, ending a life of 30 years of misery. Follow her path as she is thrust through various psychiatric diagnoses and treatments to finally attain a grasp of normality. Throughout the decades of despair, she never lost her courage and faith that she would one day be able to live a life she dreamed of. After succumbing to many clinical trials an idea from one psychiatrist opened the door to a full recovery. ...

Parkinson's: A Love Story with Dementia for Dessert

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Report copyright infringementby Ava S. Butler (Author)When Ava's husband, Richard, is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, she is shocked -- not only because of the bad news, but also because Richard was right. A bit of a hypochondriac, Richard often imagined he had contracted one deadly condition or another. Over their then nineteen years of marriage Ava had dismissed his concerns. But this time it was true. In fact, he had two horrible diseases: Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia -- a fate y...

Dr. Alan R. Moritz and Forensic Pathology: Tales That Dead Men Tell

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Moritz (Author)Forensic science has become a mainstay of popular culture on television, in movies, books, and podcasts. Dr. Alan R. Moritz (1899-1986) was a highly influential figure in the development of the field of forensic science as we know it today.Dr. Alan R. Moritz and Forensic Pathology: Tales that Dead Men Tell, written by Dr. Moritz's journalist grandson Rob Moritz, recounts his life and career from personal papers and correspondence, interviews,...

Heartbeats And Homecomings: A Doctor's Pandemic Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Coakley (Author)Dr. Coakley has dedicated nearly two decades to the field of medicine, serving as a beacon of hope and resilience in the community of Belton, Texas. A proud mother of 14-year-old twins, she balances her demanding career with the joys and challenges of motherhood. Graduating with a BS in Biology from Duke University, Dr. Coakley further honed her expertise by earning an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Her medical journey continued ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Johnson (Author)Beneath the Surface is a true-life journey through the experiences of Sue Johnson who works as an occupational therapist in the healthcare system.Sue entered this field to help others at their most vulnerable time, only to discover deceit, greed, and manipulation.Ride along as Sue's personal life clashes with her professional career.This book will keep you guessing at every turn and will inspire you to ask questions about our healthcare syst...

Notes of a Love Song: Day-to-Day with Parkinson's Disease

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Report copyright infringementby Claire Verney (Author), Wendy Yeomans (Contribution by)When Claire Verney agreed to 'for better or for worse, in sickness and in health' she never imagined the journey that lay ahead of her. Her husband Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease at the age of forty-six. Notes of a Love Song chronicles their lives as Claire becomes her husband's full-time caregiver and medical advocate as he struggles with the ravages of end-stage Parkinson's. It spans the f...

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Report copyright infringementby W. G. MacCallum (Author), W. H. Welch (Introduction by)William Stewart Halsted, Surgeon is a biographical book written by W.G. MacCallum that tells the story of the life and career of one of the most influential surgeons in American history, William Stewart Halsted. Halsted was born in New York City in 1852 and grew up to become a brilliant medical student, graduating from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1877. He went on to become a ...

Midwife Crisis: From Trust to Trauma - A Midwife's Journey Through a Broken System

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Report copyright infringementby Kelli Zakharoff (Author)This raw and unflinching narrative delves into the inner world of an Australian midwife, her professional journey, recounting genuine experiences of empowering women to make choices and confronting a system that resists change. From homebirth scenes to the shadowy hallways of a metropolitan hospital amid the pandemic, this is a story marked by passion, burnout, peaks and valleys, tears and triumphs. The Midwife Crisis is an unfiltered em...

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Report copyright infringementby Harriet Latham Robinson (Author)Harriet Latham Robinson juggled marriage and divorce, motherhood and career, long before "having it all" was a part of most women's identities. A Boston-area native, Robinson's high-spirited autobiography recounts a whirlwind life full of travel (including to Russia at the height of the Cold War), receiving a Ph.D. from MIT, raising three boys largely on her own-and ultimately, pursuing a burgeoning career as one of very few wome...

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Report copyright infringementby Viviane Lovato (Author)So many suffer from it, yet so few know of it: Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. Through story and investigation, one of its many sufferers shines a light on this mysterious illness. From the earliest signs of the environmentally acquired illness called Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) to the implications of a future with CIRS, Viviane Lovato takes you along her journey with this complex condition that causes chronic fa...

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Report copyright infringementby Joy Furer (Author)This is a book about Torah, Chesed, Mitzvos and Emuna. In Anchoring Thru Life's Challenges, Joy Furer presents a heartwarming message about how to anchor your life in the ways of Hashem and to accept and overcome the challenges presented to you through Torah.Joy takes the reader through her personal challenges in life, including the experience of helping her mother z'l after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Joy tells of her own tr...

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The Life and Death of Lumpy Parker: A Story of Sarcoma Survival

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Report copyright infringementby Christi Parker (Author)It was just one tiny lump, but it was big enough to change their whole world.Christi is living the life she has always dreamed of-married to a good man, a stay-at-home mom to three beautiful, talented girls. Everything is just as it should be.Except it isn't.The day Christi's husband is diagnosed with a deadly sarcoma her happy life changes in an instant. Suddenly, she is thrust into the terrifying world of cancer treatment. How will she ...

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Ala Stanford (Author)The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were few and far between in her working-class North Philly neighborhood. Her teachers were dismissive, and the realities of racism, sexism, and poverty threatened to der...

Surgeon Across the Miles from Bombay to Boston

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Report copyright infringementby S. Asif Razvi Mba Facs (Author)Autobiography of a surgeon who migrated from Bombay to Boston at a very young age for specialty post-graduate training in surgery. He established a successful surgical practice and became a recognized figure in the Boston medical community. He had an interesting career spanning over 47 years of practice. He has shed light on the discrimination he faced, medical malpractice suits, a fine balance between raising a family and buildin...

Ragan's Therapeutic Art Colouring Book: Sun and Moon

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Report copyright infringementby Ragan Marie Kearns (Author)Therapeutic values: - Colouring can help you focus on the present, replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.- Colouring helps you relax and reduce stress and anxiety.- Colouring improves brain function and activates your frontal lobe, which is responsible fororganisation and problem-solving.- The act of colouring can promote mindfulness and improve concentration and faster emotionalhealing. Incorporating colouring into your self...

The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund O. Lawler (Author)In a community hospital in suburban Chicago run by Catholic nuns, surgeons performed an operation never done in the world before. The team at the Little Company of Mary Hospital led by Richard Lawler transplanted a kidney in 1950 from a just-deceased woman into the abdominal cavity of a 44-year-old woman. Critics in the medical community called the operation irresponsible because immunosuppressant drugs that prevent the rejection of a t...

Planning & Designing Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries

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Report copyright infringementby Shashikant Sharma (Author), Saurabh Singh (Author)This book aims to provide both theoretical and practical inputs for Planning and Designing of Health Care Facilities in developing countries. It clearly indicates the steps to be followed, facts to be weighed and components to be considered to arrive to a correct planning solution.Author BiographyDr Shashikant Sharma is a clinician turned administrator, a TEDx Speaker, an Educator with over 19 years of experienc...

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Diseases and Human Evolution - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ethne Barnes (Author)Urgent interest in new diseases, such as the coronavirus, and the resurgence of older diseases like tuberculosis has fostered questions about the history of human infectious diseases. How did they evolve? Where did they originate? What natural factors have stalled the progression of diseases or made them possible? How does a microorganism become a pathogen? How have infectious diseases changed through time? What can we do to control their o...

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Medicine Women: The Story of the First Native American Nursing School - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Kristofic (Author)Winner of the 2019 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library AssociationWinner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for History-ArizonaAfter the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors--who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives--chose a different way and pe...

Healing with Herbs and Rituals: A Mexican Tradition - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Eliseo Torres (Author), Timothy L. Sawyer (Editor)Healing with Herbs and Rituals is an herbal remedy-based understanding of curanderismo and the practice of yerberas, or herbalists, as found in the American Southwest and northern Mexico.Part One, "Folk Healers and Folk Healing," focuses on individual healers and their procedures. Part Two, "Green Medicine: Traditional Mexican-American Herbs and Remedies," details traditional Mexican-American herbs and cures. Th...

USMLE STEP 2 CK Neurology In Your Pocket: Neurology - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Fernandez M. D. (Author)In Your Pocket, is a high yield rapid review book designed to master each section of the USMLE STEP 2 CK examination. This book series is subject based and allows you to focus on the neurology section of the USMLE and acquire the clinical knowledge required for your inpatient rotation. This book will provide you with the most detailed information with a step-by-step systematic approach for this section. We can guarantee your prep...

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: Or, the London Dispensatory Furthhr [sic] Adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows now Living, of the Sai - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Culpeper (Author)The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 1...

The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen V. Shepherd (Editor)Comprehensive and authoritative, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience unifies the diverse strands of an interdisciplinary field exploring the evolution of brains and cognition. A comprehensive reference that unifies the diverse interests and approaches associated with the neuroscientific study of brain evolution and the emergence of cognition Tackles some of the biggest questions in neuroscience including what brains are ...

Always Unstable: Bipolar and Hospitalisation: A Memoir - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Meghan Shultz (Author)Always Unstable is the story of my life living with mental illness. I have Bipolar I Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Anxiety Disorder. I have been mentally ill since I was a child but it all really started when I was 15 years old and attempted suicide. That resulted in my first hospital stay. My next four hospital stays were for a bipolar mixed episode, a manic episode/ eating disorder, electroconvulsive therapy, and a psych...

Sand to Sky: Conversations with Teachers of Asian Medicine - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela Ellen Ferguson (Author), Debra Duncan Persinger (With)Written by teachers for teachers, Sand to Sky provides practical and experiential insights to challenge tradition and to focus on creative and diverse approaches to education. For anyone interested in Complementary Medicine, these texts offer a lively question-and-answer format to highlight the personalities and methodologies of international teachers of Acupuncture, Asian Bodywork Therapy, Chinese He...

Impawsible Conditions: Unleashing the Hard Truths about the Veterinary Profession - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tosha Starke (Author), Michele Pevahouse (Author), Kaitlynn Scharapowa (Author)Unleashing the truth about the ongoing crisis in veterinary medicineAre you already deep inside the trenches of the veterinary field and need some practical help and a huge dose of hope? Are you a pet owner who is curious about really goes on behind the scenes in your local veterinary practice and want to know what you can do to be part of the solution instead of the problem? Do you ...