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The Afib Cure: Get Off Your Medications, Take Control of Your Health, and Add Years to Your Life - Paperback

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by John D. Day (Author), T. Jared Bunch (Author), Matthew Laplante (Author)Most doctors will tell you that there isn't much you can do to treat atrial fibrillation, aside from taking medications for the rest of your life. Cardiologists and a-fib specialists John D. Day and T. Jared Bunch disagree. Atrial fibrillation strikes one in four American adults. Not only do people suffering from this condition suffer from shortness of breath, fatigue, chest discomfort, decreased ability to exercise an...

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by Arturo Goicoechea (Author)Las 100 p ginas que todo profesional sanitario deber a leer. El texto naci en el a o 2006 en forma de monograf a para una colecci n dirigida a neur logos sobre nuevas perspectivas en neurolog a, y ha sido revisado y adaptado para un p blico m s general, en esta edici n de 2020.Alrededor de un 20% de la poblaci n sufre dolor cr nico -musculoesquel tico: artrosis, contracturas, "cronificaci n" de lesiones agudas; fibromialgia, migra a, etc.-, y otros s ntomas de co...

Functional Medicine in Primary Care: Together, We Will Get You Better - Hardcover

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by Aunna C. Herbst (Author)Did you go into medicine because you wanted to help people, but you're feeling burnt out? Are you tired of treating every ill with a pill? Are you a patient, who just wants to tell your story, have somebody put it all together, and ultimately, help you get well? If you answered yes to these questions, Dr. Herbst's book, Functional Medicine in Primary Care, is the answer for you For ALL- As you follow her journey through her illness and recovery, the reason Dr. Her...

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by Lee (Author)What is intelligence? How did it begin and evolve to human intelligence? Does a high level of biological intelligence require a complex brain? Can man-made machines be truly intelligent? Is AI fundamentally different from human intelligence? In Birth of Intelligence, distinguished neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee tackles these pressing fundamental issues. To better prepare for future society and its technology, including how the use of AI will impact our lives, it is essential to und...

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Oxford Specialist Handbook: Myeloproliferative Neoplasms - Paperback

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by Tariq I. Mughal (Editor), Tiziano Barbui (Editor)Our understanding of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) disorders, a group of clonal haematological malignancies characterized by excessive accumulation of one or more myeloid cell lineages, has grown considerably over the past four decades. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms offers a detailed evidence-based guide to MPNs in an easily accessible format, structured to facilitate learning specialist information by presenting core information in 'bit...

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Keeping Well: An Anti-Cancer Guide to Remain in Remission - Paperback

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by Brittany Wisniewski (Author)Keeping Well helps readers take the first step toward an anti-cancer lifestyle. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.26 x 7 x 5 IN Publication Date: October 27, 2020

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by James Patterson (Author), Richard DiLallo (Author)In this psychological thriller, a missing patient raises concerns in a New York hospital, but as others start disappearing every dark possibility becomes more and more likely. To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition--it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fear...

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by Melissa F. Miller (Author)When a corpse surfaces during an archeological dig, Bodhi King's in the wrong place at the wrong time.Bodhi tags along as his girlfriend's plus-one at a convention of small-town police chiefs. While Bette is learning the latest in law enforcement advancements, Bodhi plans to meditate in the resort's Japanese garden and hike its verdant trails.Instead, he ends up helping archeology Professor Davina Jones determine how, why, and when someone buried a woman near the ...

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Securely Attached: How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting-A Handbook for Adoptive and Foster Parents - Paperback

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by Kristin Berry (Author), Mike Berry (Author)Has Trauma Affected the Child You're Caring For?Just as you prepared your home to welcome a new child, it is important to prepare your heart and mind--especially if the child has suffered from a background of trauma. Perhaps your invitation for love is met with hostility, and you find that this new member of your family rejects connection. If so, then it's critical to acknowledge the effects of trauma on a child's ability to attach.Mike and Kristi...

The Quadruple Aim in Nursing and Healthcare: Improving Care, Lowering Costs, Serving Populations, Elevating Work Life - Paperback

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by Sue Johnson (Author)In times of ever-changing healthcare policy, many organizations have developed methods for reforming and optimizing healthcare systems. One prevailing healthcare approach is the Quadruple Aim, which incorporates four different goals: improving population health; improving experience of care; lowering healthcare costs; and improving provider work life (team vitality). Created by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Quadruple Aim method is not nursing-specific, b...

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Non-Epileptic Seizures in Our Experience: Accounts of Healthcare Professionals - Paperback

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by Markus Reuber (Editor), Gregg H. Rawlings (Editor), Steven C. Schachter (Author)To an outside observer, Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) look like epileptic seizures. The manifestations of PNES include collapses, impaired consciousness, and seizure-related injuries. However, unlike epileptic seizures, which are the result of abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, most PNES are an automatic psychological response to a trigger perceived as threatening. Not least because the ch...

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Law & Ethics in Intensive Care 2e P - Paperback

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by Danbury Et Al (Author)The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know who to admit and when, at what stage invasive management should be withdrawn, and who, importantly, should decide? These profound dilemmas, already complicated in a setting of scarce resources, mandate an understanding of law and ethics for those working in intensive care medicine. Clinically focused, this book explains the releva...

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Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America - Paperback

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by Kate Pickert (Author)In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than a year of treatment, ...

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Medicinal Herbs of Eastern Canada: A Pictorial Manual - Paperback

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by Brenda Jones (Author)Nature's remedies are all around, if you know what to look for. In Medicinal Herbs of Eastern Canada, award-winning author and artist Brenda Jones offers detailed advice on how to identify, collect, and prepare a variety of local wild herbs. Learn how to make an infusion of goldenrod to treat a nasty cough, or a lemon balm tincture to help you sleep. Through many workshops, extensive research, and the help of Indigenous communities, Jones compiled this beautiful illus...

Electromagentic Radiation Protection Solutions: God's Marvelous Protective Provisions For the Nuclear & Cosmic Superstorm Crisis - Paperback

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by Celeste Bishop Solum (Author)We find ourselves in an increasing Grand Solar Minimum where the sun goes silent with collapsing magnetosphere, earth's barrier from plagues from outer space, allowing cosmic rays from the sun and distant galaxies to flood the earth. These cosmic rays have been a factor in the rise and fall of kingdoms and empires, great migrations, six previous extinction level events, set off earthquakes and volcanic upheaval, and have the power to drop a healthy person unto ...

Clinician's Guide to Common Drug Interactions in Primary Care - Paperback

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by Jen Salling (Editor), Eric Christianson (Author)For many, drug interactions are one of the most frustrating challenges in family medicine, geriatrics, and ambulatory care practice. Even if one is up to speed on what drugs interact with one another, it is often unknown how to manage that specific interaction. Throughout the book, I share some of my management tips and pearls to help you feel more comfortable with managing drug interactions. This book is a perfect piece of education for phar...

The Cervical Cancer Companion - Paperback

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by Andrea Bonhiver (Author)Cervical cancer will always be scary. But it doesn't have to be isolating.When I was diagnosed with cervical cancer, it was like a bomb went off right in front of me. I couldn't see, I couldn't hear, I couldn't think. I was devastated. Brokenhearted. Terrified. I would frequently stay up all night, feeling around in the dark, looking for hope in the blue light of the internet. But all I found were scholarly articles. Scary ones about women who died from cervical can...

The Decapitation of Care: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of Healthcare - Paperback

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by Billiam James (Illustrator), David Healy (Author)Before 1990, we brought our health problems to doctors and got "care". Today health services bring us problems with our bones, lipids, breathing, glucose, blood pressure, and even our moods. The managers of health services require staff to keep to guidelines, which means giving us medicines in order to reduce the risks we pose the services rather than to help us. In the 1980s few of us were on more than one drug. Now many of us are on five o...

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The Clinician's Handbook on Measurement-Based Care: The How, the What, and the Why Bother - Paperback

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by Antoinette Giedzinska (Author), Aaron R. Wilson (Author) Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.99 x 6.05 IN Publication Date: September 26, 2022

Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery - Paperback

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by Joan Ifland Phd (Editor), Marianne T. Marcus (Editor), Harry G. Preuss (Editor)Obesity and eating disorders have stubbornly refused to respond to treatment since the 1990's. This book organizes the evidence for a possible answer, i.e., that the problem could be one of addiction to processed foods. In a Processed Food Addiction (PFA) model, concepts of abstinence, cue-avoidance, acceptance of lapses, and consequences all play a role in long-term recovery. Application of these concepts could...

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A Balanced Approach to Pcos: 16 Weeks of Meal Prep & Recipes for Women Managing Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome - Paperback

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by Melissa Groves (Author)Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a metabolic disorder that is common among women of reproductive age. Diet and lifestyle changes have been shown to balance hormones and promote better overall health. Although dietary changes have been proven to be effective, they can often seem too restrictive, resulting in women finding it difficult to sustain the diet or finding their health further diminished because their diet falls out of balance, and cutting out certain food...

A Guide to Hospitals and Nursing - A Collection of Writings and Excerpts: With an Introductory Chapter by Lytton Strachey - Paperback

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by Florence Nightingale (Author), Lytton Strachey (Author)Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing. She became famous during the time she served as manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, giving nursing a positive reputation and becoming a Victorian culture icon. Also known as "The Lady with the Lamp", she was an accomplished writer who produced a large corpus of work related to medical knowledge. A great exampl...

Principles of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry - Hardcover

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by Nadendla Rama Rao (Author)This book delves into all major concepts in organic pharmaceuticals, includes all the changes, modifications and revisions made to the syllabi of various Indian universities catering to needs of undergraduate students of pharmacy and science. The book covers fundamentals of organic chemistry and progressively discusses topics that are more complex. Organic reactions are explained concisely with their reaction mechanisms in an easy to understand manner. Graphical p...

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by Lynn Enright (Author)From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomically correct terms. In our schools and in our culture, we are coy about women while putting straight men's sexuality front and center. Girls grow up feeling ashamed about their periods, about the appearance of their vulvas, about their own desires. They grow up without a full and honest sex education, and this lack of knowle...

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ECG Notes: Interpretation and Management Guide - Spiral

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by Shirley A. Jones (Author)A Davis's Notes title! The pocket guide that covers it all--basics, 12-lead, ACLS, meds, and CPR for adults and children! A quick look-up reference for ECG interpretation and management! This indispensable pocket guide presents the basics (anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, electrical conduction system of the heart, basic ECG concepts and components, ) ACLS and CPR algorithms, emergency medications, and comprehensive information on monitoring lea...

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Bad Medicine: The Horrors of American Healthcare - Hardcover

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by Stephen Soloway (Author)What you don't know about the American healthcare system might kill you. From fatal malpractice to Medicare fraud, Dr. Stephen Soloway has seen it all over his thirty years practicing medicine. Now, the man known as "Dr. Trump" is ripping off the Band-Aid and exposing the truth about the American healthcare system--the good, the bad, and the rotten. Page after shocking page, you'll discover the truth about where the coronavirus came from, and if we'll ever be abl...

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The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery - Hardcover

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by Jason Fung (Author)Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer--and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward. Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline ...

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McMurtrie's Human Anatomy Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Hogin McMurtrie (Author)The definitive anatomical coloring book is now back and freshened up with a new cover and an updated interior design. Each year, thousands of students studying to be doctors, physical therapists, and medical technicians have to master the art of anatomy--and prospective artists also want to capture realistic movement and posture. What better way to remember each bone, muscle, and organ than by coloring a picture? The very act of drawing entices students to spend mo...

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Four Umbrellas: A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's - Paperback

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by June Hutton (Author), Tony Wanless (Author)A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known. A diagnosis is seven years...

All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes - Paperback

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by Sue Black (Author)Book of the Year, Saltire Literary Awards A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, Kathy Reichs, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part ...

Motivational Interviewing for Leaders in the Helping Professions: Facilitating Change in Organizations - Hardcover

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by Colleen Marshall (Author), Anette Søgaard Nielsen (Author)Written expressly for leaders in health care and the social services, this accessible book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can transform conversations about change within an organization. The authors demonstrate powerful ways to use MI to generate solutions and get employees and organizations unstuck, whether mentoring a staff member in a new role, addressing performance problems, or redesigning procedures or programs. Read...

The Ophthalmic Scribe Manual: A Guide to Clinical Documentation in Ophthalmology - Paperback

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by Parker J. Williams (Author)Product DescriptionThe Ophthalmic Scribe Manual is the ultimate how-to manual for learning to scribe in ophthalmology. If you're interested in learning more about scribing in retina, cornea, comprehensive, glaucoma, or oculoplastics, this manual has you covered. Inside, you will find over 100 full-color figures and tables illustrating the most important concepts, Anatomy & Physiology, organized high-yield abbreviations, must know medications, must know imagin...