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by DK (Author)Learn about astonishing medical breakthroughs and discoveries in The Medicine Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Medicine in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Medicine Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse y...

Cornerstones of Attachment Research - Hardcover

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by Robbie Duschinsky (Author)This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Clinical Psychology Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Attachment theory is among the most popular theories of human socioemotional development, with a global research community and widespread interest from clinicians, child welfare professionals, educationalists and parents. It has be...

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The Complete Recovery Room Book - Paperback

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by Anne Craig (Author), Anthea Hatfield (Author)The care that a patient receives in the first hours after surgery is crucial to minimizing the risk of complications. The recovery room staff must manage both comatose and physiologically unstable patients, and deal with the immediate post-operative care of surgical patients. The Complete Recovery Room Book, Sixth edition, provides nurses, surgeons, and anaesthetists with up-to-date guidance and practical tips on the post-operative management of...

Holistic Treatment in Mental Health: A Handbook of Practitioners' Perspectives - Paperback

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by Cheryl L. Fracasso (Editor), Stanley Krippner (Editor), Harris L. Friedman (Editor)The first of its kind, this guidebook provides an overview of clinical holistic interventions for mental-health practitioners. Submissions from 21 contributors examine the validity of different methods and provide information on credentialed training and licensure requirements necessary for legal and ethical practice. Chapters covering a range of healing modalities describe the populations and disorders for ...

CliffsNotes HESI A2 Science Cram Plan - Paperback

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by Michael Reid (Author)A study guide for the HESI A2 science nursing school test that calendarizes a study plan for test-takers depending on how much time they have left before taking the test.Get a plan and make the most of the time you have left.Whether you have two months, one month, or one week left before the exam, you can turn to the experts at CliffsNotes for a trusted and achievable cram plan to ace the HESI A2 Science-without ever breaking a sweat!First, you'll determine exactly how...

The Social Causes of Health and Disease - Hardcover

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by William C. Cockerham (Author)This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. This extensively revised and updated third edition offers the most compelling case yet that stress, poverty, unhealthy lifestyles, and unpleasant living and working conditions can all be directly associated with illness. The book continues to build on the paradigm shift that has been emerging in twenty-first-century me...

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Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital - Hardcover

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by Erin Marie Olszewski (Author), J. B. Handley (Preface by)Undercover Epicenter Nurse blows the lid off the COVID-19 pandemic. What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it? Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. A...

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by David Thurtle (Editor), Suzanne Biers (Editor), Michal Sut (Editor)Urology is a specialty that notoriously receives little attention in medical school, yet it makes up a sizeable portion of the workload in emergency departments and also in primary care. Urological emergencies can often be managed simply but require the appropriate knowledge and skills. Emergency urology is often covered very superficially alongside general surgery or in excessive detail within voluminous urology textbooks....

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The Little Book of Medical Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts in Medicine - Hardcover

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by Daniel McMahon (Author)This rich collection of quotations, spanning multiple millennia from the ancient epochs to the contemporary era, is comprised of over five hundred inspirational thoughts and universal ideals enduringly coupled to the art, science, and philosophy of medical practice. These selected quotations encompass a wide breadth of keen observations and aphorisms directly linked to the history, grounding principles, and fundamental theories of medicine and surgery. The quotations...

What Went Wrong? Pharma Tech Case Studies: Pharma Regulatory Investigations - Paperback

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by P G Shrotriya The objective of What Went Wrong? Pharma Tech Case Studies is to provide multidisciplinary approaches/guidelines for problem-solving capability. These case studies are based on the actual situation faced by the author in India and overseas and successfully resolved with the back-up of science and technology convincing international regulators/complainants leading to the closing of complaints. The book provides guidelines covering regulatory requirements for documentation. How...

The Psychology of Covid19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics - Hardcover

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by Joel Vos (Editor)The Psychology of Covid-19 explores how the coronavirus pandemic is giving rise to a new order in our personal lives, societies, and politics. Rooted in systematic research on Covid-19 and previous pandemics, this book describes how people perceive and respond to Covid-19, and how it has impacted a broad range of domains, including lifestyle, politics, science, mental health, media, and meaning in life. Building on this, the book then sets out how we can improve our psycho...

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by Ewen Harrison (Author), Riinu Pius (Author) In this age of information, the manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of data have become a fundamental part of professional life; nowhere more so than in the delivery of healthcare. From the understanding of disease and the development of new treatments, to the diagnosis and management of individual patients, the use of data and technology is now an integral part of the business of healthcare. Those working in healthcare interact daily with...

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Healthy Skin Kitchen: For Eczema, Dermatitis, Psoriasis, Acne, Allergies, Hives, Rosacea, Red Skin Syndrome, Cellulite, Leaky Gut, McAs, Salicylate Se - Hardcover

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by Karen Fischer (Author)Whether your skin issue is mild or momentous, The Healthy Skin Kitchen is your essential resource for clear, healthy skin. Informative and inspiring, it is the go-to guide to reclaim your life and get that good skin glow you've always wanted.Beautifully laid out with gorgeous photography, The Healthy Skin Kitchen shows you what to put on your fork to create radiant skin from the inside out. Far from a one-size-fits-all diet, the delicious allergy-friendly recipes incl...

Mastering Simulation, Second Edition: A Handbook for Sucess - Paperback

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by Janice Palaganas (Author), Beth Ulrich (Author), Beth Mancini (Author)One of the biggest challenges we face in healthcare is how to educate and train healthcare professionals without endangering patients--especially when we are teaching the management of high-stakes situations such as codes, trauma care, chest pain, or anaphylactic shock, in which any delay in treatment threatens the outcome. Often, new healthcare practitioners enter their profession without ever having seen--much less got...

Cardiovascular physiology: New Book For Nursing and Medicine - Paperback

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by Ali Ahmed (Author)Cardiovascular Physiology, may be a concise and enjoyable way for you to realize a fundamental knowledge of the essential operating principles of the intact circulatory system and the way those principles apply to clinical medicine. Succinct but thorough, it focuses on the facts and ideas you want to know to urge a solid "big picture" overview of how the circulatory system operates in normal and abnormal situations. No other text will prove more valuable in enhancing your...

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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance - Paperback

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by Laurie Garrett (Author)A New York Times bestseller The definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett "Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculos...

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Prediabetes: A Fundamental Text: Pathophysiology, Complications, Management & Reversal - Paperback

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by Samuel Dagogo-Jack (Author)Prediabetes affects nearly 90 million U.S. adults and more than 374 million people worldwide. But what exactly is prediabetes, and how should it be treated? Individuals with prediabetes have a high risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes. Diabetes currently affects approximately 30 million adults in the U.S. and 463 million people worldwide, and type 2 diabetes represents 90-95% of the diabetes burden. Individuals with prediabetes also face increased risks of deve...

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by Draznin Boris (Editor)Diabetes in Practice offers a detailed look into years of professional practice in clinical diabetes. The 49 case studies Boris Draznin, MD, PhD, has assembled cover a wide array of diabetes cases involving atypical presentations to those addressing ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia, continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps, and diabetes co-occurring with cancer and autoimmune conditions. Each case study includes expert review from long-term diabetes practitioners....

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by Megan Giddings (Author)NPR Book of the Year 2020Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Ms. Magazine: Anticipated 2020 Feminist Books Refinery29: Books by Black Women We are Looking Forward To Reading One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of 2020 Amazon Book of the Month Pick Audible Editor's Pick Essence's Pick Glamour's Must Read Ms. Magazine's Anticipated Read of 2020 A...

All about Your Eyes, Second Edition, Revised and Updated - Hardcover

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by Sharon Fekrat (Editor), Tanya S. Glaser (Editor), Henry L. Feng (Editor)A concise, easy-to-understand reference book, the revised and updated second edition of All about Your Eyes tells you what you need to know to care for your eyes and what to expect from your eye doctor. In this reliable guide, leading eye care experts: * explain eye anatomy and how healthy eyes work * describe various eye diseases, including pink eye, cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic...

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Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--And Makes Us Vulnerable - Hardcover

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by Jeremy Snyder (Author)We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned in terms of "exploiting hope." These accusations are made in a range of contexts: human smuggling, employment relationships, unproven medical 'cures.' We hear this concept so often and in so many contexts that, with all its heavy lifting in public discourse, its actual meaning tends to lose focu...

Herbal Medic: A Green Beret's Guide to Emergency Medical Preparedness and Natural First Aid - Paperback

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by Sam Coffman (Author)With a focus on herbal medicine and first-aid essentials, former Green Beret medic and clinical herbalist Sam Coffman presents this comprehensive home reference on medical emergency preparedness for times when professional medical care is unavailable. Herbal Medic covers first-aid essentials, such how to assess a situation and a person in need of treatment and distinguish between illness and injury, as well as how to prepare and use herbs when there is no access to conv...

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Herbal Medic: A Green Beret's Guide to Emergency Medical Preparedness and Natural First Aid - Hardcover

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Adding Insight To Injury: The Ultimate Injury Recovery Guide To Help You Reclaim The Life You Love - Paperback

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by Jamie Bovay (Author)What if everything you thought you knew about injury recovery was wrong? If you have ever been injured, you know that there is an overload of information out there, making it difficult to decide on a path to recovery. With such diverse and conflicting information out there, how do you know if you are making the best decisions for your health? If you have ever suffered from back, knee, shoulder, neck, hip, foot/ankle, or sports injury problems but don't know what to do a...

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Working Memory: State of the Science - Hardcover

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by Robert Logie (Editor), Valerie Camos (Editor), Nelson Cowan (Editor)Working memory refers to how we keep track of what we are doing moment to moment throughout our waking lives. It allows us to remember what we have just done, focus on what we are doing now, to solve problems, be creative, think about what we will be doing in the next few seconds, and continually to update in our mind changes around us throughout the day. This book brings together in one volume, state-of-the-science chapte...

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Take Control of Your Drinking: A Practical Guide to Alcohol Moderation, Sobriety, and When to Get Professional Help - Paperback

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by Michael S. Levy (Author)Accepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation or abstinence is the best path for you.For decades, the standard treatment for people struggling with alcohol consumption has focused on convincing them to admit that they are an alcoholic, to stop drinking entirely, and to enter into a program, most commonly Alcoholics Anonymou...

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Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad - Paperback

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by Peter J. Hotez (Author), Arthur L. Caplan (Foreword by)Internationally renowned medical scientist, frequent media contributor, and autism dad Dr. Peter J. Hotez explains why vaccines do not cause autism.In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest people, became troubled by the decades-long rise of the influential anti-vaccine ...

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Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic - Hardcover

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by Peter Canning (Author)A devastating, empathetic look at the opioid epidemic in the United States, through the eyes of a paramedic on the front lines.[I] set my cardiac monitor down by the young man's head. He is lifeless, his face white with a blue tinge. I apply the defibrillator pads to his hairless chest . . . A week from today, after the young man's brain shows no signs of electrical activity, the medical staff will take the breathing tube out, and with his family gathered by his side,...

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The Eye Book: A Complete Guide to Eye Disorders and Health - Paperback

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by Gary H. Cassel (Author)The Owner's Manual for Your Eyes: The most comprehensive guide to taking care of vision.Winner of the National Health Information Award (Consumer Decision-Making Information) by the National Health Information Awards, American Book Fest Best Book Social Change and Current Events by the American Book FestIn The Eye Book, specialist Dr. Gary H. Cassel presents readers with trusted, evidence-based information they can rely on to protect vision and learn more about how t...

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by Gary H. Cassel (Author)The Owner's Manual for Your Eyes: The most comprehensive guide to taking care of vision.In The Eye Book, specialist Dr. Gary H. Cassel presents readers with trusted, evidence-based information they can rely on to protect vision and learn more about how to treat any eye problems that come up. This easy-to-understand volume takes a step-by-step approach, providing an overview of the eye's anatomy, a tour of healthy vision, and an explanation of what steps readers and h...

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A Loving Approach to Dementia Care: Making Meaningful Connections While Caregiving - Paperback

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by Laura Wayman (Author)An encouraging and compassionate guide for dementia caregivers.Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. But few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia--despite the fact that millions of people will struggle with it as they grow older. In A Loving Approach to Dementia Care, Laura Wayman, who is known professionally as the Dementia Whisperer, offers practical, compassionate advice on ove...

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Searching for Health: The Smart Way to Find Information Online and Put It to Use - Paperback

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by Kapil Parakh (Author), Anna Dirksen (Author)An insider's guide to searching online, communicating with your physician, and maximizing your health from a doctor who works at Google.We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr. Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at Google and practicing medicine. Helping readers avoid...