Collection:
Medical & Nursing
Regular price
$15.16
Sale price
$15.16
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Luz Marina Cruz (Author)Es probable que alguna vez te hayas enfrentado a una situación que, inesperadamente cambiara el curso de tu vida.El diagnóstico de una enfermedad puede ser una de ellas. Ya sea que elijas afrontarlo como un hecho contra el que no puedes luchar, o que decidas asumirlo como una oportunidad para aprender y sanar: tu vida tomará una nueva dirección.Este libro, recoge el frustrante, doloroso y al mismo tiempo revelador proceso, que puso a prueba la resiliencia de la auto...
Sold Out
Regular price
$14.99
Sale price
$14.99
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Catherine Gray (Author)The new book from Catherine Gray - icon of the Quit Lit movement and author of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober "Stone cold sober." As the millions who choose to stay sober now know, the propaganda around drinking and sobriety is wonky. Sober doesn't feel stony, or cold. Retired wreckhead Catherine Gray, author of surprise bestseller The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, is now in her eighth sober year and has learned a damn sight more. This hotly anticipated sequel en...
Sold Out
Regular price
$30.00
Sale price
$30.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Meghan Jobson (Author), Juliet Morgan (Author)From COVID-19 and autoimmune disease to chronic pain and inflammation, this new integrative approach and practical guide from two UCSF doctors is an essential guide to living with long illnesses. Having a long illness--from autoimmune disease to dysautonomia, long COVID to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) to chronic pain or depression--can mean a long struggle to get adequate care. From explaining symptoms over and ov...
Sold Out
Regular price
$113.40
Sale price
$113.40
Regular price
Unit price
per
by National Academies of Sciences Engineeri (Author), Health and Medicine Division (Author), Board on Health Care Services (Author)Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they call home. Ineffective responses to the complex challenges of nursing home care have resulted in a system that often fails to ensure the well-being and safety of nursing home residents. The devastating impact of the COV...
Sold Out
Regular price
$16.95
Sale price
$16.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Ellen Braaten (Author), Sheryl Sandberg (Foreword by)"He's so smart, but he's no longer interested in school--or any 'offline' activities." "She used to love sports, but now she just mopes around." "My kid has turned into such a slacker!" Sound familiar? If you're wondering how your bright, motivated little kid became such an unmotivated adolescent, you're not alone. Fortunately, help is at hand! In this encouraging guide, psychologist and learning expert Ellen Braaten explains that kid...
Sold Out
Regular price
$18.99
Sale price
$18.99
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Mitchel Cohen (Editor), Vandana Shiva (Foreword by)"We are being poisoned, and this book is sounding a well-informed alarm. Read it. Get educated and then join the thousands rising up against those who care more for profit than the health of our bodies and our earth."-Eve Ensler, New York Times bestselling author Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives--housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, schools, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century...
Sold Out
Regular price
$18.00
Sale price
$18.00
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jennifer L. Fitzpatrick (Author)This book helps you transform patients, clients, and family caregivers from hateful to grateful. Do you look forward to your next hospitalization or medical procedure? If not, you are far from alone! Very few people enjoy needing a doctor, physical therapist, or other healthcare provider. Even fewer look forward to needing a hospital, assisted living, home health, or hospice services for themselves or their loved ones. Dread of interacting with the healthcar...
Sold Out
Regular price
$155.23
Sale price
$155.23
Regular price
Unit price
per
by June A. Boon (Author)Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner Practical guide to using color flow and spectral Doppler in interpreting echocardiographic findings in veterinary practice Doppler Echocardiography for the Small Animal Practitioner provides a clinically oriented quick reference to using color flow and spectral Doppler to interpret echocardiographic findings, enabling readers to learn and apply these techniques and acquire background knowledge of technical fact...
Sold Out
Regular price
$155.25
Sale price
$155.25
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Crispian Oates (Author)Ultrasound Technology for Clinical Practitioners A hands-on and practical roadmap to ultrasound technology for clinical practitioners who use it every day In Ultrasound Technology for Clinical Practitioners, distinguished medical physicist and vascular ultrasound scientist Crispian Oates delivers an accessible and practical resource written for the everyday clinical user of ultrasound. The book offers complete descriptions of the latest techniques in ultrasound, inc...
Sold Out
Regular price
$22.50
Sale price
$22.50
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Krystal Paigo (Author)Karly is a seven year old girl with a new bestfriend, her dog Ali. They grow together while discovering Karly's new diagnoses of Cystic Fibrosis. Ali, her dog tells Karly's CF story and all the new information and tasks Karly has to do with this illness. While watching Karly stick to a daily schedule to help maintain her health Ali notices Karly comes home from school unwell. The doctor informs Karly and her family she needs go in the hospital for what CF patients cal...
Sold Out
Regular price
$17.99
Sale price
$17.99
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Sarah Gilbert (Author), Catherine Green (Author)Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times. 'Vaxxers is so good that the book will be read for long after the pandemic is over'Financial Times 'One of the most epic and pioneering moments in human history'Sir Jeremy Farrar __________ The bestselling inside story of a historic moment for science and for humanity. On 1 January 2020, Professor Sarah Gilbert read an article...
Regular price
$63.83
Sale price
$63.83
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Kavita Batra (Editor), Manoj Sharma (Editor)This compendium describes the multimodal interventions in the field of integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine, which combines biological, behavioral, social, and environmental domains rather than merely treating the disease. Research emphasizing the understanding of connections between organs and body systems is the main focus of this text.
Number of Pages: 156
Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN
Publication Date: April 05, 2022
Sold Out
Regular price
$95.76
Sale price
$95.76
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Sandy R. Primrose (Author)Prior to the advent of rapid DNA sequencing in the late 90s, students were taught in depth about the physiology and ecology of microorganisms. There was a generally good understanding about the biology of each organism and how it interacted with its environment. Since then, the focus of research has shifted towards an analysis of nucleic acid sequences to determine possible cellular biochemistry or phylogeny. A microbial genome can now be sequenced in a matter of ...
Regular price
$30.58
Sale price
$30.58
Regular price
Unit price
per
by James B. Martin (Author)Basic EKG Facts is a complete beginners guide to the understanding of EKG interpretation. In this text, the user will learn the basic anatomy of an EKG waveform as it relates to the cardiac rhythm cycle. It provides step-by-step instruction from the initial to the final wave with simple, easy to read and understand rhythm strip examples. Included are charts, tables, templates and other references to assist the user in the quick and accurate interpretation of EKG's.
...
Sold Out
Regular price
$105.28
Sale price
$105.28
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Eva M. Wojcik (Editor), Daniel F. I. Kurtycz (Editor), Dorothy L. Rosenthal (Editor)The first edition of The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology introduced a completely new paradigm for detecting bladder cancer by urine cytology. This system concentrated on defining morphological characteristics of the most clinically significant form of bladder cancer, High Grade Urothelial Carcinoma. This new approach has been widely accepted throughout the world, and has become part of the daily...
Sold Out
Regular price
$97.18
Sale price
$97.18
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Mark L. Braunstein (Author)This extensively revised textbook describes and defines the US healthcare delivery system, its many systemic challenges and the prior efforts to develop and deploy informatics tools to help overcome these problems. Now that electronic health record systems are widely deployed, the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability standard is being rapidly accepted as the means to access and share the data stored in those systems and analytics is increasing being used to gain ...
Sold Out
Regular price
$49.59
Sale price
$49.59
Regular price
Unit price
per
by James A. Geraghty (Author)Advances in medicine have made possible better treatments for widespread, familiar human illnesses like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Yet there are thousands of much less common diseases, most of genetic origin, each classed as "rare" because it afflicts only a small number of people. These patient groups were long ignored by a pharmaceutical industry that judged them too small to provide a return on the investment needed to develop an effective remedy. Yet...
Regular price
$14.78
Sale price
$14.78
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Beverly Hurwitz (Author)When falsified patient records and sabotaged equipment afflict the operating rooms of a community hospital, anesthesiologist Chester Dolans believes that he, his colleagues, and his patients are being put at risk to make it appear that the hospital's current management is incompetent.One night, a nurse-anesthetist is assaulted in the hospital parking lot and left to make it look like he was a drug abuser who overdosed. That makes the rest of the doctors fearful abou...
Regular price
$38.86
Sale price
$38.86
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Amy Shojai (Author)"Riveting, wholly satisfying ...makes us care." --Jon Land, USA Today bestselling authorAn animal behaviorist and her service dog race a deadly storm to expose treacherous secrets others will kill to protect.With her stalker finally caught, animal behaviorist September Day begins to trust again. She dares to hope Detective Combs might become more than a friend until his investigation into a dogfighting ring leaves her reeling. Shadow wrestles his own demons. After losing...
Regular price
$46.96
Sale price
$46.96
Regular price
Unit price
per
by William J. Rea (Author)The field of electromagnetic sensitivity is the new epidemic of the 21st century, and can cause disease of the automatic nerve system in any part of the body. This is as a result of chemical sensitivity, in which over 80,000 chemicals are involved, resulting in innumerable combinations. A cursory understanding of the combinations can help clinicians partially understand the associated problems and thus help in the diagnosis and treatment of electromagnetic sensitivit...
Sold Out
Regular price
$97.90
Sale price
$97.90
Regular price
Unit price
per
by William J. Rea (Author), Kalpana D. Patel (Author)The clinical approaches to the chronic degenerative diseases that drain our resources, and compromise our well-being, have become almost exclusively symptom-focused. The common wisdom is that they are idiopathic with final outcomes to be managed rather than prevented or cured. That they are potentially reversible rarely enters any discussion between doctor and patient. Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 5: Treatme...
Regular price
$103.66
Sale price
$103.66
Regular price
Unit price
per
by John R. Helliwell (Author)Being, or wanting to become, a scientist requires academic training in the science subjects. To succeed as a research scientist and educator requires specific as well as general skills. Skills for a Scientific Life provides insight into how to be successful. This career book is intended for potential entrants, early career and mid-career scientists for a wide range of science disciplines.Features Offers advice on specific skills for research article writing, grant...
Regular price
$103.66
Sale price
$103.66
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Patrick E. McMahon (Author), Bohdan B. Khomtchouk (Author), Claes Wahlestedt (Author)The Survival Guide to Organic Chemistry: Bridging the Gap from General Chemistry enables organic chemistry students to bridge the gap between general chemistry and organic chemistry. It makes sense of the myriad of in-depth concepts of organic chemistry, without overwhelming them in the necessary detail often given in a complete organic chemistry text. Here, the topics covered span the entire standard orga...
Regular price
$74.50
Sale price
$74.50
Regular price
Unit price
per
by John P. Glaser (Author)John Glaser has been an astute observer and recognized leader in the health care industry for over thirty years. He has written a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks in which he comments on a wide range of topics, including improving organizational performance through health information technology (HIT), changes in HIT architecture, challenges in leveraging data, and the evolution of the role of IT leadership. Glaser on Health Care IT: Perspectives fro...
Regular price
$95.76
Sale price
$95.76
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Andrew Dickman (Author)While palliative care has adopted a holistic approach to treatment, medication driven symptom management ostensibly forms the critical aspect of care. Prescribing in palliative care can be extremely complex because the patient may often have comorbidity, or occasionally multimorbidity. The associated polypharmacy further complicates the pharmacological management of symptoms being caused by the palliative condition. This can be daunting for healthcare professionals a...
Sold Out
Regular price
$22.99
Sale price
$22.99
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Terence H. Young (Author)In Forbidden Knowledge, drug safety advocate Terence Young reveals how Big Pharma came to hold all the power in the pharmaceutical industry, and empowers patients to partner with their doctor to talk openly and plainly about prescription drugs to avoid adverse drug reactions. This is your survival guide to Big Pharma.Author BiographyTerence H. Young is chair of Drug Safety Canada and a former member of Parliament. He lives in Ancaster, Ontario.
Number of Pages: 376...
Sold Out
Regular price
$23.99
Sale price
$23.99
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Carolyn Hope Smeltzer (Author), Barbara Ann McQuillan (Author), John Tressa (Foreword by)Using historical images and recollections, Evanston Hospital School of Nursing: 1898-1984 highlights the marketing, education, curriculum, and values of EHSN as well as the students' experience and dormitory life.Evanston Hospital was founded in 1891, followed by the school of nursing seven years later. Evanston Hospital School of Nursing (EHSN) provided education at a reasonable cost while the student...
Sold Out
Regular price
$20.95
Sale price
$20.95
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Rob Dunn (Author), Monica Sanchez (Author)Author BiographyRob Dunn is professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen. His books include Never Home Alone. Twitter @RRobDunn Monica Sanchez is a medical anthropologist who studies the cultural aspects of health and well-being. Rob and Monica live in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: Septemb...
Sold Out
Regular price
$143.98
Sale price
$143.98
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Jason Armstrong (Author), Ovidiu Pascu (Author)Now in its fourth edition, the Toxicology Handbook is Australia's leading reference guide for quick and evidence-informed decision making on treatment of the acutely poisoned patient. The book has been streamlined and fully updated to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide for all medical practitioners and health-care professionals who deal with poisonings. It contains quickly accessible information on poisons, toxins, antidotes, envenoming...
Regular price
$21.55
Sale price
$21.55
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Philip R. Hirsh (Author)Why does the world's most expensive health care yield only middling scores and outcomes? Physician/Writer, Philip Hirsh assembles his professional experience and personal stories to trace the decline of medical care from the late 1950s to the present. Starting with medical training and practice from the pre-1970s corporatization of medical care, he recounts how a proud profession gradually lost out to a profit-driven business model abetted by increasing dominance fr...
Regular price
$30.78
Sale price
$30.78
Regular price
Unit price
per
by Paracelsus (Author)Written by a physician who witnessed first-hand the crash of a failing and politicized system into a pandemic, First Do No Harm is a must-read for those who care about their health and that of their loved ones.The truth is that even before COVID-19, the US healthcare system was suffering from falling standards - COVID-19 merely amplified and publicized pre-existing problems.Today's doctors were trained by a pass-fail medical educational system where nearly everyone passe...
