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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob Stegenga (Author)Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This volume argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical interventions, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods in medicine, and if we employ our bes...

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...

Physics and the Human Body: Stories of Who Discovered What - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Hiram Baddeley (Author)Physics and the Human Body is about how we found out how our bodies and the world about us work. It is the common history of the discovery of the laws of physics and the exploration of human body over more than two millennia. Theories about what nature is, what we are and how our bodies function, have concerned natural philosophers and physicians since the time of Hippocrates and Empedocles. The purpose of this book is to give a coherent ...

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 ...

A Dementia Caregiver Called to Action: The Journey - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Macie P. Smith (Author)Finding out your loved one has dementia feels like a gut blow. The things that you hear about how the disease affects the person and the family is sometimes unbearable, especially when you're not prepared. But, is anyone ever prepared for a diagnosis like this? Because our current healthcare system is not geriatric centered, many medical professionals are not well informed about what supports are available to offer family caregivers. Ther...

Medical Tales and Stories of Healing and Recovery - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Hani Raoul Khouzam (Author)Medical Tales and Stories of Healing and Recovery are personal narratives about the power of the human spirit in overcoming anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, guilt, hopelessness, and despair. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 07, 2024

Redemption Comes Full Circle - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Renee Sistrunk-Owes (Author)This is a fast-paced, funny, and at times, serious story about me, Rennie, an educated woman who took the wrong path in life: the fire, prison, and so much more. My story is amazing. A miracle or two, you will read about it here. All true. The doctor said it's necrotizing fasciitis, the flesh-eating virus in layman's term. MS after forty-five years, one test, what the doctor did blew me away. The positive disposition you display will...

Surgeon Across the Miles from Bombay to Boston - Hardcover

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Neuroanatomy Coloring Book: A Human Brain Anatomy Coloring Pages for Adults, Neuroscience, Medical Students, Nurses - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Haniya (Author)Are you Looking for an effortless, soothing, and efficient method to grasp the intricacies of human brain anatomy?Look no further! Coloring books provide the optimal avenue to delve into the structure and functions of neuroanatomy with ease. Featuring single-sided pages, our coloring book ensures minimal bleed-through, allowing for a seamless coloring experience. With over 25 diverse coloring pages and generously sized at 8.5 x 11 inches, you'll ...

What You Must Know about Thyroid Disorders - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela Wartian Smith (Author)It is estimated that one in twenty people has a thyroid problem, with the majority of sufferers being women. To make matters worse, many who are affected by thyroid dysfunction are unaware that they have a problem and typically go undiagnosed for years. In the meantime, they experience a variety of symptoms, including fatigue, weight gain or loss, forgetfulness, sleepless nights, irritability, and more. But it doesn't have to be thi...

The Covid Diaries: 2020-2024: Anatomy of a Contagion As It Happened - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert A. Weinstein M. D. (Author), Cory Franklin M. D. (Author)This is a book of columns by several medical experts, written during the Covid contagion. It traces the development of the pandemic from its earliest days until the beginning of 2024. It discusses events as they occurred and deals with the controversial issues that arose including how the pandemic spread, lockdowns, vaccines, masking, school openings, and the origin of the virus. It offers perspect...