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The White House is not an easy place to grow up, so when the president's son Cam Hilliard, a sixteen-year-old chess champion, experiences extreme fatigue, moodiness, and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss the troubles as teen angst. But Secret Service agent Karen Ray, whose job is to guard the president's family with her life, is convinced Cam's issues are serious - seroius enough for her to summon her physician ex-husband...
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
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Los textos de Ejercer la medicina: enfoque práctico. Sobrevivir al año rural proponen conductas médicas sustentadas en la evidencia y la experiencia para abordar patologías de alta prevalencia en el contexto de las áreas rurales o de escasos recursos en Colombia. Incluyen además de las recomendaciones prácticas para el diagnóstico y tratamiento inicial de diversas situaciones clínicas, aspectos como la identificación oportuna de factores...
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La electroterapia se ha convertido en una estrategia coadyuvante para la rehabilitación de personas con daño en la médula espinal, y en busca de darla a conocer, este libro recopila avances teórico-prácticos actuales basados en evidencia experimental y resultados de ensayos clínicos en temas relacionados con sus generalidades, usos, aplicaciones y dosificación. Así mismo, describe algunos protocolos de intervención, fundamentados en la práctica...
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This is a memoir of Dick and Loretta Stoughton's experiences of 5 /12 years at two different medical missions in Rhodesia in the 1970's. They arrived with five children, ages 10 months to 10 years, and left with seven. The book describes the frustrations, joy, sadness, and difficulties of life under trying but manageable conditions. After 26 years in a medical practice in Wisconsin, they decided to return to Zimbabwe to continue their missionary life...
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This book, Asperger's/ASD: Making Life Easier, Safer, Better (A Parent's Roadmap to Sanity), is a narrative, a handbook, and a toolkit all rolled into one. As a narrative it details the personal history of one family's struggle with their son's Asperger's. As a handbook it addresses the whole set of problems that come with Asperger's/ASD. And as a toolkit it better equips you to confront these problems, so they are easier to visualize and break down...
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The first edition of this book (titled "The Clinician's Guide to Medical Writing") has become a standard in its field and remains an indispensible reference for any clinician, academic physician, or health professional who wishes to hone their writing skills. However, since its publication in 2004, significant changes have taken place in the way medical professionals communicate with each other and the world. Medical Writing: A Guide for Clinicians...
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Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
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"The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID--all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In...
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This is a small book and easy to read. It comprises several inspiring sketches of ancient and modern physicians whose reputations were based as much on their dedication to the humanism of medicine as it was to the science of medicine. Those who teach medical students and residents will find it a good source of medical history that, besides being important in itself, will add a new dimension and a little lightness to morning rounds.
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"Los temas que se presentan en este texto confluyen en los conflictos bioéticos y jurídicos en escenarios como: decisiones críticas en escenario de emergencias, cuidados paliativos, demencia, eutanasia y suicidio asistido, los estados alterados de conciencia, y justicia sanitaria en torno al trasplante de órganos y tejidos.
El trabajo conjunto de estudiantes y profesores ha logrado cristalizar una serie de temas que abordan, tanto elementos médicos,...
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An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States… Over the past thirty years, rural health care in the United States has changed dramatically. The stereotypical white-haired doctor with his black bag of instruments and his predominantly white, small-town clientele has imploded: the global age has reached rural America. Independently owned clinics have given way to a massive system of hospitals; new technology...
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This book introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine and related healing professions. Reinforcing the humanistic side of patient care, this book replicates the tips, anecdotes and aphorisms often related by mentors and educators to medical students, residents, and young physicians. This book provides numerous examples of best practices in the art of medicine, profiles of great healers throughout history and around...
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Sandra Cowden led an average life as a nurse, wife, and mother, but this changed in an instant one chilly day in January of 1981. Her world unraveled as she battled her brain tumor and the consequences of this life-altering diagnosis. The impacts of medication and the tumor on Sandra's brain frayed her reality. Chaos, fear, and denial incubated in her mind, but she also had hope. My Mother's Roommate is a real first-person...
15) Shared Struggles: Stories from Parents and Pediatricians Caring for Children with Serious Illnesses
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This book tells true and poignant stories from both sides of the physician-patient/parent relationship and provides a unique glimpse into how parents and physicians think, feel, and interact. The stories are grouped under four sections: Hope, Compassion, Communication, and Trust. Each section includes stories contributed by parents from all across the United States and by pediatricians practicing at many of the best children's hospitals throughout...
16) The Development of a Model of Human Nature that reflects Patient Presentation in General Practice
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The essence of general practice is the provision of personal medicine and personal care. There is though no satisfactory model of the nature of being a person – of human nature – as this presents in general practice.
This book develops such a model, a model that offers explanation of the everyday presentations of interaction between body and mind, explanation of the occurrence of medically unexplained symptoms, and explanation as to how mental...
17) Good Cholesterol
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Cholesterol, high cholesterol, ldl cholesterol, hdl cholesterol, good cholesterol levels, are all phrases for the same thing. They refer to the bodies inability to process these fats for the bodies use. When learning how cholesterol works on a molecular level, and understanding how the body uses it, you will be able to safely lower your levels without the use of pharmaceuticals and all their side effects.Going to fitness centers and trying to burn...
18) India
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In 1931, Britain's Conservative Party proposed the India Bill-a piece of proposed legislation that made significant changes to the way India governed itself under British rule. Winston Churchill, with a distinguished history of military service and war correspondence in India behind him, took a position on this bill independent of the party line-and fought for it with characteristic conviction and oratory brilliance. This book contains seven speeches...
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Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Those plans were complicated by the outbreak of World War II and the call of duty. Assigned to the HMS "Warspite," a formidable 30,000-ton battleship, Surgeon Lieutenant O'Reilly soon found himself face-to-face with the hardships of war, tending to the dreadnought's crew of...
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Este libro está pensado para ayudar a las madres, sobre todo primerizas. Su propósito es aliviarles de cualquier estrés o ansiedad provocado durante el embarazo, parto y posteriormente, cuando los bebés han nacido. Este libro se basa principalmente en la experiencias del doctor en Nigeria.