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This little booklet is my way of disseminating what I consider a very critical concept: that those areas of the world which suffer from medical shortages can develop the solutions themselves. My goal is to train medical personnel to provide quality medical care at low cost using two basic skills:...

When deaf people interact with the medical system, access can mean the difference between life and death. Accommodations are not always intuitive to medical personnel, and not all deaf patients know how to explain why they need what they do. Interpreters, family, and friends of deaf people and patients...

Now fully revised, this acclaimed textbook efficiently links basic biochemistry with the day-to-day practice of medicine. You will learn basic science concepts and see them illustrated by clinical cases that describe patients you will likely encounter in your clinical training. You will also...

Completely revised to correlate to Murray’s Medical Microbiology, 8th Edition, these beautifully illustrated, clinically focused flash cards by Ken S. Rosenthal, PhD, cover the essential microbiology, immunology, and infectious diseases concepts you need to know for course exams and the USMLE Step...

Willie Ramirez is arguably the most important medical malpractice case related to language and prejudice. As a result of an interpreting error, Willie’s brain hemorrhage was misdiagnosed and he was left quadriplegic. On January 22, 1980, 18-year-old Willie Ramirez ate a fast food hamburger. That evening,...

Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient　characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests.　 Often, foetal and the woman’s...

This comprehensive compilation provides authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's health experts about West Nile virus, including the latest about the largest WNV outbreak ever seen in the United States in the summer of 2012. Starting with the basics, and advancing to detailed...

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine. Special attention is given to the extent to which medicine is a science, art, and technology. Investigations are carried out with a particular focus...

This comprehensive ebook provides authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's health experts about Henoch-Schonlein Purpura (HSP). Starting with the basics, and advancing to detailed patient-oriented and physician-quality information, the 21st Century Sourcebook series gives empowered...

Learning to prescribe is an essential part of medical training. Due to various high profile serious prescribing errors, the GMC have introduced stricter prescribing standards which medical students must meet in order to graduate. This book helps medical students learn the essentials of safe prescribing...

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Drs. David A. Sass and Alden M. Doyl, is devoted to Care of the Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipient. Articles in this issue include: Liver and kidney transplantation: a half-century historical perspective; From Child’s-Pugh to MELD:...

The risks involved in introducing new drugs and devices are amongst the most discussed issues of modern medicine. Presenting a new way of thinking about these issues, this volume considers risk and medical innovation from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases of medical...

Our body is the most sophisticated, intelligent, and priceless machine on this planet that nature has granted us. Endowed with the natural instincts of survival, sustenance, and self-propagation through self-protection, self-preservation, and reproduction, it achieves all these objectives by talking...

A medical travelogue for patient enlightenment about obtaining economical, quality medical care. There is concise disclosure of essential evaluations that are often omitted in basic examinations. There is instructive case material highlighting available medical revelations that enable the restoration of health and happiness.