Medical category: 54560 books
HEALING THE WOUNDS
A Physician Looks at His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling...
by Nathaniel Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises....
Dreams and Due Diligence
Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive...
Classification, Disease and Evidence
New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e....
Incurable Me
Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A bold and persuasive polemic on the corporatization of healthcare by a pediatrician and pioneering advocate for integrative medicine.
In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine’s most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and...
Killer Care
How Medical Error Became America's Third Largest Cause of Death, and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
“A succinct, disturbing report on the prevalence of malpractice in modern medicine. ….An imperative analysis that begs for discussion by industry watchdogs and consumers alike.” —Kirkus Reviews Brilliant...scholarly. A reading of Killer Care makes an immediate personal investment in...
Surviving Your Doctors
Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the...
by Donna Helen Crisp, JD, MSN
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
A surgeon unknowingly damages the intestines of a nurse expecting only an overnight stay after surgery, beginning a chain of more tragic and preventable errors. The consequences result in the nurse spending several weeks on an ICU ventilator in a drug-induced coma, having four additional surgeries, and...
Too Big to Succeed
Profiteering in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Medicine in the United States is big business. We spend 50 percent more on health care per capita than other developed countries, but a multitude of measures indicate that we are not getting health-care value for our money. In Too Big to Succeed, author Dr. Russell J. Andrews details why health care...
by James Bogash, DC
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
There is nothing normal about a blood pressure that is too high. This is one of your body’s warning signs that something is wrong. If uncorrected, the damage to your heart and brain greatly increases your risk of a heart attack or stroke.
Medications are usually thought of as the answer,...
John P. McGovern, MD
A Lifetime of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
John P. McGovern held seventeen professorships, received twenty-nine honorary doctorates, and established the nation’s largest privately owned allergy and immunology clinic. He authored 252 professional publications including twenty-six books in the medical sciences and humanities, and served as...
Kill or Cure
An Illustrated History of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Kill or Cure, a lavishly illustrated new history from DK, recounts the quest of doctors and scientists through the ages to tame and conquer mankind's ever-enduring enemies: disease, injury, and death. Sometimes misguided, sometimes inspired, always doggedly determined, the great scientific minds of...
Blind Eye
The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
A medical thriller from Pulitzer Prize–winning author James B. Stewart about serial killer doctor Michael Swango and the medical community that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.
No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was...
Coronary
A True Story of Medicine Gone Awry
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
A chilling real-life medical thriller, Coronary chronicles the story of two highly respected heart doctors who violated the most sacred principle of their profession: First, do no harm.
In the summer of 2002, fifty-five-year-old John Corapi, a Catholic priest with a colorful background, visited...