Health Care Issues category: 1336 books
Hot Lights, Cold Steel
Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed...
Our Daily Meds
How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In the last thirty years, the big pharmaceutical companies have transformed themselves into marketing machines selling dangerous medicines as if they were Coca-Cola or Cadillacs. They pitch drugs with video games and soft cuddly toys for children; promote them in churches and subways, at NASCAR races...
Too High to Fail
Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The first in-depth look at the burgeoning legal cannabis industry and how the “new green economy” is shaping our country
The nation’s economy is in trouble, but there’s one cash crop that has the potential to turn it around: cannabis (also known as marijuana and hemp). According to...
by Anna Deavere Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak of...
Stir
My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other.
At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one...
Eat Well Live Well with Diabetes
Low-GI Recipes and Tips
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
True to title, Eat Well Live Well with Diabetes is not only a cookbook. It’s also a guide book for people with type 1 or 2 diabetes. This book features straightforward, low-Gl recipes and lifestyle information ranging from risk factors, healthy carbohydrates and the glycemic index, and a how-to for smart shopping.
Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities...
by Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
If you or any of your family member is suffering from Diabetes, High B.P., High Cholesterol, Obesity or a Heart disease.................................... just imagine one morning you wake up to know that you are no more on those drugs and are just as healthy as you were few years back..................................
Why We Get Sick
The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness as well as the factors that predispose us toward it are subject to the same...
Critical Decisions
How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
“As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are facing, or will face.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational
“His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with...
The Bedside Manifesto
Healing the Heart of Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
“When I was in the hospital I was poked and probed and ultraviolated, but never touched,” a patient told Dr. Jeff Kane. Over the past forty years he's heard thousands of such stories from patients and their families. They appreciate medicine’s awesome technology, but yearn for low-tech contact....
by Daniel Alman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
All 341 of the items in this book are also included in a previous book that I published, which is called "1,342 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc."
Therefore, if you already own that book, then you already own the...
by Shasta Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Relieve IBS and other digestive disorders with The FODMAP Solution.
FODMAPs are unhealthy foods containing sugars and carbohydrates that are often the root cause of painful bloating, pain, and digestive disorders. The FODMAP Solution gives you a proven method for recovering from FODMAP...
by Brad Theissen
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Male Nude Photography book. Text and photos from the October 2004, City of West Hollywood sponsored Town Hall public forum on Crystal Meth, and its relationship with the increasing number of HIV diagnoses. Panel participants included Actor Chad Allen, Singer Paul LeKakis, HIV AIDS Medical Doctor...