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by Marnelle Tokio
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
**Winner of the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Language Arts, Grades 7-12 Novels
Winner of the 2005 White Pine Awards, Fiction category
Selected for inclusion in the Best Books for the Teen Age 2004 List by the New York Public Library
Nominated...
Don't Rush Me!
For Siblings of Children With Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
A storybook about special needs siblings to engage the whole family!
My daughter, Jordhan, has the unique position of not only being a middle child, but a middle child among siblings with special needs. This story touches on the important contributions Jordhan makes to our family, especially on the...
Bringing It Home
A Nurse Discovers the World Beyond the Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
ICU nurse and bestselling author Tilda Shalof learns what nursing beyond the hospital really means. For the 350,000 professional nurses in Canada and 3 million in the US; readers of Atul Gawande's award-winning books and The American Nurse by Carole Jones.
In her latest book, ICU nurse Tilda...
by Raúl Necochea López
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Adding to the burgeoning study of medicine and science in Latin America, this important book offers a comprehensive historical perspective on the highly contentious issues of sexual and reproductive health in an important Andean nation. Raul Necochea Lopez approaches family planning as a historical...
by Nikki Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Dyamonde Daniel is excited about the local library?s poetry contest, and so is her friend Free. The prize is one hundred dollars?just think what they could buy with that much money! But when they find out that Damaris, one of their classmates, has been living in a homeless shelter, their ideas about...
The Night Shift
Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other...
The Personalized Medicine Revolution
How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
An incisive look at how personalized medicine is revolutionizing health care for everyone.
In this persuasive and compelling book, Pieter Cullis argues that personalized medicine, also known as precision medicine, is the biggest revolution of our time. By replacing the current one-size-fits-all...
Health Care in Canada
A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.
Many...
Collaboration in Private Practice
Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, counseling, and psychotherapy is changing under the increasing impact of market forces, corporate insurance companies, and government reforms. Collaboration in Private Practice: Psychotherapy in the Midst of Health Care Reform is a guide to establishing...
The Citizen Patient
Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent...
Lead on a Page
The Poetic Leadership of a Laureate
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
A. Gregory Frankson, also known as Ritallin, provides a poetic form of leadership within the global mental health movement - a movement that seeks improved services, greater awareness, reduced stigma and full acceptance for consumers / survivors / service users no matter where they live in the world. ...
by Brady Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Guaranteed to answer everything you want to know about andropause and more in a practical, thorough and easy to read eBook…There is a great deal of unawareness and confusion about andropause, commonly referred to as “male menopause” which is primarily caused by Low Testosterone (T) levels...
Worried Sick
A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick...
The Secrets of Medical Decision Making
How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical...