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Medical Wisdom and Doctoring
The Art of 21st Century Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Medical Wisdom and Doctoring aims to fill a need in the current medical literature for a resource that presents some of the classic wisdom of medicine, presented in a manner that can help today's physicians achieve their full potential. This book details the lessons every physician should have learned...
Dress and Care of the Feet; Showing their Natural Shape and Construction; How Corns, Bunions, Flat Feet, and Other Deformities Are Caused
With Instructions for their Prevention or Cure. Also Directions for Dressing the Feet with Comfort and Elegance, and Many Useful Hints to Those Who Wear, As Well As Those Who Make Foot-Coverings.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This vintage book contains a complete handbook on foot care, with a special focus on the importance of good-quality and well-fitted shoes. Essentially, it is a guidebook with hints for those who wear and those who make shoes and boots, with directions on picking and wearing shoes for health, performance,...
by Mike Cyra
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Real life medical drama is OK… but true stories of emergency medicine that make you laugh out loud are better!
Mike Cyra's comedic storytelling style of writing is hilarious. Experience what it's like to drive an Emergency Vehicle through traffic. Learn how not to deliver a baby; how to fake unconsciousness;...
by Tilda Shalof
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with...
by Andreas Hübel, Thilo Schmelcher, Ulrich Storz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Patents protecting biotechnological invention are becoming ever more important. Because biotechnology has many differences with respect to other technologies, lessons learned in other fields of technology cannot simply be transferred to adopt a suitable strategy for dealing with biotechnology inventions.
In...
On the Cancer Frontier
One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: We are losing the war against cancer.” Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called...
Unaccountable
What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
New York Times Bestseller
"Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and Unaccountable is that book.†?-Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated
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A Paramedic's Diary
Life & Death on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Stuart Gray is a paramedic dealing with the worst life can throw at him. A Paramedic's Diary is his gripping, blow-by-blow account of a year on the streets - 12 roller-coaster months of enormous highs and tragic lows. One day he'll save a young mother's life as she gives birth, the next he might...
Beyond Malthus
The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health. Despite current...
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
A Life in Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.
In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the...
Who They Were
Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
In Who They Were, Dr. Robert C. Shaler, the man who directed the largest and most groundbreaking forensic DNA investigation in U.S. history, tells with poignant clarity and refreshing honesty the story behind the relentless effort to identify the 2,749 victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
No...
Finding Your Voice
A Voice Doctor's Holistic Guide for Voice Users, Teachers, and Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Finally, a book that addresses the wear, tear, and care of the voice in a simple yet scientifically grounded way -- a way that will help you strengthen and protect your voice.
This concise yet comprehensive book includes:
Easy-to-understand chapters on voice production 101 and energy 101
A...
Laughing IS Conceivable
One Woman's Extremely Funny Peek into the Extremely Unfunny World of Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Laughing IS Conceivable is a #1 Best Seller in the category of Reproductive Technologies on Amazon. It was written by a former stand-up comic and humor writer and has been downloaded by thousands of infertility patients, partners, families & medical teams who are looking for some fast, fun...
Learning to Listen
A Life Caring for Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behavior that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light,...