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Gyroscope is a compelling, revealing, and inspiring true story about a miraculous survival of sepsis. From onset to recovery, this book takes you on an in-depth perilous journey through this devastating illness, which includes near-death and out-of-body experiences, desperation in the ICU, Divine intervention...

This ebook provides 25 board style review questions in the area of cardiology. It is specifically designed for physician assistants preparing for the PANCE or PANRE, but would also be helpful for nurse practitioners. It would be also helpful for students to access their knowledge of cardiology during and after their rotation. It would also be helpful for paramedic or nursing students.

This book is intended to be used as a general guide for physician residents physician assistants and nurse practitioners regarding inpatient care and management of orthopedic patients. Information is included to provide comprehensive patient care from admission to discharge with sections dedicated to...

This ebook is 25 board style multiple choice questions, answers, and detailed explanations in the area of nephrology. This ebook is designed for medical students, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners preparing for boards. Registered nurses may also find it helpful.

How hard can it be.. ..to eat a meal? ..to take a shower? ..to walk across the room? If you have lung disease, or have a friend or family member with lung disease, you know how hard it can be. This book is a compilation of stories: stories of strife, determination, faith, and accomplishment...

At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease...

A Diffident Doctor tells one doctor's personal story, with all its ups and downs, from childhood to retirement.  Beginning in a small Illinois town, to a Harvard College scholarship, to medical school at Yale, it describes his research in virology and the teaching and consulting in pediatric infectious...

This is a quick guide to help for medical and non-medical personnel at the point of need in hospitals, clinics, and home settings. It has clinical case scenarios, questions, and answers. It includes a plan of action based on differential diagnoses at the point of need to help guide you during critical...

For forty years The ECG Made Easy has been regarded as the best introductory guide to the ECG, with sales of over half a million copies as well as being translated into a dozen languages. Hailed by the British Medical Journal as a "medical classic", it has been a favourite of generations...

Evgeniy Perelygin — a surgeon who is known to his friends as Perya — has managed to capture the funny, the amusing, and the ridiculous aspects of what surgeons do and think. Yes, surgeons take their profession very seriously and their patients even more so. But, what is true in any aspect of human...

Cardiac surgeon John A. Elefteriades, one of Men’s Health magazine’s ten best doctors in America, shares moving patient stories and lessons about the human heart.   The human heart is a paradox, incredibly strong yet surprisingly fragile. And while stories that reveal its symbolic characteristics...

This book is 25 questions, answers, along with detailed explanations of board review questions in the area of pulmonary medicine. This book is helpful for medical students, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses. It may be also helpful to respiratory therapists preparing for the clinical...

Endorsed by the American Society for Preventive Cardiology! Preventive Cardiology - a new Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease - addresses the prevention and risk stratification of cardiovascular disease so that you can delay the onset of disease and moderate the effects and complications. Drs....

In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving...