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Cell-Level Healing
The Bridge from Soul to Cell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Our bodies glow with the miracle of life pulsing in 100 trillion cells. Spiritual resources can positively influence the wizardry of our natural cell science that repairs and renews the body. Cell-Level Healing: The Spiritual Bridge From Soul to Cellprovides instruction at the interface of biology...
A Song in the Night
A Memoir of Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In this inspiring memoir of faith and perseverance, Bob Massie recounts how a childhood illness laid the foundation for a life filled with compassion and activism.
Bob Massie was born with classical hemophilia, a painful disorder that caused repeated bleeding in his joints and slowly robbed...
by Katinka Blackford Newman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. Not unusual – except that things didn't turn out quite as she expected. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...
Incidental Findings
Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the "essence of becoming and being a doctor," Danielle Ofri led us into the hectic, constantly challenging world of big-city medicine. In Incidental Findings, she's finished her training and is learning through...
by Henry Jay Przybylo MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious procedure in medicine.
For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is the source of great fear and fascination. From the famous first demonstration of anesthesia in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General...
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...
Healing Children
A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**A National Bestseller
An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National **
Anyone who has seen a child recover from a wound or a broken bone knows that kids are made...
by Kevin Grange
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A true account of going through UCLA’s famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program—and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles.
Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks—that was Kevin Grange’s initiation...
Practical Body MRI
Protocols, Applications and Image Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Practical Body MRI: Protocols, Applications and Image Interpretation demystifies MRI examinations of the abdomen and pelvis, giving the essential knowledge required by radiologists in order to develop and select appropriate protocols, assess scan quality and interpret imaging studies. Each chapter...
In the Body of the World
A Memoir of Cancer and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, the self, and the world
Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk...
Intensive Care
A Doctor's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
New York Times WellBlog regular contributor, Danielle Ofri has been praised for turning the triumphs and trials of medicine into riveting and compassionate stories. This e-book exclusive edition offers 98 pages of her best work.
This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri's range and skill as a...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Ophthalmologists encounter patients every day, some who will be facing difficult and extremely delicate surgical procedures. As the physician-patient relationship begins and the ophthalmologist is working to properly diagnose, treat and manage the patient's condition, they must also play a role in reducing...
I Believe in Evan
My Fight to Save My Baby from a Devastating Brain Injury and the Forces Against Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
On January 18, 2012, Elise Schwarz received a phone call that threatened to tear her world to pieces: "There's something wrong with Evan. He's turning blue," her babysitter screamed down the line. When Evan was born Elise felt her life was complete. She had her own New York apartment, a...