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The Death of Cancer
After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has...
Summary & Study Guide - The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
You will never look at cancer the same.
The must-read summary of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
This book chronicles a fascinating "biography" of cancer—from its first documented appearance five thousand years ago through...
by Stuart Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Quicklets: Your Reading Sidekick!ABOUT THE BOOKAt first glance, my new job seemed similar to many others in Silicon Valley: on the verge of a merger, executives far removed from their customers, and too many projects to be completed in too little time. Everyone worked late into the evening,...
A License to Heal
Random Memories of an Er Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Steven Bentley, M.D. is a board certified ER doctor with a career spanning more than thirty years in various North Carolina emergency departments. His journey began in the mid-1970s when he chose to pursue a career in medicine. In his youthful perspective he came to regard doctors as the good guys,...
Broken Bones
New True Noir Essays From the Emergency Room by the Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
New, blistering, darkly funny essays breaking bones. And fixing them. And the seamy underside of life in the emergency room, with its cornucopia of crazy cases, not just bone-centred ones. For example, the man who tried to eat his own thumb and the case of bleeding brains. The most unfeeling doctor...
Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics
A Case-Based Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
This volume provides a practical overview of the ethical issues arising in pediatric practice. The case-based approach grounds the bioethical concepts in real-life situations, covering a broad range of important and controversial topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, truthfulness and...
by G.J. van Mill, A. Moulaert, E. Harinck
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In a relatively short period of time two-dimensional echocardiography has become the most important non-invasive diagnostic tool in the daily practice of a pediatric cardiologist who predominantly deals with congenital structural heart disease in neonates and infants. Consequently, one-dimensional...
Diagnostic Tests in Pediatric Pulmonology
Applications and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Over the past 20 years, diagnostic tests for pediatric pulmonologists have revolutionized care of children afflicted with respiratory disorders. These tests have been used to not only help in diagnosis, but also in the management and treatment of these children. Bronchoscopic, imaging and physiologic...
by Dara Brodsky, Elizabeth G. Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
As a pediatric subspecialty, neonatology poses a special challenge for residents: rotations are short, but care for preterm and critically ill patients is complex. Despite residents brief exposure to neonatology, they're expected to have a good understanding of key concepts, diagnoses and therapies...
by Francesco Carmine
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
“Dr.Grasso,” came the shout. I hate shouting across the room. “Dr.Grasso,” this time louder. Then finally a blood curdling shout “I need you in eight now!!” It wasn’t like I was far away mind you. Hell, the whole ER was little more than the size of the produce section at Quick Check,...
Fixing My Gaze
A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change
When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree...
by Neil Nathan
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
This book is intended to help both medical practitioners and patients to understand our growing understanding of how mold toxicity and mycotoxins can profoundly affect health. It provides an overview of how mycotoxins create an unrelenting inflammatory process that influences the immune system, nervous...
by Yannis Dionyssiotis
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Osteoporosis is a public health issue all around the world. Beyond nutrition and drugs, intervention with exercise is very important to prevent bone, reduce bone loss but especially to prevent falls and fractures with increasing age.This book brings exercise into the everyday life of the people who suffer from Osteoporosis.
The Dose Makes the Poison
A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This new edition of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed book broadens the scope of its predecessors from a heavy focus on industrial chemicals as toxicants to include drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other types of compounds that people are exposed to daily. Also new to the 3rd edition are newer...