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A Simplified Guide to Autonomic Dysfunction
Why the Brain Fails to Repair Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Suffering from symptoms no one can understand.? Then this is the book you need.
A Simplified Guide to Autonomic Dysfunction provides the reader with an insightful look at why they are experiencing symptoms from chronic damage to their autonomic nervous system.
This guide will help you...
You Can Stop Humming Now
A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
"Gripping, soaring, inspiring."--Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal
For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology.
Modern medicine is a world that glimmers...
Brain Tumours: Living low grade
The patient guide to life with a slow growing brain tumour
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Slow growing brain tumours change lives forever.
This readable and moving non-technical guide is about living with a low grade tumour, a diagnosis given to thousands of people every year.
Featuring dozens of personal testimonies from those dealing daily with the impact...
Cqi for Ems
A Practical Manual for Quick Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
CQI for EMS is not just another long winded, academic dissertation which drones on about abstract theories borrowed from quality control of industry, rather it is a quick and easy read specifically designed for the beleaguered, time and resource challenged EMS quality coordinator. CQI for EMS is ten...
by Lindsay Worthley
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
INSIDE GOD’S SHED: MEMOIRS OF AN INTENSIVE CARE SPECIALISTL. I. G. WorthleyInside God’s Shed is a series of tales that describe the experiences of an Intensive Care specialist during his career working in two major Australian teaching hospital intensive care units (critical care...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This volume of the Medical Basic Guides is about Aneurysms "What You Always Wanted To Know About..." are , straight-to-the-point, easily understandable and comprehensive medical ebooks and guides for everybody. Whether you are just interested in the topic of the book or you are directly...
The Intensivist's Challenge
Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have...
Discover Magazine's Vital Signs
True Tales of Medical Mysteries, Obscure Diseases, and Life-Saving Diagnoses
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
“Vital Signs,” a popular column featured in Discover Magazine, has long been a favorite of readers, showcasing, each month, fascinating new tales of strange illnesses and diseases that baffle doctors and elude diagnosis. Each tale is true and borders on the unbelievable. It’s no wonder that...
Confessions of a Surgeon
The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated...Life Behind the O.R. Doors
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the...
Dear Life
On Caring for the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society. Through some unforgettable case studies, she shows what care for the elderly and dying is really like – both the good and the bad. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatment,...
Between Life & Death
Surviving the Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book is dedicated to the hardworking EMS providers that give one hundred and ten percent every day. Many have given almost everything they had to a complete stranger for the simple reason to help people in need. Over the years, I have seen multiple examples of miracles, but I also have seen many...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Chapter 1CardiomyopathyMy mother had cardiomyopathy; so did her mother and brother both of whom died from heart failure.My brother also had aortic regurgitation which had been treated but still has heart failure.When I was 12 and down with mumps, I remembered my mother...
How Can I Help?
A Week in My Life as a Psychiatrist
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada’s leading mental health hospitals. How Can I Help? takes us to the frontlines of modern psychiatric care.
How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David Goldbloom as he treats patients, communicates...
Shrinks
The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
"An astonishing book: honest, sober, exciting, and humane... [Shrinks] brings you to the very forefront of one of the most amazing medical journeys of our time." --Siddhartha Mukherjee
Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells. But,...