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The Boy Who Could Run But Not Walk
Understanding Neuroplasticity in the Child’s Brain
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Karen Pape tells the story of how some children with early brain damage astounded everyone around them. The brain injury they suffered at or near birth had led to motor problems such as the awkward gait we associate with cerebral palsy. Yet they were able to run, kick...
by Mark Crislip
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
H1N1. Staph aureus. Traveler's diarrhea. All examples of human interaction with the microbial world, which counts viruses, bacteria, and parasites too numerous to mention. Infectious Disease doctor Mark Crislip has a strange relationship with this world-he spends most of his time trying to kill it,...
by Morris S. Clark, DDS, FACD
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
More and more dental professionals are finding that N2O/O2 is a reliable and efficient method of relieving pain, fear, and apprehension in patients undergoing surgical procedures - and is quickly and easily reversed without unwanted side effects. The third edition of this unique chairside handbook...
Dizziness
Why You Feel Dizzy and What Will Help You Feel Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Anyone who has experienced the sensation of the room spinning around or the lightheadedness that signals an impending faint knows how bad it feels to be dizzy. Almost any medical condition can cause dizziness, but the most common include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, transient drops in blood...
Get Inside Your Doctor's Head
Ten Commonsense Rules for Making Better Decisions about Medical Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With so many medical tests and treatments and so much scientific and medical information—some of it contradictory—how can people make the best medical decisions?
Most medical decisions, it turns out, are based on common sense. In this short and easy-to-read book, Dr. Phillip K. Peterson...
Why Aren't Normal People Normal?
A Girl’s Survival Guide to Growing up with Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Asperger syndrome is a form of autism affecting an individual’s ability to understand, communicate and interact with other people. As it is often not obvious from their outward appearance that someone has Asperger syndrome, people do not always realise that they are different, leading to confusion...
Yasargil:
Father of Modern Neurosurgery
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
M. Gazi Yasargil: Father of Modern Neurosurgery describes Professor Yasargil developing a means of reducing the mortality rates associated with the deadliest of brain pathologies from thirty percent in the mid-1960s to less than two percent. It required not only a vastly redesigned microscope, but...
The Perpetual Now
A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about...
In the Mind Fields
Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
“Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain.”
“I’d never been a science person,” Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning of her far-reaching...
A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy
A Guide to Retail Pharmacy for Patients, Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, and Pharmacy Technicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Have you ever wondered what your friendly neighborhood pharmacist is really thinking behind that pharmacy counter? If so, look no further. A Prescription for Retail Pharmacy offers an honest, politically incorrect, no-holds-barred look at the inner workings of the world of retail pharmacy. Pharmacist...
by Darren Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A revision guide for the UK Ophthalmic Dispensing qualifications.This covers some basic Optics and Lenses topics from the first year.It should be used alongside your study materials and can be used for either the correspondence or college courses for the ABDO first year dispensing exams.
My Ambulance Education
Life and Death on the Streets of the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
The brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician.
At 18, Joseph Clark started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods as an emergency medical technician (EMT), dealing with...
Singular Intimacies
Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country. When Danielle Ofri first enters the doors as a medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine. It is here that Dr. Ofri...
Miracle Survivors
Beating the Odds of Incurable Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
If you have received an incurable cancer diagnosis, hearing about someone who made it” is like spotting a rescue ship when you’re drowning in a stormy sea. Miracle Survivors provides that lifeline with a collection of stories of cancer survivors who were given a terminal diagnosis but shocked...