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Pain
The Science of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught...
Death Interrupted by Love
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
It is so important to play the role of advocate for the ones we love; we are their best hope for survival and proper medical care. Wives, caregivers, and family advocates are like gold to a patient. But what if perhaps I did the opposite for my husband? Maybe I truly did him an injustice when I allowed doctors to interrupt his death.
It All Begins in the Waiting Room
How to drive your doctor crazy while escaping retaliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For more than twenty years, Dr. David Rapoport has been writing about the lighter side of medicine in Family Practice and Medical Post magazines. They both devoted their last page to medical humour, with an illustrated story. This book brings together seventy of the popular stories Dr. Rapoport wrote...
White Coat Tales
Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and Misadventures
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This new edition of *White Coat Tales *presents intriguing stories that give historical context to what we do in medicine today—the body’s “holy bone” and how it got its name, a surprising reason why gout seemed to be so prevalent several centuries ago, and the therapeutic misadventure that...
Adam's Fall
Traumatic Brain Injury The First 365 Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
On a warm summer’s evening, while riding his bicycle with his girlfriend down a gentle slope something inexplicable happened. Suddenly, Adam flew over his handle bars, bounced on the street, and crushed the back of his head. TBI—traumatic brain injury. In that moment, as told by his father, Robert...
Quand une cellule déraille
Comprendre le cancer
Language: French
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Un guide pratique pour tout savoir sur le cancer.Cet ouvrage s'adresse à toute personne qui veut en savoir plus sur le cancer. Étape par étape, le lecteur est informé de ce qu'est précisément le cancer, comment cette maladie apparaît dans le corps, comment la tumeur se développe et les conséquences...
Living and Dying in Brick City
Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to...
by Karl Skorecki, MD, FRCP(C)
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Overcome the toughest clinical challenges in nephrology with Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney -- the most well-known nephrology resource in the world. A diverse team of more than 200 international contributors brings you the latest knowledge and best practices on every front in nephrology worldwide....
by Warrick Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Have You Planned Your Heart Attack? is not the next optimistic, self-help, heart disease reversal, low carb, cure-all approach to health. Believing that prevention is better than cure, it presents a proactive approach to cardiac disease prevention. It is the first-of-its-kind, offering a balanced...
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care
Helping Patients Change Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making...
The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Helping Your Loved One Get the Most Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Will the person you love ever get better? Chances are you've grappled with the question. With care and support from their families, people with schizophrenia can and do make vast improvements. Noted therapists Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich deepen your understanding of the illness and cover a wide...
Hurt
The Inspiring, Untold Story of Trauma Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Trauma is a disease of epidemic proportions that preys on the young, killing more Americans up to age thirty-seven than all other afflictions combined. Every year an estimated 2.8 million people are hospitalized for injuries and more than 180,000 people die. We take for granted that no matter how...
A Life in Psychiatry
Looking Out, Looking In
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
When Dr. Paul Garfinkel started his career in psychiatry in the 1970s, psychoanalysis dominated the profession. Then the pendulum swung the other way. Psychoanalysis was discredited and drugs became the treatment of choice for mental illness. Throughout his career, Garfinkel has struggled to find...
The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy is the definitive, practical guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for clinicians and researchers. IPT is a well-researched, time-limited, and diagnosis-focused therapy. An update and expansion of the original 1984, 2000, and 2007 IPT manuals, this guide...