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Smart Medicine
How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping...
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...
And a Time to Die
How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Most Americans, when pressed, have a vague sense of how they would like to die. They may imagine a quick and painless end or a gentle passing away during sleep. Some may wish for time to prepare and make peace with themselves, their friends, and their families. Others would prefer not to know what's...
The RealAge (R) Makeover
Take Years Off Your Looks and Add Them to Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why not live at 60 feeling like you did at 35?
Thousands of Americans are younger today than they were five years ago. How is that possible? By following the specific recommendations that reverse aging in Dr. Michael Roizen's bestselling book RealAge®: Are You As Young As You Can Be?, people...
The Better Brain Solution
How to Start Now--at Any Age--to Reverse and Prevent Insulin Resistance of the Brain, Sharpen Cognitive Function, and Avoid Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In this step-by-step guide to enhancing cognitive function and fighting—and even reversing—memory loss, Dr. Steven Masley (bestselling author of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up) lays out a four-pillar diet-and-lifestyle approach to improving brain health, focusing on food, nutrients, exercise, and stress...
Abortion
Yes or No?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Possibly the most widely read treatise on abortion in the world. Brief, clear, and thorough. Refutes all arguments for abortion. 550,000 sold.
From Harvard to Hell...and Back
A Doctors Journey through Addiction to Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Dr. Sylvester "Skip" Sviokla lived life as a successful, driven, athletic, and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School, reveling in wealth and glamour as a "celebrity doctor" until addiction brought his life crashing down. This real-life "Dr. House" had it all (he...
Birth Day
A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
"I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school." So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author...
Mirror Touch
Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical...
Coping with Lyme Disease, Third Edition
A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Now completely revised and updated-the bible for the thousands who contract Lyme disease each year
Lyme disease, transmitted through the bite of a tick, is one of our nation's fastest-growing epidemics. Since Coping with Lyme Disease was first published in 1993, the number of sufferers afflicted...
Living Well with Back Pain
What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
If you're one of the millions of Americans suffering from back pain, Robert B. Winter, MD, and Marilyn L. Bach, PhD, have the answers and knowledge you need to effectively manage your condition. In Living Well with Back Pain, Winter and Bach draw on an extensive network of experts to bring you the...
The Oxygen Revolution, Third Edition
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT): The Definitive Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Other Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
NEW EDITION INCLUDES NEW RESEARCH ON HBOT AS A GENE THERAPY TO TREAT TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) AND OTHER DISORDERS.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is based on a simple idea—that oxygen can be used therapeutically for a wide range of conditions where tissues have been damaged by oxygen deprivation.
Inspiring...
by Otto Fenichel, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1987
In the world of psychoanalysis, the late Otto Fenichel was pre-eminently distinguished for brilliant observation, tireless energy, and skill.
Otto Fenichel's highly significant essays explore many subjects that were only touched on in his books. Many of these discussions, present-day classics...
by Rob Myers, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries.
Depressed and lonely, a man decides that pills and alcohol are too gentle an exit. How did he end up in the drivers seat without his head?
Drunken neighbours decide that beautifying the hedges on their property...