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"From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations. From the routine to the unexpected, How to Be a Patient is your ultimate guide to better healthcare. Let's face it: nobody likes going to the doctor. It can be uncomfortable, nerve wracking, expensive--and that's just for routine care! When it's an emergency--how do you choose between the ER, Urgent...
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If someone you love has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, you may not know where to turn. The early stages can be the most difficult time for relatives and friends because they often don't know much about the disease, or how they can be of help. This compassionate and practical book fills the information gap. It is divided into sections on how Alzheimer's begins, how to help a loved one with the disease, and how families and caregivers can help themselves....
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"The NYT bestselling author of Fat Chance, Dr. Robert Lustig explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, and how they are not 'druggable,' but how they are 'foodable' -- meaning, medication can't cure what nutrition can -- by following two basic principles: protect the liver and feed the gut"--
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The healthcare industry has a solution, at its fingertips, to some of its most intractable problems-but it still hasn't grasped that solution. Its most dominant market segment consists of customers and end users who share needs that cut across health condition, age, ethnicity, nationality, education, and income-but the industry isn't focused on this segment. The needs of this dominant segment are understood and shared by many employees inside healthcare...
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El Dr. Blake describe los principios básicos que han regido su práctica de podología, biomecánica de las extremidades inferiores y medicina deportiva durante más de 40 años. Junto con estos principios básicos, discutió en gran detalle los conceptos de evaluación de la marcha y técnicas de examen biomecánico.
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"When I was in the hospital I was poked and probed and ultraviolated, but never touched, " a patient told Dr. Jeff Kane. Over the past forty years he's heard thousands of such stories from patients and their families. They appreciate medicine's awesome technology, but yearn for low-tech contact. They want their suffering treated as well as their illness. Dr. Kane shows that our current "healthcare crisis" isn't fundamentally economic, but social:...
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Imagine losing a child because of lack of health insurance. Imagine trying to do everything possible to try to get him the proper care that would save his life. What parent wouldn't give their life to save their child? Then imagine your child being ignored and left to die because his health-care providers thought money was more important than his life. This didn't happen in some third-world country. It happened right here in the USA. My son's death...
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Human mortality is real and unavoidable. The death of a beloved is an irreparable loss that leaves the bereaved with deep sense of emptiness, emotional crumbliness, speechlessness and confusion. The loss of a beloved can sometimes feel like an earthquake of highest magnitude, which shakes up the core of one's being. Some may feel as though they are, faced with spiritual and emotional tsunami. In the wake of this life-changing incident, it is also...
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There's a type of person out there who is better at helping others than they are at looking after themselves. Maybe you're one of them. Maybe you know someone who is.They are the backbone of the caring professions, giving strength to our schools, clinics, care homes and hospitals. But you will also find them in offices, gyms, community groups and charities – everywhere you look. There's usually one in every family. But these people, who do so much...
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Healthcare Elsewhere is a medical tourism show that shares the success stories of medical tourism patients. Host John Cote interviews Doctors, healthcare experts and patients worldwide to help educate people about the affordable and cutting edge options available globally. Many patients find that the cost, time frame or availability of a particular procedure is too expensive or not available in their country so they travel elsewhere to get their treatment....
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Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism in Thailand, written by the world's leading spokesperson for international health travel. Produced in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and supported by hospitals and related government and private organizations, this guide is impartial, extensively researched, and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully...
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In WIN, author and fitness instructor Chritopher Wilson takes you deep into his three-year battle with steroids. Learn what can happen to you from using steroids and find out firsthand why steroids won't give you a body to last. Learn how to obtain the results you desire-the natural way. What you will find in this book: • Evidence of permanent steroid use damage • Where to go for help with hormone imbalances •The value of a simple blood test...
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La fatiga es la razón número uno de las visitas a la consulta del médico. A pesar de gastar cada año más dinero en las últimas dietas y medicinas de moda, las tasas de obesidad y enfermedades continúan aumentando. Muchas personas tienen sobrepeso, y padecen cansancio y malestar. La mayoría de las dietas fracasa porque no se dirigen a la causa subyacente del aumento de peso.Las revolucionarias investigaciones del doctor Jefrrey Blair condujeron...
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Ce livre offre un regard sur des programmes atypiques qui utilisent la danse pour réfléchir et intervenir différemment. Une vision plurielle des modes d'intervention se dessine et repousse les limites de la pensée classique. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux acteurs appartenant aux différents milieux d'intervention et de recherche, d'enseignement et de formation, de même qu'aux danseurs, danse-thérapeutes et artthérapeutes qui sont confrontés dans...
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"The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation: Everything You Need to Know If You Give (or Get) the Greatest Gift" offers nontechnical information and practical advice, and the multifaceted guidance that potential and past donors and kidney patients need. The book explains what to expect before and after the donation and helps recipients deal with the often-neglected, nonmedical aspects of their experience.
Deciding to be a living kidney donor,...
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"The Man Behind The Mask: Why I Choose To Not Receive The Flu Shot" details the many issues related to mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers and why the author chose to wear a mask during flu season in lieu of receiving the flu shot. Topics include analysis of the size and scope of the flu, flu shot science, how flu shots are studied and evaluated, documented harm from the flu shot, legislation and financial implications associated with mandatory...
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National polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history, Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform....
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The American Health-Care Crisis puts into layman's terms the simple truths about health-care insurance in the United States. The book gives an accurate history of health insurance in the United States and how we got to where we are today-describes how health care has become our biggest industry and how the industry has used their lobbying money and power to influence our legislators. The book details the huge profits of the large insurance carriers...
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