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This book aims to equip Christians facing end-of-life decisions by simplifying confusing jargon and exploring biblical principles families need in order to navigate the transition from this life to the next.
Sophisticated technologies have blurred the expanse between life and death. It is often difficult for patients and loved ones to know to how approach the end of life in a dignity-affirming, God-honoring, faith-filled way. Butler aims to equip...
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This book is a step-by-step guide for women who have or may have PCOS. Polycystic ovary syndrome is a complex condition and there is confusion about the correct diagnosis and management, even among doctors. Knowledge is power. Women who have basic knowledge about PCOS can communicate better with their doctors and make good choices about their management plans. Many women complain that they do not know why they are having certain symptoms or why their...
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Monsters, Paramedics, and Street Medicine. New paramedic Dean Flynn is fresh out of the academy. When he gets assigned to the unknown backwater ambulance Station U, he wonders what he did wrong. Then Dean learns that his patients aren't your normal 911 callers. Dean and his partner Brynne Garvey serve the creatures of myth and legend living alongside their normal human neighbors in Elk City. With patients that are vampires, werewolves, fairies and...
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Dr. Emery completed his tour of duty in Vietnam in July 1968. His son was born when he was in Vietnam. He completed his urology residency, under the guidance of Doctor Clarence Hodges, in 1973. He practiced urology for over thirty-seven years. Thirty-three of these years were in San Diego.
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The Take-Charge Patient Puts the Expertise of 200 Medical Professionals in Your Hands.
Frustrated or confused about how to get good medical care? In her newest book, The Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get The Best Medical Care, (winner of 18 book awards) author and patient advocate, Martine Ehrenclou, empowers patients to become proactive, well informed participants in their own care. With advice and personal stories from over 200 doctors, nurses,...
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For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In Doctoring Freedom, Gretchen Long tells the stories of African Americans...
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xi, 267 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm
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In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders.
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Anyone who has fallen off the conveyer belt of mainstream health care and into the shadowy corners of illness knows what a dark place it is to land. Where is the infrastructure, the information, the guidance? What should you do next? In “Rebel Health”, Susannah Fox draws on twenty years of tracking the expert networks of patients, survivors, and caregivers who have come of age between the cracks of the health care system to offer a way forward....
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Following the success of the flagship Patients Beyond Borders Singapore Edition, published in July 2007, the second edition has now been released. This 250-page guidebook features a fully updated and revised in-depth overview of Singapore's hospitals and clinics serving international patients and now includes 16 pages of color inserts showcasing Singapore's world-class facilities and attractions. Considered one of the world's top medical travel destinations,...
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Patients Beyond Borders is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism, written by the world's leading spokesperson on international health travel. Impartial, extensively researched and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully culled from hundreds of resources in the US and abroad. Healthy Travel Media has teamed up with the Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council to produce the Patients Beyond Borders Malaysia...
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Taiwan, centrally located between Tokyo and Hong Kong, has 22 international hospitals and clinics that specialize in everything from comprehensive health checkups to advanced orthopedic and heart surgeries. This guide contains in-depth profiles of these facilities, as well as selected health travel agents, nearby recovery and guest accommodations, and area travel information.
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1 videodisc (58 min.): sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Spain, 1936: right-wing military officers led by General Franco (and supported by Hitler and Mussolini) attempt to overthrow the newly elected, democratic government. In response, nearly 80 American women joined the Good Fight - volunteering, in defiance of the US government, to help fight the Fascists in what would become the Spanish Civil War...16 of these brave and idealistic nurses, writers and journalists share stories of courage and commitment...
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Americans knew polio as the "summer plague." In countries further North, however, the virus arrived later in the year. It was described by one writer as "the autumn ghost."
Intensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a...
16) Get Inside Your Doctor's Head: 10 Commonsense Rules for Making Better Decisions about Medical Care
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This concise and accessible guide to modern healthcare explains, the 10 rules of medical decision-making and when to break them.
With so many medical tests and treatments to consider and so much information out there-some of it contradictory-it can be difficult to know what's right for you. In Get Inside Your Doctor's Head, Dr. Phillip K. Peterson explains the Ten Rules of Internal Medicine. Using real case examples, Peterson shows how following...
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The ability to communicate gently and effectively in the medical setting is an important acquired skill for clinicians. In Suggestion Language in Medical Care: How to Talk to Patients to Promote Trust and Cooperation, Dr. F. Ralph Berberich explores the impact of language and its nuances as it applies to those giving patient care.|The ability to communicate gently and effectively in the medical setting is an important acquired skill for clinicians....
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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....
19) Loving Your Pet the Ultimate Guide for Your Dog's Health, Food, Medical Care, Training, and Tricks
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We all want to be safe and nourished, have safe drinking water, wonderful company, and a comfortable place to rest. This is true for humans, dogs, and every living creature on this planet. Dogs have grown reliant on you as a result of domestication.
What, therefore, must you attend to?
Provide leadership, enjoyable and healthful exercise (training and play), wholesome dog food, medical care as needed, and lots of love and attention.
This book will...
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Why has medical care become so complicated-and expensive? Not very long ago, an individual would visit a doctor to be treated for an illness that could not be "cured" by one of Grandma's "recipes." Whether it was a sore throat, earache, or digestive pain, Grandma usually had some homespun "medicine" to deal with a common health issue. And if Grandma's "medicine chest" was not able to deal with a family member's illness, a neighborhood doctor was usually...
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