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This suspenseful story of medical fiction traces foreign medical graduate Dr. Kip Paiva, an emigrant and survivor of human trafficking in post-apartheid South Africa. Her refuge from a Zulu militant captor comes to an end, as his brutal violence has finally tracked her across the ocean. While her past catches up to her, Dr. Paiva also becomes the scapegoat of a malpractice suit. Frightened for her and her son's lives, Dr. Paiva begins a journey fueled...
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13 Famous Patients provides a fascinating insight into how Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Mohandas Gandhi, Woodrow Wilson, Marcel Proust, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Clarence Darrow, Paul Gauguin, George Gershwin and Enrico Caruso all dealt with illness. The present edition was first published in 1960.
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We all worry about visits to out-patients. For some, such as people with an intellectual disability, there is the added fear of not being able to explain what is wrong, as well as not understanding what is happening. This book is designed to support people before, during and after their out-patient visits. Bill has his broken arm x-rayed, put in plaster and finally his plaster taken off; Anna visits the ear, nose and throat department; Jane has an...
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A decent snicker has extraordinary long-haul impacts. At the point when you begin to snicker, it doesn't simply relieve your burden intellectually, it incites actual changes in your body. Chuckling can animate numerous organs. Chuckling upgrades your admission of oxygen-rich air animates your heart, lungs, and muscles, and expands the endorphins that are delivered by your mind. Giggling can likewise invigorate course and help muscle unwinding, the...
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242 pages ; 23 cm
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"Patients, anxious to convey their symptoms, feel an urgency to "make their case" to their doctors. Doctors, under pressure to be efficient, multitask while patients speak and often miss the key elements. Add in stereotypes, unconscious bias, conflicting agendas, and fear of lawsuits and the risk of misdiagnosis and medical errors multiplies dangerously. ... Reporting on the latest research studies and interviewing scholars, doctors, and patients,...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Bellevue Hospital is the oldest hospital in the country, and it is also the most famous public hospital in the United States. It was also the first maternity ward, first pediatric ward, and first C-section.
#2 I was a physician at Dartmouth College for seventeen years, and I was ready to be back in New York and in public health. I had no choice. I loved everything...
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In a clear and concise style, the extensively revised Putting Your Patients on the Pump offers physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians, and educators experience and practical guidance on how to help patients successfully manage their diabetes using an insulin pump. Ten chapters provide an in-depth description of insulin pump therapy advantages and disadvantages, pump and infusion set options and selection, pump candidate...
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Prescribing medicines for patients with dysphagia and swallowing difficulties provides additional challenges to the prescriber. Medicines are usually prescribed as tablets and capsules and for a variety of reasons these may not provide the most appropriate choice. This book outlines the legal, pharmacological and clinical issues which should be considered when selecting the most appropriate course of action and provides practical advice on how best...
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"Patientology: Toward the Study of Patients" is an in-depth look at how the patient is an integral part of the Health Care Delivery System (HCDS).
The previous statement may be an odd one, of course, patients are pivotal to the industry, but they are being, ignored and disregarded in alarming numbers. In fact, patients do not even appear in organizational charts-they are merely, assumed to exist. This continues to be true in many instances, although...
16) The slippery slope of healthcare: why bad things happen to healthy patients and how to avoid them
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"Dr. Steven Kussin, physician and a pioneer in the Shared Decision movement, takes readers through the steps of how to avoid the many pitfalls of unnecessary and sometimes even dangerous medical care."--Publisher's description.
A slippery slope describes how events progress from an initially innocent step to a cascade of subsequent misfortunes that are increasingly inevitable, difficult to stop, and more harmful than the last. In the attempt to improve...
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In Raving Patients, Dr. Len Tau, a practicing dentist in Philadelphia and online reputation specialist, shares simple tips and best practices to become visible and demonstrate credibility online.
Dental practices waste thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours trying to find new patients using methods that may have worked decades ago but no longer work today. Raving Patients teaches dentists how to get exponentially better marketing results for...
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Wapos Bay volume 4
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T-Bear and Talon learn about patience when they accompany Uncle Peter to catch fish. Raven gets caught up in rumors and gossip, which begins to affect all her friends.
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In recent times, more and more people are getting cancer and looking for a cure. When cancer strikes close to home, the faithful turn to Saint Peregrine (also known as the "Wonder Worker") and Saint Agatha for help. Saint Peregrine is the patron saint of cancer patients and Saint Agatha is the patron saint of breast cancer patients.
Through novenas, these powerful saints are called upon by faithful Catholics to intercede on their behalf and petition...
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Dr Yoga's Practice Manual - Endorsed by world leading oncologists and yoga teachers. With guided sequences of three levels of difficulties, helping you to progress through your breast cancer journey into your recovery. Suitable as a tool for a home-based practice for breast cancer patients and survivors.
The gentle healing yoga flow sequence is specifically designed for breast cancer patients recovering from surgery or undergoing active treatments...
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