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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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Nature Gave Us Butterflies, Standard Edition is written for individuals with a life-limiting illness and their families who will be providing care for them. Written in an open and honest writing style, it gently delivers sensitive information in tandem with nature's metaphor of the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly. Nature Gave Us Butterflies, Standard Edition is packed with valuable content that is easy to understand and navigate. Divided...
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The philosopher George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." His statement rings true in my book Healthy Family Tree.
Genealogy is a story of departed moments that, unless you pursue them, become lost in historical dust.
I am a teacher of genealogy, a little background as to why my daughter Shirlee asked me for help with a school project called "Creating a family tree."
She was a teenager at the time,...
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Una manera natural de tratar todo el cuerpo para controlar la diabetes tipo 2
¡Nueva dieta para reducir la cintura le AYUDA A PEDER PESO donde más importa!
Muchas personas ven la diabetes como una calle sin salida. Una vez recibe el diagnóstico, la única opción es tratar los síntomas con una dieta restringida, velar de cerca la presión sanguínea y costosos medicamentos. Sin embargo, es posible controlar y hasta revertir la diabetes tipo...
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Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our loved ones. And when this happens, we grapple with serious and often confusing choices about how best to live with our afflictions.
A Life Worth Living is a book for people facing these difficult decisions. Robert Martensen, a physician, historian, and ethicist, draws on decades of experience...
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Ms. Runouta Patience felt it was time to call her doctor. Her sore throat was just not getting any better. She had an earache, a sinus headache, and was congested. With no appointments available to see Dr. Be Well until late the next day, she decides it's off to QuickFix retail medical clinic to get herself feeling well again. Feeling somewhat better after being treated with decongestants and an antibiotic, a week later she arrives at Dr. Be Well's...
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Physical is the story of a hard living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in the light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that...
28) Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes That Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
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Medical mistakes occur with alarming frequency in this country. Nightly newscasts and daily newspapers tell of botched surgeries, mistaken patient identities, careless overdoses, and neglected diagnoses. You may have dismissed these stories as unfortunate mistakes, misunderstandings, or just isolated incidents with the occasional bad doctor.
Wall of Silence reveals that these medical mistakes are not rare incidents with the occasional bad doctor....
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At some time, most families will need to provide home care for an aging family member who is ill or disabled. While home caregiving provides many benefits, it takes careful planning, support, and patience.
The American Medical Association Guide to Home Caregiving provides the information you need to take the best possible care of an elderly, ill, or disabled person in a home setting. Written by experts from the American Medical Association, the book...
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More than 1,000,000 people in the United States are living, struggling, and dying with Parkinson's Disease - 50,000 more are diagnosed in this country every year. A personal journal of one family's struggle with the progression of Parkinson's Disease - One can understand the medicine and the treatment for this devasting disease, but nothing prepares one for living & dying with Parkinson's; this journal takes the reader by the hand as this disease...
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With America's healthcare system in the midst of upheaval, and with government officials, physicians, and the public-at-large focused as never before on the cost and quality of these vital services, a hidden epidemic-medical malpractice-destroys hundreds of thousands of lives each year and is ignored by the majority of the medical establishment.
Lethal Medicine is the first book to thoroughly examine malpractice, and its author, Harvey F. Wachsman,...
32) Stroke Know-How
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Stroke Know How is from Men and Women Who Have Had a Stroke, and their Families. Professionals weigh. All day and every night, this worldwide community is learning from one another.
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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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No todas las actividades preventivas son inocuas y beneficiosas. Algunas de las acciones para prevenir enfermedades son invasivas y perjudiciales, y no hay argumentación científica que avale el riesgo frente al posible beneficio. Los doctores Juan Gérvas y Mercedes Pérez-Fernández desgranan en este libro algunos de los casos más importantes, mientras hacen una reflexión fundamental sobre la excesiva medicalización de la sociedad actual y la...
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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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This is the book that changes the face of health care as it allows insured individuals to claim the care and coverage they need regardless of what their health care insurance company decides to approve. It's a book that hasn't had a single fact or point of law contested from reviews by the likes of the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Institute for Justice, famed bioethicist Dr. Arthur L. Caplan and U. S. Congressman Joe Pitts (Chair of The House...
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Imagine if there was a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare: chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health.
In his second book, James Maskell shows how community-specifically group medical visits-can help us solve these challenges. A supportive community provides the context for ongoing healthy behaviors, key to reversing chronic...
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