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Have you taken a backseat role when it comes to your healthcare and insurance decisions? Maybe you're mad as hell about checking boxes you don't understand and watching your premiums go up. Maybe you're struggling to determine your personal risk and what plan is right for you. Maybe you feel the industry is a speaking different language-one you'll never understand.
In Healthcare Is Making Me Sick, expert Scott Hesier takes what he's learned in his...
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IF You Are Well: Health and Wellness Tips for the Empowered Health Care Consumer is a guide to help your employees make the choices and lifestyle changes necessary to stay healthy and out of the health care system, as well as understand how their personal wellness and health care spending habits contribute to and impact the current health care crisis. The small steps outlined here in the four key areas of psychological, physical, relationship, and...
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Shrinking budgets, stressful conditions, demanding patients: today's medical professionals face enormous pressure. What's a doctor to do? For Dave Hepburn, the only relief is in relishing the ridiculousness of it all. In his first book, the GP and popular columnist proves the adage about laughter and medicine. He tackles a variety of health issues, from smoking (the nicotine patch works best when placed directly over the mouth) to the body mass index...
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A fascinating and instructive journey into the heart of modern medical practice. In 'The Art of Medicine', Toronto Western Hospital’s legendary internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician, to examine the core principles of a patient-centred approach to diagnosis and treatment. While HPK, as he is fondly known, recognizes and applauds the many invaluable innovations in medical...
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An indispensable guide to every aspect of at-home care This thoroughly practical guide details the daily routines and unique concerns that are essential to quality at-home care of people with AIDS. From setting up a safe and comfortable environment to making medical and legal choices and solving emotional problems, each vital issue is covered in depth. Every caregiver and person with AIDS will benefit from this supportive, comprehensive resource.
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Sylvia and her husband, Brian, were enjoying an unconditionally loving relationship when suddenly it all changed and Sylvia found herself investigating young-onset Alzheimer's disease. A nursing and care home management background did not prepare Sylvia for the journey ahead. The Rocky Road of 24/7 Care explains the journey she and her husband embarked on when the plan they had to do the journey totally at home changed and nursing home care became...
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The last time you visited your doctor, did you..
* hesitate to ask a question-and leave without the answer you needed?
* not understand your doctor's explanation of your illness or its treatment?
* wish you could be more in control of your healthcare?
You can take control. The more you know about your healthcare needs and the more actively you work with your doctor, the better healthcare you will receive. In this concise, easy-to-understand book,...
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Growing healthy and beautiful hair is one of the most common and desirable goals that many people have. It is also one of the most important factors that affect your beauty and well-being. However, achieving this goal can be difficult, especially with all the misinformation, myths, and scams that surround the topic of hair health and nutrition.How do you know what your hair type and condition are, or how to assess them? How do you know what foods...
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This book aims to critically examine the contribution of the discipline of sociology and a number of theoretical sociological perspectives, from classical to postmodern to our understanding of health, illness and medicine. Specifically, the broad areas covered in this book include: critical perspectives on key sociological theories and themes in the sociology of health and illness including the profession of medicine, doctor-patient relationships,...
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Give your immune system a hand by boosting your Natural Killer Cells (NK) naturally using Colostrum. Bovine Colostrum (BC) has been highly prized and used for thousands of years by various cultures around the world. The healing power of Colostrum known variously as Fore Milk, First Milk, Beastings, Bisnings etc is well documented. Colostrum is known to have among other highly beneficial components, immune cells and anti-bodies, it is nature's way...
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Este libro esta destinado tanto a médicos generales y especialistas como a pacientes interesados en profundizar sus conocimientos sobre dos grandes y desconocidas epidemias, que afectan enormemente la calidad y la perspectiva de vida de adultos y niños: la privación de sueño y la apnea de sueño (ronquido). De manera simple y clara un otorrinolaringólogo y un neumonólogo con experiencia en el tema transmitirán al lector los conceptos más importantes...
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Do you know you can get Heal, reduce excess weight and enjoy healthy body with Hemp and CBD oil?
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This book on strategic leadership and management of health systems, aims to convey a critical understanding on the importance of proper leadership and management of health systems so that challenges are identified and solved in real time, and to eliminate steps or processes that do not add value. In that context, critical perspectives of the usefulness and limitations of modern managerial methods, health systems management and delivery of health services...
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If you'd like to improve your vision and reduce or eliminate your need for glasses or contacts, perhaps you're considering LASIK. This procedure has become one of the most popular vision correction surgeries in the nation with 9 million Americans undergoing LASIK procedures annually. But, before you entrust your eyes to a surgeon, make sure you become an informed consumer. In LASIK-A Guide to Laser Vision Correction, three ophthalmologists, who together...
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En esta obra es posible analizar la diversidad de perspectivas y variables que tienen que ver con la obesidad, partiendo desde su definición, incidencia, medición y control, hasta llegar al análisis de su relación con otras patologías y el contexto alimentario actual.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that cover a wide spectrum of human experience.
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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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Are you overwhelmed and underprepared?Feeling confused or even guilty?Concerned that you could miss something?Don't have all the answers? Caregiving is a journey that can be both beautiful and frustrating (sometimes at the same time). The truth is it is devastating seeing someone you love sick, hurt or facing declining health. Care Coordination and patient advocacy is the guidance you need for the journey. Read and discover how to bring calm into...
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Este libro colabora en la búsqueda del sentido de la profesión de enfermería, porque aporta en la elaboración de respuestas a preguntas esenciales como, qué es el cuidado, cuál es su importancia, por qué es necesario cuidar, cuál es el futuro del cuidado. A través de las respuestas que el texto nos brinda se pretende aportar a la reflexión de las personas y de las enfermeras que indagan por la importancia y las razones del cuidar.
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Introducing The Natural Way To Help You Fall Asleep Easily Each And Every Night & Quit Smoking (Without Harmful Side Effects)!
You'll find precise Self-Hypnosis scripts and Guided Meditations within to speed up your quest to quit smoking for good and release yourself from the bonds of your addiction.
Additionally, it will make the process of quitting joyful!
On top of that, we've provided the Deep Sleep hypnosis scripts, which can rewire...
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