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Meditations for Women Physicians (and Others) Who Do too Much features more than 100 inspiring meditations and prayers. These comforting words can help over-stressed, over-scheduled, overwhelmed women find peace, calm, and tranquility. Topics include perfectionism, relationship, forgiveness, and anxiety. This book is a balm for the over-worked soul.
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Innovation... personal fulfillment... and limitless potential to help people-and prosper.
These are the rewards for physicians who become entrepreneurs and blaze their own trails in business to provide medical products and services-all while creating a balanced personal life that's fulfilling and adventurous.
Unfortunately, many physicians and medical professionals believe that they're not good business people.
And they're afraid to step out of...
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We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world-from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping through the medical community: pharmacies that double as walk-in clinics; health services that will be delivered online; electronic records that hold the history...
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Harm Potential Profile is an adjunct to the therapeutic process and is designed to help psychiatrists, other physicians and licensed mental health professionals to identify persons who are thinking of killing themselves, persons who are thinking of killing family members or others along with themselves, and potential terrorists who are thinking of killing others. The Harm Potential Profile provides an insight into the patient's subconscious mind and...
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Over the past 30 years, the transition from print to digital media has contributed to an exponential increase in medical literature. In response, 2 Minute Medicine™ presents 160+ authoritative, curated, and physician-written summaries of the key landmark trials in medicine: 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark Trials.
Every physician, health professional, and trainee should have a working knowledge of these trials...
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As a physician, you have a unique set of professional and financial challenges set against a current backdrop of extreme economic, political and social uncertainty. When it comes to your personal finances, you have two choices for successfully navigating all of the ambiguity; do it yourself or hire someone to help you. Both will require your time, but the latter can actually save you time. And because of the growing shortage of physicians in our country,...
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Doctors hold a pretty special place in our lives. They're often there when we're born, and they're usually there when we die. They're there for a lot of the scary or weird stuff that happens in between, too.
In That's Why I'm a Doctor, award-winning journalist Mark Bulgutch brings together forty-six stories from a diverse group of physicians, including pediatricians, interventional radiologists, general surgeons, psychiatrists, family doctors, gastroenterologists,...
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Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor-a real doctor-should mean being able to draw on every aspect of yourself, your interests, and your experiences, however remote these may seem from the medical task of the moment.
Originating from popular...
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Physicians have an extremely important job, one that is the culmination of years of hard work. They dedicate their lives to helping others and at times are faced with literal life-or-death decisions. But often, they are so busy taking care of others, they neglect to take care of themselves, which can lead to burnout. They feel overwhelmed and exhausted, struggle to keep up with it all, and in some cases may wish to leave medicine entirely.
In Doctor,...
30) Madame Bovary
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In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
31) Burn In
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Patrick Tran was a successful dermatologist living happily with his wife and young son in Northern California when his two-year-old son Adrian was diagnosed with cancer. Before his son's diagnosis, Tran's mission had been helping other doctors accomplish what he had: achieving independent wealth through real estate investing and avoiding doctor burnout. But, after Adrian's diagnosis, Tran's mindset shifted.
After overcoming his initial devastation,...
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You have chosen an honorable profession, one in which you constantly make critical, life-and-death decisions. After enduring undergraduate school, medical school, internships, and residencies, you have worked tirelessly for almost a decade to get where you are now-a practicing physician. But, even though you have gone through rigorous schooling and post-graduate training programs, you have received little guidance in the nonclinical aspects of medical...
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This is a book of miracles-medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters. Among the extraordinary cases poignantly recounted by the physicians witnessing...
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This book takes the reader into the heart of the mystery of the 99 sacred Names of Allah. It is a vehicle for understanding the infinite nature of God, and for discovering the divine potential in every soul. It is also a comprehensive guidebook for progressing through the stages of the spiritual path and an instruction manual for teachers on how to work with students more wisely, as physicians of the heart.
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At the end of World War II, the Anglo-American alliance gifted Joseph Stalin, the Butcher from the Kremlin, eight European countries as part of the Yalta Treaty. With that shameful pact, more than one-hundred-twenty million people entered a period of slavery and communist tyranny. Among the enslaved intelligentsia, were doctors who also found themselves on the wrong side of the impenetrable Iron Curtain. They were all locked up in a massive labor...
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Private practices in America are disappearing, and you, a private practice business owner, struggle to stay afloat. Insurance reimbursements are decreasing every year, and so is your revenue. Sell, retire, or drastically cut payroll and overhead. These are your choices right now as a physician-owned private practice, but it doesn't have to be your future. What practice owners need is a new, profitable, business model.
That model is now here. The Wellness...
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In Their Own Words invites you to become "doctor for a day" and see medical practice from the physicians' perspective. Drawing on one of the largest physician surveys ever undertaken, In Their Own Words offers insights from hundreds of doctors, who reveal in candid comments exactly how they feel about being physicians and why it matters to patients. Read why: Close to half of all doctors plan to opt out of medical practice in the next one to three...
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"The shortest distance between a human being and the truth," so goes the saying, "is a story." These stories told by Dr. Scott Abramson, drawing upon his forty years of medical experience and from coaching colleagues in the mission of physician communication, embody some of these human truths: truths about listening, connection, faith, bereavement, death, teamwork, empathy, courage, grace, joy, leadership, parenting, burnout, the challenges of work-life...
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Doctors work in life-and-death situations every day. But what happens when they encounter something even they can't explain scientifically? Dreams foretelling future events, apparitions and other miraculous experiences fill this book, as practicing doctors recount the most unusual moments of their careers. Meant to awe, instruct and inspire, these tales will convince even the harshest skeptic that there are things beyond this physical world and that...
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Are you an International Medical Graduate and want to practise medicine in Australia? It is a complicated pathway to getting a job. There are many challenges to overcome.
Dr Issam Muteir is a general physician and cardiologist from Iraq who has firsthand experience negotiating the Australian Healthcare system as an
overseas doctor.
In Leaping the Hurdles, Dr Muteir guides International Medical Graduates (IMGs) to navigate their own way through...
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