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Introducing The Disrespectful Relationship Between Doctors and Their Patients, an empowering guide that offers the right tools and guidance to help transform your fragile patient-doctor relationship into a more harmonious one for an easier and smoother healthcare journey.

The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply true. From the way pain is felt, to how heart attacks are diagnosed, to the very role society plays in the health of the body, the medical landscape in place today is one that was designed for, and by, men. This audiobook is about all the ways medicine is not gender-neutral, from research to treatment to diagnosis. Throughout history, flawed mindsets have paved the way for sub-par treatment, and the prevailing attitudes that exist today have had terrible repercussions for women.

The heart of many hospitals is the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It is a place where humanity, ethics, and science collide in dramatic and deeply personal ways as parents, doctors, and nurses grapple with sometimes unanswerable questions: When does life begin? When and how should life end? And what does it mean to be human? Nearly 20 years ago, Dr. John D. Lantos wrote The Lazarus Case, a seminal work on ethical dilemmas in neonatology. He described the NICU as “a strong, strange, powerful place”. The

Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas is fascinated by a different story: what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies?

No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired - in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota - Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious circumstances.

Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know examines the personal and societal implications of our planet's most important - and frequently misused - medications. Grounded in the latest scientific research and crafted for general listeners, Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know offers a clear-eyed overview of where we are, and what the future holds, as antibiotics lose their power.

Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools - or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the 19th century. Although he died at just 48, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.

Written by medical experts and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in basic and advanced cardiac life support.

In the last half of the twentieth century, Don Thomas discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia—forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest illnesses. His feats were extraordinary, earning him a Nobel Prize, and the cascade of treatments he inspired have reshaped and will continue to reshape the practice of clinical medicine. Yet no one has ever written Thomas’s courageous story.Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum, a member of Thomas’s research team, does so for the first time.

Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert P. George and USC's Graduate Director of Philosophy Christopher Tollefsen are experts in the field of bioethics. In Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, these esteemed scholars combine the latest scientific breakthroughs with the soundest tenets of philosophy to shed new light on a vital yet controversial issue of our day.

The audiobook is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate organic chemistry course. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of development, as a simple fertilized egg becomes a complex human being of 40 trillion cells. Zernicka-Goetz's work is both incredibly practical and astonishingly vast.

Danger. Deportation. Death. These are just some of the fates facing the inmates at Huntercombe prison. Some have fled their homeland in fear of their lives. Others are being sent to a country they left decades ago. But Dr Amanda Brown is doing all she can for each patient stuck in no-man’s land. They have little or no idea of what awaits them outside, but she treats them with kindness and respect. Whatever their crime, and whatever their future holds, she is still their doctor.

Written by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for an exam, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of Sleep Medicine. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school Sleep Medicine course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master Sleep Medicine. The material is accurate, up to date, and broken down into bite-sized sections.

Written by 46-year fire and EMS veteran Gary Ludwig, this book provides 385 tips and tricks of the trade from veteran EMTs and paramedics who have worked the streets delivering EMS care. You'll learn tips and tricks of the trade when it comes to teaching your new EMT or paramedic, assessing patients, managing airways, starting IVs, dealing with penetrating trauma, crimes scenes, dealing with patients experiencing medical emergencies, plus much more.

From the drug addicts who call Amanda ‘the mother I never had’ to the women who’ve pushed back at domestic abuse, to women close to release in their 70s, who just want to stay in the place that they’ve always known, these are stories that are heartbreaking, harrowing and heart-warming. Amanda listens, prescribes and does what she can. After all, she’s their doctor.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world. But these inequalities have always been urgent: modern medicine has a colonial and racist history. Here, in an essential and searingly truthful account, Annabel Sowemimo unravels the colonial roots of modern medicine. Tackling systemic racism, hidden histories and healthcare myths, Sowemimo recounts her own experiences as a doctor, patient and activist.

Encontrar la vocación profesional en la vida es, sin duda alguna, una de las decisiones más importantes que se pueden tomar. Si además esa vocación tiene una relación directa con el trato con los pacientes donde determinadas cualidades resultan imprescindibles para el bienestar de todos ellos, este audiolibro ofrece las herramientas necesarias para el descubrimiento de estas cualidades. Un audiolibro idóneo para todos los que sienten una vocación de servicio a los demás en cualquier profesión del campo de la salud, tanto si aún no se han formado como si llevan años de ejercicio profesional.

If you have always wanted to know how to handle emergency situations off grid, but never had the information or confidence then keep reading...What would you do if someone in your group broke a leg? Half-drowned? Got electrocuted? Cut off a finger? Got a serious disease? Do you finally want to be prepared for emergencies and aliments while off grid? Knowing how to deal with an injury in the moment could mean the difference between a lifelong disfigurement and a total recovery. Even if you’re an experienced off gridder.

Written by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of preventive medicine. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school preventive medicine course.