Medical Medicine

Sick Business is a clarion call for reform and change. A gripping expose, in the end the book equips you with some real answers and the tough questions you need to ask when your family's health—and perhaps your own—is at stake.

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, trust in the healthcare system seems to be at an all-time low. Conspiracy theories are now mainstream, and distrust of government health agencies is common among private citizens. Yet many of those same individuals still profess trust in their doctors. What, then, is driving the general mistrust in medicine, and how can the public's faith be restored?

If you don’t like going to the doctor, spare a thought for your ancestors. Got a headache? We can drill into your skull! Need to buy medicine? Can we recommend a dose of ground-up Egyptian mummy? Want to fight off diseases? Try smelling a stinky cesspit. It’s well-known that to make advances in science you have to make a few mistakes along the way. In this hilarious history book kids will be whisked around the world—from ancient Rome to imperial China—to meet the medical innovators who pushed the boundaries of what was possible, with sometimes disastrous effects.

Direct Primary Care is an affordable and highly efficient primary care delivery model that promises unrestricted access to your personal doctor with same-day appointments and 24/7 remote access for a flat monthly fee. No deductibles. No copayments. No office visit charges. No insurance required.

Marco Polo, un joven lleno de sueños y expectativas, y candidato a tener un futuro brillante, se enfrenta a una dura realidad al ingresar en la facultad de medicina. Sus profesores, concentrados en los síntomas físicos de sus pacientes, no tienen la sensibilidad de percibir que detrás de cada diagnóstico existen historias complejas, construidas con lágrimas, pérdidas y decepciones, que escapan a la fría visión de los médicos que los tratan.

Ce guide complet et éclairant vous emmène dans un voyage approfondi à travers l'univers en constante évolution du cannabis thérapeutique. Depuis ses origines millénaires jusqu'aux dernières recherches scientifiques, explorez comment cette plante révolutionne l'approche globale de la santé.

Esta guía completa y esclarecedora te lleva a un viaje profundo por el universo en constante evolución del cannabis medicinal. Desde sus orígenes milenarios hasta las investigaciones científicas más recientes, explora cómo esta planta está revolucionando el enfoque global de la salud.

In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox.

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.

Giving case studies in a variety of patient care environments, Dr. Goldman utilizes contemporary terminology and references to master fundamental skills to help facilitate effective doctor-patient interaction when communicating diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and recovery.

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over several decades, as he saw patients with clear symptoms but no discernible disease, he concluded that his own assumptions were too narrow and, indeed, that the underlying basis for much of clinical medicine was severely limited.

Savez-vous que les médicaments sont devenus la première cause de mortalité aux États-Unis? Qu’en France, ils causent au minimum 18000 décès par an et que les étudiants en médecine reçoivent par conséquent une formation à la prévention des “accidents médicamenteux”.

Whitney had a little extra to drink at the hospital’s Christmas party and decides to go for it with Chad, the new male nurse. That night was one of the wildest nights of her life. But then they find out that their parents have been dating for quite some time and are going to be getting married. Chad sets Whitney up with his best friend, Ted, to avoid temptation. There is some attraction, but they don’t have a night quite like what Whitney had with Chad.

We live in an age of diagnosis. The advance of sophisticated genetic sequencing techniques means that we may all soon be screened for potential abnormalities, and the internet provides a vast array of information that helps us speculate about our symptoms. When we are suffering, it feels natural to seek a diagnosis. But is diagnosis an unqualified good thing? Could it sometimes even make us worse instead of better? Through the moving stories, neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan explores the complex world of modern diagnosis, comparing the impact of a medical label to the pain of not knowing.

It’s the business of saving lives. Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women - chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers - who have chosen to toil for years in the lab in order to transform scientific theories into new lifesaving medicines. You’ll witness the day-to-day labors, victories and defeats of the dedicated professionals who are waging a war against the diseases that still plague mankind.

When Ariana’s stalker ex of more than 10 years comes back in town looking for her, she asks her friend and doctor, Daniel, to pretend to be her husband to get her ex to think she’s not available anymore. Wanting to help her out, Daniel agrees. At first, nothing was going on between them. It was strictly for show. But after Daniel rescues Ariana from a confrontation with her stalker, their relationship begins to get a little steamy.

My knowledge of medicine is sketchy and my knowledge of alternative medicine is bordering on skeletal. Like many people, I necessarily take maintenance drugs for conditions such as high blood pressure. Naturally, as I age, I am discovering a myriad of annoyance maladies that might be satisfactorily treated with alternative medicines. A guide assisting me in sorting this out would prove invaluable. I am equipped with a built-in resistance to taking pills.

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 Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals, mostly white and Northern, to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists who were organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside and tend the wounds of demonstrators from Freedom Summer, to the March on Selma, to the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968.

If you suffer from a medical condition in which therapeutic interventions or traditional drugs are not effective, doctors may recommend that you use marijuana to relieve symptoms and pain. This guide will discuss what you need to know about medical marijuana.