Medical Medicine

In this pause-resisting, stand-alone suspense sequel, Bad Medicine, newlyweds Torrey and Matthew have graduated from medical school and are now new doctors at Kaiser hospital in San Diego. While there, they learn of a friend's young niece who has fallen victim to a doctor who is running a phony cancer treatment center. Putting their careers and marriage in jeopardy, Dr. Jamison and Dr. Preston agree to help their friend's family seek the ultimate revenge.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated - and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value.

In the tradition of books by such bestselling physician-authors as Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Danielle Ofri, this beautifully written memoir by an emergency room doctor takes place during one of his routine shifts at an urban ER. Intimately narrated as it follows the experiences of real patients, it is filled with fascinating, adrenaline-pumping scenes of rescues and deaths, and the critical, often excruciating follow-through in caring for the patients’ families.

The nation’s best-loved vet looks back at the funniest, most absurd or heart-breaking animal encounters and situations he has been in over his long and highly successful career.

If you're seeking amazing and fascinating facts to learn and share, look no further, you came to the right place! This audiobook has some amazing facts, and I am confident that you will enjoy sharing them! This is a short listen from the book, Fascinating Facts You'll Love to Share, focusing just on medicine and medical facts.

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

Written by distinguished professors and professionally narrated by a medical doctor for accuracy, 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 OB-GYN. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school OB-GYN course.

The life of a veterinarian is challenging: keeping up with advances in medical care, making difficult decisions about people's beloved companions, and, in Dr. Doug Mader's case, navigating the social unrest in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. The Vet at Noah's Ark follows Dr. Mader and his staff over the course of a year at Noah's Ark Veterinary Hospital, an inner-city LA area veterinary hospital where Dr. Mader treats not only dogs and cats, but also emus, skunks, snakes, foxes, monkeys, and a host of other exotic animals

When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a 20th-century icon - a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people.

For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of which were in violent upheaval, and was no stranger to witnessing tragedy. But in summer 2019, during the height of India’s erratic monsoon season, Nordland was suddenly faced with a tragedy of his own: he collapsed in the middle of a morning jog, was rushed to the hospital, and diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor.

Discover the complex intersection of medicine, law, and public health in a global context with this indispensable work. Ideal for healthcare professionals, jurists, regulators, and academics seeking a deep and up-to-date understanding of the legal and ethical challenges in medical practice. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of civil, criminal, and ethical responsibility in medicine, exploring how different jurisdictions worldwide address these challenges.

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.

If you’re a Pharmacy Technician or studying to become one, then you need this book! My book is all about how to calculate pharmaceutical preparations and dosages and administering medication safely and effectively. If you’re studying for the PTCB or NAPLEX exam or other Pharmacy certification exams and want to learn and Master your calculation knowledge, then this book is for you. I will teach you and remind you of every mathematical calculation used in the pharmacy world.

Are you tired of relying on medication and invasive treatments to manage your health? Are you searching for a natural and effective way to improve your wellbeing? Look no further than Medical Pair Biomagnetism! In this must-have guide, medical biomagnetic pair specialist Moses Durazo shares his extensive knowledge and experience with this life-changing therapy.

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu to the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 "parrot fever" pandemic, through the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last one hundred years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms.

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting-edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.

Are you suffering from depression, anxiety, or PTSD? Are you facing a crippling pain condition while trying to avoid opiate dependency? Are you relapsing during attempts to break your addiction? You are not alone. Millions are now afflicted with these difficult-to-treat conditions. Even with medication, getting sustained relief without dreadful side effects is rare. What if there was a new, safe, and effective treatment that really worked?

More than twenty-five years ago, Kathryn Giusti was diagnosed with multiple myeloma at age thirty-seven and given three years to live. With a young child, a happy marriage, and a successful career, Giusti had too much to live for. An “impatient patient,” she overcame her fear and got to work, learning to advocate for her own care. This book is the result of all she’s learned about how to get the best outcome from America’s opaque and sometimes impossible-to-navigate healthcare system.

You probably know that as you age, your hormone levels decline. But what you probably don't know is that hormone levels can be restored using natural, bioidentical hormones that eliminate associated fatigue, weight gain, moodiness, memory loss, and a weakened immune system. Too often, women are prescribed drugs that treat these symptoms and not the core problem: hormonal imbalance. Now, in his acclaimed eight-point program that has improved the lives of countless patients at his Houston wellness clinic, Dr. Steven F. Hotze reveals what women of all ages can do to get relief and promote lifelong hormonal health.