Social Medicine

Todos pasamos momentos en nuestras vidas donde estamos estresados o ansiosos. Algunas personas pueden tomar el estrés por los cuernos y enfrentar lo que sea que les esté ocurriendo. Otros (incluyéndome a mí) tienen más dificultad de sobrellevar el incremento de la tensión y la aprehensión. La ansiedad es un problema de salud mental en su núcleo, pero cuando se es prolongada puede llevar a síntomas debilitantes muy reales además de desordenes. Estos pueden comenzar en cosas relativamente inocuas (tales como problemas digestivos o condiciones en la piel inexplicables).

John Lynch was a promising athlete, but at age 11 was struck by a crippling illness. He was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis (JA), a disease that affects 300,000 children, making them unable to live full-functioning, pain-free lives. John continued to seek new treatments, but not until age 53 was he given the “miracle drug” that enabled him to sustain a 30-year legal practice. During that time, he dedicated his life to helping others who suffered from JA and became a much-honored advocate for easing their distress.

Stephanie Green isn't like most other doctors. Nearly every day, she confronts life-and-death situations behind the scenes at Heathrow, where the truth is almost always stranger than fiction. Here, she reveals the exhilarating drama of working in the world's sixth busiest airport and what is required to make life-and-death decisions in the hidden no-man's-land of medicine, geopolitics, terror and tragedy that is The Heathrow Doctor.

The Cannabis Manifesto answers essential questions about the plant, using extensive research to fuel a thoughtful discussion about cannabis science and law as well as its biological, mental, and spiritual effects on human beings. With a cultural critic's eye peering through the lens of social justice, DeAngelo explains how cannabis prohibition has warped our most precious institutions - from the family to the workplace to the doctor's office and the courtroom.

Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science covers the timeline of Mikovits' professional career, discoveries, and the alarming effort made to discredit and silence her along with other colleagues. This fascinating look at the corruption of the scientific field will have you questioning every ounce of medical advice you will ever receive.

Attention: This is a supplementary guide meant to enhance your experience of Steven Gundry's book The Longevity Paradox. It is not the original book nor is it intended to replace the original book. This book will help enhance your experience. It will give you deeper insight, fresher perspectives, and help you obtain ultimate comprehension. Perfect for a quick refresh on the main ideas of discussion.

As director of the world's largest abortion clinic and the nation's most prominent abortionist, Dr. Bernard Nathanson presided over 60,000 abortions. As co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, he helped make abortion legal. Then, in a conversion that made headkines and astonished both sides of the abortion debate, he renounced his profession to become a pro-life advocate. But Dr. Nathanson's journey was not over.

Those who work in health and social care give inspiring support for the health, happiness and well-being of all – communities, societies and nations. Yet their workplaces often harm their own health and well-being, affecting care quality, motivation, patient satisfaction and corroding cultures of compassion. In these pages, an evidence-based approach to transforming the leadership and cultures of health and social care teams and organisations is described.

The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time. Its comprehensive approach and Q&A format offer listeners a practical path to understanding the epidemic from all sides: the basic science of opioids; the nature of addiction; the underlying reasons for the opioid epidemic; effective approaches to helping individuals, families, communities, and national policy; and common myths related to opioid addiction.

This book establishes and clarifies the true method of practicing cupping and in manifesting the scientific precise rules of true scientific hygienic cupping. These rules control the cupping operation, therefore they prevent any side effect and make it very fruitful. This book actually helps listeners differentiate between true cupping and the other false method of applying cupping.

In The New Nurse Survival Guide: Survive and Thrive as a New Nurse, experienced nurse Jon Haws, RN, provides you with 50 tips to not just survive as a new nurse but to thrive and excel. Nursing is hard. Being a new nurse is torture. With these 50 tips taken directly from Jon's experience as a new nurse preceptor and charge nurse, you will have the tools you need to make it!

The End of Roe v. Wade examines the systematic destruction of legal abortion on a state-by-state basis, as well as detailing the Trump administration's unprecedented efforts to end access to abortion and contraception on a federal level. This timely and urgent audiobook also offers a harrowing glimpse into what a post-Roe America will look like, previewing the next major battle over abortion rights - pitting those who chose to end their pregnancies outside of the legal medical system against those who will prosecute them.

Thirty-five years ago, Dr. Richard Burt began a journey to treat chronic autoimmune diseases as they’d never been treated before. Using a treatment originally developed for leukemia but modified to be more gentle—a one-time combination of immune targeting drugs followed by a transplant of the patient’s blood stem cells—he has documented the successful and often dramatic reversal of multiple sclerosis, systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIPD), neuromyelitis optica, and Crohn’s disease.

This study guide contains over 40 practice questions with answers to help you pass the PTCB exam! Our questions are written by leaders in this industry and can help you pass this exam. We welcome you to a rewarding career in being a pharmacy technician.

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole.

Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States.

A Complete Medical Terminology Audio Course. Learn the correct definition, spelling and pronunciation of over 500 most commonly used medical terms. Whether you're a nurse, allied health worker or a medical transcriptionist looking to improve your knowledge of key medical terms, medical terminology Audio Learn is your complete medical terminology audio study guide. Utilizing a proven method to decipher any medical term from its prefix, suffix and root word, Medical Terminology Audio Learn is the best way to increase retention!

In the United States, it is estimated that over 20 million people have thyroid problems. And of this number, the most common thyroid condition is Hashimoto’s disease—a form of hypothyroidism in which the body’s immune system attacks its own thyroid gland. Despite millions of people having this disease, many suffer with life-changing symptoms for years without being diagnosed.

Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the 20th century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In discussing medical breakthroughs, Dr. Morton Meyers makes a cogent, highly engaging argument for a more creative, rather than purely linear, approach to science. And it may just save our lives!

Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy - and where it's happening today.