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Confessions of a Trauma Junkie
My Life as a Nurse Paramedic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Jones Mayo
Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Jones Mayo has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergerncy Room Nurse, and an on-scene critical...
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough
The Medical Lives of Famous Writers
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. He was sleek and prosperous, with a dainty goatee. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, the physician explained the treatment: stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent...
by Christopher Coughlin, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
REA’s EMT Crash Course**Everything you need for the exam – in a fast review format!***EMT Crash Course* is perfect for any prospective Emergency Medical Technician who wants a quick refresher before taking the NREMT Certification Exam. Targeted, Focused Review – Study Only What You Need to KnowWritten...
Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Study the latest research findings by international experts!
This comprehensive volume presents state-of-the-art scientific research on the therapeutic uses of cannabis and its derivatives. All too often, discussions of the potential medical uses of this substance are distorted by political...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Nursing and Physical Assessment Study Guide Audience: Intended for nursing, medical, and dental students and residents.FEATURES:- Fully illustrated Detailed coverage of nursing duties including analysis and assessment techniques. - Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases- Add...
Critical Decisions
How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
“As a physician and a social scientist, Peter Ubel is unparalleled in his understanding of some of the most important decisions we are facing, or will face.”
—Dan Ariely, New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational
“His ideas are important, his style is accessible (with...
by M.A. Katritzky
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
While the writings of early modern medical practitioners habitually touch on performance and ceremony, few illuminate them as clearly as the Protestant physicians Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger, who studied in Montpellier and practiced in their birth town of Basle, or the Catholic physician...
Consumptive Chic
A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring...
Premed World
Your Journey Toward Medical School
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Premed World examines the many challenges that exist to making it to and through medical school. The undergraduate medical years are just the beginning of the long road to becoming a practicing physician. Every premed student must learn vast amounts of material very quickly, as well as spending time...
Body Brokers
nside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” —Epictetus
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” —Matthew 24:28
Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling...
Learning from the Wounded
The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools'...
by Susan Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The number of wounded in the First World War was unprecedented, and inadequate military planning presented the medical and voluntary community with huge and daunting challenges. Yet in the face of tremendous adversity both tackled their work with resourcefulness, courage and great humanity. This book...
The Sociology of Medical Regulation
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written...
The Family Gene
A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A riveting medical mystery about a young woman’s quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine
When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors...