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Trace Evidence
by Elizabeth BeckaA forensic thriller that unlocks criminal secrets...and criminal science. In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, comes a riveting forensic thriller by a dazzling new talent in crime fiction. This authentic, high-octane debut is inspired by Elizabeth Becka's own career and her experience using physical evidence recovered from crime scenes to unlock the secrets of the dead and bring justice to those who have no voice. "The combination of a credible, likeable hero, and a bizarre, chilling story is rare in crime fiction, but in Trace Evidence Elizabeth Becka makes the tumblers click perfectly
As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor
by Jamie WeismanFrom the Publisher: Jamie Weisman was a patient long before she was a doctor. She was born with a rare defect in her immune system that leaves her prey to a range of ailments and crises and that, because it is treatable but not curable, will keep her a patient for life. Her history has graced her with a deeper perspective -- a second sight, in a sense -- on the body itself, in all its frailty, glory, and irreducible mystery. In this probing and inspiring book, Weisman brings her sojourns on both sides of the doctor-patient divide to bear on the issues of the flesh that preoccupy us all. She considers the randomness of illness, and the fears and fortitude it calls forth in those it strikes. She weighs the economic and moral value of sustaining any given life. She explores the vulnerabilities of the body and of those who care for it, including their capacity for error. And she conveys, by eloquent example, that the only cure for the fear of death is living. As I Live and Breathe is a view of medicine from both sides of the trenches, embracing the patient's fervent desire for health and the doctor's fervent desire to grant it. It is a worthy addition to the best that has been written about our physical selves, a meditation on our extraordinary powers of healing and the limitations that leave intact the miracle and tragedy of being.
The Year of the Intern
by Robin CookThe nurse is desperate. "Dr. Peters, the patient has stopped breathing and he doesn't have any pulse." "I'm on my way." Dr. Peters, in his fifteenth day of internship, is running again. True, he has been trained to run, through high school, the Ivy League, and a prestigious eastern medical school. Now he has run all the way to Hawaii for his year as an intern. He has run away from the pressure and competition of the mainland medical system. He is tired-tired and scared. And with good reason. After two weeks on call, his exhausted nervous system is in rebellion. Worse yet, three years of the best medical training this country has to offer have taught him too little of practical value. He knows less than a nurse about medication; his surgical knots won't hold; all his knowledge about Schwartzman reaction and other esotérica is useless in the practical hurly-burly of daily hospital life. As for the man who has stopped breathing- "What time did he die?" Peters asks the nurse. "He died when you pronounced him dead, Doctor." Some parts of Hawaii do not disappoint. The climate and the girls are joyful. But in his attempt to grow as a doctor, Peters on his own. As posstesor of a medical degree he is called "Doctor" he is a stage prop, a human mechanism holding retractors through endless operations, staring at the back of the surgeon, unable to see, to learn. On the ward, senior doctors see to it that Peters does the work-ups-fills out charts, draws blood, the "scut" work-and handles night calls. Thus Peters alternates between frustrating days and panic-filled nights. In the emergency room it is much the same. Amid the banality of common colds, backaches, and surfing lacerations, Peters delivers a baby, handles the multiple wreckage of an automobile accident, and deals as best he can with patients who need years of psychiatric care rather than a few hurried minutes with an intern.
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome
by Ayelet Israeli David LaneDayTwo is a young Israeli startup that utilizes research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar (glycemic) spikes after meals. After a first year of trial rollout in Israel, CEO Lihi Segal and her team are devising a go-to-market plan for DayTwo. The team is considering several target markets ranging from people with diabetes to professional athletes, as well as several distribution strategies including selling direct to consumers or through partnerships with health-care professionals or insurance companies. These decisions affect DayTwo's costs, pricing, positioning, distribution channels, marketing efforts, and product development. <p><p>The case is designed to illustrate the challenges associated with bringing a new and complex product to market. It allows for a rich discussion of market segmentation and targeting, distribution channels, and business models. It allows for a debate around growth decisions, while considering the tradeoff of short term versus long term gains and success. The goal of the case is to come up with a go-to-market strategy for a new startup. Students have to analyze the company and its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its potential customers, collaborators, and competitive environment, and deliver a well-formulated action plan. This plan includes pricing, distribution, products, and advertising recommendation.
Facemaker
by William KatzA prominent Plastic Surgeon offers his services to accident victims. His creations are experimental. But with a new face, the double victims are murdered.
Final Remedy
by Daniel StevenDr. Karen Moore confronts a multimillion-dollar malpractice suit and ugly accusations of racism when a patient dies of an apparent drug overdose, and her only ally is prosecuting attorney Elliot Roth. When a black man dies of an apparent overdose, everyone on the ER staff assumes he's the latest victim of D.C.'s drug epidemic--until he's identified. Now, under ugly accusations of racism, attending physician Dr. Karen Moore has become the target of a multimillion-dollar malpractice suit that could destroy her entire future.
Ward 402
by Ronald J. GlasserAgainst all odds, an 11-year-old girl clings to the slender thread of life in a hospital. For the dedicated young physician, there were also human concerns.
The South Beach Diet Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Delicious Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or Less
by Arthur AgatstonRecipes from the South Beach diet.
The First Year of Nursing
by Barbara FinkelsteinNurses from different walks of life and with different nursing specialties share the experiences they had when first entering the profession.
Genetics of Mental Disorders: What Practitioners and Students Need to Know
by Stephen V. Faraone Ming T. Tsuang Debby W. TangIntroduces ideas about inherited genetically based mental disorders and how they combine with environmental factors. thinks about mental disorders with insight.
Is It Me or My Meds: Living with Antidepressants
by David A. KarpThis book gives voice to those who are depressed and to those who use medications so that they are not depressed. Full of useful information.
The Plague and I
by Betty MacdonaldBetty MacDonald had divorced her first husband, (meet him in "The Egg and I," which is available from Bookshare) and had moved back home with her two girls. She was working in an office when the overwhelming fatigue and exhausting cough began. Without much money, she had few choices, which is why she went to The Pines. This biographical book provides us with detailed looks at how tuberculosis was treated during the 1940s and what sanatoriums were like. Other books for adults and children by Betty MacDonald are available from Bookshare.
Hartland's Medical & Dental Hypnosis: Third Edition
by David WaxmanIt is a tribute to the reputation and memory of the late Dr John Hartland that although more than twenty years have passed since Medical and Dental Hypnosis was first published, it has remained in demand throughout the world as one of the most popular textbooks of hypnotherapy. The present work has been extensively revised and updated while retaining the distinctive style of the original author. Much of the original content, now outdated, has been amended, deleted or extended, in order to bring the work into line with modern thinking and developments. The book contains 26 chapters divided into four parts: The History, Nature and Techniques of Hypnosis; Some Phenomena of Hypnosis and the Use of Advanced Techniques; The Clinical Application of Hypnosis and Other Uses and Some Abuses of Hypnosis. Although much of the material in the first two parts of the book is expository, it has nevertheless been extended to include more recent and better known techniques and this is reflected in more comprehensive reference lists at the end of each chapter. The third part, dealing with the clinical applications of hypnosis, is more fully documented. This is particularly so in the chapters dealing with treatment of neuroses, problems of personality and, most extensively, on hypnosis in the alleviation of pain and in surgery. New chapters dealing with the treatment of depression, the use of hypnotherapy in chronic and terminal illness and hypnosis with children are added. Part four is a completely new section covering the uses of hypnosis in competitive sports and criminal investigation as well as containing chapters on legal aspects and lay practitioners of hypnosis. The Appendix contains guidelines for the beginner in the proper application of hypnosis and the maintenance of ethical status and dignity.
The Bible Cure for Heart Disease
by Don ColbertNo matter what condition your heart is in today, there is hope for health and recovery in the future. Are you suffering from heart disease? In this concise, easy-to-read book you'll discover a wealth of information to help you reverse and overcome heart disease! Learn biblical secrets on health and the latest medical research that can set you free from heart disease. You'll discover findings that your doctor may never have told you! Ways you can reverse clogged arteries Key foods to avoid-and vital foods to eat-for heart health and healling Amazing antioxidants-your powerful weapons against heart disease Discover how to prevent or lower high blood pressure You want to be healthy. God wants you to be healthy. Now at last here's a source of information that will help you get healthy-body, mind and spirit.
The Bible Cure for High Cholesterol
by Don ColbertLower your cholesterol, and feel better naturally. Don't let a diagnosis of high cholesterol scare you. This easy-to-understand book uncovers a dynamically unique strategy for gaining control and living in vibrant, divine health--naturally. Reclaim God's very best for you, and get ready to win! You will: identify cholesterol-busting foods that can dramatically reduce your cholesterol levels; learn how powerful supplements can restore your health; discover what foods sabotage your cholesterol health. You want to be healthy. God wants you to be healthy. At last, here's a source of information that will help you live in health--body, mind and spirit.
WASSP: The Wright & Ayre Stuttering Self-Rating Profile
by Louise Wright Anne AyreThe authors describe WASSP and give sample profiles of WASSP.
Avian Gut Function in Health and Disease
by G. C. PerryThis book focuses on the current interest of the phasing out of antibiotic use in poultry and covers in-depth interactions between the bird, its diet and potential pathogens.
Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors
by Charles BarberDay after day, night after night, the desperate men come and sit in the black chair next to Charles Barber's desk in a basement office at Bellevue and tell of their travails, of prison and aids and heroin, of crack and methadone and sexual abuse, and the voices that plague them. In the silence between the stories, amid the peeling paint, musty odor, and flickering fluorescent light, Barber observes that this isn't really where he is supposed to be. How this child of privilege, product of Andover and Harvard and Columbia, came to find himself at home among the homeless of New York City is just one story Barber tells in Songs from the Black Chair. Interlaced with his memoir, and illuminating the nightmare of mental illness that gripped him after his friend's suicide, are the stories of his confidants at Bellevue and the "mental health" shelters of Manhattan-men so traumatized by the distortions of their lives and minds that only in the chaotic aftermath of 9/11 do they feel in sync with their world. In the intertwined narrative of these troubled lives and his own, Charles Barber brings to shimmering light some of the most disturbing and enduring truths of human nature. Charles Barber is an associate of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, Yale University School of Medicine.
Domina
by Barbara WoodOther women would have considered themselves blessed if they had been granted Samantha Hargrave's striking loveliness. But in the Victorian world, her beauty was just one more reason the male medical establishment could not see her as a doctor. Samantha vowed to open their eyes to her dedication, her skill, her desire to make the kind of contribution that only her knowledge both of medicine and of women's special problems could make. And Samantha would fight for her burning dreams until she won--even if it meant closing her heart to Dr. Joshua Masefield, the brilliant mentor whose aid had saved her career ... and whose passion threatened to destroy it. Even if it meant forsaking her memories of Dr. Mark Rawlins, in whose arms she had discovered what it meant to be a complete woman.
The Social Sources of Adjustment to Blindness
by Irving Faber Lukoff Martin WhitemanThe impact of society on the blind is a complex issue, and many different tacks are necessary even if we are to only make little headway through the eddies and currents that alter and modify people's lives. This study is focused on the social forces that influence the adaptation of blind persons. The information derives from almost 500 interviews with blind persons selected from all walks of life.
The New Menopausal Years: Wise Woman Ways
by Susun S. WeedSusun S. Weed spent 13 years talking with more than 50,000 women about menopause. Here are the remedies, the wisdom, and the humor she found. Whether your menopause is natural or induced, you, too, will treasure this book called "the menopausal bible" by millions of women. All the remedies women know and trust plus 100 new pages including: Fibromyalgia Hairy Problems Restless Leg Syndrome Fertility After Forty Thyroid Health Interstitial Cystitis Herbs for Women on ERT/HRT Memory Problems
Medicare and You 2011
by Department of Health Human ServicesThe official government handbook with important information about: new changes to Medicare; your Medicare benefits; choosing a health plan that's right for you; & your Medicare privacy rights.
Cheating Destiny, Living with Diabetes America's Biggest Epidemic
by James S. HirschDescribes living with diabetes in America's healthcare system
Coronavirus - COVID-19
by Hesperian Health GuidesCOVID-19 is a disease caused by a coronavirus, which is a small germ (too small to see without a microscope), that can spread between people. Hesperian Health Guide's COVID-19 fact sheet helps clearly answer the following important questions: What is COVID-19? How does the coronavirus spread? Who does coronavirus infect? How can you prevent infection?
The Serotonin Power Diet
by Judith J. Wurtman Nina FrusztajerFood plan with various stages to it. Its intent is to keep serotonin levels in the body high. Contains recipes.