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No One Left Behind: Decades of Growth

Collective Stories of Nurse Practitioners Transforming Healthcare in Canada

by Kim Harkness ...

When the nurse practitioner role was first introduced in the 1960s, no one could foresee the revolution in health care delivery it would augur. But decades later, the role is still little understood. In this striking follow-up to Claudia Mariano’s 2015 book No One Left Behind, nurse practitioners from across Canada reflect on the challenges, triumphs, and evolution of the profession through the ... Read more

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When the nurse practitioner role was first introduced in the 1960s, no one could foresee the revolution in health care delivery it would augur. But decades later, the role is still little understood. In this striking follow-up to Claudia Mariano’s 2015 book No One Left Behind, nurse practitioners from across Canada reflect on the challenges, triumphs, and evolution of the profession through the
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Rythme cardiaque, rythme de vie

Entretien avec Pierre Guelff

by Christophe Scavée, Pierre Guelff, Georges H. Mairesse ...

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Le coeur et ses mystères...Le cœur, organe de vie par excellence, rythme notre vie. S’il bat en moyenne 2,5 milliards de fois durant notre existence, dès qu’il montre ses premiers signes de faiblesse, c’est bien souvent la panique. Les questions sont nombreuses et nous ne savons pas si ce que nous avons ressenti est grave ou non. Il faut dire que le cœur reste pour nous mystérieux sous bien des ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Le coeur et ses mystères...Le cœur, organe de vie par excellence, rythme notre vie. S’il bat en moyenne 2,5 milliards de fois durant notre existence, dès qu’il montre ses premiers signes de faiblesse, c’est bien souvent la panique. Les questions sont nombreuses et nous ne savons pas si ce que nous avons ressenti est grave ou non. Il faut dire que le cœur reste pour nous mystérieux sous bien des
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What Doctors Feel

How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

by Danielle Ofri ...

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient carePhysicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on ... Read more

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A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient carePhysicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice have a profound impact on
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Fibromyalgie, quand tu nous tiens !

Guide de traitement pour soulager la fibromyalgie

by Paule Mongeau ...

Un guide essentiel pour comprendre et traiter la fibromyalgie de manière holistique.La fibromyalgie, souvent mal comprise, affecte profondément la qualité de vie. Dans cet ouvrage collectif dirigé par Paule Mongeau, 18 spécialistes – psychologues, ostéopathes, nutritionnistes, acupuncteurs – unissent leurs expertises pour proposer des solutions concrètes et naturelles.Ce que vous découvrirez :Les ... Read more

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Un guide essentiel pour comprendre et traiter la fibromyalgie de manière holistique.La fibromyalgie, souvent mal comprise, affecte profondément la qualité de vie. Dans cet ouvrage collectif dirigé par Paule Mongeau, 18 spécialistes – psychologues, ostéopathes, nutritionnistes, acupuncteurs – unissent leurs expertises pour proposer des solutions concrètes et naturelles.Ce que vous découvrirez :Les
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What Patients Taught Me

A Medical Student's Journey

by Audrey Young ...

Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor. In her ... Read more

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Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this book explores some of the difficult and deeply personal questions a 23-year-old doctor confronts with her very first dying patient, and continues to struggle with as she strives to become a good doctor. In her
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Hidden Lives

True Stories from People Who Live with Mental Illness

Edited by Lenore Rowntree, Andrew Boden ...

In this groundbreaking collection, well-known and cutting-edge authors bring to light life with mental illness. These evocative essays, by writers who either suffer from or have close family members diagnosed with mental illness or a developmental disorder, aim to break down the stigma that surrounds one of the most devastating of human tribulations. The writers recount their experiences with ... Read more

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In this groundbreaking collection, well-known and cutting-edge authors bring to light life with mental illness. These evocative essays, by writers who either suffer from or have close family members diagnosed with mental illness or a developmental disorder, aim to break down the stigma that surrounds one of the most devastating of human tribulations. The writers recount their experiences with
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Intensive Care

A Doctor's Journey

by Danielle Ofri ...

New York Times WellBlog regular contributor, Danielle Ofri has been praised for turning the triumphs and trials of medicine into riveting and compassionate stories. This e-book exclusive edition offers 98 pages of her best work.This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri's range and skill as a storyteller as well as her empathy and astuteness as a doctor. Her vivid prose brings the reader into ... Read more

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New York Times WellBlog regular contributor, Danielle Ofri has been praised for turning the triumphs and trials of medicine into riveting and compassionate stories. This e-book exclusive edition offers 98 pages of her best work.This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri's range and skill as a storyteller as well as her empathy and astuteness as a doctor. Her vivid prose brings the reader into
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Spiritual Graffiti

Finding My True Path

by MC YOGI ...

Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness.At eighteen, fate brought him to his first yoga class. After discovering yoga, MC YOGI ... Read more

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Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness.At eighteen, fate brought him to his first yoga class. After discovering yoga, MC YOGI
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How Not to be A Doctor

And Other Essays

by John Launer ...

"Humorous, poignant, provocative and educational," this essay collection by a doctor "offer[s] fresh takes on the ever-changing field of medicine." ( Kirkus Reviews)Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. How Not to be a Doctor includes over fifty of his essays covering a range of topics including music, poetry, literature, and ... Read more

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"Humorous, poignant, provocative and educational," this essay collection by a doctor "offer[s] fresh takes on the ever-changing field of medicine." ( Kirkus Reviews)Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. How Not to be a Doctor includes over fifty of his essays covering a range of topics including music, poetry, literature, and
... Read more
Healthy Brain, Happy Life

A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better

by Wendy Suzuki, Billie Fitzpatrick ...

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide to improving your brain health—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive ... Read more

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A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide to improving your brain health—a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive
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Better

A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession.**The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession.**The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate

A Memoir

by Padma Lakshmi ...

A vivid celebrity chef memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an ... Read more

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A vivid celebrity chef memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an
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Everything Is Wrong with Me

A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong

by Jason Mulgrew ...

“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages ... Read more

$11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

“People who grow up like this tend to become agoraphobics, serial killers, or really funny writers. Mulgrew, I think – hope? – is the last of these three things. His stories of childhood made me laugh out loud.” — Rob McElhenney, star, creator, and producer of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“The somewhat alarming, always interesting world inside Jason’s brain has now been strewn across the pages
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Ink in the Blood

A Hospital Diary

by Hilary Mantel ...

Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and ... Read more

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Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and
... Read more
The Empathy Exams

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic
... Read more
The Making of a Nurse

by Tilda Shalof ...

The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life—at home for her family, at work for strangers—but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current position on an ICU team in one of Canada’s largest hospitals, there have always been daunting challenges and worthy rewards ... Read more

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The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life—at home for her family, at work for strangers—but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current position on an ICU team in one of Canada’s largest hospitals, there have always been daunting challenges and worthy rewards
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The Unseen Body

A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

by Jonathan Reisman, M.D. ...

"A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine—the rivers and tributaries, the flowing and unclogging, the top-down organization of the brain—is extraordinary!"—Mary RoachIn this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves together stories ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

"A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine—the rivers and tributaries, the flowing and unclogging, the top-down organization of the brain—is extraordinary!"—Mary RoachIn this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves together stories
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My Journey with Farrah

A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship

by Alana Stewart ...

“A beautiful testament to the powerful love and friendship the two women shared as they searched for a miracle.”—Wichita Falls Times Record NewsIn My Journey with Farrah, Farrah Fawcett’s longtime friend Alana Stewart shares her personal diaries from her three years by Farrah’s side, during the former Charlie’s Angels actress’s tragic struggle to defeat cancer. A celebration of an incredible bond, ... Read more

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“A beautiful testament to the powerful love and friendship the two women shared as they searched for a miracle.”—Wichita Falls Times Record NewsIn My Journey with Farrah, Farrah Fawcett’s longtime friend Alana Stewart shares her personal diaries from her three years by Farrah’s side, during the former Charlie’s Angels actress’s tragic struggle to defeat cancer. A celebration of an incredible bond,
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A Living Remedy

A Memoir

by Nicole Chung ...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s se... ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s se...
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An Anthropologist on Mars

Seven Paradoxical Tales

by Oliver Sacks ...

Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has ... Read more

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Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has
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The Language of Kindness

A Nurse's Stories of Life, Death and Hope

by Christie Watson ...

**#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Could not be more compelling or more welcome. It's about how we survive, and about the people who help us do so.” —The New York Times“I challenge anyone to get through all 336 pages without weeping.” —The Sunday Times**Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its ... Read more

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**#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Could not be more compelling or more welcome. It's about how we survive, and about the people who help us do so.” —The New York Times“I challenge anyone to get through all 336 pages without weeping.” —The Sunday Times**Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its
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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

A Memoir of Life Through Events, the Ones You Plan and the Ones You Don't

by Jennifer Gilbert ...

A warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinatorsWith her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune 500 companies, broadcast media giants, international nonprofit organizations, and celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates and beyond. Yet ... Read more

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A warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinatorsWith her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune 500 companies, broadcast media giants, international nonprofit organizations, and celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bill Gates and beyond. Yet
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An Eagle Named Freedom

My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship

by Jeff Guidry ...

“A hauntingly beautiful story of rescue and rehabilitation….[A] gorgeous tale of redemption.”—Susan Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse“I could not put this book down.”—Stacey O'Brien, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the OwlFrom the moment Jeff Guidry saw the emaciated baby eagle with broken wings, his life was changed. For weeks he and the staff at Sarvey ... Read more

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“A hauntingly beautiful story of rescue and rehabilitation….[A] gorgeous tale of redemption.”—Susan Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen by a Horse“I could not put this book down.”—Stacey O'Brien, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the OwlFrom the moment Jeff Guidry saw the emaciated baby eagle with broken wings, his life was changed. For weeks he and the staff at Sarvey
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En plein coeur de la nuit

by Irvin Yalom ...

Après une enfance en Hongrie pendant la Shoah, Bob Berger a vécu deux existences : chirurgien du cœur, dévoué, infatigable et réservé le jour, il a été poursuivi, la nuit, par les souvenirs ténébreux de son passé. Il n’en a jamais rien dit à son ami Irvin Yalom, bien qu’ils se connaissent depuis cinquante ans. Jusqu'à ce que ce passé resurgisse et que Bob se mette à parler…L’auteur des best ... Read more

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Après une enfance en Hongrie pendant la Shoah, Bob Berger a vécu deux existences : chirurgien du cœur, dévoué, infatigable et réservé le jour, il a été poursuivi, la nuit, par les souvenirs ténébreux de son passé. Il n’en a jamais rien dit à son ami Irvin Yalom, bien qu’ils se connaissent depuis cinquante ans. Jusqu'à ce que ce passé resurgisse et que Bob se mette à parler…L’auteur des best
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