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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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  • 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

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  • These Vital Signs

    A Doctor’s Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets

    A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find ... Read more

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  • Puswhisperer: A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doctor

    by Mark Crislip ...
    Series Book 1 - Puswhisperer
    H1N1. Staph aureus. Traveler's diarrhea. All examples of human interaction with the microbial world, which counts viruses, bacteria, and parasites too numerous to mention. Infectious Disease doctor Mark Crislip has a strange relationship with this world-he spends most of his time trying to kill it, even as he appreciates the vital role microorganisms play in the Earth's ecosystems.Puswhisperer is ... Read more

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  • COVID Chronicles

    How Essential Workers Cope

    by Therese Zink ...
    In this book of essays hear the voices of the essential workers who kept the US moving forward during Year 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic.Laugh, cry, and be inspired by the challenge, misery, and insanity faced by black, brown and white physicians, caregivers, nurses, and retail workers across the US. While the world was brought to its knees, they fulfilled their work obligations in hospitals, clinics ... Read more

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  • Wonderful and Weird

    Thumbnail Sketches from a Career in Psychiatric Nursing

    Malcolm King, RN, MS, CS, worked as a psychiatric nurse for forty-four years, in twelve hospitals, three countries, and four US states, starting as a nursing assistant and eventually becoming a director of nursing. His book, Wonderful and Weird, is a compilation of the clinical case studies and administrative issues that were most influential in guiding him to a better understanding of the role of ... Read more

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  • Care Evolution

    Essays on Health as a Social Imperative

    Healthcare: Beyond Reform. The discussions about healthcare in America are fundamentally flawed, because we're more focused on how we pay for care than how we care.Author Steven Merahn, MD, cuts through the debate with one question: Do we have a social imperative to equitably improve and sustain the quality of health of all citizens?In a series of essays, Merahn crafts an aspirational vision for ... Read more

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  • Taking the Pulse of Compassion: A Doctor Diagnoses Her Career

    by Sharon Youcha ...
    "Dr. Youcha has written a beautiful memoir about the high points of her life as a physician. Her story traces the physician's journey from idealistic student and resident caring for the underserved to physician coping with the realities of practice. Through it all we see her searching for ways to reach her potential as a compassionate caregiver. She reaches that potential with heart and soul. It ... Read more

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  • Sobretot no facis mal

    by Henry Marsh ...
    Un llibre que ha commogut i captivat a la crítica i al públic.Henry Marsh l'eminent neurocirurgià de la Gran Bretanya, ha volgut exposar als ulls del món l'essència d'una de les especialitats mèdiques més difícils, delicades i fascinants que existeixen.El resultat és aquest volum, que ha captivat i commogut tant els crítics més exigents com tota mena de lectors, i que poc temps després de publicar ... Read more

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  • İyiliğin İzinde

    Bazı insanlar vardır; yaşadıklarını anlatırken sadece hatıralarını değil, hayata bakışlarını da paylaşırlar. Bazıları ise gördüklerini, duyduklarını ve hissettiklerini yazıya dökerken okuyucunun kendi hayatına da ayna tutar. Elinizdeki eser, işte böyle bir bakışın, böyle bir tefekkür ikliminin satırlara yansımış hâlidir.Prof. Dr. Şerif Ali Tekalan'ın 4 Ekim 2022 ile 17 Aralık 2023 tarihleri ... Read more

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  • Troubled Bodies

    Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body

    Edited by Paul A. Komesaroff ...
    Setting out the implications of the postmodern condition for medical ethics, Troubled Bodies challenges the contemporary paradigms of medical ethics and reconceptualizes the nature of the field. Drawing on recent developments in philosophy, philosophy of science, and feminist theory, this volume seeks to expand familiar ethical reflections on medicine to incorporate new ways of thinking about the ... Read more

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  • Essai sur l’irritabilité

    Thèse de médecine vétérinaire

    De toute antiquité, la médecine et la philosophie, unies comme deux sœurs, ont travaillé à la recherche du principe qui anime le monde vivant…Nous basant sur les derniers travaux scientifiques, nous essayerons de déterminer la force unique, cause de la vie, l’Irritabilité, qui pourrait bien n’être au fond qu’une des forces du principe découvert par Newton ; enfin nous chercherons à établir l ... Read more

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  • Précis de la vraie acuponcture chinoise : Doctrine – Diagnostic – Thérapeutique (avec 14 figures). [Nouv. éd. revue et mise à jour].

    Series series Asie et Chine : romans, contes et études
    « E. JEANSELME, (1858/1935), fut reçu médecin en 1888 et médecin des hôpitaux en 1896. En 1898, il est envoyé par le gouvernement étudier la lèpre en Extrême-Orient et part dix-huit mois en Indochine, au Siam, en Chine, en Birmanie et en Indonésie. Il découvre les nodosités juxta-articulaires qui porte son nom. ». (Dictionnaire historique des médecins)Le docteur Édouard Jeanselme publia notamment ... Read more

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  • Nos corps, nos neurones, nos moi, nos vies

    Qui sommes-nous ? Notre Moi, nos pensées résident dans nos neurones du cortex préfrontal (NCPF) en lien avec nos neurones de l’hippocampe, responsables de notre mémoire. Connaître nos neurones paraît donc indispensable pour mieux nous connaître, et mieux les utiliser pour diriger nos vies : « Un homme averti en vaut deux ».Les données des neurosciences sont donc essentielles dans ce but. Elles ... Read more

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  • Trésors de la médecine traditionnelle africaine et de sa pharmacopée

    Richesse du passé – Promesse d’avenir

    by Annie Balet ...
    La médecine traditionnelle africaine peut-elle résoudre les problèmes de santé primaire en Afrique selon l’objectif de la « Santé pour Tous » de l’OMS ? Les connaissances ethnobotaniques, ethnopharmacologiques de cette ethnomédecine ont le potentiel de favoriser le développement durable des pays africains. Paradoxalement, ces connaissances millénaires sont menacées par la détérioration de l ... Read more

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  • La Médecine de Maïmonide

    Quand l'esprit guérit le corps

    Maïmonide (Cordoue 1138 – Fostat 1204) fait partie de ces rares penseurs du Moyen Âge à avoir franchi les siècles en laissant une œuvre encore très actuelle. Les écrits médicaux de ce philosophe, talmudiste et médecin, puisent dans les sagesses juives, grecques et arabes. Son sens de l’observation, son intérêt pour la clinique, son besoin permanent d’associer expérience pratique et savoir ... Read more

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  • Les yeux égarés

    by Nana ...
    Certes, ce schéma de la maladie ne s’expose pas, ne s’affiche pas sur les murs, mais hélas il est bien réaliste et l’entourage se protège en se réfugiant dans le déni. Disserter de cette maladie semble facile, mais lorsqu’on y est conforté et qu’elle atteint son point culminant, on tombe de haut. On peut pas la voir, mais il faut enlever ce voile et ouvrir les yeux : la pathologie est plus forte, ... Read more

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  • Research in Medicine

    from antiquity to modern times

    The phrase "Research in Medicine" will naturally arouse different thoughts and associations in the minds of different groups of men. The bacteriologist will be reminded of Pasteur, Koch, Behring and Flexner and the triumphs of bacteriology and serum-therapy; the surgeon, of Lister and antisepsis, of anesthesia, and of the X-ray; the physician of new means of cure and of diagnosis, of specific sera ... Read more

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  • 太陽醫生:更免疫、更年輕、更聰明、更長壽、更苗條的陽光療法

    by 林慶旺 ...
    Series series 身體文化
    「世界上最使人驚奇和敬畏的,就是頭頂上的太陽。」──伊曼努爾·康德(Immanuel Kant)陽光是你最好的醫生!肥胖、掉髮、近視、失眠、糖尿病、骨質疏鬆、陽萎、性冷感、心血管疾病等,統統不藥而癒,10位獲得諾貝爾獎的科學家都一致推崇,曬太陽是宇宙萬物唯一最天然的自我療癒法,健康、長壽和性福都是曬出來的!曬太陽可以延長壽命?曬太陽可以增強免疫系統、殺死新型冠狀病毒(COVID-19),讓病毒細菌全都見光死?怎樣可以更健康科學的曬太陽呢?最近幾十年來,不少醫生認為陽光與皮膚癌、過早衰老有關係,許多人,尤其是台灣女性特有的「愛美白」文化,對陽光一直避之唯恐不及。但是越來越多的科學研究表明,每天曝曬陽光15到30分鐘,並不會增加皮膚癌或提早老化的風險。相反的,為了防曬導致一氧化氮、維生素D缺乏,不只影響骨骼發展,也與眾多常見疾病密不可分,特別是一氧化氮與陽萎息息相關。台灣近視率高居全球之冠 ... Read more

    PHP411.41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sok-sok kérdés - sok-sok válasz

    Dr. Morvay Frigyes 1936-ban, állatorvos családban született Szombathelyen. Életének első tizennyolc évét Szany községben töltötte. Volt bencés diák Sopronban, 1954-ben Pápán érettségizett, ezt követően pedig a Pécsi Orvostudományi Egyetemen szerzett diplomát 1960-ban.Alapító tagja volt a Magyar Általános Orvosok Tudományos Egyesületének (1967), melynek elnöksége 1985-ben Medicus Anonymus díjjal ... Read more

    PHP413.12 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Hä? Wie? Was hast du gesagt"

    80 Tage, die meine Welt erschütterten

    Die ersten Hörtest, das erste Hörgerät - wer sich zu seiner Schwerhörigkeit bekennt und ihr etwas entgegensetzen will, der kriegt was auf die Ohren! Der Autor ist einer von 16 Millionen Schwerhörigen in Deutschland. Viele von ihnen genieren sich, fühlen sich beschädigt, gestehen die "Schwäche" ungern ein. In einem Tagebuch beschreibt Mieder ehrlich und (selbst)ironisch über die Erfahrungen der ... Read more

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  • Time and Life Management for Medical Students and Residents

    by Michael Sabel ...
    Sink or swim? Maintaining your composure and self-confidence during the residencyAs grueling as medical studies and training are, with appropriate discipline and time management it is possible to stay afloat, maintain one's sanity, achieve one's goals, and still enjoy a fulfilling life. It is the purpose of this book to stimulate thought processes that nurture a healthy attitude toward organizing ... Read more

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  • Take Two Aspirin and Call Me at 20,000 Feet

    An Eagle Scout at the Crossroads of Medicine, Exploration, and Science

    In his own words, modern-day explorer Dr. Michael Manyak transports thrill seekers to the farthest reaches of the earth, from the dense forests of the Congo Basin to the icy expanses of Antarctica.While many may crave adventures around the globe, they are unlikely to experience anywhere near the many escapades that Dr. Michael Manyak has had during his prolific career. From his tropical medical ... Read more

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  • Die Arztpraxis - Erlöse optimieren - Kosten reduzieren

    Niedergelassene Ärzte und Ärztinnen beklagen häufig eine zu geringe Vergütung ihrer Leistungen durch die Krankenkassen. Aber auch Kassenärzte können die Erlössituation in ihrer Praxis verbessern, z.B. durch Optimierung der Honorarabrechnungen, Senkung der Ausgaben oder durch zusätzliche Angebote außerhalb der Kassenleistungen. Das E-Book erklärt die Grundlagen praxisnah und liefert viele ... Read more

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