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"One of our most lauded scientist-writers shows how astonishing breakthroughs in medical science are changing previously immutable aspects of humanity. Welcome to a revolution in the science of human health. This book takes us to the frontier of medical research and reveals stunning recent advances that are changing our understanding of how human body works, how we combat and prevent disease and how we understand what it means to be human. We see...
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Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing today's expecting parents to choose to test prenatally for hundreds of disease-specific mutations using powerful genetic testing platforms. In Life Histories of Genetic Disease, Andrew J. Hogan explores how...
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"For all the hospital dramas that dominate the ratings on television or awe-inspiring medical stories we might hear, most of us have no conception of the daily, herculean efforts of trauma surgeons. A good trauma surgeon must be a conductor presiding over an orchestra of healthcare providers as their patients cling to life by a thread. They are also a steely quarterback who can't be rattled when they throw an interception-lingering on a past failure...
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Daschle examines the weaknesses of the health care system in the United States, arguing why previous attempts at national health coverage failed. He proposes that an independent Federal Health Board be created and that employers' plans, Medicaid and Medicare be merged with an expanded FEHBP (Federal Employee Health Benefits Program) that would cover everyone.
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Christofferson's gripping novels of medical suspense have drawn favorable comparisons to the work of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Now she returns with a page-turning thriller that explores the cutting edge of medicine-and murder.
It is a new crime for a new century. Biopiracy: the theft of the healing secrets of isolated, indigenous peoples. Rapacious pharmaceutical companies swoop down on remote Third World tribes, steal their folk medicine,...
9) The donor
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You've heard the urban legend about a man who wakes up in a tub of ice in a hotel room with a kidney missing. In fact, organ thefts are a real phenomenon and the occurrence of the crime is on the increase. The legend comes to life in this dramatic and scary story ripped from the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper.
Dennis, a college-age young man and an adoptee, wakes up in a small private hospital in San Francisco after a minor car accident to discover...
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The third edition of “The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 & GMFM-88) User's Manual” has retained the information contained in the original 2002 and 2013 publications which included the conceptual background to the development of the GMFM, and the administration and scoring guidelines for people to be able to administer this clinical and research assessment tool appropriately. Information is presented on the development and validation of...
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Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.
Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay...
12) Ward D
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Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff...
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Life After Residency: A Career Planning Guide is an insightful, step-by-step guide to achieving a successful and fulfilling career in medicine. As professors at Stanford University Medical Center, Drs. Melissa Berhow, William Feaster, and John Brock-Utne began running seminars to advise their residents not only on creating a curriculum vitae and landing a great job, but also on how to manage student loan payments and avoid pitfalls in the life of...
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This book is about the sh*t. The bad stuff. The things that happen to people with autoimmune disease when no one else is paying attention. This is my follow-up to The Marvelous Transformation: Living Well with Autoimmune Disease (TMT) in which I explored how I've managed to have a happy life despite being ill.However, I want to be very clear that this is not an extension of The Marvelous Transformation; it is almost its inverse. While still being...
15) The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Sillima
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The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by William Osler
The Evolution of Modern Medicine "consists of a series of historic lectures delivered by William Osler at Yale University in 1913. In these lectures, of which exists only one in-print edition, the renowned physician and medical historian Osler chronicles the history of medical science from its most ancient...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I had never visited the campus, but I was excited to start college. I was especially out of place because I had never visited Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and 100,000 fishermen.
#2 I learned that water in Southern Florida is especially contaminated with birth control hormones. I also learned that reclaimed water is all around me in Florida, and that lawns use...
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People are living longer.
Life expectancy has doubled in the last two hundred years.
We expect the number of centenarians to be over 200,000 in the next ten years.
Those living into their eighties and nineties will be common.
Over the next ten years, it is possible that nearly 30 percent of the population will be retired seniors above the age of sixty-five.
Increasing longevity and aging has its positives and negatives. It is desirable...
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Este libro es un recurso metodológico que tiene como objetivo guiar la reestructuración curricular de programas educativos de pregrado en ciencias de la salud, enfocándose en competencias profesionales integradas. Está diseñado para apoyar a los Comités Consultivos Curriculares (ccc) a fin de que desarrollen planes y programas de estudio que respondan a las demandas sociales y contextuales, así como a los avances tecnológicos en las ciencias...
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Con este documento hacemos explícitos los principios y valores que justifican y orientan la educación médica en nuestro centro. En sintonía con ellos queremos fijar metas, orientar proyectos, decidir prioridades y emplear recursos en nuestra tarea formativa.
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