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Something for the pain
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Paul Austin |
In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself. |
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All in the Mind
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Alastair Campbell |
The powerful first novel from Alastair CampbellMartin Sturrock desperately needs a psychiatrist. The problem? He is one.Emily is a traumatised burns victim, Arta a Kosovan refugee recovering from a r… |
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Medical Management of the Surgical Patient
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Michael F Lubin |
This comprehensive textbook, now fully revised, rewritten and up-dated in its fourth edition, provides an authoritative account of all aspects of perioperative care for surgical patients. All areas o… |
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Your presence is requested at Suvanto
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Maile Chapman |
In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, and the patients, all women, seek relief … |
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The laws of invisible things
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Frank Huyler |
A young doctor's struggle to understand what appears to be a deadly new virus takes him on a journey into the hinterland between religion and science, leading him to question his beliefs and search f… |
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Your medical mind
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Jerome E. Groopman |
"<B>The essential tools for making our own best medical decisions, cutting through the confusion caused by the health-care system, the media, and gaps in our own reasoning. </B> Making the right m… |
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The big girls
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Susanna Moore |
Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry t… |
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Loving someone with attention deficit disorder
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Susan Tschudi |
"It isn't easy to be a loving partner to someone who is routinely distracted, has trouble restraining their impulses, and finds it difficult to communicate with others. But for those who have partner… |
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The last hiccup
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Christopher Meades |
Set in 1930s Russia, this darkly humorous, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel tells the tale of Vladimir, an eight-year-old Russian boy suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon … |
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Improving medical outcomes
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Jessica Leavitt |
"The ability of doctors to properly diagnose and treat patients is often colored by non-specific factors that can affect outcomes in profound ways. Communication between doctors and patients is key, … |
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citizen patient
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Nortin M. Hadler |
"Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt tha… |
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The secret scripture
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Sebastian Barry |
Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne faces an uncertain future, as the mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheav… |
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The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai
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Ruiyan Xu |
This is the story about a bilingual aphasia patient, his ability to speak his native language is obliterated in an accident. A sensitive exploration of the power of words and of silence, this book is… |
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The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai
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Ruiyan Xu |
A happy and successful businessman, dining in a Shanghai hotel, is badly injured by a gas explosion in the building. In the aftermath, the formerly bilingual Li Jin is only able to speak the falterin… |
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The addict
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Michael Stein |
The Addict opens a window on the very private world of prescription drug addiction, revealing the harrowing and riveting story of a young woman whose life has been taken over by an impulse that she c… |
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Healing is possible
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Neil Nathan |
A useful and comprehensive resource for anyone who has fallen through the medical cracks, providing readers with new hope for healing. The twelve major imbalances in the body that often contribute to… |
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The conversation
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Angelo Volandes |
"There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine: keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research … |
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Health behavior change
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Chris Butler,Christopher Butler,Stephen Rollnick,Pip Mason |
Particularly relevant to US practice, this book offers a description and demonstration of a method for changing health behaviours based on brief negotiation with clients. |
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Skills for communicating with patients
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Jonathan Silverman,Suzanne M. Kurtz,Juliet Draper |
A fully updated and revised edition that reflects recent developments in theoretical and conceptual approaches to communication in healthcare. |
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Communication skills in medicine
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Jennifer Robyn Fitzgerald,Michele Groves |
For medical and other students of healthcare, this book is designed to help improve communications in healthcare, and so improve patient outcomes. |
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