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What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

Danielle Ofri · Beacon Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

How refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients can lead to better healthDespite modern medicine's infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion's share of illnesses. However,...
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes

Sharon Moalem · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives.INHERITANCEConventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception....
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I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance

Leah Hager Cohen · Riverhead Hardcover
Format: Print book

A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is I dont know.In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving...
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The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

David Stuart MacLean · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." - Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then...
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Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

Chris Farrell · Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist...
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Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change

Jeffrey Foote · Scribner
Pages: 315
Format: Hardcover

The most innovative leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US offer a groundbreaking, science-based guide to helping loved ones overcome addiction problems and compulsive behaviors. Beyond Addiction eschews the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends...
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Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health

Jay Lemery · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover

Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the most important aspect of one of the greatest challenges of our time. The global environment...
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Food Can Fix It: The Superfood Switch to Fight Fat, Defy Aging, and Eat Your Way Healthy

MEHMET OZ · Scribner
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover

Includes the 21-Day Weight Loss Jumpstart! Improve your life through your diet with a friendly, non-punishing, and completely authoritative approach to harnessing the healing power of food from Dr. Mehmet Oz, America's #1 authority on health and well-being.What if you had an effortless...
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir

Simon Fitzmaurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more,...
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Middle School Makeover: Improving the Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years

Michelle Icard · Bibliomotion
Format: Paperback

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The book helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other...
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Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up: Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World

Ellen Braaten PhD · The Guilford Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby...
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Prepare to Defend Yourself ... How to Navigate the Healthcare System and Escape with Your Life

Matthew Minson · Texas A&M University Press
Format: Book

Do you really need to pay that outstanding balance with the hospital? Do you know the differences between a nurse practitioner, a physician's assistant, a physician, and a paramedic? Did you realize that not all hospitals can treat your stroke, heart attack, or trauma with equal speed...
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Matthew D. Lieberman · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

We are profoundly social creatures – more than we know.  In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food...
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The Ministry of Thin: How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control

Emma Woolf · Soft Skull Press
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we'll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching...
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The Obesity Paradox: When Thinner Means Sicker and Heavier Means Healthier

Carl J Lavie · Hudson Street Press
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

"Most of us think that longevity hinges on maintaining a normal Body Mass Index. But research conducted over the last decade hit the media in January with explosive news: Overweight and even moderately obese people with certain chronic diseases-from heart disease to cancer- often live...
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