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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating... |
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Crohn's and Colitis Diet Guide: Includes 175 Recipes
Dr. Hillary Steinhart · Firefly Books Ltd Pages: 336 Format: Paperback
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Diet is a huge priority for anyone living with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. The authors provide crucial guidance for families, friends and caregivers too in helping to manage IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) symptoms. This updated second edition, in a very informative and easy-to-understand... |
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Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist
Daniel Muñoz · Random House Inc Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Scott Turow's One L and Atul Gawande's Better comes a real-time, real-life chronicle from an impassioned young doctor on the front lines of high-stakes cardiology.It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level.... |
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A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
Lauren Marks · Simon and Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, an incredible first-person account of one woman's journey to regaining her language and identity after a brain aneurysm affects her ability to communicate.Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her friends,... |
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I am Haunted: Living Life Through the Dead
Zak Bagans · Victory Belt Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans has traveled all over the world, seeking answers to life's deepest and most terrifying mysteries. What happens when we die? Why do some spirits move on while others remain stuck in some sort of in-between place? What do the spirits really want from... |
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
Steven M D Hatch · St. Martin's Press Pages: 303 Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished... |
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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
Sheldon Solomon · Random House Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A transformative, fascinating theory - based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research - reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behavior More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher... |
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Renee Ph D Engeln · Harper Pages: 383 Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein,... |
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Life Loves You: 7 Spiritual Practices to Heal Your Life
Louise L Hay · Hay House Inc Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Life loves youand you have the power within youto create a life you love. Life loves you is one of Louise Hay's best-loved affirmations. It is the heart thought that represents her life and her work. Together, Louise and Robert Holden look at what life loves you really means - that... |
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