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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
JESSICA NUTIK M D ZITTER · AVERY PUB Group Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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An ICU and Palliative Care specialist featured in the Netflix documentary Extremis offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because... |
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Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
KURT M D NEWMAN · Viking Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation's leading pediatric surgeons - the visionary head of Children's National - for fans of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande."If you did nothing but read the astounding, miraculous and occasionally crushing stories that Dr. Newman so vividly... |
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Pregnancy Day By Day, 3rd Edition
DK. · DK Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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For expectant parents who want to know everything about their developing baby at every stage, Pregnancy Day by Day provides a daily countdown to the date of delivery. Covering each day of pregnancy in detail, as well as labor, birth, and life with a new baby, Pregnancy Day by Day is an unprecedented... |
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Body Fuel: Calorie-Cycle Your Way to Reduced Body Fat and Greater Muscle Definition
Mark Lauren · Ballantine Books, 2016. Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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A no-frills, fail-safe, easy-to-follow "calorie-cycling" eating plan designed to jumpstart your metabolism, stimulate weight loss, define your body, and keep you fit for life - from the bestselling author of You Are Your Own Gym FUEL UP, BURN FAT International fitness phenomenon... |
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir
Simon Fitzmaurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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"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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Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records
Adam Tanner · Beacon Press Pages: 248 Format: Print book
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How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies,... |
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Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World
Benjamin Reiss · Basic Books Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history--one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed... |
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Target 100: The World's Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps
Liz Josefsberg · BenBella Books Pages: 280 Format: Hardcover
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"When I was losing weight, Liz was more than my coach; she was my rock, and I couldn't have done it without her. She just got it, because she'd been through it herself (and helped about a million other people through it, too) . Target 100 is Liz in book form - smart, supportive,... |
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide
Michael Kinsley · Tim Duggan Books Pages: 160 Format: eBook
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Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that... |
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Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain
Joel M D Salinas · Harper One Pages: 320 Format: Print book
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A doctor with a rare - seemingly superhuman - neurological trait takes us on a compelling tour deep into the human brain in this blend of memoir and scientific exploration that combines the compassionate wisdom of Oliver Sacks and the personal revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke... |
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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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Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
Michael Shnayerson · Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony Pages: 336 Format: eBook
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"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It's like I'm talking to my other self - the self... |
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