Health Care

Many of those who have chosen the medical profession are no stranger to the paranormal. Ghosts walk the hallways of hospitals both old and new, haunting the wards and operating rooms. Join Richard Estep, paramedic, paranormal investigator, and cast members of TV's Haunted Case Files and Haunted Hospitals, as he talks to EMTs, nurses, medical professionals, and patients alike, documenting their most intense and chilling encounters with ghosts and spirits.

This is a book full of clinical pearls, case studies, and medication mistakes that every healthcare professional involved in medical management should know. If you’re passionate about learning more about polypharmacy, drug interactions, medication therapy management, and common medication mistakes, then this book will be a valuable resource.

Your beauty is not one-size-fits-all—and your self-care shouldn't be either. Glow Your Own Way is a joyful, empowering guide that redefines beauty rituals for every skin tone, hair texture, and confidence level. From protective SPF that works for deeper shades to silk hair care that honors coils, curls, and kinks, this book is a celebration of identity-driven self-care that puts you at the center.

This is the true story of a very special man whose life was suddenly and forever changed by a rare disease. Dealing with a severe backache for three days, he was taken to an emergency room. For five grueling months, his dignity, as well as his very self was stripped away. Trapped in a system that all too often is not healthcare, but Healthcareless.

An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winning book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why. This book is published by University of California Press.

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished.

Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey.

The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated - and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central problem is that too much medical care has too little value.

Introducing NCLEX Pharmacology AudioLearn, developed by distinguished professors and professionally narrated by an experienced RN for accuracy, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your NCLEX. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the pharmacology portion of the NCLEX. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into small sections.

When every second matters and every breath counts, the knowledge of Basic Life Support is more than a skill—it's a lifeline. Whether you're a healthcare professional renewing certification, a student entering clinical rotations, or someone determined to be ready when it counts, this BLS audiobook study guide delivers the clarity, repetition, and reinforcement you need—wherever life takes you.

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book, providing many examples of practice. It starts with understanding ourselves and our health, and continues with chapters on working in health promotion and public health.

Taking Care of You is a comprehensive “what-you-need-to-know” resource guide for women of all ages and in all stages of life who want to understand and take charge of their own health. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. O’Connor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq have engaged leading female physicians and health experts from across the country on a range of topics that matter to women and those who love them.

The internationally bestselling self-empowerment book from influencer, rapper, and spoken word artist Humble the Poet, now available in a new edition with a new foreword by the author. Unlearn offers short, accessible, and counterintuitive lessons for reaching our full potential. Beloved for his...

Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system. If I Betray These Words confronts the threat and broken promises of moral injury—what it is; where it comes from; how it manifests; and who’s fighting back against it. We need better healthcare—for patients and for the workforce. It’s time to act.

This crash course is a valuable tool both during medical school and when preparing for the USMLE Step 3. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to see on the USMLE Step 3 exam. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to ace your test. The material is accurate, up to date and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia. Told from the perspectives of the patients, families, physicians, scientists, and philanthropists fighting on the front lines, Breath from Salt is a remarkable story of unlikely scientific and medical firsts, of setbacks and successes, and of people who refused to give up hope....

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole.

Nearly five million families deal with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia on a daily basis. They do this with little training, and often, only their good intentions guide them. When Reasoning No Longer Works is the training manual these family caregivers have been searching for. Authored by a gerontologist with more than 20 years of experience, this audiobook gives the listener an easy-to-understand view of what dementia does to the brain, how it is diagnosed, and most importantly, how to deal with its effects.

In Kid Food, nationally recognized writer and food advocate Bettina Elias Siegel explores one of the fundamental challenges of modern parenting: trying to raise healthy eaters in a society intent on pushing children in the opposite direction. Siegel dives deep into the many influences that make feeding children healthfully so difficult - from the prevailing belief that kids will only eat highly processed "kid food" to the near-constant barrage of "special treats".

This bundle combines "GI Meds Made Easy" and "Endocrine Meds Made Easy" to offer a unique and engaging approach to mastering essential pharmacology. Are you tired of dense textbooks and complex memorization? Do you find yourself struggling to retain critical medication information? Look no further! Inside this bundle, you'll discover over 150 medication poems covering all major gastrointestinal and endocrine drug classes.