Health Care

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.

Almost everything about puberty has changed since today's adults went through it. Bewildered adults have begged for reliable and relatable information about the modern adolescent experience. This Is So Awkward answers their call. Written by a pediatrician and a puberty educator—together the hosts of a lively and popular podcast on puberty, and moms to six teens between them—this is the handbook everyone has been searching for. Eye-opening and reassuring, This Is So Awkward will help adults understand the turbulent pubescent decade and become confident guides for today’s kids.

Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding and gives you invaluable practical advice that will help you nurse your baby in the most fulfilling way possible. In this book you'll find answers to virtually every question you have on breastfeeding, including topics such as: the benefits of breastfeeding, pumps and other nursing products, medications, and nursing multiples.

In the spirit of Oliver Sacks Awakenings and the TV series House, Dr. Eric Manheimer's Twelve Patients is a memoir from the medical director of Bellevue Hospital that uses the plights of 12 very different patients - from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners from Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons - to illustrate larger societal issues.

A Healthy Society offers a new approach to politics–and a new approach to building a healthier world. Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores fundamental conditions that lead to poor health such as income, education, employment, housing, and environment.

In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation.

We all want to be healthy. But somehow the good information about how to get healthy keeps getting twisted. In The Cure for Everything! health and law expert Timothy Caulfield sets out to find the truth about what it takes to achieve a healthy lifestyle, even testing out many of the health claims on himself. He signs up for circuit training with a Hollywood trainer. He tackles a diet that really works with the help of his own Food Advisory Team (FAT). He also sends a test tube of warm spit to a genetics laboratory.

Do you know what studies have shown to improve the outcome of patient care? To deliver quality care in the patient's language! The Spanish-speaking population is growing rapidly, and the number of people who need your help is only going to increase. Providing world-class medical care is challenging enough without the language barrier, not to mention all the stress involved in emergency situations.

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick's patients and unsparing-yet-fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.

When Dr. Meenal Viz, a heavily pregnant frontline NHS doctor, witnessed her colleagues die from the negligent handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was determined to take a stand. This trail-blazing account explores the influences that drive powerful protest through the story of Dr. Viz's refusal to back down in the face of mounting pressure, prejudice, and adversity.

Transform your healthcare practice with a prescription for success. What if your healthcare practice was a place where everyone—administrators, care providers, and patients—felt good? A place where burnout, job dissatisfaction, or staff turnover simply didn’t exist? A place where you and your team show up every day energized, fulfilled, and inspired to deliver the highest quality of care? For too long, the healthcare system has been built exclusively around the needs of patients, at the expense of the mental and physical health of the very people who are expected to care for them.

Pour sortir du mal-être, il est parfaitement inutile d’en comprendre les origines. Dans le meilleur des cas, la compréhension rassure et permet de s’autoriser l’action qui déclenchera, peut-être, un changement. Mais, en soi, elle n’apporte pas de solution. Pour aller mieux, le plus important est de (se) laisser faire.

Developed from years of working with the most challenging suicidal cases, Dr. Meagan N. Houston has created a workbook to prepare you for all the intricacies that affect clients' choices to live or die. Treating Suicidal Clients & Self-Harm Behaviors is filled with proven assessments, unique worksheets and action-based methods to help your clients navigate and survive the turbulent periods of their lives where suicidal and/or self-harm behaviors appear to be their primary options to cope.

Embark on a journey of self-discovery with Nursing Wisely and unlock your true potential. Let Mary Ghazarian MN, NP-PHC, a seasoned nurse psychotherapist, career coach, and entrepreneur, guide you through a series of introspective exercises designed to help you align your professional path with your true passions and aspirations. Nursing Wisely empowers you to thrive, while still embracing the core values of nursing. Using her own experience and deep understanding of the challenging healthcare landscape, Mary’s transformative framework focuses on six pillars.

Do you feel frustrated with the current healthcare system? Do you find yourself lost within its complexities, unsure of how to make the best decisions for yourself or your loved ones? Perhaps you’re a clinician or a bedside care provider, feeling burnt out and trapped in a cycle of exhaustion. Are you weary of the endless cycle of prescribing medications that fix one problem, but create so many new ones?

Deux jeunes médecins présentent les nouvelles recherches sur l'importance de la graisse corporelle et montrent le chemin pour vivre en harmonie avec elle. Ni trop, ni pas assez !

In this deeply personal audiobook, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk reflects upon his extensive experience in emergency medicine. Splitting his time between a trauma centre in Toronto's inner city and the largest teaching hospital in Addis Ababa, he discovers that though the cultures, resources and medical challenges of the hospitals may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms.

Dr. J. Paul Luftman had built a successful career as a physician—dedicated, driven, and always on call. Like many in healthcare, he wore his exhaustion as a badge of honor, pushing through chronic stress and overload. But beneath the surface, something was breaking. One day, it did. He suffered a massive “widowmaker” heart attack that nearly ended his life.

Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. Today, the wellness industry is a $3.7 trillion behemoth that touches us all. In this timely and clear-eyed book, journalist Amy Larocca peels back the layers behind the wellness movement and reckons with its promises and profits. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives? And how did we end up spending so much money on products that may not work at all?