Medical Care

“I prefer it to any other guide, including the one I wrote.” - James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of Personality and Personal GrowthMeditation: It's Easier than you think. You've probably heard about the benefits of meditation: Sharper thinking, reduced stress, improved concentration, lower blood...

As Seth Levine dives into the intense world of medical school, he quickly learns it's not just his academic goals that are put to the test. Seth encounters a med student so arrogant he boasts that he’ll eat any cadaver part he can’t name, an instructor so dedicated she tests the student’s ability to perform a gynecological exam on herself, and a woman so captivating that Seth will do whatever it takes to make her laugh, including regale her with a story about a diagnostic squabble over an erection.

This isn’t another dense pharmacology textbook or endless flashcard deck. It’s not about memorizing random side effects—it’s about understanding and retaining the drugs that matter most for exams and patient care. And you don’t need weeks of spare time—just review a poem, scan the QR, and lock it in. Whether you’re prepping for NCLEX®, PANCE®, USMLE Step 1, NAPLEX®, or another high-stakes exam, Hematology Meds Made Easy gives you the structure, memory tools, and practice you need to finally feel confident.

Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients.

Written by distinguished professors and professionally narrated by a medical doctor for accuracy, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject of OB-GYN. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school OB-GYN course.

Important and provocative, The Undead examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear - and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.

Written by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for an exam, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of Sleep Medicine. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school Sleep Medicine course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master Sleep Medicine. The material is accurate, up to date, and broken down into bite-sized sections.

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of sports nutrition. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical Medical school Sports Nutrition course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master sports nutrition.

As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In Confessions of a Surgeon, he pushes open the doors of the OR and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are improved, saved, and sometimes lost. He shares the successes, failures, remarkable advances, and camaraderie that make it exciting.

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated by Dr. Cathy Simpson, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in gynecology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school gynecology course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master gynecology. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections.

Doctors and patients have lost control of American medicine. Generative AI can put the power back in their hands, save millions of lives, and restore the doctor-patient relationship. Welcome to ChatGPT, MD. In this unique collaboration, renowned healthcare leader Dr. Robert Pearl teams up with the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT to examine the transformational power of generative AI in medicine.

How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis. By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning the disease entirely...

With Mental Health, Inc., award-winning investigative journalist Art Levine delivers a Shock Doctrine-style exposé of the failures of our out-of-control, profits-driven mental health system, with a special emphasis on the failures of the pharmaceuticals industry, including the treatment of children with antipsychotics and disastrous PTSD protocols for veterans.

What would it mean for your career to be able to speak and write freely in English when working in the medical field? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? The idioms, phrases, words, and expressions in Medical English Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

As women's rights are increasingly under attack, journalist Rebecca Kelliher dives into the gripping history of abortion pills, weaving together the many people who, across decades and continents, have sought to ensure access to these medications Spanning more than a century and several...

In the face of rapid medical advances in our world, bioethics is a serious concern for many in our society - Christians and non-Christians alike. Here, Gilbert Meilaender, professor of theological ethics at Valparaiso University in Indiana, contends that it is imperative for Christians to think consciously about bioethical issues as Christians if they are not to risk losing their Christian identity.

This book covers all areas/topics in the field of medical informatics. This information can be used to train more virtual medical informaticians so that provider-led teams can function more effectively. After all, more effective medical teams mean better care for patients, and that is the ultimate goal of providers.

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.

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

In 1932, the US Public Health Service recruited 623 African American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of "the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male". For the next 40 years - even after the development of penicillin, the cure for syphilis - these men were denied medical care for this potentially fatal disease.