Medical Professional

Step confidently into your healthcare career with a study guide designed not just for success, but for your lifestyle. Whether you're commuting, exercising, or doing chores, this audiobook-based CNA study guide by The Davidsons turns everyday moments into powerful learning sessions. Grounded in the latest CNA exam blueprints from your state’s Nurse Aide Competency Evaluation, this guide combines up-to-date test questions, detailed answers, and real-world skills, all delivered through the power of sound. Why sound education?

Klare Erklärungen auf Erwachsenen-Niveau für Studierende der Krankenpflege, Medizin, Gesundheitswissenschaften und alle, die endlich Pathophysiologie verstehen wollen. Endlich – Pathophysiologie, die sich tatsächlich lehrbar anfühlt. Haben Sie jemals Diagramme zur Herzremodellierung, Entzündungskaskaden oder Säure-Basen-Diagramme angestarrt und sich gefragt, ob Sie irgendwo ein ganzes Semester verpasst haben? Merken Sie sich eines Tages Krankheitsmechanismen, nur um sie am nächsten Tag wieder zu vergessen?

When firefighter Pat Hardison ran into a burning home, he came out alive—but with injuries so severe, he was unrecognizable. Facing the Fire is his raw, unfiltered true story of survival, a record-breaking face transplant, and the God who never left him in the flames. For the next fourteen years, Pat lived behind skin grafts, pressure masks, and the constant stares of strangers—fighting to be the husband and dad his family needed when every mirror told him to quit. Then came an unexpected call from New York: a chance at the most extensive face transplant ever attempted.

In this audiobook, Wenke Langhof shares her healing journey from stage IV endometriosis — a journey that gives hope to the millions of women suffering from this debilitating disease. Having experienced painful periods since the age of 11, Wenke finally got diagnosed with stage IV endometriosis aged 34. Determined not to have the proposed hysterectomy, she embarked on a quest to heal herself naturally. A research paper about Warburg effect cell changes in endometriosis leads her to the 3E Centre in Germany.

Patti M. Hall’s life is pitched into an abyss of uncertainty when a golf ball-sized tumour is discovered in her teenage son’s head and he is diagnosed with gigantism, a disease of both legend and stigma. After scrambling to access a handful of medical experts in the field, Patti learns that her son could grow uncontrollably, his mobility could be permanently limited, and his life could be cut short without timely and aggressive treatment. Patti’s attention shifts fully to her son, away from her relationships as well as her own career and health.

My Name'5 Doddie is a humbling, courageous and very funny celebration of a remarkable man. The extraordinary, life-affirming autobiography of Doddie Weir is an absolute must-listen – rugby fan or not. Rugby legend and MND campaigner Doddie Weir has always lived life to the full. On the pitch, Doddie's irresistible talent took him to the heart of every team he graced and brought him 61 caps for Scotland. He won fans all over the world with his sportsmanship, humour and boundless energy. Then, in June 2017, Doddie made the announcement that he had been diagnosed with MND.

Acclaimed CBS News reporter Barry Petersen writes about hearing the unimaginable; what it meant, what it still means, what he did---and didn't do---and how this beautiful love story needs to be heard by the thousands of families who have already heard that same devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Even though Barry has spent his long-time, award-winning television career covering wars and events that shaped the world, he was not even slightly prepared for what happened to his darling wife, Jan, and how it would impact his life.

Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and un-romanticized facts of his life.

“Strokes are the third-leading cause of death in America, and for the ‘lucky’ stroke victims who don’t die, about half will spend the rest of their lives trying to recover.” Roughly 700,000 American suffer a stroke each year and around 140,000 of them are fatal. Different Strokes is an in-depth look at what surviving, or not surviving, a stroke can mean.

William’s memoir, The Parts of Him I Kept, is an intimate account of a daughter’s coming of age in the face of her father’s schizophrenic unraveling. Williams investigates the limits of our medical and cultural understanding of schizophrenia while chronicling the shared burden and benefits of caring for a mentally ill family member.

Sie stehen am Ende Ihrer Pflegefachkraft-Ausbildung und der große Moment naht? Doch beim Gedanken an die Abschlussprüfung bekommen Sie Herzflattern? Sie möchten diesen Meilenstein souverän, erfolgreich und möglichst stressfrei überwinden? Dann haben Sie mit diesem Hörbuch Ihren besten Verbündeten gefunden! Es versorgt Sie zunächst mit entscheidendem Wissen rund um maximal erfolgreiche Lernprozesse, zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie diese perfekt auf Sie zugeschnitten realisieren, und liefert dann mit 1500 Fragen + Antworten geballtes Prüfungswissen für alle wichtigen Themengebiete.

Rebooting My Brain is the true story of what happens when you get yanked out of your life by a crisis and have to get back on the ride all over again. With refreshing candor, Maria Ross shares how the relentless pace of her life came to a screeching halt when an undetected brain aneurysm ruptured and nearly killed her. Along her stubborn road back to health, her resulting cognitive and emotional challenges forced her sometimes kicking and screaming to reframe her life, her work and her identity.

PREMIER LIVRE DE PRÉPARATION ENTIÈREMENT CONSACRÉ AUX CONCOURS DE DIRECTEUR D'HÔPITAL et DIRECTEUR D'ÉTABLISSEMENT DE SANTÉ, SOINS et MÉDICO-SOCIAL (D3S).

Narrated by the author, Diane Wilson shares her journey through random and sometimes humorous events of having an invisible illness, how her brain kept this injury even from herself, the loss of focus and sense of self, an obsession with day trading retirement funds, and the alternative therapies that helped heal her brain—a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh, acupuncture, learning to sing, and, most centrally, neurofeedback.

In January 2019, after experiencing a lifetime of poor sleep and a rapid and dramatic degeneration of his ability to sleep over the course of 2018, author and nondual entheogenic educator Martin Ball completely lost the ability to sleep for 10 consecutive days. This horrific event, what lead up to it, and the challenging and difficult aftermath is explored in intimate personal detail in this book. No stone is left unturned in this unintentional exploration of the altered states of being awake.

Gary Young lebte ein außergewöhnliches Leben, das ihn nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag den Weg zur Erschaffung der YOUNG LIVING-Essenzen einschlagen ließ. Ein Weg voller Abenteuer und faszinierender Erlebnisse und Begegnungen. Maria Schasteen, die große Expertin für Duftmedizin, beschreibt in dieser mit viel Empathie verfassten Biographie das Leben dieses besonderen Menschen, der die alternativen Heilweisen des 21. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich beeinflussen sollte.

Diagnosed with advanced liver disease, coupled with a fracturing marriage, a father of three young girls knows there's no time to engage in anxiety or self-pity. Doug laughs between the tears as he pulls every ounce of courage possible to face the biggest tests of his life. In the chaos of fighting the sneaky, methodical liver disease that threatens to kill him, Doug wrestles with divorce, parenting three daughters, and trying to make the most out of life.

Miracles and Mayhem is the story of one man’s work in the face of Big Pharma and Big Academia to nurture a medical revolution that will help people recover from illness and injury for generations to come. What’s evident in the perils and triumphs thrown at him throughout his career is that the path has not been easy. Still, he wouldn’t have it any other way. Pushed to become a doctor, he instead became a fire paramedic turned biologics renegade who defied his family's expectations, broke every rule in the medical playbook, and pioneered a global stem cell and biologics movement.

Biographical account which documents Doctor KP Buteyko's theories, teachings and thoughts, also gives a detailed history of the Buteyko breathing method as taught by Dr Buteyko and his colleagues and outlines his belief that the method could be used to treat 150 Diseases of Deep Breathing.

In This Common Secret, Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young age. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy - and how hidden this common experience remains.