Social Medicine

Leaving no stone unturned, this indispensable manual takes the sting out of relocation and selling the family home, helps keep retirees from outliving their savings, and offers a step-by-step guide to retirement abroad.

In any time of disruption or grief, many of us seek guidance in the work of great writers who endured similar circumstances. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, historian and biographer Robert Zaretsky did the same while also working as a volunteer in a nursing home in south Texas. In Victories Never Last, Zaretsky weaves his reflections on the pandemic siege of his nursing home with the testimony of six writers on their own times of plague: Thucydides, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, and Albert Camus.

Nursing is a complex profession steeped in tradition and history. Tried-and-tested ways of working have been the mainstay of how and why nurses do what they do. Science and evidence-based practice have weakened the hold on tradition but ritual is still part of the fabric of nursing. Packed with amusing and sometimes poignant reminiscences, this book paints a picture of nursing from the first registration of SRN No 1, Ethel Bedford Fenwick in 1919, to the present day.

As the pharmaceutical choices for health care become more and more limited, the general bolstering of the immune system with electrotherapy is proving to have a well-spring of therapeutic benefits. There are many bioelectromagnetic (BEM) devices re-emerging in the 21st century, based on high-voltage Tesla coils, that apparently bring beneficial health improvements to human organisms. The Tesla coil class of therapy devices constitute pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF) that deliver broadband, wide spectrum, nonthermal photons and antioxidant electrons deep into biological tissue.

Women everywhere are waking up to the risks associated with birth control. The print edition of this book garnered global attention for exposing how the health of millions of women has been sacrificed In the Name of the Pill. This new, expanded audio edition continues the conversation into these impossibly diverse consequences and reveals how such a dangerous drug ever made it do market. This expanded audiobook also contains new chapters that delve into the risks of long-acting forms of birth control such as injections and IUDs.

認知症の進行具合を、春・夏・秋・冬の4段階に分けて、そのとき何が起こるのか?どうすれば良いのか?を多数の患者さんのエピソードを交えて描いた、心温まるエッセイ。

The revolutionary method to maximize your chiropractic license, have the clinic of your dreams, and live the life you desire! This book shows you how to expand your clinic, work less, and make more money by offering exercise to your patients. You won’t believe how much your life can change!

È diventato quasi un luogo comune attribuire alcuni dei più diffusi disturbi a fattori di origine psicologica. Ma, come spiega questo libro, le cose non sono così semplici. Un'appendicite non può essere curata sul lettino dello psicoanalista e un'ulcera, cicatrizzata da una terapia intensiva, può riaprirsi se il paziente non modifica il suo stile di vita. Nella salute come nella malattia entrano sempre in gioco i diversi fattori bio-socio-psicologici che caratterizzano l'essere umano. In questo senso tutti i disturbi sono psicosomatici.

Did you know that just changing how you breathe can raise or lower blood pressure, lift mood, reduce anxiety, and send you off to a good night’s sleep? In this book, you’ll discover just how easy it is with breath-centered practices! Create your own calm ease, productive power, and radiant joy with simple and easy techniques for mind, breath, and body! Cultivate greater health, well-being, vitality, and success with the free breath-centered practices presented in this book. Breath-centered practices are the best free medicine available, so what are you waiting for?

En este audiolibro, el doctor Martín Gruenberg responde las consultas más frecuentes que escuchó en su consultorio a través de años de dedicación a la pediatría ambulatoria, esas preguntas que todas las madres y los padres alguna vez se hacen sobre la salud de sus hijos, desde la etapa prenatal hasta el comienzo de la adolescencia.

Technological advances have done little to help the worrying trend of out-of-control costs and physician shortages. But there is a solution that could help millions of Americans get more affordable, convenient access to care: telehealth. Telehealth is a solution that helps combat these trends, but it has not yet lived up to its expectations. Many of the current products in the market are ineffective, because brokers, insurance companies, and major telehealth companies are more concerned with their own profits than with providing real solutions.

This book is a team effort to provide you with up-to-date management of acute urology problems. It is a collection of solutions for frequent on call urology cases. It provides clear guidance to help you on your daily work, and it is a refresher for most senior urologists. It has been designed to be user friendly and practical. I hope that make your life easier and will help you to learn the tasks required to provide good emergency care in the speciality.

In The Body Economic, Stuckler and Basu mine data from around the globe and throughout history to show how government policy becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises. In a series of historical case studies stretching from 1930s America, to Russia and Indonesia in the 1990s, to present-day Greece, Britain, Spain, and the U.S., Stuckler and Basu reveal that governmental mismanagement of financial strife has resulted in a grim array of human tragedies.

A contemporary novel set in small town Texas following the relentless quest of Emma, a lawyer on the fast track to partnership in Houston's largest law firm, as she seeks to find who is to blame for(and more importantly to her, who will pay for) her stillborn, malformed infant. Jon, the laid-back, small town lawyer who is her adversary, seeks answers of his own while wooing his longtime sweetie, Sandy. The secret they discover threatens to destroy the fabric of all their lives.

La incontinencia urinaria afecta a una de cada cuatro mujeres a partir de los 35 años. El responsable es este gran desconocido, el suelo pélvico, que queda especialmente dañado tras los partos, pero que igualmente se deteriora sin haber tenido hijos. La buena noticia es que tiene solución, y este audiolibro, narrado por la propia Raquel López, recoge toda la información necesaria para que cualquier mujer, desde una adolescente hasta una mujer en plena menopausia, resuelva sus dudas y aprenda a fortalecerlo durante toda su vida.

Presente in tutte le culture umane da migliaia di anni, la musica ha poteri straordinari. Ma che cosa accade al nostro cervello quando facciamo musica? Di certo essa è in grado di scolpirlo nelle sue strutture e funzioni, influenzando la percezione del linguaggio, l'attenzione e la memoria. Tuffandoci nel condotto uditivo, trasformandoci in segnali elettrici capaci di raggiungere la corteccia, cavalcando le creste delle onde cerebrali, proveremo a svelare il mistero di questa forma così sofisticata di comunicazione, porta d'ingresso privilegiata per lo studio della mente.

As more of us live longer, the fear of an old age devastated by brain diseases like dementia is growing. Many people are already facing the challenges posed by these progressive and terminal conditions, whether in person or because they are caring for loved ones. Dementia is now the fifth most common cause of death across the world. It is a small wonder that understanding, preventing, and finally curing these illnesses is now a global priority.

About to start nursing school? Or maybe you already have, and still don't know why you are so stressed. Take my word for it: I've been there. And you're in luck. This little guide is what every clinical instructor and floor nurse wished you knew. A quick, easy listen for the busiest student, The Survival Guide to Nursing Students will give you the unique perspective you will need to actually enjoy nursing school.

Despite our best efforts, we usually find we’re unable to make the law of attraction work in the way we want. For most of us, there’s a huge gap between hearing good manifesting advice and actually making that advice work in our life. This audiobook is going to help bridge that gap for you.

When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation. Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration’s handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered.