Social Medicine

It is no secret that bioidentical hormones have revolutionized modern medicine. While its science is more advanced than ever before, it can often be difficult for even experts in this field to separate fact from fiction. Indeed, the inaccuracy of information surrounding bioidentical hormones often leaves confusion in its wake, particularly when it comes to potential side effects and several myths that exist.

Whether you are a doctor, nurse, student, or otherwise interested listener, the stories here will help you to understand how medicine works and how medical error can happen. The lifelong process of learning that is a medical career requires healthcare workers to find a way to live through these setbacks without either becoming too adept at putting them 'down to experience' and forgetting their social significance, or 'burning out' and leaving medicine.

In order to resolve the significant racial, ethnic, language, and financial inequities that exist in healthcare quality and access, health systems must undertake the development of systematic approaches to advance diversity, inclusion, and health equity.

From the author of The Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare and The Good Doctor comes a book that explores how the persistent pandemic has revealed what excellence in healthcare truly means and presents an action plan to achieve it.

射精は一日にしてならず――陰茎の機能をできる限り引き出し維持するためには、正しい扱い方の体得が必要だ。

Como en otros campos, la historia de la ciencia ha asignado a las mujeres el lugar que se presuponía que les correspondía desde una perspectiva exclusivamente masculina, a menudo incurriendo en afirmaciones y teorías destinadas a invisibilizar o directamente inventar temas relacionados con su cuerpo, salud o capacidades. Aunque la presencia cada vez mayor de mujeres en la ciencia no sea condición exclusiva de una mejor ciencia, es necesaria para que se puedan reformular preguntas, se cuestionen valores hegemónicos y se encuentren nuevas prioridades.

You Won't Feel a Thing! The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing will provide valuable insights whether you are already nurse or simply want to understand the complexities of the role. Let's face it: the healthcare system has lots of work to do . . . and you probably do, too. It's time to bring the real, raw professional issues of nursing to the forefront. We have taken the hits. We have rolled with the punches. We have bobbed and weaved and bent. Let's work to ensure that bent never becomes broken.

Looking to ace your nursing school exams and the NCLEX® Exam? Then you need the Cardiovascular Disorders Nursing Test Review. Master Nursing School Test Series has created the perfect study tool to help you ace even the toughest tests.

The Gastrointestinal Disorders Nursing Test Review comes with 125 practice test questions, each complete with answers and rationales. So not only will you be able to test your knowledge, but you'll also be able to understand why the correct answer is correct. The questions cover a wide range of topics related to gastrointestinal disorders, including diagnostics, treatment options, and nursing care.

Este volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores.

Physician burnout annually costs the medical industry—run by insurance companies, administrators, and electronic record systems—$5 billion. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 70 percent of physicians said they would not recommend a medical career to their families. It’s time for change. In Determined, academic physician and certified coach Dr. Jimmy Turner lays out an evidence-based framework to help doctors understand why they are so burned out in the first place.

Virtual Medicare gives you a clear understanding of which Medicare plan is best for you, according to your doctor, medical network, medications, and health needs. It will help you understand Medicare in the basic and traditional way with virtual technology. Medicare was transformed during the pandemic. In-person non-urgent medical visits were temporarily replaced with virtual care, and the use of virtual healthcare apps and services skyrocketed. This book is a resource and reference guide that will help you understand how to review, compare, and enroll in Medicare plans.

日本でいちばん成人発達障害を診つづけてきた医師が、いまいちばん伝えたい「発達障害の人たちが成長する方法」。

果たしてコロナワクチンに効果はあったのか――。国民の約8割が2回以上のワクチン接種をしたにもかかわらず、感染症は収束することなく、その後の第8波では過去最多の死者数も記録した。

A family tragedy, the loss of his youngest brother at the age of 18 from an osteosarcoma of the skull, triggered Dr. Drouin’s interest in studying medicine. Unsatisfied with the model of healing he encountered in medical school, he explored many other models of medicine that eventually led him to practice what is now called integrative medicine. He soon realized that for these complementary modalities to be accepted and integrated into our healthcare system, they must be scientifically recognized and become part of the curriculum in medical schools.

Leaving the medical profession, whether through retirement, a planned career change, or one dictated by circumstances can be a difficult transition. There may be opposition from others and from inside themselves. They may be worried about what to do next, and find their expertise and professional status hard to leave behind. Told by Susan Kersley, retired doctor and a life coach, this book helps and motivates doctors who are facing this transition.

What does the history of science reveal about sex and sexuality? Explore the relationship between body and sexual identity with a Harvard-educated expert.

Immergiti nella meravigliosa vastità della cultura dei nativi americani, scopri l'impressionante potenza della loro spiritualità ed entra in contatto con l'incredibile patrimonio di tradizioni, racconti, insegnamenti, leggende e ispirazioni che hanno lasciato. Entrare in contatto con le tradizioni, gli usi, i costumi e la visione dei nativi americani significa riscoprire la tua identità, ti permette di risvegliare la tua capacità di ascoltare ed connetterti con le forze della natura e con il grande spirito di cui ognuno di noi è parte.

Are you a sudden caregiver? When an unforeseen medical crisis robs someone you love of their health and well-being, do you feel caught off guard and ill-prepared for your caregiving role? Plenty of research confirms what you may already know: Caregiving is depleting, worrying, and exhausting, often leading to physical and emotional burnout, fear, and illness. Yet a growing body of evidence tells us that while caregiving is depleting, it can also be a source of strength, well-being, and purpose.

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.