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By Sheldon Cohen
Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully educating yourself about your own health. According to author and medical doctor Sheldon Cohen, the best way to secure this information is to get a comprehensive medical examination. The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors is the perfect tool to help you take charge of your health as you attempt to navigate through the United States' overburdened health-care system. Filled with essential information on what an examination should entail, Cohen reveals several key points you need to discuss with your doctor. These include your complete medical history, the functioning of each organ system, and laboratory data. Once armed with your personal health information, you will be in a position to reduce your risk for medical error and live a longer, healthier life.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Sheldon Cohen
Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully educating yourself about your own health. According to author and medical doctor Sheldon Cohen, the best way to secure this information is to get a comprehensive medical examination. The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors is the perfect tool to help you take charge of your health as you attempt to navigate through the United States' overburdened health-care system. Filled with essential information on what an examination should entail, Cohen reveals several key points you need to discuss with your doctor. These include your complete medical history, the functioning of each organ system, and laboratory data. Once armed with your personal health information, you will be in a position to reduce your risk for medical error and live a longer, healthier life.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Sheldon Cohen
Medical errors kill 98,000 patients per year in the United States. But you, the patient, can play a crucial role in preventing these mistakes by fully educating yourself about your own health. According to author and medical doctor Sheldon Cohen, the best way to secure this information is to get a comprehensive medical examination. The Patient's Guide to the Complete Medical Examination and the Prevention of Medical Errors is the perfect tool to help you take charge of your health as you attempt to navigate through the United States' overburdened health-care system. Filled with essential information on what an examination should entail, Cohen reveals several key points you need to discuss with your doctor. These include your complete medical history, the functioning of each organ system, and laboratory data. Once armed with your personal health information, you will be in a position to reduce your risk for medical error and live a longer, healthier life.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Louis Dvonch
Perhaps you've read about the Heart Attack Germ in Reader's Digest. Or you may have seen the story about it on Dateline NBC. But The Heart Attack Germ is the first and only book that reveals the full story behind this astonishing and revolutionary medical breakthrough. A germ named Chlamydia pneumoniae has been identified by medical researchers the world over as the Heart Attack Germ. People infected by this germ are at a significantly increased risk for stroke, heart attack and other cardiovascular problems, including the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Several other common bacteria and viruses have also been associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attack. All of these germs are contagious and easily transmitted from person to person. In fact, the odds are that you've already been infected by one or more of the germs of cardiovascular disease. The discovery of the Heart Attack Germ has produced improved treatments that, for the first time, attack the underlying cause of cardiovascular trouble. Vividly written and illustrated, The Heart Attack Germ will show you how to dramatically reduce your risk of stroke, heart attack and the symptoms of Alzheimer's: safely, painlessly, inexpensively and without surgery.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Editorial Paidotribo, Claude Binet
La naturaleza y origen de los remedios utilizados en homeopatía son muy variados y hacen referencia a los reinos animal, vegetal y mineral y a una serie de productos diversos y muy articulares que convierten la lista de remedios homeopáticos en prácticamente infinita, puesto que toda sustancia, sea cual sea su naturaleza u origen puede resultar un medicamento homeopático si sus indicaciones son conocidas y comprobadas clínica y experimentalmente. Para que esta obra pueda ser una guía práctica, el autor ha limitado deliberadamente el contenido a aquellos remedios más comúnmente utilizados para permitir un fácil y ágil manejo y así encontrar rápidamente la descripción de un determinado remedio o lo que hacer en un determinado caso. El libro, ordenado alfabéticamente, contiene dos partes bien diferenciadas. La primera, la materia médica, trata el estudio simplificado de las principales propiedades terapéuticas de los remedios homeopáticos más empleados. La segunda, léxico terapéutico, presenta dónde podrán encontrarse los diferentes remedios indicados en el tratamiento de cada tipo de dolencia. Al final de la obra hay una serie de consejos razonables y prácticos ofrecidos por dos farmacéuticos homeópatas.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Eugene A. DeFelice, Maryanne Harvey, Benjamin DeFelice
Web Health Information Resources, Second Edition, provides a basic compendium of key Web resources and strategies for obtaining health information from the Web. This book may be used to quickly and easily search the Web to obtain reasonably trustworthy, current, comprehensive, reliable, and useful health and wellness information on medical subjects/topics of interest. With this information, you may take charge, control, and responsibility for your health and wellness, make informed decisions with your healthcare provider/physician, and live a healthier, happier, longer, and more enjoyable/productive life.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Thierry Souccar
¿Por qué si nuestra vida es más fácil, el trabajo más suave que antaño, la alimentación superior y la esperanza de vida roza los ochenta años, nos medicamos mucho más que antes. Seguramente la respuesta está en la falta de motivación, es decir, en la costumbre de tener un medicamento para todo: si engordamos una pastilla nos hará adelgazar; si no dormimos, un tranquilizante nos ayudará a dormir; etc. No se trata de cuestionar el papel indispensable del médico, sino, simplemente de recordar que existen medicamentos, tradicionales o modernos que, en algunos casos, han sido eficaces. Pero, atención, es el médico quien debe decidir la necesidad real de un tratamiento y la utilización de un producto más allá de las indicaciones legales. Apoyado por numerosas revistas científicas, este libro nos introduce en el núcleo de los mecanismos que deciden nuestra forma física e intelectual. Lejos de recetas preestablecidas, evalúa los medios a nuestra disposición e invita a que cada uno reflexione y evalúe la oportunidad de concienciarse. Al mismo tiempo, actualiza el antiguo adagio de Hipócrates: "Que tu alimento sea tu medicina". Este libro recoge un largo mosaico de productos -con algunas reservas- con un objetivo claro: describir el uso actual de moléculas psicoestimulantes (no estupefacientes) sin convertirlas en medicinas de uso diario. El lector descubrirá que puede tomar un euforizante unido a un antiamnésico y a un antiestresante, etc., comprobando que el riesgo de toxicidad es débil o inexistente, pero dándose cuenta de que existe una carencia allí donde el cuerpo y el espíritu funcionan perfectamente.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Catherine Hosmer
This book's purpose was to find out how people across the United States felt about their health care. In that effort, the author interviewed hundreds of people-male or female, retired or working, ill or well, health professional or not-and was shocked by the disdain with which most of those questioned view our health care system. Their opinions are a large part of this book. What has happened to a once-great health system often proclaimed by many as best in the world? The author consulted dozens of experts present both when the system as created as well as those working in the field today. The trail of blame, in their opinions, leads to politicians, doctors, lawyers, pharmaceutical giants, HMOs, hospitals, and other health providers who they declare have lined their pockets at the public's expense. This book tries to answer the questions, "HOW DID IT HAPPEN?" and "IF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS BROKEN, HOW CAN WE FIX IT?"
FORMAT: E-Book
By Catherine Hosmer
This book's purpose was to find out how people across the United States felt about their health care. In that effort, the author interviewed hundreds of people-male or female, retired or working, ill or well, health professional or not-and was shocked by the disdain with which most of those questioned view our health care system. Their opinions are a large part of this book. What has happened to a once-great health system often proclaimed by many as best in the world? The author consulted dozens of experts present both when the system as created as well as those working in the field today. The trail of blame, in their opinions, leads to politicians, doctors, lawyers, pharmaceutical giants, HMOs, hospitals, and other health providers who they declare have lined their pockets at the public's expense. This book tries to answer the questions, "HOW DID IT HAPPEN?" and "IF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS BROKEN, HOW CAN WE FIX IT?"
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Catherine Hosmer
This book's purpose was to find out how people across the United States felt about their health care. In that effort, the author interviewed hundreds of people-male or female, retired or working, ill or well, health professional or not-and was shocked by the disdain with which most of those questioned view our health care system. Their opinions are a large part of this book. What has happened to a once-great health system often proclaimed by many as best in the world? The author consulted dozens of experts present both when the system as created as well as those working in the field today. The trail of blame, in their opinions, leads to politicians, doctors, lawyers, pharmaceutical giants, HMOs, hospitals, and other health providers who they declare have lined their pockets at the public's expense. This book tries to answer the questions, "HOW DID IT HAPPEN?" and "IF OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS BROKEN, HOW CAN WE FIX IT?"
FORMAT: Softcover
By John Millar
Get it right the first time! John Humphrey Millar, now in his 103rd year, has written a non-fiction health booklet: a "user-friendly" manual on how to protect one's immune system to ensure a long and healthy life. This information has been gathered from his own personal experience. His impressive ability to overcome obstacles and achieve results has encouraged him to write this common sense 76-page manual. This work, entitled ASCULAPIUS, Your Owner's Manual, is accessible to a mass audience, especially people who wish to care and maintain his or her body in good condition. It will assist in techniques to increase life span, by eating the correct food, taking nutritional supplements and daily exercise to protect oneself from illness. The purpose of this book is to remind each one of us that we are responsible for planning and carrying out care and maintenance of our body. We can slow down the damage and start repairs today. We hope that ASCULAPIUS, Your Owner's Manual sparks this kind of enthusiasm in our readers, and shows them how much all of us can learn about ageing, not only from books such as this one, but from the intelligence and wisdom of John H. Millar, a centenarian who has lived a long, enjoyable, passionate and healthy life.
FORMAT: Softcover
By L. D. Sutton
Diabetes is a serious disease that can lead to severe complications including blindness, heart attack, kidney failure, foot amputations and more. The best way to avoid these complications is through a complex regimen of frequent examinations, laboratory testing and treatments as defined by ADA position and consensus statements. Yet it has been suggested that as few as 20% of physicians follow recommended practice guidelines! The Diabetic Diary was designed by a physician-scientist who saw a need for a comprehensive, yet easy to use manual to guide diabetic patients and their physicians through the complex maze of diabetic medical management. The Diabetic Diary guides the diabetic patient through his/her yearly health maintenance regimen via concise, easy to understand summaries of current ADA recommendations. Space is provided to record medical history, medications, home sugar monitoring, clinical laboratory testing, physical examinations and immunizations. This book is organized for easy entry and retrieval of information by both patient and physician, making The Diabetic Diary the perfect companion to accompany any diabetic patient to all physician encounters.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Michael Rosenblum
Why is it so difficult to find a good doctor, and see the doctor when you have a problem? Why are you told to "go to the emergency room?" Why is your "doctor" a nurse practitioner? The U.S. health care system, heralded as the finest in the world, has been in decline for a number of years. Here are the explanations for the decline in availability of primary health care, its increasing cost, and the increasingly impersonal care encountered by the patient. Dr. Rosenblum, chosen by his peers as a leading physician in his community, clarifies the many issues contributing to deterioration of health care. He employs his experience as an internist, and interviews with key individuals involved in health policy and health care delivery. He proposes solutions to halt the disintegration of primary health care, which if restored to its former position of prominence, would reverse the downhill course of medical care in the United States.
FORMAT: Softcover
By John Millar
Get it right the first time! John Humphrey Millar, now in his 103rd year, has written a non-fiction health booklet: a "user-friendly" manual on how to protect one's immune system to ensure a long and healthy life. This information has been gathered from his own personal experience. His impressive ability to overcome obstacles and achieve results has encouraged him to write this common sense 76-page manual. This work, entitled ASCULAPIUS, Your Owner's Manual, is accessible to a mass audience, especially people who wish to care and maintain his or her body in good condition. It will assist in techniques to increase life span, by eating the correct food, taking nutritional supplements and daily exercise to protect oneself from illness. The purpose of this book is to remind each one of us that we are responsible for planning and carrying out care and maintenance of our body. We can slow down the damage and start repairs today. We hope that ASCULAPIUS, Your Owner's Manual sparks this kind of enthusiasm in our readers, and shows them how much all of us can learn about ageing, not only from books such as this one, but from the intelligence and wisdom of John H. Millar, a centenarian who has lived a long, enjoyable, passionate and healthy life.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Michael Page
Maybe your interests lie in health, animals, travel or socio-political issues, or maybe you just want a laugh. Whichever way, despite its more earnest messages in places, this light-hearted look at contemporary British health and social issues through the eyes of an Edinburgh male nurse will have you in stitches.
FORMAT: Softcover
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