Medical Books

Coaching for Caregivers: How to Reach Out Before You Burn Out (Color Edition), August, Yosaif ISBN: 9780989062619

When Darien awakes to discover that her taste buds are missing, her parents must find something she can stand to eat before she begins to shrink. Luckily they find the one food that makes all others good...pizza.

Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century, Fong, Kevin ISBN: 9781452618142

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world's environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it survivable. As modernity brought us ever more into different kinds of extremes, doctors pushed the bounds of medical advances and human endurance. Extreme exploration challenged the body in ways that only the vanguard of science could answer. Doctors, scientists, and explorers all share a defining trait: they push on in the face of grim odds. Because of their extreme exploration we not only understand our physiology better; we have also made enormous strides in the science of healing. Drawing on his own experience as an anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser, Dr. Kevin Fong examines how cutting-edge medicine pushes the envelope of human survival by studying the human body's response when tested by physical extremes. "Extreme Medicine" explores different limits of endurance and the lens each offers on one of the systems of the body. The challenges of Arctic exploration created opportunities for breakthroughs in open heart surgery; battlefield doctors pioneered techniques for skin grafts, heart surgery, and trauma care; underwater and outer space exploration have revolutionized our understanding of breathing, gravity, and much more. Avant-garde medicine is fundamentally changing our ideas about the nature of life and death. Through astonishing accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Fong illustrates the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme limits, where human life is balanced on a knife's edge. "Extreme Medicine" is a gripping debut about the science of healing, but also about exploration in its broadest sense--and about how, by probing the very limits of our biology, we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work, of what life is, and what it means to be human.

Advice to the Healer: On the Art of Caring, Colgan, Richard ISBN: 9781461451693

This book introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine and related healing professions. Reinforcing the humanistic side of patient care, this book replicates the tips, anecdotes and aphorisms often related by mentors and educators to medical students, residents, and young physicians. This book provides numerous examples of best practices in the art of medicine, profiles of great healers throughout history and around the world, and stories sure to inspire any practicing healer, whether they are new to the calling or a seasoned veteran.

Certified Dietary Manager Exam Secrets: CDM Test Review for the Certified Dietary Manager Exam, CDM Exam Secrets Test Prep Team ISBN: 9781609712938

Certified Dietary Manager Exam Secrets: CDM Test Review for the Certified Dietary Manager Exam