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Life and Death in Intensive Care offers a unique portrait of the surgical intensive care unit (SICU), the place in medical centers and hospitals where patients with the gravest medical conditions - from comas to terminal illness - are treated. Author Joan Cassell employs the concept of moral economies to explain the dilemmas that patients, families, and medical staff confront in treatment.

Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions.

The best way to improve your confidence is to be thrown into the deep end. This book includes hands-on methods to mitigate anxiety, while simultaneously boosting your confidence. Working through the projects in this book and applying them to your own life will give you an immense sense of achievement; it'll also help you to retain the techniques to boost your confidence whenever you start to feel it slip or drift away.

This self-help medical guide will guide you, step-by-step, through the definition of a cerebral shunt, some common causes for infections and obstructions, case studies, and some common diseases that may require patients to have a shunt placements.

One of the top complaints for many people as they go about making changes to lead a more active and fit lifestyle is suffering from severe back pain. There's no question about it, if you begin to suffer from back pain, this could in fact become a life-long issue if you aren't treating things properly. There are two primary types of back pain, chronic back pain which tends to stick around for lengthy periods of time and then acute back pain, which comes and goes.

In The Gift of Love, Amy Clipston shares her story of almost losing the love of her life to kidney disease and the ultimate sacrifice that kept their family together. An ordinary woman who cherishes family above all else, Amy was challenged in every way - from her strength of character to the depths of her faith to the close-knit family that surrounds her. Enduring the good, the bad, and the really bad, she was determined to help her husband once again be the husband and father their family needed.

Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.

Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The 2 men - the one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class, the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught, and self-determined - inevitably become adversaries. As he does in Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London dramatizes in this story the violent encounter between safe, genteel comfort and a brutal set of circumstances.

Bienvenido al mundo de Enfermera Saturada, un mundo donde el delirio se mezcla con el humor, a veces negro y siempre muy fino, pero donde el día a día del hospital siempre supera a la ficción.

Challenging Operations takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Katherine Kellogg reveals the complex ways that institutional reforms spark resistance when they challenge long-standing beliefs, roles, and systems of authority. Shedding new light on the difficulty of implementing reforms, Challenging Operations offers concrete recommendations for effectively meeting that challenge.

Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant.

HighBridge Audio presents four titles in the American Diabetes Association's 21 Things series, collected here in an essential, must-listen omnibus edition.

This convenient, short-listen book investigates the role the mind/brain plays in preparation for, enduring, and recovering from invasive surgery. It specifically explores how the conscious mind can help a patient endure the experience and quickly heal. This is the ninth book in this series. The Innovations in Mind/Body Therapies series is a collection of ten short-listen books that review latest thinking and research findings in Integrative Medicine, which is contrary to the bottom-up dogma that has been part of main-stream medicine for over a century.

La doctora Gloria Villalba vive la neurocirugía no solo con auténtica pasión, sino como una autentica adicción. En este impactante libro se desnuda sin censura y nos muestra una personalidad indomable, que contrasta con una sensibilidad y empatía extraordinarias. Porque, como ella mismo confiesa, no le ha sido fácil -ni le sigue siendo- trabajar en una profesión con zonas muy oscuras, donde la integridad y la justicia demasiado a menudo brillan por su ausencia.

In this unique audiobook, Carl L. Clarke, M.H.S. RPAC, tells his story of making Medical Beauty his career destination. Clarke gives listeners advice on how to find a master practitioner, how to decide what procedures to consider, and what results can be anticipated as likely outcomes.

Jamison Haponenko, a busy serial entrepreneur, had his first hair transplant 13 years ago. At that time, he was solely focused on growing a thriving glass company he started. Being extremely busy, he neglected to research all of the options available to him. Thinking that bigger might be better, he decided to go with a large highly recognized company for his first procedure, and the results were...let's just say okay.

Découvrez le guide des injections de Botox & toxine botulique pour les infirmières spécialisées en esthétique. Ce livre complet et pratique vous accompagne pas à pas, de la compréhension de l’anatomie faciale et de la pharmacologie de la toxine botulique, aux techniques d’injection avancées, tout en couvrant les aspects essentiels de la sécurité et de l’éthique.

Are you or a loved one recovering from a recent dental procedure? Whether it’s a tooth extraction, implant placement, root canal, or periodontal surgery, proper post-operative care is essential to ensure a smooth and speedy recovery. Healing After Dental Procedures: A Comprehensive Guide to Post-Operative Care and Recovery is your go-to resource for understanding what to expect after dental surgery and how to support the healing process.

A teenage victim of a knife attack. A young girl who has nearly lost her leg in a boating accident. A survivor of a major terrorist attack at Westminster Bridge. Trauma surgeon Shehan Hettiaratchy has seen all these people on his operating table. In The Careful Surgeon he explains how it feels to take the lives of these people into his hands.

Are you considering liposuction or cosmetic surgery? This thorough, easy-to-understand book walks you through every aspect of liposuction. Drawing on her extensive clinical experience, Dr.Giselle Prado-Wright describes the history of liposuction, various techniques available, state-of-the art technology, and what to expect on the day of surgery as well as during the recovery period.