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Physical is the story of a hard living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in the light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that...
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No todas las actividades preventivas son inocuas y beneficiosas. Algunas de las acciones para prevenir enfermedades son invasivas y perjudiciales, y no hay argumentación científica que avale el riesgo frente al posible beneficio. Los doctores Juan Gérvas y Mercedes Pérez-Fernández desgranan en este libro algunos de los casos más importantes, mientras hacen una reflexión fundamental sobre la excesiva medicalización de la sociedad actual y la...
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The Collaborative Cultural Competence (C3) in Advance Care planning is a systems approach framework to tackle issues with low Advance Care Planning and Advance Directive completion in American adults and especially African Americans. The factors accounting for the continuous gap in AD completion among African Americans are not well understood. This book initiates the Advance Care Planning Conversation via a quality improvement project in a faith-based...
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To think of not washing the hands often throughout the day can lead to profound consequences. Indeed, inadequate handwashing in this era can result in sickness or death. Human hands encounter many objects and other people, all through the day. Commodities carry germs, and so do other people's hands. The hands can be visibly or invisibly dirty. Therefore, dashing through the day, handling money, shaking hands, visiting the restroom, handling door knobs,...
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While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is incredibly difficult. This book concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities. Among the topics covered are how to recognize signs that a family member needs extra support, determining whether in-home care is a viable option, the different...
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The healthcare industry has a solution, at its fingertips, to some of its most intractable problems-but it still hasn't grasped that solution. Its most dominant market segment consists of customers and end users who share needs that cut across health condition, age, ethnicity, nationality, education, and income-but the industry isn't focused on this segment. The needs of this dominant segment are understood and shared by many employees inside healthcare...
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El Dr. Blake describe los principios básicos que han regido su práctica de podología, biomecánica de las extremidades inferiores y medicina deportiva durante más de 40 años. Junto con estos principios básicos, discutió en gran detalle los conceptos de evaluación de la marcha y técnicas de examen biomecánico.
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Imagine losing a child because of lack of health insurance. Imagine trying to do everything possible to try to get him the proper care that would save his life. What parent wouldn't give their life to save their child? Then imagine your child being ignored and left to die because his health-care providers thought money was more important than his life. This didn't happen in some third-world country. It happened right here in the USA. My son's death...
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Las sociedades se basan en el principio del derecho inalienable a la vida y, en efecto, los Estados tienen el deber de preservarla. La eutanasia se basa en otro principio, uno humano: acortar el sufrimiento innecesario de un enfermo terminal. Por supuesto, diferentes culturas y diferentes cuerpos de leyes tienen diferentes evaluaciones sobre el tema. El derecho al suicidio asistido o a la llamada "muerte digna" genera debates: los partidarios se preguntan...
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There's a type of person out there who is better at helping others than they are at looking after themselves. Maybe you're one of them. Maybe you know someone who is.
They are the backbone of the caring professions, giving strength to our schools, clinics, care homes and hospitals. But you will also find them in offices, gyms, community groups and charities—everywhere you look. There's usually one in every family.
But these people, who do so much...
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"When I was in the hospital I was poked and probed and ultraviolated, but never touched, " a patient told Dr. Jeff Kane. Over the past forty years he's heard thousands of such stories from patients and their families. They appreciate medicine's awesome technology, but yearn for low-tech contact. They want their suffering treated as well as their illness. Dr. Kane shows that our current "healthcare crisis" isn't fundamentally economic, but social:...
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This is the book that changes the face of health care as it allows insured individuals to claim the care and coverage they need regardless of what their health care insurance company decides to approve. It's a book that hasn't had a single fact or point of law contested from reviews by the likes of the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Institute for Justice, famed bioethicist Dr. Arthur L. Caplan and U. S. Congressman Joe Pitts (Chair of The House...
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Imagine if there was a single, elegant solution to the biggest challenges facing healthcare: chronic disease, escalating costs, physician shortages, care access and affordability, physician burnout, loneliness, and mental health.
In his second book, James Maskell shows how community-specifically group medical visits-can help us solve these challenges. A supportive community provides the context for ongoing healthy behaviors, key to reversing chronic...
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Healthcare Elsewhere is a medical tourism show that shares the success stories of medical tourism patients. Host John Cote interviews Doctors, healthcare experts and patients worldwide to help educate people about the affordable and cutting edge options available globally. Many patients find that the cost, time frame or availability of a particular procedure is too expensive or not available in their country so they travel elsewhere to get their treatment....
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Have you always wanted the benefits of a beautiful, bright smile?
Are you worried about oral cancer - but can't afford to pay for a screening?
Are you searching for a reputable dentist who will take care of your kid's teeth for the next 16 years?
Unfortunately, not all dentists are created equal.
Yes, they've all finished dental school.
But that's where the comparison starts and ends.
Picking the wrong dentist can cost your thousands of dollars,...
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Patients Beyond Borders Thailand Edition is the first comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to medical tourism in Thailand, written by the world's leading spokesperson for international health travel. Produced in collaboration with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and supported by hospitals and related government and private organizations, this guide is impartial, extensively researched, and filled with authoritative and accessible advice carefully...
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Easing the Way to a New Stage in Life.
Placing a loved one in a nursing home is a difficult thing to face. In addition to choosing a home, figuring out finances, and dealing with the actual moving, you may also be struggling with deeper conflicts. The emotions you may feel-of guilt, sadness, anger, and even relief-are never predictable, and can sometimes cause confusion. This invaluable book helps to ease this process, opening the channels of communication...
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La fatiga es la razón número uno de las visitas a la consulta del médico. A pesar de gastar cada año más dinero en las últimas dietas y medicinas de moda, las tasas de obesidad y enfermedades continúan aumentando. Muchas personas tienen sobrepeso, y padecen cansancio y malestar. La mayoría de las dietas fracasa porque no se dirigen a la causa subyacente del aumento de peso.Las revolucionarias investigaciones del doctor Jefrrey Blair condujeron...
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