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Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.
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Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by...
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[2021]
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Third edition.
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Black's Medical Dictionary has been the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years. It is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need clear explanation of medical terms: nurses, health care professionals, students, health service management, actuaries, lawyers and journalists. It contains over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over 1000 diagrams, drawings and colour illustrations. It also provides...
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The third edition of “The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 & GMFM-88) User's Manual” has retained the information contained in the original 2002 and 2013 publications which included the conceptual background to the development of the GMFM, and the administration and scoring guidelines for people to be able to administer this clinical and research assessment tool appropriately. Information is presented on the development and validation of...
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Book Preview: #1 There have been two main ideas about cardiovascular disease over the past 150 years: the cholesterol hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The cholesterol hypothesis has become so dominant that it stands alone, unquestioned and unchallenged.
#2 The alternative hypothesis is that blood clots, and blood clotting, are the key players in cardiovascular disease. From...
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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they're wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.
Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay...
11) We, Jane
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A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places, We, Jane explores the precarity of rural existence and the essential nature of abortion?
Searching for meaning in her Montreal life, Marthe begins an intense friendship with an older woman, also from Newfoundland, who tells her a story about purpose, about a duty to fulfill. It's back home, and it goes by the name of Jane.??
Marthe travels...
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La Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia ha sido fundamental en el desarrollo de la medicina en el país. Aunque la historiografía médica nacional ha reconocido su importancia en varias ocasiones, hasta el momento ninguna obra se había propuesto indagar sobre su historia. En el marco del sesquicentenario de la Facultad y de la Universidad, el Centro de Historia de la Medicina Andrés Soriano Lleras presenta un relato articulado...
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Every year, approximately 200,000 deaths occur in the US healthcare system that could have been prevented, akin to experiencing twenty weekly crashes of Boeing 747 airliners. This grim reality highlights the dire state of our nation's healthcare delivery system, where lives are needlessly lost in hospitals every single day. In his book "Find the Black Box," Dr. Ira Williams delves deep into the inherent issues plaguing the American healthcare system...
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#1 I'm a traveling nurse, and I currently live in California. I don't think I'm cut out to be a nurse. The hospital job is important because it's a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, but they project to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected.
#2 As a traveling nurse, I was assigned to a hospital...
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#1 I had never visited the campus, but I was excited to start college. I was especially out of place because I had never visited Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and 100,000 fishermen.
#2 I learned that water in Southern Florida is especially contaminated with birth control hormones. I also learned that reclaimed water is all around me in Florida, and that lawns use...
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This book is about the sh*t. The bad stuff. The things that happen to people with autoimmune disease when no one else is paying attention. This is my follow-up to The Marvelous Transformation: Living Well with Autoimmune Disease (TMT) in which I explored how I've managed to have a happy life despite being ill.However, I want to be very clear that this is not an extension of The Marvelous Transformation; it is almost its inverse. While still being...
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In their latest book, best-selling authors and holistic health practitioners Drs. C. Norman Shealy and Sergey Sorin are joined by experimental psychologist Amber Massey-Ambernathy. Recovering Common Sense offers a program for lifelong physical, emotional, and spiritual health based in Five-Factor Theory (FFT) and the "Five Health Basics." The authors make two claims, both rather bold though backed by clinical practice and experiment. The first claim...
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RN Math Excellence, We are Here to Help. Our workbook is guaranteed to provide 100 percent accuracy before patient medication administration. Safety requires virtual accountability among all health care professionals which will reduce preventable medication errors.
Trust the process of practicing math calculations using the x factor with dimensional analysis metric formula.
You can save many lives by using critical thinking and developmental skills...
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Fake news is bad enough. We cannot allow ourselves to be buried in fake medicine.
This book looks at quackery practiced under the cover of CIM (Complementary and Integrative Medicine). Why? To inform the consumer that there is a better way to spend their health-care dollar. How? By a better understanding of science and the scientific method.
A brief summary of the development of science is given, from early Greece, through the Dark Ages, and into...
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#1 The hospital at the Yambuku Catholic Mission in Zaire, Africa, was filled with African oil palms and tropical vegetation. The buildings were made of brown bricks and had open porticoes running along their sides. The maternity ward was a modest pavilion with a room that contained nineteen beds.
#2 The experience of Sister Beata, a nurse at the Yambuku hospital, demonstrates...
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