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Our primer is an elementary introduction to the complexities of use of transcriptomics in medical care. Focusing on chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS), this short book leads us through the jargon of gene names, gene symbols and the maze of transcription factors to help us begin to understand how differential activation of genes underlies all chronic illness. In the specific case of CIRS, pertinent metabolic pathways are presented, populated...
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America's broken medical system is breaking our doctors-even as they're lauded as heroes.
Physician burnout annually costs the medical industry-run by insurance companies, administrators, and electronic record systems-$5 billion. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 70% of physicians said they would not recommend a medical career to their families.
It's time for change.
In Determined, academic physician and certified coach Dr. Jimmy Turner lays out...
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Imagine a world in medicine where you feel valued, have time to spend with your family and friends and spend time with your patients instead of charting about them...
Imagine taking off two weeks at a time to go to Bali, Fiji or Tahiti! What about having a long weekend every month, just because…
Imagine taking all the best CME courses because you have a generous CME budget and 2 weeks just for learning you can use every year...
Imagine having...
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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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In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher--the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers,...
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Tratado de medicina, dirigido a médicos y enfermeros.
El libro proporciona las nociones esenciales para el estudio de la gasometría arterial, de manera que puedan ser fácilmente aplicadas, pero que también sirvan como estímulo para una profundización posterior, quizá sin los temores de enfrentarse a una materia considerada a priori, con o sin razón, compleja.
Se examinan las distintas fases, desde la extracción de muestras hasta la interpretación...
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Rodeo rider Corinne Hawkins has had a thing for Mike Burris for years. Now their on-again, off-again relationship might be off--for good. Mike is in medical school, and their attempts at long-distance romance have been a disaster. Corinne doesn't want to walk away from her brainy, sexy cowboy but feels she has no choice. Luckily for Corinne and Mike, their meddling, matchmaking families are on the job!"
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Harm Potential Profile is an adjunct to the therapeutic process and is designed to help psychiatrists, other physicians and licensed mental health professionals to identify persons who are thinking of killing themselves, persons who are thinking of killing family members or others along with themselves, and potential terrorists who are thinking of killing others. The Harm Potential Profile provides an insight into the patient's subconscious mind and...
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We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world-from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping through the medical community: pharmacies that double as walk-in clinics; health services that will be delivered online; electronic records that hold the history...
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Over the past 30 years, the transition from print to digital media has contributed to an exponential increase in medical literature. In response, 2 Minute Medicine™ presents 160+ authoritative, curated, and physician-written summaries of the key landmark trials in medicine: 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark Trials.
Every physician, health professional, and trainee should have a working knowledge of these trials...
11) Doc's job
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"Doctor Fox is in. Her job is to make patients feel better. But she might need to take care of herself! Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short o sound combined with selected consonant letters"--
12) Down to the wire
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On the trail of a hacker, IT security expert Malachi Touré finds...a woman from his past he's never gotten over. Dr. Grace Blackwell is no hacker. She's a medical researcher, and someone has stolen a potentially deadly formula from her computer. Despite the still-simmering attraction between them, Mal is wary of trusting her again. Then everything changes when a killer has Grace in their sights.
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"Overdosed America reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threaten the public health. Before you see a doctor, you should read this book." -Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge...
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"When Rick Shepherd, a physician, approaches his office on a busy Manhattan street, he finds police cars, an ambulance, and crime scene technicians. He soon learns a passerby was shot three times in the back, murdered at the front door to Rick's office. Later that evening while watching the local news, Rick and his fiancee, Jackie, see a photo of the victim-to their horror, the deceased looks identical to Rick. Two nights later, while making a house...
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Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
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"New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in...
17) Bluebird winter
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When Dr. Derek Taliferro delivers Kathleen Fields's baby during a snowstorm on Christmas Day, all his protective instincts are aroused by the sight of the beautiful mother and baby. Knowing Kathleen needs a strong shoulder to lean on, he proposes a way to keep the new family in his life a little longer. But what starts as a convenient marriage soon has him dreaming of forever.
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Paterson, Williams' epic masterpiece, raised everyday American speech to the highest levels of poetic imagination. A finalist for the national Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked is a remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship. From a small-town doctor...
19) Burn In
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Patrick Tran was a successful dermatologist living happily with his wife and young son in Northern California when his two-year-old son Adrian was diagnosed with cancer. Before his son's diagnosis, Tran's mission had been helping other doctors accomplish what he had: achieving independent wealth through real estate investing and avoiding doctor burnout. But, after Adrian's diagnosis, Tran's mindset shifted.
After overcoming his initial devastation,...
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When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina Morantz-Sanchez examines women's roles as nurses, midwives, and practitioners of folk medicine in early America; recounts their successful struggles in...
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