The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful.
This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, paramedics, and firefighters.
A darkly powerful and blackly funny expos of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper 'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' GuardianInside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see: a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion.
'Extraordinary' Daily MailAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disease characterized primarily by cognitive deficiencies and problems with muscle movements and tremors; more than a half a million Americans have the disease and the current numbers are expected to increase over the next few years.
Dosage: A Guiding Principle for Health Communicators uses "e;dosage"e; as a metaphor to help all healthcare professionals apply basic communication principles to their work.
Dosage: A Guiding Principle for Health Communicators uses "e;dosage"e; as a metaphor to help all healthcare professionals apply basic communication principles to their work.
'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' - Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent - this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' - Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a paid service, an altruistic act - or even legal at all?
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011'Profound, eloquent and searching' SUNDAY TIMES'Essential reading' INDEPENDENT'Masterly' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FARRiveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.
Bradford Dementia Group Good Practice GuidesThere are always difficult day to day decisions to be faced when caring for a person with dementia - from knowing how to deal with wandering to end of life decisions.
From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda BrownRevisit the wold of The Prison Doctor, as she describes stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners.
Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disease characterized primarily by cognitive deficiencies and problems with muscle movements and tremors; more than a half a million Americans have the disease and the current numbers are expected to increase over the next few years.
Este libro reune las ponencias, relatos de experiencia y reflexiones presentadas en la Jornada Virtual - Humanizacion del cuidado en enfermeria: reflexiones y experiencias desde la practica, realizada en la Facultad de Medicina de la UNNE.
Acercamiento al tema de la eutanasia desde todas sus aristas: Libertad, autodeterminacion, dignidad, respeto, responsabilidad, vida y muerte son terminos con los que la autora teje reflexiones largamente maduradas sobre el derecho que asiste a quien decide apresurar el paso de la propia muerte.
Esta obra esta dedicada especialmente a los estudiantes de medicina, a manera de introduccion a la etica medica y el derecho sanitario mexicano, su relacion y sus bases, la regulacion del ejercicio profesional, los derechos y las obligaciones del personal de salud, la elaboracion de documentos y la manera de abordar los problemas medico-forenses que se enfrentan en la practica medica diaria.
La presente publicación viene a continuar el trayecto interdisciplinar que comenzó con el primer número de la colección Ethos en torno a la relación médico-paciente.
En el presente trabajo se desarrollan las bases conceptuales y normativas del suministro de información sanitaria al paciente en el contexto de nuestro país.
Nutricion aplicada en patologias cronicas busca incentivar el uso del conocimiento derivado de la investigacion cientifica en el manejo nutricional de patologias cronicas, con el fin de aplicar recomendaciones y elementos clave para una asertiva terapia medica nutricional en forma teorico practica.
En este volumen se aborda la temática de la telemedicina como herramienta eficaz en contexto de pandemia por SARS Cov2 a partir de la experiencia de la Clínica Universitaria Reina Fabiola, en Córdoba, Argentina.
Uno de los aspectos más importantes y singulares de la medicina es la relación médico-paciente, la cual, como ninguna otra, se basa -se debe basar- en una confianza total del paciente y una preparación científica y ética total del médico.
Nadie puede obviar las micro-revoluciones culturales que la enfermedad del COVID-19 nos ha dejado en la totalidad de campos que uno quiera pensar, y que se inician con la biología, se suceden con la medicina, se expanden a la economía y la ecología y, desde allí, sin duda que se entifican en todoaquello que implica una acción humana que esté por detrás.
El tratamiento quirúrgico de la obesidad nace contemplando un abordaje interdisciplinario donde la salud mental ha tenido que abrirse camino con una nueva disciplina.
The Needle & The ShadowA lobotomist's war, a doctor's betrayal, and the dark legacy of american psychiatryThere are rooms in American history that were never meant to be seen.
A Torrent of Abuse of Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of History is a hybridized historical nonfiction of how things got badly wrong and catastrophic for the Black-Brown people (of West Africa) for over 350 fat years, when year by year, they were stolen, bought and sold into bondage, cognate with the torrents of abuse of moral philosophy and philosophy of history.
Sicher handeln, gut begleiten: Palliativmedizin auf den Punkt gebracht"e;Palliativmedizin Essentials"e; bietet eine strukturierte Einfuhrung in die Grundprinzipien der Palliativmedizin mit engem Bezug zur Praxis.
Sicher handeln, gut begleiten: Palliativmedizin auf den Punkt gebracht"e;Palliativmedizin Essentials"e; bietet eine strukturierte Einfuhrung in die Grundprinzipien der Palliativmedizin mit engem Bezug zur Praxis.
