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In the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and highlights the complex mind-body connection.
Using the plights of twelve very different patients—from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons—Dr. Eric...
Using the plights of twelve very different patients—from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons—Dr. Eric...
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Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have...
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Mondimore provides information about the causes of bipolar disorder; tools of diagnosis, and advances in treatment. He surveys new medications, and explores the benefits and potential side effects of each. He also reviews claims for nutritional supplements, and tells you which may be useful... and which to leave on the shelf.
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"Lupus, a disease of the immune system, can be quite deadly, claiming the lives of thousands of patients yearly. Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on this disorder, an eminent clinician who has treated over 3,000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. The Lupus Book, originally published in 1995, immediately established itself as the most readable and helpful book on the disease. Now Dr. Wallace has once...
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This program presents the reality of cancer as experienced by patients. Commentary from Dr. Julia Rowland, director of the NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship, focuses on a patient's quality of life as cancer treatment proceeds, as well as the impact of the disease on a patient's family. Five patients of varied ages and at different stages of the disease-including a 28-year-old woman with breast cancer and a 54-year-old man with Hodgkin's lymphoma...
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Recent innovations, including deep brain stimulation and new and improved medications, have significantly enhanced the lives of people who have Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless, patients and families continue to face many challenges. This book is suitable for reliable advice about medical, emotional, and physical issues.
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"The spread of COVID-19 has brought the lives of doctors into sharper focus than ever before. We now see how the daily work of making important, even life-and-death decisions is frequently made harder. Hospitals and medical offices face budget problems, the influence of big pharmaceutical and insurance companies, as well as stress and long hours and massive amounts of bureaucracy and paperwork. And that was before the pandemic. As we engage in a public...
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All through medical school, internship, and residency, doctors are trained to be healers. What can they contribute to the care of patients whose illnesses are beyond their help? This ABC News program examines the crusading efforts of oncologist Dr. Michael Carducci, of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to create an exemplary program of palliative care for people with terminal conditions. The importance of supporting patients and their families in the making...
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In recent times, more and more people are getting cancer and looking for a cure. When cancer strikes close to home, the faithful turn to Saint Peregrine (also known as the "Wonder Worker") and Saint Agatha for help. Saint Peregrine is the patron saint of cancer patients and Saint Agatha is the patron saint of breast cancer patients.
Through novenas, these powerful saints are called upon by faithful Catholics to intercede on their behalf and petition...
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Almost every American will have surgery at least once during his or her lifetime. How can a patient ensure the best possible outcome when facing a surgical procedure? This program provides reassuring guidance and personal strategies that individuals should take into account before undergoing an operation. Helpful case studies feature a former secret service agent who intensely questioned his surgeon about his impending heart surgery, and a 19-year-old...
17) Random acts of medicine: the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health
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"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor...
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The North has established extreme strict principles and regulations in the field of human medical experimentation."Enlightened consent" is demanded of patients recruited uniquely on a volunteer basis. But do these principles apply in the South where ethical commissions are often, to some degree, ineffective or even non-existent, and where medical trials are frequently the only way poorer patients can gain access to treatments that would otherwise...
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High-dose pain management therapy involving narcotics has placed doctors and patients under scrutiny by federal regulators. Is the Drug Enforcement Administration simply cracking down on criminal overprescription and prescription forgery, or is it unfairly targeting doctors for merely doing their jobs, and punishing people with chronic pain? This ABC News program weighs in on the question through interviews with DEA Administrator Karen Tandy, a doctor...
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We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature about a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that doctors are impartially educated, when in reality much of their education is funded by the pharmaceutical industry. We like to...