Health Care

Step into Serenity: Your Journey Awaits Discover a sanctuary within your mind. Written by psychologist Anne E. Beall, this book takes you on a series of serene adventures, from secluded forests to calm beaches, immersing you in vivid, tranquil scenes that foster relaxation and peace. You'll become engrossed in these meditation journeys, each guiding you deeper into its unique setting. As the main character of every story, you embark on a richly detailed adventure, with vivid imagery that transforms you into an active participant. Whether you're wandering along pristine beaches, paddling to ...

Praise for the Author: “I convinced my husband that we needed to raise cows on our little piece of land. Now he’s hooked!” – FaithfulCowGirl Blog “This book is very much for someone who has little experience with raising cattle. I have only been on a cattle ranch once and fell in love with these gentle beasts. Start with this book!” – Mason P., Jacksonville, FL Beginner’s Handbook to Raising Beef Cattle Your Guide to Keeping & Breeding Cows for Organic Milk, Meat, & Profit! Have you ever dreamed of raising your cattle, producing high-quality organic beef and milk, or even ...

A week after her 41st birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, pro-pain "dolorists", and the many little murders of capitalism.

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine's most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans today - including Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism.

Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis reveals hard truths—powerful findings on the role of racism, coercion, inadequate prenatal care, the pressures undermining breastfeeding, and the lack of access to alternatives to a broken maternal health-care system as key threads of black women's birth experiences.

In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis looks at the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping the world. He sets the current crisis in the context of previous viral catastrophes, notably the 1918 influenza disaster that killed at least 40 million people in three months and the avian flu of a decade and a half ago that sounded a tocsin, disastrously ignored by those in power, for today's devastating outbreak.

Shaken Brain offers expert advice and urgently needed answers. Elizabeth Sandel, MD, is a board-certified physician who has spent more than three decades treating patients with traumatic brain injuries, training clinicians, and conducting research. Here she explains the scientific evidence for what happens to the brain and body after a concussion. And she shares stories from a diverse group of patients, educating listeners on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

This book provides up-to-date information on language, etiquette, and appropriate communication and conduct in treating TGNC clients, and discusses the history, cultural context, and ethical and legal issues that can arise in working with gender-diverse individuals in a clinical setting. You'll also find information about informed consent approaches that call for a shift in the role of the mental health provider in the position of assessment and referral for the purposes of gender-affirming medical care (such as hormones, surgery, and other procedures).

In this book, I will outline the different levels of care that your agency might provide according to the need you see in your community. This could range from simple companion care services with light housekeeping and friendly faces, to more skilled nursing and palliative care. The fact is that you need not be personally professionally skilled to be an agency director. You can have a heart for starting the business, do the back-end work, and hire trained professionals to work for you. I’ll show you how!

Hey, Emotional Avoiders! Let's Talk About That Thing We Don't Want to Talk About. Do you find yourself pulling away when relationships get too close? Are you constantly seeking independence, even at the cost of meaningful connections? If so, you might have an avoidant attachment style. But don't worry - this isn't a life sentence. It's an opportunity for growth and transformation. "Am I Avoidantly Attached?" is your comprehensive guide to understanding and thriving with avoidant attachment. Written by attachment expert Natalie Archer, this book offers a compassionate, insightful look into ...

Dermatologist-to-the-stars Doris Day, MD, explains how the power of your mind and breakthroughs in anti-aging can help you look and feel beyond beautiful. Do not have another treatment, procedure, or buy another product before listening to this audiobook! Did you know that your mind is as important as any aesthetic treatment to improve the way you look? Beyond Beautiful will teach you how to improve your self-perception, explain breakthrough treatments and products and when to use them, and give you a roadmap to become the most natural-looking, beautiful version of yourself.

As a social worker, jail chaplain, and justice advocate, Bethany Dearborn Hiser pushed herself to the brink of burnout - and then kept going. Stress, despair, and compassion fatigue overwhelmed her ability to function. She was called to serve the abused, addicted, and homeless people in her community. Yet she was emotionally and spiritually exhausted. Something needed to change. Searching for answers, Hiser learned that trauma affects everyone who is exposed to it - not only those experiencing firsthand violence, homelessness, and addiction, but also those who are trying to help.

Introducing "Let Go and Heal" - Your Path to Freedom and Inner Peace Are you tired of carrying the heavy burden of emotional pain and unresolved traumas? Do you find yourself stuck in a cycle of negativity and self-doubt, unable to break free and live the fulfilling life you deserve? If so, "Let Go and Heal" by renowned author and transformational coach Mark Linden O'Meara is here to guide you towards liberation and healing. Unleash the Power Within You: "Let Go and Heal" is not just another self-help book; it's a transformative journey that will empower you to let go of the past, heal your...

Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy. Well, Eric Topol isn't most doctors, and he suggests you entertain the notion of a third kind of medicine, one that will make the evidence-based state-of-the-art stuff look scarcely better than an alchemist trying to animate a homunculus in a jar.

There's a revolution going on right now. On the frontiers of medicine, some doctors have developed an approach for treating people that is more effective, more humane, and more affordable. It's an approach to healthcare that has captured the attention of the media and business elite. It's all happening at Cleveland Clinic, one of the most innovative, forward-looking medical institutions in the nation. In this groundbreaking book, Toby Cosgrove, MD, reveals how the Clinic works so well and argues persuasively for why it should be the model for the nation.

Christine Montross was a nervous first-year medical student, standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class, preparing herself for what was to come. Entering a room with stainless-steel tables topped by corpses in body bags is shocking, no matter how long you've prepared yourself, but a strange thing happened when Montross met her cadaver.

Are you tired of being sick and tired? Do you feel like you've been fighting your own body to get healthy? When it comes to your health, do you feel lost and caught up in the pattern of the world? Just looking for the next best thing to help get you healthy, to feel let down by the lack of long-term results? Maybe it's time you anchor to God's Healthcare. We get too entrenched in our daily lives with whichever way the world is pulling us, and we forget about our health, and how vital our health is. We end up allowing our health to fail, only to look for some outside-in approach to aid us. ...

In the intricate and evolving world of healthcare, the need for effective branding has never been more pronounced. "The Art of Healthcare Branding: A Guide for Strategic Planners" is an essential primer for advertising agencies and strategic planners looking to navigate the unique and challenging landscape of healthcare, pharma, and life sciences branding. This introduction delves into the nuances of healthcare branding, offering a brief step-by-step approach to operating as a strategic palnner in this lucrative yet complex market. From establishing a robust brand identity to crafting a ...

Oxford Case Histories in Infection and Microbiology contains over 45 well structured cases, providing comprehensive coverage of the diagnostic and management dilemmas in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. Each case comprises of a brief patient history with relevant clinical examination findings, thus insuring the listener is aware of how to confirm a diagnosis rapidly, with reference throughout to laboratory techniques, advice on therapy, epidemiological features, and areas which can be controversial.

In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.