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This fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvelously eccentric vet Calum Buchanan.
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All creatures great and small volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
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920L
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Continues the memoirs of Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, as life for Herriot, his wife, and two children gets back to normal after World War II.
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All creatures great and small volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
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880L
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In the midst of World War II, the Yorkshire veterinarian muses on past adventures through the Yorkshire dales, visiting with old friends and introducing scores of new characters--both human and animal.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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990L
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A Yorkshire veterinarian describes the adventures and experiences of his career as he tends to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs, and their eccentric owners, in a celebration of the relationships between human and animal.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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990L
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In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. From caring for his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary...
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Doctor and medical columnist John Launer has written on the practice and teaching of medicine for many years. Now, more than fifty of his essays have been collected in How Not to Be A Doctor. Taken together, they set out an argument that being a doctor-a real doctor-should mean being able to draw on every aspect of yourself, your interests, and your experiences, however remote these may seem from the medical task of the moment.
Originating from popular...
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Is it smart to skip your annual physical? Should you put your trust in medical research? Is "low T" an actual disease? This book will examine these questions and more you've always wondered about in a collection of 50 essays on the practice of medicine. The Doctor Will See You Now is a quirky and eclectic collection of short essays that explore evolving patient-physician relationship and reporting on medicine; famous doctors and notorious patients;...
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Ve lo mismo que yo la persona que tengo al lado? ¿Por qué los piratas llevaban parche? ¿Las mujeres pueden ver más colores que los hombres? ¿Qué relación hay entre la sinestesia y la psicodelia? En el futuro ¿habrá herramientas que nos permitan tener visión mejorada?
Poder percibir el mundo que nos rodea, sus formas, sus colores, distinguir el movimiento, los contrastes y otras características que nuestros ojos son capaces de recibir, y...
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Caring for patients is a privilege. Learning how to assist and watch patients as they grapple with the challenges and joys life dishes out is a process. If we are paying attention, we gain insights into our own struggles. Medical students from across Minnesota reflect on their experiences in the anatomy lab and the library, on the hospital wards and in clinic exam rooms. Their musings represent the universal experience of learning to negotiate the...
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After their successful books What Killed Jane Austen? and How Isaac Newton Lost his Marbles, Dr Leavesley and Dr Biro turn their attention once again to a new collection of medical mysteries and marvels. Written with Leavesley and Biro's clinical flair and knack for diagnosing the truth, Flies in the Ointment: Medical Quacks, Quirks and Oddities reveals the often dark and seamy side of human nature and uncovers the important details the forensic pathologists...
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Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining effective teams? Collaborative Caring takes an unusual approach to the topic of teamwork. Editors Suzanne Gordon, David L. Feldman, MD, and Michael Leonard, MD, have gathered fifty engaging first-person...
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reflections and insights on health, disease, and healing
Now in paperback for the first time, A Piece of My Mind brings together revealing personal essays that first appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). These engrossing, moving vignettes--written by physicians, patients, family members, medical students, and others--offer a unique glimpse into the everyday experiences and relationships in the medical world.
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Today's pharmaceutical industry, like most industries, is driven by profits above anything else. Before investing in any new drug, pharmaceutical companies first take a long and hard look at the market for the drug in question, and then predict what the potential payoff will be nationally here in the United States and in the global marketplace as well. Even if a drug has a market and potential for huge payoff, unique to the drug industry are three...
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Este Manual trata de ayudar a los profesionales de la salud para que puedan encarar investigaciones, publicaciones y conferencias sobre investigación clínica.
Se incluyen breves fragmentos de la historia de la investigación clínica y algunas biografías, no siendo un texto de historia de la medicina, sino sólo de investigación clínica. Resulta arbitrariamente una muestra de los orígenes de nuestra actividad.
Se completa con capítulos de búsquedas...
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The days, the seasons, the years pass by...
Our body can predict and prepare itself for the environmental changes. Predictability is very important to optimize its performance.
However, how do our cells know when it is day, night, summer or winter?
They need a signal, and that's where melatonin comes in. It is a hormone produced by a gland in the middle of our brain called pineal gland. Pineal gland only produces melatonin at night (and in the...
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Francisco González Crussí nació en la Ciudad de México, en 1936. Es médico por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, especializado en anatomía patológica en los Estados Unidos y en Canadá. Es profesor emérito en la Universidad Northwestern de Chicago, en la que enseña patología pediátrica. Además, es un prolífico ensayista científico-literario, con un enfoque humanista sobre temas médicos, literarios, filosóficos y fisiológicos....
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Le 12 mars 2020, je suis contacté pour commenter les décisions du Conseil national de sécurité au JT du soir. Problème, j'ai prévu de passer la soirée avec ma fille de 17 ans. Elle m'accompagne à la RTBF et je lui dis que ce sera juste une intervention de trois minutes. Sauf que le Conseil traîne et je me retrouve embarqué dans un direct de près de trois heures durant lesquelles il faut meubler. Sur le plateau, nous parlons des épidémies...
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We've all been bitten. And we all have stories.
The bite attacks featured in this dramatic book take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history. Some are as familiar and contemporary as encounters with mosquitoes in New York City and snakes in southern California's Hollywood Hills or as exotic and foreign as the tsetse in equatorial Africa, the camel in Riyadh, and the Komodo dragon in Indonesia....
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Comment aborder les conflits de valeurs qui sont omniprésents dans le domaine médical et dans notre société?
L'approche de la bioéthique consiste à rechercher des normes qui emporteraient l'approbation de tous.
Devant l'évidence d'un pluralisme moral irréductible, Marta Spranzi propose au contraire de partir des situations particulières, dans lesquelles on recherche ce qu'il serait bien de faire: c'est l'approche de l'éthique clinique....
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Este libro nace del interés de las instituciones académicas latinoamericanas y europeas agrupadas en el Colectivo Iberoamericano de Bioética y Cine (CIBC) en contribuir a la búsqueda de sentido en medio del absurdo que representa la perseverancia de la vida durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Sin aspirar a conclusiones definitivas sobre un proceso histórico trascendental en los planos subjetivos y comunitarios, reúne trece escritos breves que dan...
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