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"In short, engaging scenarios, Dr. Appel takes on hot-button issues that many of us will confront: genetic screening, sexuality, privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality. He unpacks each hypothetical with a brief reflection drawing from science, philosophy, and history, explaining how others have approached these controversies in real-world cases. Who Says You're Dead? is designed to defy easy answers and to stimulate thought and even debate among...
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"Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities, the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system--and in Just Medicine, Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise...
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Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri's death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called...
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Gavin Hamilton's research shows that a toxin found in natural rubber might well have been the culprit in the 43 babies' deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980-81. In 1980-81, 43 babies died at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children from a supposed digoxin overdose. Serial murder was suspected, leading to the arrest of nurse Susan Nelles. In order to clear Nelles's name, an investigation was launched to find an alternate explanation....
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Prescribing medicines for patients with dysphagia and swallowing difficulties provides additional challenges to the prescriber. Medicines are usually prescribed as tablets and capsules and for a variety of reasons these may not provide the most appropriate choice. This book outlines the legal, pharmacological and clinical issues which should be considered when selecting the most appropriate course of action and provides practical advice on how best...
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Is Your Medical Practice Due For A Business Medical?
Have you started a medical business, but found that working harder isn't growing the practice?
Do you want to know what's holding back your business?
Have you always been the smartest person in the room, but somehow you just can't seem to get on top of everything now that you are a practice owner?
Many medical professionals feel like they've been studying their whole life, through Medical...
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Wounded Workers: Tales from a Working Man's Shrink is Dr. Bob Larsen's first book intended for an audience of folks who have worked or are still working. The book recounts the stories of America's workforce subjected to physical and psychological trauma for doing their jobs. Tales from the trenches, of workers tormented by ill fortune, both natural and manmade, is the book's focus. A bank teller robbed one too many times, a paramedic who cannot save...
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Esta obra analiza el daño indemnizable a favor del paciente frente al incumplimiento de las obligaciones derivadas del consentimiento informado, ya sea que se concreten o no los riesgos previsibles que no se informaron. En función de ello, el libro examina acontecimientos relevantes que dan cuenta del cambio conceptual en torno a la toma de decisiones en la relación médico-paciente, además, pone en evidencia su incipiente aplicabilidad en el...
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Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes. Today's medical system, without intervention, privileges those within shared cultures of communication and disadvantages those lacking power and position, such as...
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Our schools and healthcare institutions have abandoned the Hippocratic Oath and the Declaration of Geneva and replaced it with a policy of lethalism ...This is a direct result of the Court's acceptance and promotion of archaic scientific reasoning (Roe v. Wade) that, at best, would be considered pre-medieval and clearly out of touch with scientific reality. Fallout includes the expansion into fetal experimentation, human cloning, embryonic stem cell...
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Aborda temas relacionados con la salud pública aplicada a la odontología. Incluye disciplinas de la salud pública como la epidemiología, la promoción de la salud y la administración, e incluye una descripción del sistema de salud en México, el Programa de Fluoruración de la Sal y las principales normas de salud bucal. Al final incorpora ejercicios de evaluación. Libro de texto que sirve de apoyo para las asignaturas de Salud Pública y Odontología...
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It is too early to conclude that vitamin E has all the beneficial effects attributed to it, but even if only 25% of current expectations were to be fulfilled, vitamin E would become an important weapon against a range of chronic diseases.
The book is not simply scientific and education but also a please to read.
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El 11 de julio de 2012 el Congreso colombiano expidió la Ley 1562 que modificó el Sistema General de Riesgos Profesionales y dictó algunas normas en salud ocupacional. La nueva ley cambió la denominación de los riesgos para estar en concordancia con lo establecido por el Convenio 187 de 2006 de la OIT y, así mismo modificó el término de prescripción de las prestaciones económicas del Sistema, amplió la definición de accidente de trabajo,...
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La tesis de este libro inspirador es simple: debemos aprender de figuras ejemplares como John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King y Salvador Allende, quienes con firmeza se rehusaron a ceder ante la tentación de la violencia desatada. Pero también de quienes, como los caribeños Frantz Fanon y Gabriel García Márquez o Julio Cortázar, nos enseñan que allí donde persiste la injusticia la lucha por realizar la justicia continúa. Sobre todo, debemos...
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Desde el análisis cualitativo, mediante entrevistas a profundidad a trabajadores, sindicalistas, profesionales, empresarios y actores claves de la industria azucarera, esta obra analiza los cambios en los tipos de contratación de los corteros, avaladas por iniciativas legales, que han incidido en la precarización, la tercerización laboral y la fragmentación del colectivo de trabajadores. La adhesión al Pacto Global y la posterior publicación...
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This report analyzes the complexities of health financing in Papua New Guinea with a focus on resource allocation, use, and accountability. It explores information gaps and transparency issues that undermine health service delivery and outcomes. Recommendations in this report aim to improve health sector governance and capacity, which will ultimately contribute to a more robust and equitable health care system.
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Having a loved one in a long-term care community (commonly called "nursing home") is difficult in the best of circumstances, but what happens when you have a problem with the care your loved one is receiving? Who can you turn to when you have questions? Have you ever been told: No, we can't give your mom three baths a week; we are only required to give two baths a week. Or, If you don't like the care your dad is getting, why don't you move him? Or,...
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The Insanity Myth is a discourse on the psychology and neurology of psychosomatic disorders or so-called "mental illnesses" and "altered states of consciousness," given as part of the classic argument between the medical sciences and the humanities, in this case neurology/psychiatry and the "uncovering therapies." The work aims to reach a broad audience of those interested in subjective material and, although some of the neurological material may...
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In this book, Dr. Vukmir defines both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the emergency department(ED) practice. The Emergency Department(ED) drives the efficiency of the remainder of the hospital, perhaps more, than most other medical care unit. It is the "front door" of hospital and often forms the first impression of the facility.
The book begins with an outline of the efficacy, the "best circumstance" operation, versus effectiveness or...
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