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"In Dear Life, palliative care specialist Dr. Rachel Clarke recounts her professional and personal journey to understand not the end of life, but life at its end. Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty...
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In this partially autobiographical work, best-selling author Lewis Thomas offers insights on subjects as wide-ranging as gender differences, how it feels to be a patient, human vs. computer intelligence, the future of cancer research, and the longevity of the planet-interspersing all with charming anecdotes about his family, his colleagues and himself.
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"Linda Olson and her husband, Dave Hodgens, were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then, while they were vacationing in Germany, a train hit their van, shattering their lives--and Linda's body. When Linda saw Dave for the first time after losing her right arm and both of her legs, she told him she would understand if he left. His response: "I didn't marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it, I can do it." In order...
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Dr. Sylvester "Skip" Sviokla lived life as a successful, driven, athletic, and brilliant graduate of Harvard Medical School, reveling in wealth and glamour......until addiction brought his life crashing down. This real-life "Dr. House" had it all (he thought) until addiction took everything. Miraculously, recovery gave him back his family, self-respect, and much more.
6) You what?!: humorous stories, cautionary tales, and unexpected insights about a career in medicine
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"The end of residency isn't the utopia you might have imagined. You know what to do with the medical stuff, but what about navigating private practice, unfamiliar hospitals and...patients! In this collection of absurd moments, practical advice and humorous tales from the medical trenches, Dr. John Chase shares stories from his 40 years as an Orthopaedic surgeon and offers insight into how to be successful, have fun and take care of patients without...
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El movimiento corporal es un rasgo inherente al ser humano y una de las principales características de la población infantil. Paradójicamente, este grupo etario se ve afectado de forma significativa por el sedentarismo. Esta obra es un recorrido conceptual, aplicado y experiencial que aborda las bases biológicas, los procesos de evaluación y prescripción y la complejidad sociopolítica de la actividad física en niños, niñas y adolescentes...
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Fellow physician colleague, you've come to the right place. The Doctor Me First Workbook has all the mindset exercises and kicks of encouragement you need to move out of burnout and into a career and life you love.
Inspiring, information sections of the book include:
• Working Your Inner Burn
• Detoxing Your Environment
• Next Steps Forward
• Never Going Back
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The secret to healing from physician burnout, re-connecting with loved ones and rediscovering daily joy resides in an unlikely place: the comedy club.
In Prescription Comedy, author Dr. Pranathi Kondapaneni shares her personal journey with on-the-job burnout and how an almost accidental foray into the world of comedy proved key to her cure.
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• Why so many physicians succumb to burnout and suffer a loss of faith as they toil...
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A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands...
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo shares the inspiring story of how he came to be who he is. After experiencing abuse as a child, Dr. Ladapo was incapable of connecting emotionally with other people. He was dissociated from virtually everything in his life and numbly powered through college, medical school, and residency to become a doctor and university professor. It wasn't until he fell in love with his wife that he was forced to come face-to-face...
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"Healing Happens" brings you insight and inspiration from health and healing experts who cured themselves and others despite dire medical prognoses from over twenty illnesses including cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. Enhance the power to heal yourself through natural healing techniques and awareness in order to comfortably, energetically, and joyfully live your passions. Some of the people in the stories in this book were in wheelchairs...
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