Medicine
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Adult Nursing at a Glance (At a Glance (Nursing and Healthcare))
Everything you need to know about Adult Nursing…at a Glance!
Adult Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for study and revision for Adult Nursing students from the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series.
This title blends up-to-date evidence and essential knowledge from expert experience of nursing practice, research and teaching, in an easy-to-follow guide for student and newly qualified nurses. Adult Nursing at a Glance covers the essential components of excellent nursing, highlighting the skills that all students need to develop from the outset of their studies, and encompassing organisational and leadership skills. With an emphasis on patient care and dignity, this title is the perfect guide to healthcare delivery, management and professional development.
• Follows a simple structure based around systems of the body for quick access to information, with the most common disorders of these systems
• Is accompanied by a comprehensive companion website with self-testing features
• Ward and Primary Care covered throughout the text
• Contains all the information you need to provide the best patient care, including care planning, symptom control, communication and health promotion.
This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from iTunes, Google Play or the MedHand Store.
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Life in the Victorian Hospital
Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private medical treatment at home or, later, in a practitioner’s consulting room. The middle classes might also pay for their treatment but, in addition, they could attend one of an increasing number of specialist hospitals. The working classes could get free treatment from charitable voluntary hospitals or dispensaries. For the abject poor who were receiving poor relief, their only option was to seek treatment at the workhouse infirmary. The experience of a patient going into hospital at this time was vastly different from that at the end. This was not just in terms of being attended by trained nurses or in the medical and surgical advances which had taken place. Different methods for treating diseases and the use of antiseptic and aseptic techniques to combat killer hospital infections led to a much higher standard of care than was previously available.
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Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law (Oxford Medical Handbooks)
The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law is the definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice. It is written with the busy clinician in mind who will not have time to read lengthy and complex legal or philosophical documents but requires the key information presented without technical jargon in a handy quick-reference style. The handbook also includes a substantial number of examples taken from a wide variety of
specialties with the relevant legal and ethical issues clearly explained, so that the reader can see how these principles play out in day-to-day patient care. Both medical students and current professionals will find this an essential practical resource.Read more
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Power of Vitamin D: A Vitamin D Book That Contains The Most Scientific, Useful And Practical Information About Vitamin D – Hormone D
The pandemic of Coronavirus stirred a huge interest in vitamin D by the public as well as by researchers around the world. The big question everyone asks, “Is there any scientific evidence that vitamin D may prevent as well as treat COVID-19?” The simple answer is Yes. But only if the dose is correct.In “Power of Vitamin D”, Dr. Sarfraz Zaidi, MD – a former Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA – elaborates on the excellent clinical studies which provide scientific evidence that vitamin D may be able to not only reduce your chances of catching COVID-19, but also reduce your mortality if you end up getting it. Dr. Zaidi provides the precise dose of vitamin D against COVID-19.
Besides COVID-19, vitamin D is extremely important for maintaining our health. It affects every organ system in the body – from immune system to heart to kidneys to skin and the bones, to name a few.
Dr. Zaidi explains why most people continue to be low in Vitamin D—despite the vitamins they take, the food they eat, the milk they drink or the sun exposure they get.
In “Power of Vitamin D”, you will learn:
•Why we are facing a true Pandemic of Vitamin D deficiency.
•The crucial role Vitamin D may play in the Prevention as well as Treatment of various Cancers.
•How Vitamin D may help Prevent Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension and Kidney Disease.
•How Vitamin D may Prevent as well as Treat Muscle Aches, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Bone Pains and Osteoporosis.
•The vital role that Vitamin D plays to help you fight off Colds, Flu and other infections by boosting up your Immune System.
•How Vitamin D may Prevent as well as Treat Autoimmune diseases such as Asthma, Lupus, Arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Thyroid Diseases.
•How Vitamin D may Prevent as well as Treat Multiple Sclerosis, Autism, Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurologic diseases
•The essential role of Vitamin D during Pregnancy for Mothers and Babies.
•Doctor often miss the Diagnosis of Vitamin D deficiency because they order the wrong test.
•The right test to Diagnose Vitamin D deficiency
•The best way to Prevent and Treat Vitamin D deficiency.
•What is Vitamin D Toxicity and how to Prevent it.
•Amazing health benefits of Calcium And Magnesium. How much you need on a daily basis.
•Incredible health benefits of Vitamin K2. Its synergism with Vitamin D.Read more
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The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive—but that’s not what makes them unaffordable.Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate. And while we’ve struggled for decades to agree on solutions that serve all patients without jeopardizing the invention of new medicines, many Americans suffer because they can’t afford the drugs they need.
Do we really have to choose between affordability and innovation?
In The Great American Drug Deal, scientist and industry expert Peter Kolchinsky answers this question with a decisive No. The pharmaceutical industry’s commitment to creating new lifesaving drugs destined to become inexpensive generics can be balanced by the healthcare system’s commitment to making those drugs affordable for all patients—a Biotech Social Contract. Through deep research and compelling stories of breakthroughs and breakdowns, Kolchinsky presents solutions for striking a balance that are bold yet realistic and tackle today’s most pressing questions, including:
Why doesn’t insurance make drugs affordable?
How can we prevent price-jacking of older drugs?
Why are drugs more expensive in America than elsewhere?
How can we guarantee that all medicines eventually go generic so they are only temporarily expensive?
What systemic failures led to the opioid crisis, and how can we prevent the next one?The Great American Drug Deal offers clear-eyed scrutiny of all players in the industry and examines vital ideas for closing loopholes, encouraging investment, dealing with bad actors, and educating consumers. It’s time we resolve to support patients and fuel discoveries that ease suffering now and for generations to come.
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
This edition does not include illustrations.
A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.
Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. In this titanic history of medicine and disease, Roy Porter examines the traditions of East and West to chart how this revolution has come about.
Covering medical milestones big and small – from dissection to surgery and from anaesthesia to AIDS – Roy Porter’s masterpiece is both a superlative history of medicine and a sweeping survey of human life and death.
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This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better
‘When you want to sort medical fact from medical fiction, Dr Karan is your man. This is the only book that will have you laughing and learning in equal measure’ Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before
_______________________________The hilarious, myth-busting survival guide to the human body from TikTok’s favourite General Surgeon.
Though the odds are stacked against us, the human body has an extraordinary tendency to survive…
Full of hard-learned lessons and health hacks from Dr Karan Rajan’s years working the hospital wards, This Book May Save Your Life is a head-to-toe ode to our amazing bodies – warts and all – that will help you to worry less and live better for longer.
Here, Dr Karan explains the weird and wonderful bodily functions that keep us going, and offers practical advice to help you thrive when things go wrong, including:
THE DANGERS OF PLUCKING YOUR NOSE HAIRS
YOUR UNTAPPED NATURAL REFLEXES TO COMBAT STRESS
HOW TO MANAGE PAIN WITH SIMPLE MIND TRICKS
AND WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HOLD IN A FART
_______________________________‘I’ll never look at my anus the same way’ Hayley Morris, bestselling author of Me Vs Brain
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This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better
‘When you want to sort medical fact from medical fiction, Dr Karan is your man. This is the only book that will have you laughing and learning in equal measure’ Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before
_______________________________The hilarious, myth-busting survival guide to the human body from TikTok’s favourite General Surgeon.
Though the odds are stacked against us, the human body has an extraordinary tendency to survive…
Full of hard-learned lessons and health hacks from Dr Karan Rajan’s years working the hospital wards, This Book May Save Your Life is a head-to-toe ode to our amazing bodies – warts and all – that will help you to worry less and live better for longer.
Here, Dr Karan explains the weird and wonderful bodily functions that keep us going, and offers practical advice to help you thrive when things go wrong, including:
THE DANGERS OF PLUCKING YOUR NOSE HAIRS
YOUR UNTAPPED NATURAL REFLEXES TO COMBAT STRESS
HOW TO MANAGE PAIN WITH SIMPLE MIND TRICKS
AND WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER HOLD IN A FART
_______________________________‘I’ll never look at my anus the same way’ Hayley Morris, bestselling author of Me Vs Brain
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£7.60