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"First published in 1886 as a 'shilling shocker, ' 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay 'A Chapter on Dreams, ' and excerpts...
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A tragic accident ends Laura Nelson's career as a surgeon. After accepting a position as Vice President for Research in a large pharmaceutical company, Laura works to finalize the imminent approval of the company's groundbreaking new drug. But Jake Harter, a malicious Food and Drug Administration employee, cannot let that happen. He is obsessed with Adawia Abdul, the beautiful Iraqi scientist who discovered the drug. As soon as the drug is approved,...
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Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors® for Cancer represents the much-needed and long-overdue answer for consumers – and physicians - seeking the top cancer specialists. Castle Connolly's physician-led Research Team has tackled some of the tough issues and developed criteria for selection. Castle Connolly's well respected national survey process that has enabled them to identify the leading physicians in more than twenty medical specialties associated...
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'She said she would pray for me. I asked her why. She said she prayed for many people. I asked her why. Stooped and frail, she wore the lassitude of ninety-seven years as transparently as she wore the pale blue wool sweater that seemed to grow from her shoulders. I had seen her before in the hurried and harried rounds I make here. My progress notes say repeatedly, 'No problems reported.' But today I took the time to listen'.
Every patient tells a...
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Our primer is an elementary introduction to the complexities of use of transcriptomics in medical care. Focusing on chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS), this short book leads us through the jargon of gene names, gene symbols and the maze of transcription factors to help us begin to understand how differential activation of genes underlies all chronic illness. In the specific case of CIRS, pertinent metabolic pathways are presented, populated...
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America's broken medical system is breaking our doctors-even as they're lauded as heroes.
Physician burnout annually costs the medical industry-run by insurance companies, administrators, and electronic record systems-$5 billion. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 70% of physicians said they would not recommend a medical career to their families.
It's time for change.
In Determined, academic physician and certified coach Dr. Jimmy Turner lays out...
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Imagine a world in medicine where you feel valued, have time to spend with your family and friends and spend time with your patients instead of charting about them...
Imagine taking off two weeks at a time to go to Bali, Fiji or Tahiti! What about having a long weekend every month, just because…
Imagine taking all the best CME courses because you have a generous CME budget and 2 weeks just for learning you can use every year...
Imagine having...
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The system is broken. YOU don't have to be! Physician Wellness: The Rock Star Doctor's Guide teaches doctors how to use psychology to improve their medical practice and their lives. Using scientifically validated psychological techniques, you will gain the tools you need to: •Create a better work-life balance by setting boundaries and learning how to say 'no' •Get out of the office earlier by improving time awareness, 'real-time' charting, and...
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One of the greatest and most common criticisms of modern medicine is that physicians and healthcare providers communicate poorly with their patients. Based on decades of research, practical experience and interviews with real patients, Dr. Orsini uses his unique storytelling skills to provide practical communication techniques that help medical providers quickly build rapport and form relationships with patients and families even in the most difficult...
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Sonya M. Sloan, M.D., #OrthoDoc, has established herself as a force to be reckoned with in the male-dominated field of Orthopedic Surgery. Licensed to practice medicine in several states, she travels the country to extend the impact of her unique approach to patient care, including one of the first telemedicine companies privately owned as a partnership venture. Dr. Sloan is the quintessential fusion of her love for medicine and her passion to help...
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We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Health-care reform isnt just political rhetoric: its a reality. Its happening every dayand for you it means new ways of getting your care. Virtually every American understands we are experiencing dramatic changes in the delivery of health care and the insurance programs that pay for it. In Surviving American Medicine, Dr. Cary Presant lays the foundation to help...
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"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy...
17) Hush: a novel
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"An ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder--and realizes it's not just the law that may be coming after her"--Provided by publisher.
So as not to jeopardize her case for child custody, Lake Warren is forced to lie to the police after having just been intimate with the flirtatious Dr. Keaton who has been murdered. Wanting to protect herself from being charged with the crime, she begins her own search for the truth--not realizing that she is dangerously...
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It's the winter of 1967 and snow is on the ground in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, but the chilly weather can't stop love from warming hearts all over the county. Not just the love between a man and woman, as with young doctor, Barry Laverty, and his fiancee Sue Nolan, who are making plans to start a new life together, but also the love of an ailing pensioner for a faithful dog that's gone missing, the love of the local gentry for the...
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An Irish Country Practice is the twelfth heartwarming installment in New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series. Once, not too long ago, there was just a single Irish country doctor tending to the lively little village of Ballybucklebo: Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. Now his thriving practice is growing by leaps and bounds. Not only has O'Reilly taken a new trainee under his wing, Doctor Connor...
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