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"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social...
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"What a terrific book….[Weston] leaves you feeling that if push came to shove you'd want to be operated on by her."
-Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography
The continuing popularity of doctor shows on TV-from Scrubs, House, and Grey's Anatomy to the television phenomenon ER-indicates a widespread fascination with all things medical. Direct Red, by practicing ear, nose, and throat surgical specialist Gabriel Weston, takes...
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In this age of same-day surgery and do-it-yourself health, Knee Surgery presents an easy-to-do, well-illustrated program of movement for knee rehabilitation - with a special focus on the mind/body connection - and describes the physical and mental rehabilitation process in complete detail, providing all the guidance you need to decrease pain and increase fitness after knee surgery.
Millions of people have knee surgery each year, and in the years...
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Lauren Stevenson, having had plastic surgery in the Bahamas and started a new life in Boston, begins to worry she is not safe after a couple of life-threatening accidents and the arrival of Matt Kruger, a handsome and passionate man who claims to be a friend of her dead brother.
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The human brain is a powerful organ. There s so much we don t know about how it works; what we do know is astounding. For example, information in your brain can move as fast as 265 miles (425 km) per hour faster than a racecar! This truly entertaining and informative volume is full of fascinating facts about the human brain for the brain surgeons of tomorrow. They ll learn how we know about the brain, what we re trying to learn, and even the basics...
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"The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously...
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If you'd like to improve your vision and reduce or eliminate your need for glasses or contacts, perhaps you're considering LASIK. This procedure has become one of the most popular vision correction surgeries in the nation with 9 million Americans undergoing LASIK procedures annually. But, before you entrust your eyes to a surgeon, make sure you become an informed consumer. In LASIK-A Guide to Laser Vision Correction, three ophthalmologists, who together...
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In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a...
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a...
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Approximately one out of every 10 women has endometriosis, an inflammatory disease that causes chronic pain, limits life's activities, and may lead to infertility. Despite the disease's prevalence, the average woman may suffer for a decade or more before receiving an accurate diagnosis. Once she does, she's often given little more than a prescription for pain killers and a referral for the wrong kind of surgery. Beating Endo arms women with what...
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Enchanting Regency-era gothic romance intertwined with inspiration from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Travel writer Amelia Balfour's dream of touring Egypt is halted when she receives news of a revolutionary new surgery for her grotesquely disfigured brother. This could change everything, and it does. . .in the worst possible way. Surgeon Graham Lambert has suspicions about the doctor he's gone into practice with, but he can't stop him from operating...
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Joshua Bederson is the chief of Neurosurgery at the esteemed Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. New Yorker writer John Colapinto brings to vivid life what Dr. Bederson's professional life is like to show all the varied facets of his work, from extensive study and research to brain operations, one-on-one consultations with patients, and even staff meetings with fellow surgeons and students. Since Mt. Sinai is a teaching hospital, we learn alongside...
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"A life-saving and empowering guide to understanding breast cancer detection, prevention, and treatment options, from two top doctors in the field-Rachel Brem, a breast radiologist, and Christy Teal, a breast surgeon-who have also made the personal decisions to have mastectomies"--
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The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff-now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue.
When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and potentially devastating, Bosk found that they could be...
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Discover the miraculous power of mindset and motivation. This is the incredible true story of my lifelong battle against sickle cell disease and how against all the odds, I was able to beat it. Starting from my unconventional and at times, tragic childhood experiences, I describe how the condition adversely affected so much of my life, yet also helped make me become the strong, positive person I am today. In the book, I also describe my life-saving...
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A sequel to Volume 2 of the ISHLT Monograph series, this book is not a textbook; rather each chapter tries to focus on specific topics within the field that pediatric cardiac practitioners currently face, often on a daily basis. Many of these topics have only evolved in recent years, which makes the content more timely and of interest to the reader.
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Meet Jill Ortiz, an average girl turned hero for six unsuspecting individuals in need of a new chance at life. This is her story of how she went from being an ordinary girl living in Cincinnati, Ohio, to moving to Napa Valley, California, and taking on one of the most important decisions of her life.
Being prompted by a deep faith and what she believes was a whisper from God, Jill made the life altering decision to donate one of her kidneys to...
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Learning the techniques of surgical knot tying can be difficult at the beginning. This book covers the most common one and two handed tying techniques and instrument ties needed by a general surgical resident or medical student.
It expands on traditional knots to include advanced intracorporeal and extracorporeal knots useful in laparoscopic and arthroscopic surgery. Step-by-step instructions are given for tying these complex knots and for ending...
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Whoever wishes to adopt microsurgery as a technique within their therapeutic repertoire should know that it demands skills that develop in the microsurgery laboratory. This handbook intends to aid in the acquisition and development of those skills necessary to perform a microsurgical procedure of excellence.
Keeping up with the changes observed in educational processes, this guide uses explanatory videos in all the techniques described making the...
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THE NEUROSURGERY BOARD FAVORITES: CROSSWORD PUZZLES is the FIRST PUZZLE BOOK in the medical specialties dedicated to bring out the "lighter" aspect of studying neurosurgery.
■ 50 NEUROSURGERY-ORIENTED CROSSWORD PUZZLES with a total of 524-QUESTIONS included. The puzzles arranged by topic and difficulty as "basic" and "advanced".
■ Coverage includes general essential areas in neurosurgery, with a special focus on hard-to-retain facts.
■ COGNITIVE...
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