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Caregiver's Survival Guide is based on Dr. Robert Yonover's personal experiences. While struggling to become a successful scientist and inventor, he also was primary caregiver for his paralyzed wife for more than twenty years and raised their two children. Yonover takes you into the throes of his life as a caregiver, husband, and father, offering guidance and hope through his story. He provides advice on:
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La enfermedad del párkinson afecta todo nuestro ser desde lo profundo e invisible hasta lo visible y superficial, aunque el efecto es diferente para cada individuo. A pesar de no parecernos físicamente, todos tenemos una cosa en común-el querer vivir una vida mejor, llena de éxito, felicidad, y amor; en si una, vida abundante. Queremos aprender a caminar con la enfermedad al lado pero no controlados por ella.Por lo tanto los Viviendo más allá...
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Dr. Michael J. Young, a physician for 3 decades sheds light on the current debacle of the medical health delivery system in America. His powerful book is an important message and honest look behind and around the process of health care delivery, from the perspective of both patient and provider. The book examines and reviews how one experiences medical treatment from both sides of the table. The significant obstacles patients endure, as well as the...
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On August 7, 2012 Camden Clark Medical Center announced the impending closure of the St. Joseph's Hospital campus in Parkersburg, WV. Among the reasons provided for closure of the hospital were upcoming changes established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Being a person who was born at St Joseph's and raised in Parkersburg, I was moved by the news of the upcoming closure. Being a physician and a healthcare consultant whose life and...
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What if there's a scandal lurking in healthcare, waiting to break?
MRI contrasts are a billion-dollar industry, with over one hundred million people around the globe having been injected, believing in good faith that it was necessary and safe. But what if we got it wrong? What if that trust was misplaced?
Do MRI contrasts genuinely cause gadolinium toxicity in vulnerable and unsuspecting people?
What do we really know about gadolinium, the toxic...
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Death is increasingly on the agenda for baby boomers moving ever closer to it. Timothy Leary brings some startlingly fresh ideas to this topic. Fundamentally, he claims, we have been brainwashed by our institutions government, organized religion, the healthcare industry to accept death as an inevitable end. Leary argues instead that death is misunderstood, that we don't have to die, and that there are "commonsense alternatives." His theory rests on...
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To think of not washing the hands often throughout the day can lead to profound consequences. Indeed, inadequate handwashing in this era can result in sickness or death. Human hands encounter many objects and other people, all through the day. Commodities carry germs, and so do other people's hands. The hands can be visibly or invisibly dirty. Therefore, dashing through the day, handling money, shaking hands, visiting the restroom, handling door knobs,...
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In Off Balance, The American Way of Health, author and pharmacist Dr. Leyla Ali's shares her unique perspective of a failing healthcare system in a colorful and easy-to-read format. After reading this book, Dr. Leyla hopes the reader will not only understand the limitations of doctors and drugs, but also take responsibility for their own health and start seeking holistic and alternative solutions for their own healthcare needs.
You will discover...
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As the years unfolded for me, a recurring desire was trying to rhyme words. Limericks offered the opportunity along with the challenge of meter. Of the many that have been penned, I have summoned the courage to select those enclosed, sprinkled with satire and a dash of poetic license. One target of the satire is the system of medical care existing for patients and doctors alike. For both, insurance carriers and the federal government dictate the parameters...
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While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is incredibly difficult. This book concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities. Among the topics covered are how to recognize signs that a family member needs extra support, determining whether in-home care is a viable option, the different...
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American Health Care: A System in Crisis discusses the countless problems found within the American health-care system. There is the discussion from various vantage points including the insurance companies, health-care providers, and the patient/consumer. It further discusses the government's role in this ever-growing national crisis. Upon discussing the many areas found in health care, a serious dialogue ensues as to possible cures to the cancerous...
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This book is an autobiographical account focusing on plastic surgery medi-tourism and travel in Bogota during the Covid pandemic that was part of a larger trip to Colombia in general. The book will be of interest to those interested in plastic surgery or medical services performed abroad at a comparatively lower cost to those in the United States. It also focuses on topics of usual interest to would-be travelers such as optimizing travel arrangements,...
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If you are like most people, entering a hospital is a lot like entering hostile, foreign territory. The surroundings are unfamiliar, everyone speaks a different tongue, and the natives are suspicious of strangers. If you are unfortunate to have to go there, the inhabitants sometimes either ignore you or treat you with complete indifference. If they make an effort to communicate, they talk to you like a child. If you ask for directions, they sometimes...
15) Sime Darby
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IN AN AREA ONCE HOME TO AN OIL PALM PLANTATION CALLED SEAFIELD ESTATE that was nestled in Selangor, Malaysia's Klang Valley, Subang Jaya has matured rapidly into a modern community with plenty of amenities including schools, public transportation, a fully integrated high speed broadband Internet service network, large retail anchor stores, and vibrant commercial districts that have thrived much like other areas in and around the Kuala Lumpur metropolitan...
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Human mortality is real and unavoidable. The death of a beloved is an irreparable loss that leaves the bereaved with deep sense of emptiness, emotional crumbliness, speechlessness and confusion. The loss of a beloved can sometimes feel like an earthquake of highest magnitude, which shakes up the core of one's being. Some may feel as though they are, faced with spiritual and emotional tsunami. In the wake of this life-changing incident, it is also...
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Las sociedades se basan en el principio del derecho inalienable a la vida y, en efecto, los Estados tienen el deber de preservarla. La eutanasia se basa en otro principio, uno humano: acortar el sufrimiento innecesario de un enfermo terminal. Por supuesto, diferentes culturas y diferentes cuerpos de leyes tienen diferentes evaluaciones sobre el tema. El derecho al suicidio asistido o a la llamada "muerte digna" genera debates: los partidarios se preguntan...
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In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing...
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National polls show that Americans are increasingly concerned about vaccine safety and the right to make individual, informed choices together with their healthcare practitioners. Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history, Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform....
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"The Insider's Guide to Living Kidney Donation: Everything You Need to Know If You Give (or Get) the Greatest Gift" offers nontechnical information and practical advice, and the multifaceted guidance that potential and past donors and kidney patients need. The book explains what to expect before and after the donation and helps recipients deal with the often-neglected, nonmedical aspects of their experience.
Deciding to be a living kidney donor,...
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