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Is waking up with fatigue, aches, and pains getting old for you? Your labwork is "normal." Your doctors shrug their shoulders. And you're left wondering where in the world your energy and vitality could possibly have gone, especially when you're trying to "do all the right things." Dr. Linda Goggin invites you on a lively journey to Feel Good Again, because robust good health is your birthright and YOU deserve to feel fantastic!

As James Kildare, M.D. lends his hard-won experience and insights into the cases that come into his care, aided by the sage counsel of Dr. Leonard Gillespie, the series ups the ante with some surprising complications while continuing to deliver an all-star line-up of guest stars.

"A woman born with perfect memory suddenly develops a series of eerie psychological symptoms--blackouts, hallucinations, premonitions, an inexplicable sense of dread. It is the first year after her child is born, and she and her untraditional psychiatrist struggle to solve the mystery of what is happening to Jane, to her mind. Then Jane suddenly goes missing and is found a day later lying unconscious in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, with no memory of...

Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby becomes obsessed with helping a young patient who's suffering from extreme personality disorder. However, it soon leads her into occult danger as she tries to escape from a horrific fate.

Set in the labor ward with all its hilarity and heart-lifting highs but also its gut-wrenching lows, the show delivers a brutally honest depiction of life as a junior doctor on the wards, and the toll the job can take back home.

Conflictos, dilemas y paradojas: cine y bioética en el inicio de la vida es el segundo libro de la serie "El cine en la enseñanza de la bioética", producto del trabajo del Semillero de Bioética y Derecho Médico de la Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad del Rosario. Los temas abordados en esta obra confluyen en los conflictos bioéticos y jurídicos en escenarios como: la interrupción del embarazo, las tecnologías de...

El doctor Ramón Sierra, con una finalidad divulgativa, quiere exponer sus vivencias, hechos a veces profundos que muestran su evolución entre pacientes con dolor. Son historias que serán útiles a otras personas, que podrán ayudar a las familias a encontrar el camino como el autor fue encontrando el suyo. El libro llega avalado por la Asociación Andaluza del Dolor y Asistencia Continuada y por el Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Córdoba....

La necesidad de este documento surgió de la docencia. Hay poca literatura ecuatoriana que refleje análisis y lecciones aprendidas en diálogos de relación médico-paciente. Particularmente, el ícono que motivó este trabajo fue el libro Conversation Repair (1995) de Frederic Platt, así como fueron también inspiradores los trabajos de Francesc Borrell, quien ha analizado diálogos en consultas clínicas, en especial, sus textos Entrevista clínica....

We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn't. This new book shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. Dr. Reznik describes actual cases from his clinical practice showing the most common paths that lead to increased patient suffering. This book offers possible solutions for outpatient, inpatient, preventive,...

Too often, we choose the wrong doctor for the wrong reasons. It doesn't have to be that way. In The Good Doctor, Ken Brigham, MD, and Michael M.E. Johns, MD, argue that we need to change the way we think about health care if we want to be the healthiest we can be. Counterintuitive as it may seem, uncertainty is integral to medicine, and you want a doctor who knows that: someone who sees you as the unique case you are, someone who knows that data isn't...