Download or read book The Last Doctor written by Jean Marmoreo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY* An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners. Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent. The Last Doctor recounts Marmoreo's crash course in MAiD and introduces a range of very different and memorable patients, some aged, some suffering from degenerative conditions or with a terminal disease, some surrounded by supportive love, some quite alone, who ask her help to end their suffering with dignity and on their own terms. Dr. Marmoreo also shares her own emotional transformation as she climbs a steep learning curve and learns the intimate truths of the vast range of end-of-life situations. What she experiences with MAiD shakes her to her core, makes her think deeply about pain, loneliness, and joy, and brings her closer to life’s most profound questions. At a time when end-of-life care and its quality are more in the public eye than ever before, The Last Doctor provides an accessibly personal, deeply humane, and authoritative guide through this difficult subject.
Download or read book The Last Doctor written by Jean Marmoreo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY* An urgently important exploration of the human stories behind Canada's evolving acceptance of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), from one of its first and most thoughtful practitioners. Dr. Jean Marmoreo spent her career keeping people alive. But when the Supreme Court of Canada gave the green light to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in 2016, she became one of a small group of doctors who chose to immediately train themselves in this new field. Over the course of a single year, Marmoreo learns about end-of-life practices in bustling Toronto hospitals, in hospices, and in the facilities of smaller communities. She found that the needed services were often minimal—or non-existent. The Last Doctor recounts Marmoreo's crash course in MAiD and introduces a range of very different and memorable patients, some aged, some suffering from degenerative conditions or with a terminal disease, some surrounded by supportive love, some quite alone, who ask her help to end their suffering with dignity and on their own terms. Dr. Marmoreo also shares her own emotional transformation as she climbs a steep learning curve and learns the intimate truths of the vast range of end-of-life situations. What she experiences with MAiD shakes her to her core, makes her think deeply about pain, loneliness, and joy, and brings her closer to life’s most profound questions. At a time when end-of-life care and its quality are more in the public eye than ever before, The Last Doctor provides an accessibly personal, deeply humane, and authoritative guide through this difficult subject.
Download or read book The Doctors Book of Food Remedies written by Selene Yeager and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tips to help you boost immunity, fight fatigue, ease arthritis, and protect your health.
Download or read book The Last Dodo written by Jacqueline Rayner and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the Tardis to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day.
Download or read book The Last Doctor She Should Ever Date written by Louisa George and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doctor Please Help Me Die written by Tom Preston MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death comes for us all, and the desire to ease into that death is as ancient as humankind. The idea that sometimes it is better to die quickly and in control of that death—rather than linger in pain and misery once impending death is certain—has troubled yet comforted humankind. In Doctor, Please Help Me Die, author Tom Preston, MD, presents a thorough overview and discussion of end-of-life issues and physician-assisted death in America. Doctor, Please Help Me Die traces the history of patients seeking relief from suffering at the end of life and discusses how cultural and professional customs have inhibited many doctors from helping their patients at the end. Preston shows how most doctors fail their patients by not discussing dying with them and by refusing to consider legal physician aid in dying—ultimately deceiving the public in their refusal to help patients die. He discusses the religious, political, and legal battles in this part of the culture war and gives advice to patients on how to gain peaceful dying. Preston presents a strong argument for why every citizen who is dying ought to be extended an inalienable right to die peacefully, and why every physician has an ethical obligation to assist patients who want to exercise this right safely, securely, and painlessly.
Download or read book How to Be a Rock Star Doctor written by Rebekah Bernard and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is well-written, accessible and useful, not only for students, residents and new docs but also for seasoned docs struggling with the complexities of today's health care system." -- Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, President of the California Academy of Family Physicians "I want to give this book to all of my physician patients, especially those who struggle with time management. A must read for any novice practitioner as well as the seasoned physician who needs to reboot their practice." -Steven Cohen, PsyD, The Center for Psychology "How to be a Rock Star Doctor" shows doctors how to get on-stage to achieve clinical and professional success, while avoiding burnout. The key is to follow the Rebekah Bernard's Rock Star rules for running a successful practice that delights patients and delivers financial and emotional rewards to the physician. The Rock Star rules teach the physician to: Convey the qualities that are the most important to patients, leading to clinical success Organize and control the office visit to maximize the patient and physician agendas Optimize time management by the use of clinical tools such as the "Problem List" and Evidence-Based-Medicine (EBM) Focus on physician-patient "face-to-face" time to maximize profitability Overcome the challenges of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) on the physician-patient relationship with time-saving methods such as customizable forms Cope with emotionally challenging patients by learning to show empathy, even when you don't feel it Use psychology to maintain your mental health and find work-life balance"
Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
Download or read book The Last Family Doctor written by Paul E. Stepansky and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Family Doctor is the story of William Stepansky, a remakable family doctor who touched thousands of lives. Beginning in 1953, he provided all the scientific medicine had to offer to the small rural communities he served in eastern Pennsylvania. And he did so with an embracing humanity, an ability to contain the pain, suffering, and anxious concern of others that is integral to the all but lost art of medicine.
Download or read book Dr Doctor s Little Back Book written by Uday Doctor and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back pain? Neck pain? Shoulder pain? Hip pain? Buttock pain? Groin pain? Rib pain? Arm or leg pain? Tailbone pain? All these types of pain are commonly due to a specific problem in the spine. Dr. Doctor's Little Back Book: All the Secrets You Need to Know about Causes and Solutions for Neck, Mid-back, and Lower Back Pain provides readers with easy-to-follow instructions to determine the specific problem creating their discomfort and simple explanations to offer the relief they seek. Written to educate and guide everyone with spine pain or other areas of musculoskeletal pain that actually originates from the spine, the Little Back Book offers insight into Dr. Doctor's unique approach to treating back pain. A lot of discomfort that people experience in different areas of the body are due to problems in their spine, including the shoulder, hip, buttock, groin, rib and mid-back, arm and leg and even the tailbone. Dr. Doctor empowers patients and health care providers alike in not only providing a clear-cut pathway in achieving a diagnosis, but provides alternatives in reaching an endpoint. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a leader in the field, noted spinal diagnostics specialist, Dr. Uday Doctor, has found that the key to managing spine pain lies in simply locating the specific structure in the spine. Too often, patients are treated without ever receiving a diagnosis. Dr. Doctor's Little Back Book offers back pain patients, health care providers, physical therapists and trainers an easy-to-use manual in diagnosing and treating specific structure based spine pain. Packed with more than 190 pictures and diagrams, Dr. Doctor's Little Back Book offers readers vital information: An in-depth explanation of how the spine creates pain How the spine causes many types of pain including shoulder pain, hip pain, arm and leg pain, buttock pain, rib pain, and even groin pain The importance of diagnosing before treating spine pain Why MRI's should be used only as a secondary tool for diagnosis Step-by-step instructions in locating the exact structure that is creating the discomfort Solving the problem of spine pain without the use of narcotics The benefit of using minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to pinpoint the source of pain The book also introduces the "Straight Spine Safe Spine Therapy and Exercise Program," which gives you a physical therapy and exercise program for each specific problem in the spine. The program also shows you how to prevent re-injuring the spine by teaching proper body posture and mechanics, as well as giving you an exercise program designed to keep you from aggravating the specific problem that was creating your pain. "The Straight Spine Safe Spine Program": Gives you a physical therapy and exercise program to decrease your pain Teaches you how to use correct body position and mechanics to prevent recurrences of pain Shows you how to exercise without inflaming the part of your spine that was creating your pain Finally, Dr. Doctor answers the most common questions that he has been asked by his patients over the last twenty years. This includes topics such as: Does Laser surgery for the spine really exist? When is radiofrequency ablation effective for spine pain? Why did my pain injections not work? Are my diagnosis of fibromyalgia, neuropathy, or restless leg syndrome actually due to a problem in my spine? Could the swelling in my legs be due to a problem in my spine? How does a herniated disc in my spine create buttock and hip pain?
Download or read book Brilliant Book 2012 written by Clayton Hickman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official guide to the hit television series featuring the eleventh Doctor.
Download or read book Relative Dementias written by Mark Michalowski and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the interstellar Tulkan Wars, the militaristic Tulkan War council was sentenced to memory-wiping and incarceration in a penal colony, bound to remain secret forever. In a retirement home in Scotland, Dr. Elizabeth Brunner, UNIT scientist and daughter of one of the Alzheimer's patients, notices disturbing happenings, and calls on her old friend, the Doctor, to investigate.
Download or read book The Doctor Who Fooled the World written by Brian Deer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Book Award Winner (Gold) in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Award for Nonfiction in the Culture Category. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished diseases have returned. And a militant "anti-vax" movement has surfaced to campaign against children's shots. But why? In The Doctor Who Fooled the World, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes the truth behind the crisis. Writing with the page-turning tension of a detective story, he unmasks the players and unearths the facts. Where it began. Who was responsible. How they pulled it off. Who paid. At the heart of this dark narrative is the rise of the so-called "father of the anti-vaccine movement": a British-born doctor, Andrew Wakefield. Banned from medicine, thanks to Deer's discoveries, he fled to the United States to pursue his ambitions, and now claims to be winning a "war." In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider cover-ups, smear campaigns and gagging lawsuits, to uncover rigged research and moneymaking schemes, the heartbreaking plight of families struggling with disability, and the scientific scandal of our time.
Download or read book Chasing My Cure written by David Fajgenbaum and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure—and became a champion for a new approach to medical research. “A wonderful and moving chronicle of a doctor’s relentless pursuit, this book serves both patients and physicians in demystifying the science that lies behind medicine.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene David Fajgenbaum, a former Georgetown quarterback, was nicknamed the Beast in medical school, where he was also known for his unmatched mental stamina. But things changed dramatically when he began suffering from inexplicable fatigue. In a matter of weeks, his organs were failing and he was read his last rites. Doctors were baffled by his condition, which they had yet to even diagnose. Floating in and out of consciousness, Fajgenbaum prayed for a second chance, the equivalent of a dramatic play to second the game into overtime. Miraculously, Fajgenbaum survived—only to endure repeated near-death relapses from what would eventually be identified as a form of Castleman disease, an extremely deadly and rare condition that acts like a cross between cancer and an autoimmune disorder. When he relapsed while on the only drug in development and realized that the medical community was unlikely to make progress in time to save his life, Fajgenbaum turned his desperate hope for a cure into concrete action: Between hospitalizations he studied his own charts and tested his own blood samples, looking for clues that could unlock a new treatment. With the help of family, friends, and mentors, he also reached out to other Castleman disease patients and physicians, and eventually came up with an ambitious plan to crowdsource the most promising research questions and recruit world-class researchers to tackle them. Instead of waiting for the scientific stars to align, he would attempt to align them himself. More than five years later and now married to his college sweetheart, Fajgenbaum has seen his hard work pay off: A treatment he identified has induced a tentative remission and his novel approach to collaborative scientific inquiry has become a blueprint for advancing rare disease research. His incredible story demonstrates the potency of hope, and what can happen when the forces of determination, love, family, faith, and serendipity collide. Praise for Chasing My Cure “A page-turning chronicle of living, nearly dying, and discovering what it really means to be invincible in hope.”—Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit “[A] remarkable memoir . . . Fajgenbaum writes lucidly and movingly . . . Fajgenbaum’s stirring account of his illness will inspire readers.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Last Man Running written by Chris Boucher and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving on a jungle planet, Doctor Who and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien lifeform, which appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh.
Download or read book Doctor Who 50 written by Justin Richards and published by Penguin Group UK. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential anniversary guide to fifty years of Doctor Who includes all eleven incarnations of the Doctor and fascinating facts on his adventures in space and time, helpful companions and fearsome foes like the Daleks, Cybermen and Ice Warriors! Find out all about the Doctor's TARDIS, his regenerations and much much more!
Download or read book The Doctor written by Nikki Sloane and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, he was a part of my life. I watched him rush to the hospital countless times, his beautiful surgeon hands racing to save lives. After all this time, I can't escape the truth. I want Dr. Lowe. Lust chokes each moment we're together. He promises to fulfill my fantasies-every dirty, naughty desire we can dream up. Only, I can't have him. He's confident. Experienced. Seductive. And he's my ex-boyfriend's father.
