Download or read book Whose Kidneys Are These Anyway written by By K. K. Ricky and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah was happy to give her ailing husband her kidney until she found out he was diddling her former friend. Then she wanted it back. The humorous short story collections Five Tales from the Liars Bench and Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contain this funny tall tale.
Download or read book Tall Stories From the Liar s Bench written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These funny tall tales are anything but true. This classic collection of homespun humor as told by the two men on the Liar’s Bench in Seldon’s Barbershop amuses and sometimes astounds the other occupant of the barbershop, Jason Wells. You will laugh at the hilarious tales spun by the rascals on the liar’s bench. tall tale, hilarious, funny fiction, humor, collection, tall story
Download or read book Alien Cows written by K. K. Ricky and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This funny short story recounts the adventures of two city slickers on holiday from the big city. They round a bend in the highway and have their first encounter with the strange creatures we know as cows. As the two talk about the strange creatures in the field, a silent figure pulls up behind them and hears their conversation. He smiles. Wally watches and listens. He can’t wait to relate his story to the loafers in the barber’s shop. His satisfaction was short lived when Seldon turned the tables on him. Alien Cows is a short fiction story from the series, Tales From the Liar’s Bench. This funny short story series includes the funny stories two older men, Wally and Ben. The fellows enjoy regaling each other with tall stories. The other men in the shop just sit and listen in incredulous disbelief. The humorous short story collection Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contains this funny short story.
Download or read book Abe s Guide to the Fall Garden written by Abe Edwards and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall can be a productive time of year for the vegetable garden. Many vegetable crops benefit from the cooler temperatures and even thrive in the first frosts of autumn. The flower garden can benefit from many activities accomplished in the fall. Autumn application of soil amendments, planting of bulbs and division of perennials all benefit the spring garden and all standard fall tasks.
Download or read book Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval written by Charles C. Hinkley II and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses ethical conflicts arising from saving the lives of patients who need a transplant while treating living and dead donors, organ sellers, animals, and embryos with proper moral regard. Our challenge is to develop a better world in the light of debatable values and uncertain consequences.
Download or read book Gardener s Guide to May Wildflowers written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardener’s Guide to May Wildflowers includes twenty common early spring woodland wildflowers with photographs. This field guide allows easier identification of spring woodland wildflowers in the field because it is composed only of the earliest wildflowers of the season, the wildflowers that begin bloom in May or late April in Indiana. spring, woodland, indiana,
Download or read book Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval A Case for Constructive Pluralism written by Charles C. Hinkley II and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised edition of Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism, Charles Hinkley develops and applies the moral philosophy of constructive pluralism to issues and conflicts related to organ transplantation.
Download or read book Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers written by Vanessa Grubbs and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor shares her unforgettable love story & informative journey into the world of medicine in this “thoughtful and endearing” memoir (Washington Post). When Vanessa met Robert, she had no idea that their relationship would thoroughly transform her life. Robert was suffering from end-stage kidney disease, which required him to endure years of debilitating dialysis in order to stay alive, at least until his failed organ could be replaced by a kidney transplant. Although Vanessa was a primary care doctor, she developed a deeper understanding of the difficulties Robert faced, including dialysis and finding a donor. So, even though they were still in the early stages of their relationship, she volunteered one of her own kidneys for testing and discovered that she was a match. This life-affirming donation forged a bond that would become a pillar of Vanessa and Robert’s marriage—and the beginning of a new career. Motivated by Robert’s experience and her newfound knowledge, Vanessa became a nephrologist—a kidney doctor—and discovered far more about the realities of the specialty. Shaped by Vanessa’s remarkable expertise as a doctor, a woman of color, a mother, and a kidney donor, Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers is a love story as well as an informative guide to kidney disease. Praise for Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers “A story told beautifully, courageously, and honestly. You’ll never forget Vanessa and Robert, and you’ll never view medicine quite the same way again.” —Robert Winchester, MD, author of the New York Times–bestseller The Digital Doctor “Intense, ambitious, and fascinating.” —Victoria Sweet, MD, award–winning author of God’s Hotel
Download or read book Urogenital Trauma A Practical Guide written by Said Abdallah AL-Mamari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in a unique style that immediately catches the reader's interest and takes him on an enjoyable and fruitful journey from the kidneys to the male genital organs. Throughout the chapters, the researchers, the practitioners, and the junior doctors under urological training are offered a rare opportunity to rapidly refresh their knowledge with updated information starting from the mythical and historical conception of the involved organ, its embryology and anatomy, and progressing to the epidemiology, etiology, anatomopathology, mechanism, treatment and prognosis of its trauma. It aims to provide the reader with the most complete and practical information possible and includes an abundant and well-selected illustration to help the learning process. A special section on male genital self-mutilations is added at the end of the book as the icing on the cake, treating this phenomenon systematically with a harmonious marriage between mythology, history, and a comprehensive literature review and management strategies. This manual has been reviewed and recommended by an internationally renowned expert in urogenital trauma and reconstructive surgery and is a very useful vade mecum for every Practitioner or resident in Urology.
Download or read book Why I Think about Urine written by Jared James Grantham and published by Rockhill Books. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this page-turner, Dr. Jared Grantham, a noted researcher with the University of Kansas Medical Center, takes the reader through his life of scientific discovery, but a life also of hardship beset by tragedy. It follows a career path that begins in Kansas, finishes in Kansas and ultimately leads to the development of a treatment for a devastating kidney disease suffered by his boyhood friend.
Download or read book Coping with Kidney Disease written by Mackenzie Walser and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary program that can indefinitely postpone the need for dialysis If you've been diagnosed with kidney failure, this book could save your life. If you suffer from diabetes, hypertension, obesity, or any of a host of conditions that put you at risk for kidney disease, you owe it to yourself to read what is in this book. If you are among the 60,000 North Americans who go on dialysis each year, the information in this book could substantially improve your quality of life. In Coping with Kidney Disease, a leading expert tells you, in plain English, what you need to know to: * Understand kidney failure * Recognize early warning signs of kidney failure * Get a proper diagnosis * Talk with your doctors about it * Confidently evaluate treatment options * Take charge of your treatment * Delay dialysis or even avoid the need for it altogether The centerpiece of Coping with Kidney Disease is Dr. Walser's revolutionary 12-step program for avoiding dialysis. Based on treatments he has pioneered with his own patients at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program calls for a supplemented low-protein diet supported by treatments to control blood pressure and correct high cholesterol. So effective has this breakthrough strategy proven to be that in many patients it actually worked to slow or arrest the progression of kidney failure to the end stage. Knowledge is power. Coping with Kidney Disease empowers you with what you need to take charge of kidney disease.
Download or read book Spare Parts written by Renee C. Fox and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Download or read book The Liberation of Life written by Charles Birch and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements.
Download or read book The Kidney Hypothetical Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days written by Lisa Yee and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Yee gives us her most fascinating flawed genius since Millicent Min. Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything his parents could have wanted. Everything they wanted for Higgs's older brother Jeffrey, in fact. But something's not right. And when Higgs's girlfriend presents him with a seemingly innocent hypothetical question about whether or not he'd give her a kidney . . . the exposed fault lines reach straight down to the foundations of his life. . . .
Download or read book Spare Parts written by Paul Craddock and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day. How did an architect help pioneer blood transfusion in the 1660's? Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children? And what role did a sausage skin and an enamel bath play in making kidney transplants a reality? We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect. Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal, and machine, and continues to do so today. Witty, entertaining, and illuminating, Spare Parts shows us that the history - and future - of transplant surgery is tied up with questions about not only who we are, but also what we are, and what we might become.
Download or read book In Pursuit of a Better Quality Life written by Risa Simon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're in need of a living kidney donor, but you're not sure how to go about the process. You've been told to share your story with family and friends-but striking up a conversation about your need for a kidney transplant (and search for a living kidney donor) is the most nerve-racking conversation you can imagine. Whether you're trying to avoid dialysis or be "free of the machine," this book can help get you there. In Pursuit of a Better Life provides communication principles, campaign strategies, template letters and old fashion relationship skills that can instantly create a desire to help. In this book, the author shares strategies taught in her motivational seminars and webinars, and with her mentoring and coaching clients. Living her best life possible as a preemptive (live-donor) kidney transplant recipient, the author invites her readers to proactively engage as their own best advocate and "join her at the top," where dreams do come true. Known as the quintessential marketing plan for finding living kidney donors, this book reveals strategies rarely discussed in your doctor's office or transplant center. Uncover this wildly successful path for attracting potential kidney donors today! ABOUT THE AUTHOR The highlight of Risa Simon's life was the day an unexpected, unrelated, living kidney donor offered to give her a kidney and tests revealed a sister-like match. That day didn't come easy-and it might never have if she wasn't willing to become a proactive contender, competing for her best life possible. Risa knows all too well what it's like to be a kidney patient trapped in a hopeless sinkhole headed towards dialysis. As she watched her renal function numbers decline, her emotions escalated. The thought of surrendering her sense of control over her future consumed her thoughts and immobilized her dreams. Unwittingly, she discovered a new paradigm after attending a kidney patient conference. The presentation she attended caused an awakening that compelled her to stand before her disease and use her voice to proactively secure her best choice - a transplant before dialysis. Today, Risa is living her best life ever as a preemptive (live-donor) transplant recipient. Her passion for helping others reflects in the names of her principal firms, The Proactive Path and the TransplantFirst Academy, a non-profit (501c3) organization leading the way to better outcomes. As an enthusiastic "positive-disruptor," she's dedicated her life to inspiring eligible kidney patients to bypass dialysis (or become dialysis-free) by proactively seeking live-donor transplant opportunities. Known for her trailblazing patient empowerment strategies, she invites her fans and followers to "join her at the top" - where dreams can come true.
Download or read book The Space Between the Space Between written by John Hunt and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You don’t notice your nose much, but when it changes direction, it does get your attention.” Jethro ricochets through life with little to help him along the way other than his ability to bounce. His best friend tries to lend a hand, as does the therapist he sees after burglars break into his house and, among other things, demand he makes them coffee. Jethro’s wry story gradually reveals why he carries his girlfriend’s hat and shoe everywhere he goes. Days seem dark for Jethro until an eleven-year-old girl unexpectedly supplies a light. It’s up to him to work out where to shine it. Set in contemporary South Africa, John Hunt’s wise and compelling novel contemplates loss and healing, and our efforts to make sense of our lives and those who fill them.
