Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds new creative power in black & white; & others.

    Dr. Langston discovered that these people had all used a tainted form of heroin. Using fetal tissue transplant, two of the addicts recovered, garnering world-wide press coverage. This is the story behind the headlines.

    The information is outlined in an easy-to-use format for quick access that is essential for emergency and clinical situations.Discusses veterinary medicine and surgery for both reptiles and amphibiansFeatures complete biology of snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiliansProvides step-by-step guidelines for performing special techniques and procedures such as anesthesia, clinical pathology, diagnostic imaging, euthanasia and necropsy, fracture management, soft tissue surgery, and therapeuticsCovers specific diseases and conditions such as anorexia, aural abscesses, and digit abnormalities in a separate alphabetically organized section53 expert authors contribute crucial information to the study of reptiles and offer their unique perspectives on particular areas of studyThe expansive appendix includes a reptile and amphibian formularyA new full-color format features a wealth of vivid images and features that highlight important concepts and bring key procedures to life29 new chapters covering diverse topics such as stress in captive reptiles, emergency and critical care, ultrasound, endoscopy, and working with venomous speciesMany new expert contributors that share valuable knowledge and insights from their experiences in practicing reptile medicine and surgeryUnique coverage of cutting-edge imaging techniques, including CT and MRI

    That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society," whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. The Wounded Storyteller is their collective portrait.Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing.Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as from people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness stories, ranging from the well-known—Gilda Radner's battle with ovarian cancer—to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disabilties. Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering: they abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic.Frank identifies three basic narratives of illness in restitution, chaos, and quest. Restitution narratives anticipate getting well again and give prominence to the technology of cure. In chaos narratives, illness seems to stretch on forever, with no respite or redeeming insights. Quest narratives are about finding that insight as illness is transformed into a means for the ill person to become someone new.

    Intuitive Biostatistics covers all the topics typically found in an introductory statistics text, but with the emphasis on confidence intervals rather than P values, making it easier for students to understand both. Additionally, it introduces a broad range of topics left out of most other introductory texts but used frequently in biomedical publications, including survival curves. multiple comparisons, sensitivity and specificity of lab tests, Bayesian thinking, lod scores, and logistic, proportional hazards and nonlinear regression. By emphasizing interpretation rather than calculation, this text provides a clear and virtually painless introduction to statistical principles for those students who will need to use statistics constantly in their work. In addition, its practical approach enables readers to understand the statistical results published in biological and medical journals.

    The core and substantial value lies in the step-by-step analytical approaches which help you to answer this question: These images look normal to me, but . . . how can I be sure that I am not missing a subtle but important abnormality?This book will provide essential reading and support to A&E trainees, medical students, radiology trainees, reporting radiographers and clinical nurse specialists, all of whom may be faced with trauma cases requiring accurate diagnosis and treatment. Reviewed by: RAD Magazine Feb 2015... Very nearly flawless...contains just the right amount of information to accommodate readers from trainees through to consultant or attending level. Reviewed by African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Jun 2015 Ensure accuracy in reading and interpretation of any given image. Common sources of error and diagnostic difficulty are highlighted.Prevent mistakes. Pitfalls and associated abnormalities are emphasized throughout.Avoid misdiagnoses. Normal anatomy is outlined alongside schemes for detecting variants of the norm. Each chapter concludes with a summary of key points. Will provide a useful overview of the most important features in diagnosis and interpretation.Easily grasp difficult anatomical concepts. Radiographs accompanied by clear, explanatory line-drawings. Spend less time searching with an improved layout and design with succinct, easy-to-follow text. A templated chapter approach helps you access key information quickly. Each chapter includes key points summary, basic radiographs, normal anatomy, guidance on analyzing the radiographs, common injuries, rare but important injuries, pitfalls, regularly overlooked injuries, examples, and references.Grasp the nuances of key diagnostic details. Updated and expanded information, new radiographs, and new explanatory line drawings reinforce the book's aim of providing clear, practical advice in diagnosis.Avoid pitfalls in the detection of abnormalities that are most commonly overlooked or misinterpreted.Access the complete contents and illustrations online at Expert Consult-fully searchable!

    

    A concise, user-friendly format-with at-a-glance illustrations, boxes, and tables-enables you to access information quickly. Revised throughout to reflect the very latest advances in the field, it makes an excellent study source for certification and recertification review as well as clinical reference.Presents clear descriptions of nuclear medicine principles and techniques.Emphasizes the core knowledge needed for certification and practice in a clear and succinct manner.Offers sample protocols for each procedure.Provides an excellent resource at an inexpensive price.Presents revised Nuclear Cardiology, Neurology, Endocrine System, and Genitourinary System chapters that reflect the rapid expansion of PET imaging, including a whole new chapter on F-18 FDG PET imaging. Features expanded use of Pearls, Pitfalls, and Frequently Asked Questions for more helpful information.

    Author Christopher Hobbs thoroughly documents and details the nutritional and health benefits of over 100 species of edible fungi. Here is the most complete work on the cultural, health-promoting, and medicinal uses of mushrooms ever published!

    In addition to offering traditional methods for assessing and grading skeletal muscle function, the book provides a comprehensive section on muscle anatomy and innervations that rounds out the testing chapters by linking muscle topography and function. This edition includes a new DVD of tests and procedures video clips that supplement the tests explained in the book.

    A revealing critique of chemotherapy, this book looks objectively at chemo's successes and failures.

    . . Provides a compelling narrative of the dedication of doctors who have braved society's continuing ambivalence toward women's right to choose."—K. Kaufmann, San Francisco Examiner-ChronicleA fabulous read. . . intense and absorbing. —Marge Berer, Women's Review of Books From the Trade Paperback edition.

    Essential topics such as administering local anesthesia and the spread of dental infection are addressed in detail. With 300 high-quality illustrations and a vivid, two-color format, this outstanding, in-depth book enhances the reader's understanding of anatomical parts and focal points for injection sites that are essential to the dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental assisting fields. Identification exercises, review questions, NEW case studies, and detailed, step-by-step procedures including NEW step-by-step procedures for intraoral and extraoral examinations reinforce information and facilitate thinking skills that readers will rely on as a strong basis for future study and practice.Over 300 exceptional line drawings and photographs illustrate important concepts in the book. More review questions in a multiple-choice format similar to the national exam provide a thorough review and help readers evaluate their understanding of material so they can focus on improving areas of weakness.Chapter Outlines enable readers to determine at a glance which topics will be covered in each chapter.Key Words teach readers the correct pronunciations and definitions of new words introduced in the chapter.Objectives highlight important points that readers should understand after they have studied the chapter.Tables present concise information on common topics to make learning easier.A glossary helps readers learn and remember the definitions of new terms throughout the book.Revised, up-to-date coverage of local anesthesia and the spread of dental infection addresses these important topics that are not covered in other head and neck anatomy text. Case studies designed to mimic the case studies presented on the national exam encourage students to apply scientific information from text to real-life situations, helping them to develop critical thinking skills as well as prepare for the exam.An expanded section of identification exercises, consisting of unlabeled figures from text, helps readers properly identify and memorize muscles, bones, and other structures. Step-by-step procedures for intraoral and extraoral examinations, help student learn and perfect these two critical skills in practice.Expanded discussions and additional illustrations on the central nervous system in Chapter 8 offers more detail on this essential subject.

    New to this edition are references to evidence-based medicine, and information updated to reflect changes in the current USMLE examinations.

    Dixon shows how paintings reflect changing medical theories concerning women. While she illuminates a tradition stretching from antiquity to the present, she concentrates on art from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and particularly on paintings from seventeenth-century Leiden.Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit and The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman--well dressed, but pale and listless--reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones or impish boys leer suggestively in the background. These paintings traditionally have been viewed as commentary on quack doctors or unmarried pregnant women. The first to examine images of women and illness in the light of medical history. Perilous Chastity reveals a surprising new interpretation.

    Catherine Otto, one of the foremost teachers and writers in the field. You'll find straightforward explanations of the basics of ultrasound physics, image acquisition, and all the major techniques and major disease categories, as well as the latest on advanced echo techniques-such as contrast echo, 3D echo, and myocardial mechanics (strain rate imaging, speckle tracking, and synchrony). Each chapter-including a new one on intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography-features a practical outline called The Echo Exam, ideal for understanding the use of echo and its outcomes. State-of-the-art echo images are complemented by full-color comparative drawings of heart structures. And now, you can access the full text online thanks to Expert Consult functionality.Covers all main diseases, including adult congenital heart disease, with a problem-based approach to echocardiography. Reviews basic principles for evaluation, the echocardiographic approach, differential diagnosis, limitations, and technical considerations for each disease, as well as alternate diagnostic approaches.Enables you to perform procedures correctly and recognize inadequate data with coverage of technical details for data acquisition and limitations of each echocardiographic approach.Emphasizes alternative diagnostic approaches to help you solve clinical problems when echocardiography does not provide a definitive answer.Includes The Echo Exam (a brief summary of how to do it, the necessary calculations, diagnosis and examples) as an appendix for review and reinforcement.Features a new chapter dedicated to intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography, cross-referenced with other chapters, for coverage of this important and difficult technique. Covers myocardial mechanics-strain rate imagine, speckle tracking, and synchrony-in the advanced modalities, in addition to contrast and 3D echo.Integrates TTE and TEE images more explicitly into each chapter to discuss the two techniques in parallel and give you clear explanations of the pros, cons, and the role of each modality in patient evaluation.Includes new digital images throughout-with more TEE, more echocardiograms, and color diagrams-so you can easily identify cardiac problems.Presents the latest ASE recommendations for chamber quantification, including updated tables of normal measurements, for convenient reference.Provides online access to the full text of the book through Expert Consult functionality.Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should online access to the web site be discontinued.

    It shows how to use the principles of reflexology to balance physical health and restore emotional well-being and at the same time have fun. The book is based on the author's "Language of the Feet" workshops.

    With the latest findings on HIV, this book should appeal to anyone interested in cutting-edge medical and genetic research.

    Nurses will learn proven strategies for evaluating comprehension and teaching patients using written materials, tapes, video, computer aided instruction, visuals, and graphics. An abundance of case studies helps to demonstrate the application of teaching/learning theory to actual practice. Readers will also explore literacy issues in health care as well as the cultural impact on comprehension.

    This concise text covers all the essentials in pathophysiology and 89 case studies allow students to apply their knowledge to actual clinical situations. Review questions located throughout each chapter promote self-assessment and serve as an excellent review for USMLE Step 2.

    A newly revised and updated edition of this authoritative guide-including almost 200 athletic and exercise injuries, 75 of the common illnesses that often affect athletes, and an illustrated section on rehabilitation.

    Part I discusses general principles (such as pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism), and parts II to VI presents various classes of drugs (such as autonomics, drugs that affect cardiovascular system, and chemotherapeutic agents).

    Only in 1987 was it reintroduced into modern psychiatric diagnosis after being incorporated with schizophrenia. This book provides a comprehensive review of delusional disorder for psychiatrists and other clinicians. Beginning with the emergence of the concept of delusional disorder, the book goes on to detail its manifold presentations, differential diagnosis and treatment. The author provides many instructive case histories, illustrating manifestations of the various subtypes of delusional disorder, and related conditions in the paranoid spectrum. This is the most wide-ranging and authoritative text on the subject to have appeared for many years, and the first to suggest--based on the author's extensive experience--that the category of delusional disorder should contain not one but several conditions. It also emphasizes that, contrary to traditional belief, delusional disorder is a treatable illness.

    An anthology of five plays by Lee Blessing including: Down the Road; Two Rooms; Lake Street Extension; Patient A; and Fortinbras.

    It avoids overburdening the reader with topographical detail that is unnecessary for the medical student. Minimum assumptions are made of existing knowledge of the subject.'Key point' boxes for reinforcement and quick revision Glossary of important terms 'Clinical detail' boxes closely integrated with relevant neuroanatomyComplete revision and updating of text. Revision nad expansion of summary chapter, providing overview of entire subject. Clinical material updated to reflect current prevalence of neurological disease. Artwork entirely redrawn for improved clarity and closer integration with text.

    It integrates theory, practice and applications and assumes no prior experience on the part of student and instructor. In addition, the book contains laboratory flow charts summarizing each protocol.

    Armfuls of Time eloquently portrays the psychological experience of such children, who are irreversibly changed from the moment of diagnosis. How they live with life-threatening illness is the subject of this remarkable book. Barbara M. Sourkes specializes in psychotherapy with children with cancer and other serious diseases. Her first book, The Deepening Shade, is an elegant synthesis of the psychology of life-threatening illness. In Armfuls of Time, she provides a window into her therapy sessions, allowing us to listen with her to the children's stories and conversations and to see their drawings. Her therapeutic techniques enable the children to express the experience of living with the threat of loss. Her analyses and interpretations lead the reader into a world of extraordinary challenges and exceptional resilience.