Author: Nikola Publishing
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Don't Make Me Use My Neurology Nurse Practitioner Voice Features: Simple and elegant. 100 pages, high quality cover and (6 x 9) inches in size.

Author: Leslie Neal-Boylan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118277856
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Clinical Case Studies for the Family Nurse Practitioner is a key resource for advanced practice nurses and graduate students seeking to test their skills in assessing, diagnosing, and managing cases in family and primary care. Composed of more than 70 cases ranging from common to unique, the book compiles years of experience from experts in the field. It is organized chronologically, presenting cases from neonatal to geriatric care in a standard approach built on the SOAP format. This includes differential diagnosis and a series of critical thinking questions ideal for self-assessment or classroom use.

Author: Dora Calott Wang M.D.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101187158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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The personal story of how a psychiatrist confronts the profound changes sweeping the medical establishment as they reshape her life and career. In the past two decades, a seismic shift has occurred within the walls of our nation's hospitals and doctor's offices. The medical profession- once considered a sacred, cherished vocation-has devolved into a business motivated by a desire for profits. Even psychiatry, once the mainstay of the human interaction between doctor and patient, has fallen victim to rising costs and dictates by insurance sources. How has medicine strayed so far from its roots? In The Kitchen Shrink, psychiatrist and lecturer Dora Calott Wang delves into what happened. Through the prism of her own story, Wang elucidates key events in her professional life-the declining state of hospitals and clinics, the advent of managed care, and the rise of profits at the ex­pense of patient care-that highlight the medical profession's decline. Along the way we meet some of her patients, whose plights reflect the profession's growing indifference to the human lives at risk. There's Selena, whose grief over her mother's death and lack of family support make it difficult for her to take the medicine that keeps her body from rejecting her new liver, and Leonard, a schizophrenic with no health insurance who develops peritonitis and falls into a coma for three months. Each new story brings additional compromises as the medical landscape shifts under Wang's feet. She struggles with depression and exhaustion, witnesses the loss of top doctors who leave in frustration, and attempts to find a balance between work and home as it becomes ever clearer that she cannot untangle the uncertain future of her patients from her own. Part personal story and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the unsettling realities of free-market medicine in today's America.

Author: Adrian C. Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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This book addresses modern attitudes to, and management of, the common neurological conditions, reflecting the shift in clinical neurology from being a largely diagnostic service to becoming a specialty based on treatment, longterm education and support of patients. Throughout, the emphasisis on developing a close working relationship between neurologists, psychiatrists, rehabilitation staff and specialist nurses, and the importance of the team approach to patient care, including consideration of the patient's own experience of their situation and the role of community services suchas lay societies and charities. This is the only text presenting this holistic approach to neurological care. The aim of this book is to stimulate debate about the best service provision for neurology, covering considerations relevant to the commissioning of services, running outpatient clinics,transcultural issues and the role of the nurse specialist. The book assesses the role of neurogenetics in preventive neurology and opportunities for the continued application of gene therapy techniques. Also covered are the psychosomatic conditions often faced by a neurologist and the managementof the secondary psychological results of organic neurological disease.

Author: Anthony David
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 178607706X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the person’s biology, their psychology or their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each patient might be anything from a traumatic memory to a chemical imbalance, an unhealthy way of thinking or a hidden tumour. Patrick believes he is dead. Jennifer's schizophrenia medication helped with her voices but did it cause Parkinson’s? Emma is in a coma – or is she just refusing to respond? Drawing from Professor David’s career as a clinician and academic, these fascinating case studies reveal the unique complexity of the human mind, stretching the limits of our understanding.

Author: Peter M. Talty
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665712007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Jay Blinksiter and Horace (“Horse”) Kellerman convinced each other that they could kidnap a rich old lady, safely hold her for bigtime ransom, collect it, return her to her lavish style, and repeat the process with new victims in different cities. They found the perfect place to hold their intended victims in a rural upstate New York decrepit animal rescue farm. Jay and “Horse” were two law-abiding citizens who convinced each other and a naïve friend that they could kidnap a rich, older lady, and safely hold her for a hefty ransom in a faltering animal rescue farm. Unanticipated tragedies would befall them all.

Author: Paula Kamen
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786736755
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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At the age of twenty-four, Paula Kamen's life changed in an instant. While she was putting in her contacts, the left lens disturbed a constellation of nerves behind her eye. The pain was more piercing than that of any other headache she had ever experienced. More than a decade later, she still has a headache-the exact same headache. From surgery to a battery of Botox injections to a dousing of Lithuanian holy water, from a mountain of pharmaceutical products to aromatherapy and even a vibrating hat, All in My Head chronicles the sometimes frightening, usually absurd, and always ineffective remedies Kamen-like so many others-tried in order to relieve the pain. Beleaguered and frustrated by doctors who, frustrated themselves, periodically declared her pain psychosomatic, she came to understand the plight of the millions who suffer chronic pain in its many forms. Full of self-deprecating humor and razorsharp reporting, All in My Head is the remarkable story of patience, acceptance, and perseverance in the face of terrifying pain.

Author: Alexandra Armitage, MS, CNL, APRN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826126081
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Today’s APN and PA programs have been allocating less time to the study of neurology, leaving new practitioners with an uncertain grasp of how to approach the neurology patient. Here is a “how to” manual for knowledgably conducting the basic neurological examination and confidently applying exam findings to the interpretation of common neurologic symptoms. It explains all facets of the standard neuro exam that is conducted in a clinic or hospital setting including useful algorithms. The book then focuses on using the exam results to determine a likely diagnosis and/or area of concern for further diagnostic tests. The text presents both basic and advanced concepts related to the exam to foster a deeper understanding of the meaning and physiology underlying an abnormal finding.

Author: Judith A. Helmker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479725536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Author: SPC Staff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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