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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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Book Preview: #1 There have been two main ideas about cardiovascular disease over the past 150 years: the cholesterol hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The cholesterol hypothesis has become so dominant that it stands alone, unquestioned and unchallenged.
#2 The alternative hypothesis is that blood clots, and blood clotting, are the key players in cardiovascular disease. From...
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#1 The hospital at the Yambuku Catholic Mission in Zaire, Africa, was filled with African oil palms and tropical vegetation. The buildings were made of brown bricks and had open porticoes running along their sides. The maternity ward was a modest pavilion with a room that contained nineteen beds.
#2 The experience of Sister Beata, a nurse at the Yambuku hospital, demonstrates...
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#1 I had never visited the campus, but I was excited to start college. I was especially out of place because I had never visited Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and 100,000 fishermen.
#2 I learned that water in Southern Florida is especially contaminated with birth control hormones. I also learned that reclaimed water is all around me in Florida, and that lawns use...
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#1 Lister's father, Joseph Jackson Lister, was a scientist who made many discoveries in optics. He was the couple's fourth child and second son. Lister was born on April 5, 1827. He had many opportunities to explore miniature worlds with the microscope while he was growing up.
#2 Lister was a surgeon, and he was very against the use of foreign substances in medicine....
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#1 Alice Collins Plebuch is a retired teacher who loves to sew. She is very short, and her grandchildren call her Grandma Nerd for her love of technology. She warned me not to take my shoes off, because sewing pins were scattered all over her house.
#2 Alice's brain was trained to solve problems and find solutions years before she was asked to answer the most important...
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#1 I'm a traveling nurse, and I currently live in California. I don't think I'm cut out to be a nurse. The hospital job is important because it's a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, but they project to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected.
#2 As a traveling nurse, I was assigned to a hospital...
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Get the Summary of Christopher Kerr & Carine Mardorossian's Death Is But a Dream in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Death Is But a Dream" delves into the profound lessons learned from patients nearing the end of life, emphasizing the importance of empathy and holistic care. Christopher Kerr's journey from a physician trained to fight death to one who embraces the non-physical aspects of dying is central to the...
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#1 I began giving out celery juice in 1975 to help people with various ailments. It was such a powerful remedy that if a child was screaming or crying after eating a lot of candy, I would give them celery juice to calm them down.
#2 I began doing lectures in health food stores around the country in the 1990s, and I would teach people about the healing benefits of straight celery juice....
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#1 The endocannabinoid system is the primary way that cannabidiol, along with all the other beneficial compounds in cannabis and hemp, interacts with your body. It is a system present in all mammals and other living creatures that bridges many physiological locations and other systems in the body.
#2 While we can infer a lot from pre-clinical studies, we don't...
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#1 Psychology is the science of the mind, and it is a science because it uses scientific methods of enquiry to develop theories about how humans think and behave. It is the study of all that.
#2 Psychology is the study of the human mind and human behaviour. It is derived from the Greek word psyche, which means life or breath, and the Greek word logia, which means the...
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#1 A growing trend in the United States is doctors doing unnecessary vascular procedures on unsuspecting patients. These procedures include ballooning, stenting, and even lasering harmless plaques in leg arteries.
#2 The event reminded me that health screening can be a powerful tool to detect disease and prevent tragedy, but it can also be a business model to recruit...
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#1 The Romans were a latecomer to the power politics of the Mediterranean. They borrowed many institutions from the Greeks and Phoenicians, but put their own accents on them.
#2 The Romans were able to conquer most of the Mediterranean because of the political and military stability that republican institutions and militaristic values provided. The empire's northern...
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#1 The origins of behavioral differences between men and women have been a topic of conversation since ancient history. However, the idea that the brain could be the principal means by which males and females behave differently is modern, having been accepted only in the 1960s.
#2 Hormones are powerful chemicals that affect every part of our bodies and brains, and they...
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#1 Atrial fibrillation is not a heart condition. It is a systemic bodily disease that is triggered by long-term substrate causes. You must understand what caused your AFib in order to fight it.
#2 The better course of action is to search for the unique and specific underlying cause of your atrial fibrillation, since this is usually a combination of causes. And the cause...
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#1 This book is a collection of stories about the effects of aging on patients, doctors, and nurses. It is both conventional and countercultural, fact- and story-based, affectionate and opinionated, part battle cry and part lament.
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#1 Nausea is worse than pain. I remember thinking this during the early days of my first pregnancy, a pregnancy I had prayed and wept for, despaired about, and agonized over. But 6 weeks in, I found that I was hating every moment.
#2 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a common problem that affects 70 to 90 percent of pregnant women. It is unclear if it is a disease...
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#1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable.
#2 The key to healing from the Western world's emphasis on knowledge...
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#1 Modern man is the man of the 20th century, and he is the first to have to consider what the future of man will be. The question of man's future is not just relevant for modern man, but for all men of the 20th century.
#2 The first stage in the development of Western man spans the time from approximately 1500 B. C. until the beginning of the Christian age. This stage...
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#1 When you get a diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you feel relief, but also betrayal. Your body has let you down, and you don't know what you can trust anymore if you can't trust your body to be on your side.
#2 If you've been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you may have heard that you're aging prematurely. While your story is your own, and the specifics of what...
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