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41) Blind Faith
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Greed and desperation drives brother to challenge sister's competency. Believers line up against non-believers in the circuit court in Chicago to decide for once and for all if there is a God.
Aaron needed Trish's inheritance. As a blue blood, he knew well, the damage created when important resources were not held by the cream of society. Trish, his sister, taught retarded kids. When her boyfriend, Hat, died in a car accident, she reverted into...
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Maladie sournoise, le cancer du sein touche plus de la moitié de la population, et pour ainsi dire toutes les familles. Mais, parce que c'est une maladie complexe, elle reste mal comprise et on a tendance à oublier les progrès énormes accomplis ces dernières années par la recherche scientifique. Le docteur André Robidoux, qui a dirigé des recherches impliquant des milliers de patientes, est bien placé pour expliquer au grand public la maladie...
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Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times. This question-are certain diseases real?-lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasma-literally...
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Get the Summary of Carol Tavris & Avrum Bluming's Estrogen Matters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Estrogen Matters" delves into the contentious history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and its relationship with breast cancer, menopause, and women's health. The book scrutinizes the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, which influenced public perception and medical practice by linking HRT to increased breast...
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Why do you have the pain, symptoms or illnesses you are currently experiencing? If you would like to know the answer to this question and find out how to resolve the health challenges you face-and experience extraordinary health and dramatically improved quality of life-then the words in these pages are going to provide you profound and powerful insights that have the potential to transform your health and quality of life. In The Hidden Messages of...
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Die meisten Menschen besitzen im Mund genügend Speichel, sodass dieser Zustand für sie nichts Außergewöhnliches ist. Wenn aber die Speichelmenge aus verschiedenen Gründen allmählich oder sogar abrupt weniger wird, kommt es zu deutlich spürbaren Einschränkungen: Mundschleimhaut und Zunge brennen, das Essen klebt an den Zähnen, am Zahnfleisch, am Gaumen oder am vorhandenen Zahnersatz, der Mundgeruch wird stärker und das Schlucken und Sprechen...
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Night Navigation opens on a freezing-rain night in upstate New York: the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del's thirty-seven-year-old manic-depressive son needs a ride, but she's afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed. Through the four seasons, Night Navigation takes us into the deranged, darkly humorous world of the addict-from break-your-arm dealers, to boot-camp rehabs, to Rumi-quoting NA sponsors. Al-Anon...
49) Learning to Lead, Learning to Care: The History of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
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Since 1964, the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) has been the guardian of the recruitment, retention, and graduation of minority medical students. Learning to Care, Learning to Lead: The History of the Student National Medical Association is the story of how SNMA came to prominence and continues to be the organization most directly responsible for enhancing the numbers of culturally sensitive and clinically excellent physicians in the United...
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Myocardial Torsion is a book different from others, simply because this book is unique, unusual, and I dare say with admiration, it is a curious book, partly magical, full of personality, for initiatory readers, revealing, provocative, and challenging. The book has the infrequent peculiarity of being, based, largely, on original personal and multidisciplinary investigations, granting it an important extra value.
The authors define their purpose since...
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Neurological disorders in children are common: families want to know what is wrong, why it happened, and whether it will happen again. Management and treatment depend on establishing the diagnosis, which usually requires investigations, but the number of possible neurological investigations is now very large indeed, and uncritical investigations may be seriously misleading and often costly. This book, based on the authors' vast combined personal experience,...
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Get the Summary of Sally Ozonoff's A Parents Guide to HighFunctioning Autism Spectrum Disorder in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Parent's Guide to High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder" by Sally Ozonoff provides a comprehensive look at the challenges and strengths of individuals with high-functioning ASD. The book traces the evolution of the autism diagnosis, including the integration of Asperger syndrome...
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Excerpt: "The following treatise includes data originally accumulated in a series of papers communicated to the Canadian Institute and the Royal Society of Canada, aiming at determining the cause of Left-handedness by a review of its history in its archaeological, philological, and physiological aspects. In revising the materials thus accumulated in illustration of the subject, with a view to their publication in a connected form, the results of later...
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Get the Summary of Harriet Washington's Medical Apartheid 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Medical Apartheid" by Harriet Washington uncovers the harrowing history of medical experimentation and exploitation of African Americans from the 17th century to the late 20th century. It reveals how enslaved African Americans were subjected to brutal medical practices under the guise of scientific advancement, often without...
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Get the Summary of Christopher M. Palmer MD's Brain Energy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More" by Christopher M. Palmer MD presents a novel perspective on mental health disorders, positing that they are fundamentally metabolic disorders of the brain. Palmer argues that...
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Kids moving out of home? Or you want them to? Give them this book and send them on their way!If you're not sure you want them on the phone every 5 minutes but you aren't convinced they can cope by themselves, this is the perfect book. It covers all those practical skills you've been trying to teach your children and has every handy tip that children finishing school or leaving home need to know.Moving Out! will teach your children how to cook something...
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"Understanding Cancer: A Simplified Guide" is an essential resource for individuals seeking a clearer understanding of this complex and often misunderstood disease. Authored by a seasoned family doctor, this book distills the complexities of cancer into an accessible and easy-to-understand format, making it an ideal read for anyone interested in learning about cancer.The book begins with an introduction to the basics of cancer biology, explaining...
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Torsión miocárdica es un libro diferente, distinto, es más, me atrevo a decir con admiración que es un libro extraño, en parte mágico, lleno de personalidad, para iniciáticos, revelador, provocador, desafiante. El libro tiene una peculiaridad infrecuente: se basa, en una gran parte, en investigaciones originales, personales y multidisciplinarias, lo que le da un importante valor añadido. Los autores definen desde las primeras páginas del...
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Get the Summary of Brandy Schillace's Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher" recounts the story of Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed a pioneering kidney transplant on Richard Herrick using his identical twin brother Ronald's kidney. The book delves into the history of organ transplantation, the challenges of immune system rejection, and the advancements in surgical...
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Surgery is the crude art of cutting people open, yet it is also a symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. So says Jonathan Kaplan in his stunning book Contact Wounds, an electrifying account of a doctor's education in the classroom, in life, and on the battlefield. Inspired by his father, a military surgeon in World War II and Israel's nascent fight for statehood, Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully understaffed...
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