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The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

de Abraham Verghese ...

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeIn this pow... ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeIn this pow...
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All in Her Head

The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

de Elizabeth Comen ...

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller“All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling, and important book.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Em... ... Leer más

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Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today Bestseller“All in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling, and important book.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Em...
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Puberphonia Kumaresan Remedy: Boys talking in a child’s or lady’s voice

de Dr. M. Kumaresan, Dr. K. Navin Bharath ...

The content of this book is mainly research work, personally discovered for the first time in the whole history of the world, and is completely new. The use of sophisticated measurement systems based on scientific concepts and other such technologies has greatly improved understanding of the generation of speech and the treatment of puberphonia, giving rise to new scientific theories and concepts. ... Leer más

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The content of this book is mainly research work, personally discovered for the first time in the whole history of the world, and is completely new. The use of sophisticated measurement systems based on scientific concepts and other such technologies has greatly improved understanding of the generation of speech and the treatment of puberphonia, giving rise to new scientific theories and concepts.
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Autism Missed and Misdiagnosed

Identifying, Understanding and Supporting Diverse Autistic Identities

de Judy Eaton ...

Autism presents in a multitude of different and highly nuanced ways - particularly as it intersects with variance in class, gender, race and age.Misunderstanding and misinformation around variant and differing presentations means that misdiagnosed individuals and those who do not receive a diagnosis at all are often failed by medical, education, social care and criminal justice systems. They are ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Autism presents in a multitude of different and highly nuanced ways - particularly as it intersects with variance in class, gender, race and age.Misunderstanding and misinformation around variant and differing presentations means that misdiagnosed individuals and those who do not receive a diagnosis at all are often failed by medical, education, social care and criminal justice systems. They are
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Every Patient Tells a Story

Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

de Lisa Sanders ...

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D."The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through ... Leer más

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A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D."The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through
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Diagnosis

Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

de Lisa Sanders ...

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an
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The Cancer Code

A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

de Dr. Jason Fung ...

Series Libro 3 - The Wellness Code
Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer—and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the ... Leer más

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Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer—and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the
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Confessions of a GP

de Benjamin Daniels ...

Series series The Confessions Series
Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to ... Leer más

$7.49 USD

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can't remember why he's come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to
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Cómo Cuidar Tu Aliento

La Guía Definitiva

de Jonas Nunes ...

Cómo cuidar tu aliento. La Guía Definitiva describe hechos científicos sobre la halitosis y los acompaña de historias reales de pacientes que han sido tratados por el doctor Jonas Nunes, director del Instituto del Aliento. 230 páginas en formato electrónico que permiten al lector conocer, de forma sencilla, los aspectos más importantes de la halitosis, considerada tema tabú en la sociedad actual: ... Leer más

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Cómo cuidar tu aliento. La Guía Definitiva describe hechos científicos sobre la halitosis y los acompaña de historias reales de pacientes que han sido tratados por el doctor Jonas Nunes, director del Instituto del Aliento. 230 páginas en formato electrónico que permiten al lector conocer, de forma sencilla, los aspectos más importantes de la halitosis, considerada tema tabú en la sociedad actual:
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The Laws of Medicine

Field Notes from an Uncertain Science

de Siddhartha Mukherjee ...

Series series TED Books
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a
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Falling Into the Fire

A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

de Christine Montross ...

Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury, ... Leer más

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Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her practice. The majority of the patients Montross treats in Falling Into the Fire are seen in the locked inpatient wards of a psychiatric hospital; all are in moments of profound crisis. We meet a young woman who habitually commits self-injury,
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The Genome Odyssey

Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

de Dr. Euan Angus Ashley ...

Unravel the secrets of the human genome and discover the future of personalized medicine in this gripping account by a pioneering doctor at the forefront of genetic research.In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of ... Leer más

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Unravel the secrets of the human genome and discover the future of personalized medicine in this gripping account by a pioneering doctor at the forefront of genetic research.In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of
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How Doctors Think

de Jerome Groopman ...

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical ... Leer más

$7.49 USD

"Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care." —Time magazineFrom Dr. Jerome Groopman, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS, a groundbreaking, profound view of twenty-first-century medical
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The Age of Diagnosis

How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

de Suzanne O'Sullivan ...

From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human
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How to Look After your Breath

The Definitive Guide

de Jonas Nunes ...

How to Look After Your Breath provides scientific facts about halitosis, along with the true stories of patients treated by doctor Jonas Nunes. Doctor Nunes, PhD in Halitosis, is a well-known researcher and the Director of the Breath Institute as well as the Halitosis Unit of the prestigious Teknon Hospital in Barcelona. The e-book consists of 230 pages that allow the reader to easily get to know ... Leer más

$8.14 USD

How to Look After Your Breath provides scientific facts about halitosis, along with the true stories of patients treated by doctor Jonas Nunes. Doctor Nunes, PhD in Halitosis, is a well-known researcher and the Director of the Breath Institute as well as the Halitosis Unit of the prestigious Teknon Hospital in Barcelona. The e-book consists of 230 pages that allow the reader to easily get to know
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Discover Magazine's Vital Signs

True Tales of Medical Mysteries, Obscure Diseases, and Life-Saving Diagnoses

de Dr. Robert A. Norman ...

“Vital Signs,” a popular column featured in Discover Magazine, has long been a favorite of readers, showcasing, each month, fascinating new tales of strange illnesses and diseases that baffle doctors and elude diagnosis. Each tale is true and borders on the unbelievable. It’s no wonder that throughout the years the column has become an unofficial textbook for medical students, interns, doctors, ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

“Vital Signs,” a popular column featured in Discover Magazine, has long been a favorite of readers, showcasing, each month, fascinating new tales of strange illnesses and diseases that baffle doctors and elude diagnosis. Each tale is true and borders on the unbelievable. It’s no wonder that throughout the years the column has become an unofficial textbook for medical students, interns, doctors,
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ADHD Does not Exist

The Truth About Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

de Richard Saul ...

In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today—to argue that ADHD is actually a cluster of symptoms stemming from over 20 other conditions and disorders.According to ... Leer más

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In this groundbreaking and controversial book, behavioral neurologist Dr. Richard Saul draws on five decades of experience treating thousands of patients labeled with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder—one of the fastest growing and widely diagnosed conditions today—to argue that ADHD is actually a cluster of symptoms stemming from over 20 other conditions and disorders.According to
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Less Medicine, More Health

7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care

de Gilbert Welch ...

A nationally recognized expert describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care—for readers of Overdiagnosed and Malcolm GladwellYou might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated—and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

A nationally recognized expert describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care—for readers of Overdiagnosed and Malcolm GladwellYou might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive, too uneven, too complicated—and gives you too many forms to fill out. But the central
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Seeking Sickness

Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

de Alan Cassels ...

"Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra." —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried SickWhy wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right?Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness ... Leer más

$2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

"Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra." —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried SickWhy wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right?Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness
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Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers: Revised and Updated Edition

An Essential Guide to Managing Prostate Cancer for Patients and Their Families

de Ralph H. Blum, Mark Scholz M.D. ...

An indispensable map through the medical minefield of prostate cancer—now revised and updated with the latest developments in treatment options“Prostate cancer is a dark and mysterious country, and Mr. Blum and Dr. Scholz are good, levelheaded guides through these thickets.” —New York TimesEvery year almost a quarter of a million confused and frightened American men are tossed into a prostate ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

An indispensable map through the medical minefield of prostate cancer—now revised and updated with the latest developments in treatment options“Prostate cancer is a dark and mysterious country, and Mr. Blum and Dr. Scholz are good, levelheaded guides through these thickets.” —New York TimesEvery year almost a quarter of a million confused and frightened American men are tossed into a prostate
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ECG-2014-Expanded-ePub

de Ken Grauer ...

The ePub version of ECG-2014-PB (Pocket Brain) has just come out! This ePub version takes the 260-page hard copy book version (ECG-2014-PB) to another level. Not limited by space constraints - we have literally TRIPLED the content of the hard copy book. Our goal is to provide KEY information fast. Near-instant access is at your fingertips with this electronic ePub version. All key sections in this ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

The ePub version of ECG-2014-PB (Pocket Brain) has just come out! This ePub version takes the 260-page hard copy book version (ECG-2014-PB) to another level. Not limited by space constraints - we have literally TRIPLED the content of the hard copy book. Our goal is to provide KEY information fast. Near-instant access is at your fingertips with this electronic ePub version. All key sections in this
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Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Obesity and The Metabolic Syndrome®, 4th edition

de George A. Bray, MD ...

Practice-based text and illustrations make this handbook an invaluable reference guide for primary care physicians who are treating patients who are obese or who are approaching obesity. A detailed discussion covering the complexities of the metabolic syndrome is also included in this handbook. ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

Practice-based text and illustrations make this handbook an invaluable reference guide for primary care physicians who are treating patients who are obese or who are approaching obesity. A detailed discussion covering the complexities of the metabolic syndrome is also included in this handbook.
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Recovery from Lyme Disease

The Integrative Medicine Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Tick-Borne Illness

de Daniel A. Kinderlehrer, MD ...

From the foreword by world-leading Lyme expert Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., MD:*A detailed and thoughtful road map is sorely needed. And it is in this context that I am so pleased that we have this book by Dr. Kinderlehrer. I wish I’d had a book like this back in the day to guide me! It covers just about everything—the infections, diagnostic tests, treatments, and yes, the all-important terrain. It ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

From the foreword by world-leading Lyme expert Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., MD:*A detailed and thoughtful road map is sorely needed. And it is in this context that I am so pleased that we have this book by Dr. Kinderlehrer. I wish I’d had a book like this back in the day to guide me! It covers just about everything—the infections, diagnostic tests, treatments, and yes, the all-important terrain. It
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Rheumatology Cases

An Illustrative Case-Based Review

de Larissa Petriw, Ambika Gupta, Marie Leung, Tabitha Kung, Mala Joneja ...

"Rheumatology Cases" is a new, interactive, illustrative resource developed for learners in Rheumatology. Chapters are organized into approaches to common presentations, case-based presentations of Rheumatological disease, and useful appendices. Clinical photos, chapter review questions and a mobile epub format makes this ebook a user-friendly resource for medical students, residents or ... Leer más

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"Rheumatology Cases" is a new, interactive, illustrative resource developed for learners in Rheumatology. Chapters are organized into approaches to common presentations, case-based presentations of Rheumatological disease, and useful appendices. Clinical photos, chapter review questions and a mobile epub format makes this ebook a user-friendly resource for medical students, residents or
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