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Author
Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Detoxification -- the removal of pollutants from the body -- can look back on a long tradition. Since time immemorial, people have felt a wish to cleanse their bodies and souls at regular intervals and to rid them of needless and harmful ballast. This may be due to the instinctive feeling that purification is a great relief for body and soul and is also needed to maintain or regain health. At the same time, a thorough detoxification and cleansing...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A history of medicine from antiquity through the 1990s, focusing on medical ideas about disease, medical teachings about healthy and unhealthy bodies, and medical models of life and death, and discussing the people and professional groups who have been responsible for such beliefs and practices.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Atul Gawande offers a gripping exploration of how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of sometimes insurmountable obstacles. Gawande's vivid stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. Offering a searingly honest account of a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable,...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
No one wants to go to an emergency department. While you can never protect yourself 100%, there are ways to help avoid having to make a trip there. Here, learn about the importance of cancer screenings, vaccinations, and taking medication. A little prevention, it turns out, makes a big difference..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It’s time for your last shift in the emergency department. In this closing lecture, Dr. Benaroch uses several case studies to help you review the big-picture lessons of good emergency care you’ve learned throughout the course—lessons that have opened your eyes to the excitement and challenges of emergency medicine and that can help you take better care of yourself and your loved ones..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How do you handle patients in altered mental states, suffering from unusual thoughts and behaviors? How do you figure out their story and make an accurate diagnosis? Discover how, in cases like these, doctors rely more than ever on signs and clues from a patient’s family and friends..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This lecture’s cases illustrate how sports-related injuries are treated in emergency departments. You’ll encounter a softball player suffering from a concussion, a young boy’s dangerous eye injury from a haphazard game of lawn darts, a teen rescued from a near-drowning event, and a golfer’s stubborn poison ivy rash..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Emergency department doctors should always assume every patient has a life-threatening illness—even though only 10% to 20% actually do. How do doctors manage this healthy “paranoia”? And how do they prepare themselves and their patients for the worst outcome while planning for the best?.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Doctors are commanded to do no harm to their patients. What’s equally important is protecting themselves in those rare instances where a patient may do them harm. Get an inside look at how emergency doctors handle dangerous situations, including a patient acting violently and a patient suffering from a highly infectious disease..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discover how emergency doctors use OLD CAAAR: a simple mnemonic to accurately— and quickly—pinpoint the location and characteristics of a patient’s pains. Also, learn what happens when a doctor has to think fast and doesn’t have the time to ask each of the OLD CAAAR questions..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gain insights into tips and practices that emergency department doctors and patients should know to ensure their safety. Topics include the risks of conscious sedation (which is less safe than general anesthesia), the importance of knowing your allergies, and the dangers involved in handing off a patient to another provider..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Emergency department patients often aren’t ready to trust the doctors attending them, since they have just met. In this lecture, learn how doctors work with patients who aren’t completely forthcoming to build trust and coax out embarrassing—or seemingly irrelevant—details to arrive at the right diagnosis and get them the treatment they need..
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