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5541) The Adaptive Ultimate
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This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. It tells the story of an experimental medical procedure on a woman close to death. The procedure brings her back from the brink but gives her unexpected powers of adaptation, making her incredibly dangerous. The pair that created her must find some way of stopping her, but will they find a way to nullify her superhuman...
5542) Dust to Dust
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A MEDICAL MIRACLE
The first subjects are lab rats. Injected with two experimental drugs by two different doctors, the rats begin to show signs of renewed youth, restored health, and remarkable vigor. Surprised by the results, neurologist Kat Williams and biochemist Burton Harris believe they have stumbled upon a major breakthrough in the science of aging. But there is only one way to know if their formula can truly reverse the aging process. Their...
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The Operational Plan for Health, 2015-2020 articulates the focused and scaled-up response of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to the health sector needs of its developing member countries. As they strive to achieve universal health coverage and achieve better health outcomes, these countries need support to develop innovative approaches to manage health care in new ways, more effectively, with better quality, and for lower cost. ADB is a unique and...
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Este libro despliega los múltiples abordajes con los que hoy trabaja el Dispositivo Pavlovsky, pero es mucho más que la descripción del mismo y su funcionamiento. Da cuenta de un método de pensamiento-acción, que se fue armando en un andar que pondera a cada paso sus errancias y que ha puesto a funcionar la inagotable potencia de invención de su inteligencia colectiva.
El equipo que conforma el Dispositivo Pavlovsky piensa en situación y arma...
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Gracefully Diminished: Living with a Traumatic Brain Injury outlines what I what learned through hundreds of doctor appointments, tests and therapy sessions. I'm not a doctor - just someone that was hit by a shuttle bus while walking across the street and was able to eventually find peace and happiness. Hopefully this will help someone achieve Peace a little bit quicker, or help a friend or family member gain some Understanding. Maybe someone will...
5546) Smoke and Mirrors: How You Are Being Fooled About Mental Illness - An Insider's Warning to Consumers
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The orthodox mental health industry is a form of social and moral control and not a true medical system. It has created the "myth of mental illness" that fools people into believing common and adaptive human reactions to emotional pain are illnesses or otherwise signs of personal dysfunction. This critique is not new. It arose six decades ago at a time when psychiatry was embracing the biology of human distress and the use of mind-altering drugs to...
5547) Critical Condition
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IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A QUIET DINNER PARTY WITH HER COLLEAGUES-NOT THE SCENE OF A MURDER. But the murder of a stranger on her front lawn is only the first in a string of events that have Dr. Shannon Frasier's life teetering on the edge of chaos. She's unable to make the deeper commitment her boyfriend deserves. Her sister shows up at her home needing a place to stay but with no promise she'll remain sober. And her father is diagnosed with cancer....
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The alumni of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) have made remarkable strides in medicine, academia, public health, and industry. In this they follow in the footsteps of Samuel Bard (1742–1821), a prominent early American physician and a founder of what would become VP&S. In The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard, Peter Wortsman offers a selection of profiles of Columbia-educated doctors who have made a fundamental...
5549) Mountain Road
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Deeply rich, emotionally complex romance perfect for fans of This is Us. Her heart will lead her home. Beneath Minty's cool, classically beautiful exterior, ripples of doubt and unease define the perimeter of her rule-driven world. Minty has OCD. The kind that's too ugly to share.Especially not with a sexy younger man who's only supposed to want a good time. Fun-loving and infinitely patient, Lucky Triggs' entire world shifts under Minty's enigmatic...
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With Generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs, consumers will be able to: - Quickly identify generic alternatives to brand-name prescription drugs- Compare high-priced brand drugs to lower-cost generic medicines- Reduce out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs- Learn tips for communicating more effectively with doctors and pharmacists
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A water bearer is the symbol attributed to Aquarius...the 11th sign of the Zodiac-my sign. According to lore, the water bearer not only pours out water, but also wisdom, mercy, and compassion.
I am the main character in this memoir, and the story technically begins in 2018 with the onset of 24/7 crippling anxiety. I detail my sifting, wading, struggling through misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis. Until September 17, 2021-the day that changed my...
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Emergency, Bundle Three contains five full-length romance reads guaranteed to hold you spellbound. Acute Care (Book 9)ER Doctor Portia Bailey loves her job. She also loves her mentally challenged sister, Juliet. Portia has a secret that most men wouldn't understand.Millionaire Nelson Gregory also has a secret. It's what drives him to race cars, ride motorcycles, skydive. He's constantly flirting with death, and when he's admitted to St. Joe's after...
5554) CRISPR'd: A Novel
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For fans of Julia Buckley and Tess Gerritsen, a debut featuring a killer in plain sight using a microscopic murder weapon, the cutting-edge gene-editing technology: CRISPR.
Boston geneticist Dr. Saul Kramer is on the cutting edge of genetic disease research. Revered among clients at his IVF clinic, he harbors a dark secret. In addition to helping infertile couples conceive healthy babies, Dr. Kramer is obsessed, for his own dark reasons, with an...
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"Un souffle d'amour - Au-delà des mots" relate le parcours d'une aide-soignante, entre moments de joie intense et périodes de profonde solitude. L'auteure décrit les évolutions récentes dans le milieu hospitalier, marqué par une tendance à l'économie à tous les niveaux. Ce récit aborde également des situations familières que chacun a pu rencontrer, aussi bien dans sa vie personnelle que professionnelle.
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5556) Doctors
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Excerpt: "On October 1st, 1908, Mr. Rudyard Kipling was kind enough to distribute the prizes at the opening of the new session of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital. The address which he then delivered was deemed by those who heard it so admirable, both in form and substance, that there arose a desire to preserve it. The object of this little book is to satisfy that wish. It has been suggested that its publication might be appreciated by...
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A story of friends...with marriage benefits, by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Celmer
After all they've been through following the tornado that hit their Texas town, there's no way Dr. Lucas Wakefield will let his best friend, Julie Kingston, leave because of a green card mix-up. The only solution is to propose marriage. But what starts as a platonic arrangement quickly blooms into red-hot desire-until Luc's ex-fiancée returns to reclaim...
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Harlequin® Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama.
This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes:
#837 RESCUED BY DR. RAFE Stranded in His Arms by Annie Claydon
After rescuing his ex, Mimi Sawyer, from a flood, Dr. Rafe Chapman is determined to win her back!
#839 SIZZLING NIGHTS WITH DR. OFF-LIMITS by Janice Lynn
Will...
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This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
There is no one in Syria with a story like Dr. Amani Ballour's. The only woman to have ever run a wartime hospital, she saved her peers from the atrocities of war while contending with the patriarchal conservatism around her.
Growing up in Assad's Syria, Ballour knew she wanted to be more than...
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Tess Broad wanted children. She longed for them. It wasn't to be. In this candid and moving memoir, Tess writes to the children that never were. She writes to them as their adult selves with openness and honesty and tells them of the childhood she envisaged for them and the mother she believed she would be. She describes her reluctant transformation from the woebegone, wannabe mummy that she once was, to the woman she is now; childless but chilled,...
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