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  • On the Frontlines of Crisis

    Intensive Care and the Challenge of COVID-19

    Series Libro 19 - Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    On the Frontlines of Crisis is a powerful account of the experiences of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As hospitals worldwide became overwhelmed by an influx of critically ill patients, those working in intensive care units (ICUs) were thrust into an unprecedented battle against a deadly virus about which little was understood. Rodriquez takes readers into the heart of two ... Leer más

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  • Labors of Love

    Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work

    Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced ... Leer más

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  • Labors of Love

    Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work

    Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced ... Leer más

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  • Death Interrupted

    How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine has complicated the way we die and offers a road map for dying in the modern era.Doctors today can call on previously unimaginable technologies to help keep our bodies alive almost indefinitely. But this unprecedented shift in intensive care has created a major crisis. In the widening ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Dying Well

    A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

    de Katy Butler ...
    This “comforting…thoughtful” (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a “roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe).“A common sense path to define what a ‘good’ ... Leer más

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  • Clean

    Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

    de David Sheff ...
    The New York Times bestseller—a myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research.Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science—not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking.These facts are the foundation of Clean. The existing addiction treat ... Leer más

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  • Random Acts of Medicine

    The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

    Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected—but predictable—events can profoundly affect our health. • Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? ... Leer más

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  • Extreme Measures

    Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

    For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined ... Leer más

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  • Project UnLonely

    Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection

    Insight into our new world of loneliness that offers solace, hope, and solutions.Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our ... Leer más

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  • Tornado of Life

    A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

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    “BRIEF, TOUCHING” STORIES FROM THE ER: An emergency room doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care (New York Times Book Review).To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doctor’s most critical task. More technology, more tests, and more data won ... Leer más

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    **A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.“Uncommonly moving ... A revealing and heartfelt book." —Atul Gawande, #1 New York bestselling author of Being Mortal**When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a ... Leer más

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