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Publisher
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The world's most widely used medical reference is now in its 20th edition. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy now in its 20th edition has been thoroughly updated and thoughtfully expanded with a new larger trim size to include 40% new and revised content. Including 36 new chapters with more than 200 new tables, and numerous new figures. The world's most widely used medical reference is now in its 20th edition. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis...
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Language
English
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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Aoife Abbey uses the seven emotions of fear, grief, joy, distraction, anger, disgust and hope as context to relate her first-hand experiences in intensive care units and other hospital wards during her career working in UK hospitals.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video illustrates how life threatening illness could impact a person's spirituality. Spiritual issues and needs are explored, as well as how a person's spirituality could impact upon his response to life threatening illness. Spiritual resources that can be used to deal with such illnesses are identified. All of these aspects are explored in an interview with a young adult diagnosed with leukemia. The role of the nurse in providing spiritual care...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book is for ICU patients' families, suddenly immersed in an alien and intimidating world. It clearly explains intensive care ranging from the details of the equipment and environment, to decisions about end-of-life care, focusing on how the reader can become an effective advocate for their loved one."--
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