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"Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game’s lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility....
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She has a new look, a new man, and a past that's not her own. The New York Times–bestselling author delivers a chilling romantic thriller.
After her estranged brother dies, Lauren Stevenson inherits his substantial legacy, allowing her to finally fix a medical condition that's plagued her all her life. The results of the plastic surgery are nothing less than astounding. In the mirror, Lauren sees a whole new person.
But that's just the...
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With more than eight million copies of her books in print, Iris Johansen has captured top spots on national best-seller lists and attracted a wide audience of fans. Renowned for her superb storytelling, Johansen adds a dark twist to the well-known fable in The Ugly Duckling. Nell Calder is the docile, plain wife of a powerful financier. She is content to live in the shadows of his elegant international life. Suddenly one night, at a lavish party,...
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Discover the miraculous power of mindset and motivation. This is the incredible true story of my lifelong battle against sickle cell disease and how against all the odds, I was able to beat it. Starting from my unconventional and at times, tragic childhood experiences, I describe how the condition adversely affected so much of my life, yet also helped make me become the strong, positive person I am today. In the book, I also describe my life-saving...
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Whoever wishes to adopt microsurgery as a technique within their therapeutic repertoire should know that it demands skills that develop in the microsurgery laboratory. This handbook intends to aid in the acquisition and development of those skills necessary to perform a microsurgical procedure of excellence.
Keeping up with the changes observed in educational processes, this guide uses explanatory videos in all the techniques described making the...
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Learning the techniques of surgical knot tying can be difficult at the beginning. This book covers the most common one and two handed tying techniques and instrument ties needed by a general surgical resident or medical student.
It expands on traditional knots to include advanced intracorporeal and extracorporeal knots useful in laparoscopic and arthroscopic surgery. Step-by-step instructions are given for tying these complex knots and for ending...
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A sequel to Volume 2 of the ISHLT Monograph series, this book is not a textbook; rather each chapter tries to focus on specific topics within the field that pediatric cardiac practitioners currently face, often on a daily basis. Many of these topics have only evolved in recent years, which makes the content more timely and of interest to the reader.
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Meet Jill Ortiz, an average girl turned hero for six unsuspecting individuals in need of a new chance at life. This is her story of how she went from being an ordinary girl living in Cincinnati, Ohio, to moving to Napa Valley, California, and taking on one of the most important decisions of her life.
Being prompted by a deep faith and what she believes was a whisper from God, Jill made the life altering decision to donate one of her kidneys to...
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This monograph, entitled, Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices, reflects the collective effort of many people in the international field of pediatric ventricular assist devices and is a testament to the growth of this field over the last decade. This work summarizes the most current literature in pediatric VAD therapy and also introduces concepts and ideas not previously published. We would like to acknowledge all those who contributed to the monograph...
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"La historia del hígado está llena de anécdotas que se remontan al origen de la humanidad. Los antiguos lo consideraban el principal órgano del cuerpo, donde se alojaban el alma y las emociones humanas, y por ello también ha sido sede de temperamentos, incluyendo el biliar. Para algunos, el hígado está vinculado con el placer: se cree que las palabras hepático y hedonista comparten la misma raíz. En el periodo de Isabel I, reina de Inglaterra,...
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THE NEUROSURGERY BOARD FAVORITES: CROSSWORD PUZZLES is the FIRST PUZZLE BOOK in the medical specialties dedicated to bring out the "lighter" aspect of studying neurosurgery.
■ 50 NEUROSURGERY-ORIENTED CROSSWORD PUZZLES with a total of 524-QUESTIONS included. The puzzles arranged by topic and difficulty as "basic" and "advanced".
■ Coverage includes general essential areas in neurosurgery, with a special focus on hard-to-retain facts.
■ COGNITIVE...
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This book provides a valuable guide to understanding idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), which is a very complex and painful disease. It is a chronic, often disabling condition resulting in headaches, visual loss, and ringing in the ears. This condition was thought to be rare but is becoming much more common, especially as the population becomes more overweight. Patients with this condition often suffer from intractable headaches with poor...
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Extracting Wisdom points you in the direction to answer the call to build high-impact Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery practices from residency through retirement. This book is infused with wisdom from novice, seasoned, and retired surgeons, as well as from a patient's perspective. It will guide you through the processes that are vital to success: identifying a practice vision, establishing a business plan, building a dynamic team, providing leadership,...
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Greg Bruce is an orthopaedic surgeon who served in the Royal Australian Air Force. Between 1995 and 2008, he was sent overseas on ten military deployments to humanitarian disasters, local conflicts and war zones, including the most attacked US base in Iraq.
The restricted medical resources, dangers and harsh living conditions made military surgery very different from civilian practice.
There were good experiences and horrible experiences.
There...
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Military surgeons must assume a leadership role in combat casualty care in circumstances that are far less than ideal. This handbook provides much of the information needed to tackle these issues and features state-of-the-art principles and practices of forward trauma surgery as used by military physicians in far flung locations around the globe. Featuring nearly 200 illustrations demonstrating proper techniques, Emergency War Surgery is the most...
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This book provides a concise, step-by-step guide to accurate microscopic diagnosis for clinicians who deal with patients with breast lesions. The emphasis is on a practical approach to dealing with breast biopsies and reaching a diagnosis. It outlines the procedures used for the microscopic diagnosis of various breast lesions and the significance of the nomenclature and terms used in pathology reports, including those dealing with uncommon or rare...
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Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's The Invention of Surgery is an in-depth biography of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians through the world-changing developments of anesthesia and antiseptic operating rooms to the "implant revolution" of the twentieth century.
The Invention of Surgery is history of surgery that explains...
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El objetivo de este tratado, es analizar, de una manera racional, como hacer frente al dolor y a la inflamación postoperatoria sin olvidar que la infección puede ser la genesis del dolor, no solo de forma inmediata, sino por la transformación del dolor agudo en dolor neuropático crónico, que aparece cada vez que actuamos quirúrgicamente sobre un paciente, desde una evidencia científica y enfocado eminentemente a la prevención de esas sintomatologías,...
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This is a fascinating account of surgery that throws light on forgotten and unknown aspects of its practice from antiquity to the present. It illuminates the rare periods of progress and also explains why there were lengthy times when no original operations were undertaken.
Maybury has achieved this by identifying the time and place when each operation was first undertaken. The first of these was the trephination of the skull in Peru twelve thousand...
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Oral and maxillofacial surgery is the surgical arm of dentistry, a unique specialty bridging dentistry and medicine. Women are traditionally underrepresented in this specialty due to different reasons. Dr. Hung has brought together a collection of female surgeons to share their personal stories with the aim to inspire more women to pursue the wonderful and fulfilling specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery. “Behind Her Scalpel” includes discussions...
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