Just to Be Safe: Healthcare Waste in Modern Medicine. Modern medicine has achieved remarkable advances. We can diagnose disease with unprecedented precision, monitor patients more closely than ever before, and offer treatments that previous generations could only imagine. Yet amid these extraordinary achievements lies a difficult question: Can doing more sometime cause harm? Just to Be Safe is a thoughtful and deeply personal exploration of one of healthcare's most important and least disc...

International Bestseller — Translated into 15 Languages"This is a most important book, both for patient and physician. It could save your life."— Peter Levine, PhD, best selling author of In an Unspoken Voice"Gabor Maté, M.D., skillfully blends recent advances in biomedicine with the personal stories of his patients to provide empowering insights into how deeply developmental experiences shape our health, behavior, attitudes, and relationships. A must read."...

A strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?—in particular women and Islam?—and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place sh...

From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, the New York Times bestselling The Plant Paradox is a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in "healthy" foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains that are causing us to gain weight, trigger inflammation, and develop chronic disease.Most of us have heard of gluten—a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free...

Through full-color, three-dimensional illustrations of the skeleton, major muscles, tendons, and ligaments, Dr. Ray Long describes the science behind yoga. A board certified orthopedic surgeon who has studied yoga for more than 20 years, Dr. Long combines his knowledge of anatomy with his understanding of yoga to present the anatomic structures that are key to your practice of this discipline. The book balances art, science, and spirituality as it traces the forces at work throughout your ...

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the Rohingya refugee crisis, examining it as a critical ‘time bomb’ with implications extending far beyond Bangladesh to affect South Asia and the global community. The book explores the core conceptual issues and practical challenges surrounding the repatriation of stateless people, tracing how the seeds of contemporary atrocities were planted through the denationalization of the Rohingya in 1982. Through detailed examination of legal frame...

This groundbreaking bestseller describes a simple and effective way to let go of challenges from world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, spiritual teacher, and researcher of consciousness, David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.“Letting Go” is a guide to helping to remove the obstacles we all have that keep us from living a more conscious life, it is truly a life-changing book. Many of us have trouble Letting Go in our lives even though it can have profound impac...

Have you ever wondered…• Will I ever stop hurting?• Why do I keep lying?• Will I ever be back to "normal?"Or maybe…• Why me?For over twenty years, Dr. Lessmann has offered hope and treatment to people who feel hopeless or trapped by opioid addiction. Hear his straightforward, compassionate answers to over 40 questions people have at all stages of the journey away from pain pills.Buy this book and keep it handy because you never know w...

A greatest hits tour of death, 99 Ways to Die is a curation of all the ways you can possibly die, from hypertension to hippopotamus gouging and from altitude sickness to anthrax.As an emergency medicine doctor, Dr. Ashely Alker has spent a career outwitting death. Drawing on stories from her life and medical practice, she takes readers on a journey through A&E that manages to be both compassionate and darkly hilarious, covering lethal agents including sex, poison, drugs, b...

This New York Times bestseller reveals groundbreaking research on back pain and TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome)—and how you can become pain free without drugs, exercise, or surgery.Dr. John E. Sarno's 's program has helped thousands of patients find relief from chronic back conditions. Dr. Sarno teaches you how to identify stress and othe...

“Fun…and full of smart science. Fans of CSI—the real kind—will want to read it” (The Washington Post): A young forensic pathologist’s “rookie season” as a NYC medical examiner, and the hair-raising cases that shaped her as a physician and human being.Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. While her husband and their toddler held down the home front, Judy threw ...

A visually rich, ABIM-aligned board review with over 350 practice questions and 3 full mock exams – total access to more than 1000 multiple choice questions! This engaging new hematology-oncology review delivers a high-yield approach to preparing for the ABIM Medical Oncology Certification Exam. Organized by exam blueprint categories, this comprehensive resource combines more than 250 full-color illustrations and images, evidence-based standards of care, a...