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Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology (8th Edition)

McGraw-Hill, 2005

A new take on the classic, definitive text on the full spectrum of neurology. Reflecting a modern approach to neurology, Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology, 8/e new format highlights a more complete and accessible approaches to treatment and clinical management strategies. This thoroughly revised edition...

The Patient's Guide to Preventing Medical Errors

Praeger Publishers, 2004

It is natural to feel apprehensive when facing a surgical procedure or entering a hospital to receive treatment for a newly diagnosed illness. Although a bit nervous, people assume that they will be safe. That assumption is wrong. A startling report revealed that it is far safer to fly on a commercial airliner than to be a patient in a hospital. In...

Toward Scientific Medicine

Springer, 2013

Scientific medicine in Miettinen’s conception of it is very different from the two ideas about it that come to eminence in the 20^th century. To him, medicine is scientific to the extent that it has a rational theoretical framework and a knowledge-base from medical science. He delineates the nature of that...

Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital: Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital. Williams & Wilkins Handbook Series

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

Relied on for over 20 years by resident and practicing anesthesiologists and CRNAs, this best-selling pocket reference is now in its Seventh Edition. In easy-to-scan outline format, it provides current, comprehensive, concise, consistent, and clinically relevant guidelines for anesthesia procedures throughout the preoperative,...

Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime (Diálogos Series)

University of Chicago Press, 2014

In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriersâwork rarely acknowledged. Elaine Carey’s study of women in the drug trade offers a new understanding of this intriguing subject, from women drug smugglers in the...

Lean Six Sigma for Service : How to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services and Transactions

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Much of the U.S. economy is now based on services rather than manufacturing. Yet the majority of books on Six Sigma and Lean--today's major quality improvement initiatives--explain only how to implement these techniques in a manufacturing environment.

Lean Six Sigma for Services fills the need for a service-based approach,...

Medical Data Management

Springer, 2003

Careful documentation is essential in all fields of medicine and health care, whether it may serve the treatment of patients, compliance with legal obligations, reimbursement and cost analysis, quality assurance, or clinical research. Clinical documentation must be conducted in a systematic way; otherwise, there is a danger of it becoming a...

The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in Americas Public Companies

Routledge, 2009

Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity,...

Multiagent Engineering: Theory and Applications in Enterprises

Springer, 2006

This handbook gives an overview on engineering of business information systems with agent technology. It introduces into this challenge, describes how to identify and to address the relevant technical problems, and explains how to engineer, integrated and test multiagent systems for real world applications. The book gives detailed descriptions of...

From Basic Pain Mechanisms to Headache (Frontiers in Headache Research)

Oxford University Press, 2006

Though the topics of 'pain' and 'headache' are obviously linked, these two research fields have in recent years developed at their own pace, often with scant attention paid to the other. By forging closer links between these fields, it should be possible to develop a deeper understanding of both the pain mechanisms associated with headache and a...

Epilepsy and Your Child: The 'At Your Fingertips' Guide (Class Health)

Class Publishing, 2017

Epilepsy is no respecter of age. It most commonly presents in childhood and tends to be seen at its most severe during the childhood years. It remains a uniquely frightening, stigmatising and misunderstood disorder. For all these reasons, the impact of epilepsy in a child on all the family members can be enormous.

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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Times Books, 2003

A fascinating exploration of how we interpret and experience emotions-and how we can improve our emotional skills-by a pioneering psychologist

A renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Paul Ekman has led a revolution in our scientific understanding of emotions. Now he assembles his pathbreaking research and...

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