A comprehensive study guide for students who want to score in the 90th percentile on the MCAT and get accepted to a top medical school. Featuring hundreds of the toughest practice questions with complete answer explanations and strategies for getting the right answers on test day. Synopsis: Think a 45 is out of the question? Think again. Kaplan's MCAT? 45 provides the extra tactics and advanced practice you need to help you get the absolute maximum score. Using this book with the practice test and intensive review of Kaplan's bestselling MCAT? Comprehensive Review, you can get the perfect score. TOUGHEST QUESTIONS Practice with "high-octane" questions -- the toughest you'll see on the test -- and get comprehensive explanations, plus tips and techniques for answering them quickly and accurately. HARDEST SCIENCE Target your review with specially-designed practice sets containing the hardest science concepts you'll see on the MCAT?. STRONGEST ST
The Mosby Nurse's Pocket Dictionary. 33rd edition, has been compteteiy updated to meet the needs of both students and registered nurses practising within health care systems that continue to undergo rapid change. This established dictionary is comprehensive, up-to-date and remains the definitive pocket dictionary for nurses. FEATURES 7500 entries 90 clear, informative illustrations, many with a practice focus 8 indispensabte appendices inctuding two news ones: KEY GOVERNMENT REPORTS AND ACTS OF PARLIAMENT(1994-2004) and USEFUL WEB RESOURCES. major emphasis on nursing relevant to foundation and branch programme students provides information about topics such as research, professional development, ethics and quality issues that reflect the changing culture of health care delivery revised anatomy, physiology, medicine, pathology, pharmacology and other health care disciplines that provide the information that nurses need to help them give high quality care provides an es
New title! A concise guide to the essential language of medicine. More than 35,000 entries. Pronunciations provided for all entries. Covers brand names and generic equivalents of common drugs.
In The Body in Motion, author Theodore Dimon confronts asimple yet crucial task: to make sense of our amazing design. Thiscomprehensive guide demonstrates the functions and evolution ofspecific body systems, explaining how they cooperate to form anupright, intelligent, tool-making marvel, capable of greattechnological and artistic achievement. Enhanced with 162beautifully rendered full-color illustrations, the book opens withan introduction to the origins of movement, leading the reader on ajourney through time and evolution—from fish to amphibian,quadruped to primate—showing how humans became the preeminentmoving beings on the planet. Delving deeper into our upright support system, The Body inMotion clearly describes the workings of the hands and upper limbs;the pelvic girdle; the feet and lower limbs; breathing; the larynxand throat musculature; and more. Central to the book is the ideathat it is our upright posture that makes it possible for us tomove in an infinite variety of ways, to man
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning scienceand history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery:Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United Statestripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults andchildren are added to the government disability rolls because theyhave become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemicspreading most rapidly among our nation’s children. What is goingon? Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through thatquestion themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is knowntoday about the biological causes of mental disorders. Dopsychiatric medications fix “chemical imbalances” in the brain, ordo they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studyingthat question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer.Readers will be startled—and dismayed—to discover what was reportedin the scientific journals. Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: Duringthe past
Book De*ion A comprehensive study guide for students who want to score in the 90th percentile on the MCAT and get accepted to a top medical school. Featuring hundreds of the toughest practice questions with complete answer explanations and strategies for getting the right answers on test day. Synopsis: Think a 45 is out of the question? Think again. Kaplan's MCAT? 45 provides the extra tactics and advanced practice you need to help you get the absolute maximum score. Using this book with the practice test and intensive review of Kaplan's bestselling MCAT? Comprehensive Review, you can get the perfect score. TOUGHEST QUESTIONS Practice with "high-octane" questions -- the toughest you'll see on the test -- and get comprehensive explanations, plus tips and techniques for answering them quickly and accurately. HARDEST SCIENCE Target your review with specially-designed practice sets containing the hardest science concepts you'll see on the MCAT?. STRONGEST STRATEGIES Take apart the most complicated p
Reflecting on the connection between the rise in chronicimmune disorders and toxic environmental and lifestyle patterns,herbalist and acupuncturist Jason Elias and collaborator KatherineKetcham looked to the 5,000-year-old The Yellow Emperor's Classicof Medicine to seek clues for restoring the balance of body andmind. In Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity, Elias and Ketcham showhow to use the preventive strategies and gentle, supportiveremedies of traditional Chinese medicine to heal contemporarychronic illnesses and bolster immunity. The book teaches readershow to identify which element--Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, andWater--most directly influences them and how to correct imbalancesthat can lead to particular physical, emotional, and spiritualdisorders with step-by-step instruction for using stress-reductiontechniques, diet and exercise, herbs, and acupressure.
In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how Americanmedicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers firstbegan combining European remedies with the traditional practices ofthe native populations. It’s a story filled with colorfulcharacters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers andingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging styleand an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolutionof American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to itscontemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medicalindustry. Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, FrontierMedicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modernmedical system came into being.
“In this enlightening book, Dr. Charles Moss offers us theopportunity to heal our modern world through the wisdom of theages.” —David Simon, MD, cofounder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeingand author of Free to Love, Free to Heal “Dr. Charles Moss catapults the discipline of Five Elementacupuncture into the contemporary framework of an individual’sresponse to life’s stressors. His Five Adaptation Types each embodythe qualities of an element, and he lucidly animates them withsnapshot stories from his clinical practice. This is the inevitablenext step of integrating the classical Five Element model intomodern medicine’s understanding of mind-body dynamics.” —Joseph M. Helms, MD, president of Helms Medical Institute andfounding president of the American Academy of MedicalAcupuncture “Dr. Charles Moss, a masterful physician and acupuncturist,penetrates the mysteries of classical Chinese medical thinking togive us a truly useful guide to meeting life
The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way ofcreating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies ofnature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers,herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-stepguide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--fromvibrantly colorful outdoor circle designs to miniature dish,windowsill, or home altar adaptations. Inside you’ll find: ? Planting guides for medicine wheel gardens in every zone, fromdesert Southwest to northern woodlands ? A beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of 50 key healing herbs,including propagation needs, traditional and modern uses, andcautions ? Easy-to-follow herbal recipes, from teas and tonics to skincreams and soaps--plus delicious healing foods ? Ideas for herbal crafts and ceremonial objects, includingsmudge sticks, wind horses, prayer ties, and spirit shields ? Seasonal rituals, offerings, and meditations to bless andempower your garden and y
Integratingconventional and alternative medical approaches to healing, aphysician introduces a four-step program to heal the body andspirit, enhance recovery from illness, and build resistance todisease
We are in the middle of a cultural revolution in the healthcare industry. Nearly eight thousand people practice TraditionalChinese Medicine in the US and thirty-five states currently offersome form of legal status for its practice. Many people are seekingalternatives to the Western, medical approach to health care. Tothese seekers, Voices of Qi is an invaluable aid inexploring what Traditional Chinese Medicine has to offer. AlexHolland has done an admirable job of presenting the basic tenetsand practices to this ancient tradition in a clear, concise andaccessible manner.
With your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches,pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health,and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healingart that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that,in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing processes. Withthis book, it is a skill you can learn now--and use in your ownhome. In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder anddirector of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simpletechniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, coldsand flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes,depression, and more--using the power and sensitivity of your ownhands. This practical guide covers more than forty ailments andsymptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-pointmaps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function.Acupressure complements conventional medical care, and enables youto take a vital role in becoming well and staying
This is an original and successful text which provides a series of tutorials in the problem-based approach to clinical medicine, as against the more common disease-based emphasis of most textbooks. It covers a full range of signs and symptoms as they are encountered in clinical practice and discusses them with the emphasis on those which are crucial in the differential diagnosis of the patient. Each chapter ends with an illustrated case history. Diagnostic algorithms help to summarise many of the cases and give an overview of the diagnostic pathway that has been set out in the text.
As a medical intuitive,Myss has found that people often don't understand their purpose inlife. The resulting spiritual malaise leads in turn to depression,anxiety, fatigue, and physical illness. To help people find thispurpose our individual Sacred Contract -- Myss has developed aprocess for deciphering your own Contract using a theory ofarchetypes that builds on the work of Jung, Plato, and contemporarythinkers. With her signature motivational style, Myss explains how we canidentify our particular spiritual energies, or archetypes, and usethem to find out what we are here on earth to learn and whom we aremeant to meet. Both visionary and practical, Sacred Contracts is aunique tool for self-discovery and a powerful work of spiritualwisdom.
This series of books reflects the trend towards a core curriculum and self-directed learning. The content is restricted to the 'must know' core information presented in a synoptic style. The diagrams that support the text are in a style that the reader can remember and reproduce in examinations. Each chapter ends with a selection of self-assessment material and full explanatory answers. These consolidate and expand on the chapter contents. The series covers the entire curriculum in approximately twelve discipline-based volumes. This volume presents an integrated coverage of biochemistry. Despite the use of problem- and/or topic-based curricula students still respond to the security of a well-ordered presentation of the basic information by traditional discipline. Concise text of the essential core material. Accompanying self-assessment material ideal for self-directed learning. Simple line drawings of a style that can be easily reproduced in examinations. New smaller format to fit on b
How Doctors Think is a window into the mind of the physician andaninsightful examination of the all-important relationship betweendoctorsand their patients. In this myth-shattering work, JeromeGroopmanexplores the forces and thought processes behind thedecisions doctorsmake. He pinpoints why doctors succeed and whythey err. Most impor-tant, Groopman shows when and how doctors can-- with our help --avoid snap iudgments, embrace uncertainty,communicate effectively, anddeploy other skills that can profoundlyimpact our health.
Discover why admissions officers from the nation’s top medicalschools selected these essays of worthy applicants With only a limited number of spaces available every year to thethousands ofqualified applicants to the nation’s top medicalschools, a serious candidate must finda way to set himself orherself apart from the crowd. The essay is your one chancetohighlight the personal qualities and achievements that theapplication and MCATscores do not reveal. As Essays That Worked for Medical Schools demonstrates, there isno such thing asthe perfect submission. The winning essays cover awide range of interesting topics. If there is any similarity, it isthat they are written from the heart. One applicant writes abouthis work as a counselor for mentally ill adults and teens. Anothertells about the life-changing experience of delivering much neededsupplies to a leprosy village in West Africa. And a third applicanttalks about time spent volunteering at a local senior center. Fromthe thousands sub
Univ.of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Pocket-sized consumer handbook provides clear, jargon-free information on colorectal cancer. Discusses risk and prevention, screening and diagnosis, various treatment options, and alternative therapies. Data is derived from the online cancer resource, OncoLink. Softcover.
Acupuncture and the chakra energy system have both becomeincreasingly mainstream in the West, but rarely have the twoapproaches been joined into one practice. Acupuncture and theChakra Energy System: Treating the Cause of Disease does just that.By comparing the traditional approaches of Chinese medicine andmodern Western acupuncture with the chakra energy system ofAyurvedic philosophy, author John Cross offers clinically provenstrategies for treating the causes of conditions, not just thesymptoms. The book describes the seven major and twenty-one minor chakrasin detail and explains how each is related to the body's aura,meridians, Key points, endocrine glands, autonomic nervous system,and varying symptomatology. Focusing on how to use the chakras inthe treatment of chronic physical and emotionalconditions—osteo-arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, low back painwith sciatica, insomnia, hypertension, depression, menopausalsymptoms, and frozen shoulder, among others—Cross’s clear, in-depthexplanat
