The Vanishing Patient

The Vanishing Patient

Author: Mairi Chong

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2022-08-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1504076869

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A doctor begins to doubt her own sanity as she investigates a patient’s wild claims in this new mystery from the author of Lethal Resuscitation . . . Dr. Cathy Moreland is taken aback when an irate patient comes to her practice claiming his ailing wife has been kidnapped by one of her colleagues using a false name. Is someone impersonating a doctor, or is Adam Steer delusional? After looking into Adam’s claims, she feels reassured that no such thing actually happened—but continues to worry that Steer is mentally unwell. A visit to his home only leads to more alarm. No one answers the door, but Cathy overhears a conversation that convinces her something sinister is going on—and that she herself may be in danger. Cathy’s own bipolar disorder is well-managed, but she’s beginning to doubt her own sanity—and others are, too. As strange developments unfold, will she be able to make any sense of the events around her before everything spirals out of control?


The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?

The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?

Author: Andrew I. Schafer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0801462428

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Throughout history, physicians have played a vital role in medical discovery. These physician-scientists devote the majority of their professional effort to seeking new knowledge about health and disease through research and represent the entire continuum of biomedical investigation. They bring a unique perspective to their work and often base their scientific questions on the experience of caring for patients. Physician-scientists also effectively communicate between researchers in the "pure sciences" and practicing health care providers. Yet there has been growing concern in recent decades that, due to complex changes, physician-scientists are vanishing from the scene. In this book, leading physician-scientists and academic physicians examine the problem from a variety of perspectives: historical, demographic, scientific, cultural, sociological, and economic. They make valuable recommendations that—if heeded—should preserve and revitalize the community of physician-scientists as the profession continues to evolve and boundaries between doctors and researchers shift.


The Vanishing Surgeons

The Vanishing Surgeons

Author: Graham Lister

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2005-11-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1462842461

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The Vanishing Surgeons takes the reader into Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland during the nineteen-fifties. The Royal is two hundred years old with a proud history including the first use of antiseptic surgery and the establishment of the first school of nursing, the discipline of which is still apparent. But all is not well in this proud and disciplined hospital. A surgeon disappears without trace, and then another. When they are finally found it is in the least likely of locations. How did it happen? Was it an accident? Or was a young and ambitious surgical intern responsible?


Elena Vanishing

Elena Vanishing

Author: Elena Dunkle

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 145213068X

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Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder.


Life after New Media

Life after New Media

Author: Sarah Kember

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0262527464

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An argument for a shift in understanding new media—from a fascination with devices to an examination of the complex processes of mediation. In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects—computers, smart phones, iPods, Kindles—to an examination of the interlocking technical, social, and biological processes of mediation. Doing so, they say, reveals that life itself can be understood as mediated—subject to the same processes of reproduction, transformation, flattening, and patenting undergone by other media forms. By Kember and Zylinska's account, the dispersal of media and technology into our biological and social lives intensifies our entanglement with nonhuman entities. Mediation—all-encompassing and indivisible—becomes for them a key trope for understanding our being in the technological world. Drawing on the work of Bergson and Derrida while displaying a rigorous playfulness toward philosophy, Kember and Zylinska examine the multiple flows of mediation. Importantly, they also consider the ethical necessity of making a “cut” to any media processes in order to contain them. Considering topics that range from media-enacted cosmic events to the intelligent home, they propose a new way of “doing” media studies that is simultaneously critical and creative, and that performs an encounter between theory and practice.


Medical Secrets

Medical Secrets

Author: Mary P. Harward

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2018-09-29

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 0323527914

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For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Medical Secrets, 6th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style – making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable. The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time – succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective. Coverage includes the full range of essential topics in medicine for in-training and practicing professionals, authored by a diverse range of teachers and clinicians who cover both medical and ethical issues. Fully revised and updated throughout, including protocols and guidelines that are continuously evolving and that increasingly dictate best practices. Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.


Confessions of a Surgeon

Confessions of a Surgeon

Author: Paul A. Ruggieri, MD

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2023-03-24

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1662936109

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As an active surgeon over the last thirty years, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has experienced and lived through the best and the worst of his profession. In his first book, Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated he pushed open the operating room doors to give the public a startling view of what really went on inside the operating room. In Confessions of a Surgeon: A Deeper Cut, Dr. Ruggieri blows the operating room doors right off their hinges. It cuts deeper into a profession, even more mysterious then ever before. He candidly shares his thoughts on the patients that have impacted his life the most. He also exposes how surgeons (including himself) and the surgical profession have dramatically changed since the first time he nervously picked up a scalpel blade as a naïve surgical intern. He explores how these changes have helped and hurt patients. He also explores how these changes will continue to have a direct affect on anyone about to enter an operating room. Ultimately, Dr. Ruggieri’s passionate and candid account of his life inside a changing operating room will give his audience the power of transparency and truth.


The Dr Cathy Moreland Mysteries Boxset Books Four to Seven

The Dr Cathy Moreland Mysteries Boxset Books Four to Seven

Author: Mairi Chong

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2022-09-09

Total Pages: 1020

ISBN-13: 1504077741

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Four novels in one volume, featuring a British doctor who investigates symptoms and suspects with equal dedication . . . This collection of crime thrillers stars Dr Cathy Moreland, who manages not only her own practice and her bipolar disorder, but also investigations into murder, and includes: Shooting Pains When a patient visits Cathy with a disturbing story of marital tension and a bruise on her arm, she’s understandably concerned. But Fiona, despite confiding her fear of her husband, refuses further help. After Fiona’s husband asks Cathy to sign his gun licence form days later, and then someone is killed with the gun, Cathy must sort through her suspicions and find out what’s been happening behind closed doors. Clinically Dead During a condolence call to medical secretary Sara Wiseman, Cathy finds it odd that Sara seems more upset about the recent suspicious death of her boss at the hospital than about the loss of her own mother to Alzheimer’s. But she’s far more alarmed when Sara’s husband says he suspects Sara was having an affair with the dead doctor—and fears that was the least of her transgressions . . . Lethal Resuscitation A medical conference becomes a murder scene when Cathy checks in at a country hotel for an advanced life support course—and the equipment meant for saving lives is instead used to kill a bad-tempered doctor. The Vanishing Patient Cathy is taken aback when an irate patient claims his ailing wife has been kidnapped by one of her colleagues using a false name. Is someone impersonating a doctor, or is Adam Steer delusional? But the more she looks into the bizarre story, the more she starts doubting her own sanity. Can she make sense of the events around her before everything spirals out of control?


Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders

Introduction to Neurogenic Communication Disorders

Author: Hunter Manasco

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0763794171

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Hunter Manasco introduces students to common adult communication disorders and associated neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. These illustrative patient profiles provide actual case examples of symptoms, deficits, and pathological behaviors. As well as in-text features including "Authors Note" vignettes and "Clinical Note" practical insights, underscore the very human element of communication disorders.


Hereditary Leukoencephalopathies and Demyelinating Neuropathies in Children

Hereditary Leukoencephalopathies and Demyelinating Neuropathies in Children

Author: Graziella Uziel

Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9782742005239

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Genetically determined myelinopathies are a large group of neurological diseases that present a challenge to the clinician, the biologist and the geneticist. During the last decade, the development of tools for exploring the nervous system and the human genome has had a tremendous impact on the understanding of these diseases. Thus, the advances in neuroimaging techniques and molecular genetic research are continuously influencing disease classification, diagnostic protocols, and management of patients. These topics are the focus of the present publication. The aim is to provide a comprehensive review of the most important issues regarding genetic myelin disorders.