Book Description
Country Doctor's Book of Remedies and Cures shows you dozens of simple down-home ways to prevent and treat everyday health problems.
Author : Publications International Ltd. Staff
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 9781605536026
Country Doctor's Book of Remedies and Cures shows you dozens of simple down-home ways to prevent and treat everyday health problems.
Author : Jay Heinrichs
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1602399735
A book of quick, simple, time-proven cures for anything that ails...
Author : Publications International Ltd. Staff
Publisher : Publications International
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Medicine, Popular
ISBN : 9781412771269
Follow the country doctor's advice to discover dozens of simple, down-home ways to prevent and treat everyday health problems. Save money by using salt water, herbs, and easy lifestyle adjustments, rather than unnatural chemicals, for common ailments. Find out why meat tenderizer is a must-have for your summer walks, why oatmeal isn't just for breakfast, and how tennis balls can help you sleep better. Short, easy-to-follow tips reveal the wisdom of the country.
Author : D. C. Jarvis
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1473385504
An in-depth study of traditional folk medicine in Vermont, written by a formally trained doctor. Folk medicine is an imperative aspect of many Vermonters’ lives and health. Trained medical doctor D. C. Jarvis set out to investigate this traditional approach to herbal medicine and produced this little guide to provide knowledge and understanding of the nature and long-successful uses of folk medicine. An invaluable read for anyone interested in daily increased vitality. The chapters featured in this volume include: - Vermont Environment and the Life Span - The Animal Laws - Your Beginning - Your Racial Pattern and Vermont Folk Medicine - The First Yardstick of Your Health - The Instincts of Childhood - Potassium and Its Uses - The Usefulness of Honey - The Usefulness of Kelp - The Importance of Iodine - Castor Oil and Corn Oil - Medical Reasoning Behind Vermont Folk Medicine
Author : Therese Zink
Publisher : Literature and Medicine
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States "These authors courageously document the emotional and literally physical vulnerabilities they experience while delivering care in rural communities. ... This book exquisitely illustrates the complexity of 'dual relationships' and boundary issues in rural practice."--Family Medicine Over the past thirty years, rural health care in the United States has changed dramatically. The stereotypical white-haired doctor with his black bag of instruments and his predominantly white, small-town clientele has imploded: the global age has reached rural America. Independently owned clinics have given way to a massive system of hospitals; new technology now brings specialists right to the patient's bedside; and an increasingly diverse clientele has sparked the need for doctors and nurses with an equally diverse assortment of skills. The Country Doctor Revisited is a fascinating collection of essays, poems, and short stories written by rural health care professionals on the experiences of doctors and nurses practicing medicine in rural environments, such as farms, reservations, and migrant camps. The pieces explore the benefits and burdens of new technology, the dilemmas in making ethically sound decisions, and the trials of caring for patients in a broken system. Alternately compelling, thought provoking, and moving, they speak of the diversity of rural health care providers, the range of patients served in rural communities, the variety of settings that comprise the rural United States, and the resources and challenges health care providers and patients face today.
Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : BookRags
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN :
Author : Paul Bergner
Publisher : Publications International
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Herbs
ISBN : 9780785328315
Author : Danielle Ofri, MD
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0807073334
“A fascinating journey into the heart and mind of a physician” that explores the doctor-patient relationship, the flaws in our health care system, and how doctors’ emotions impact medical care (Boston Globe) While much has been written about the minds and methods of the medical professionals who save our lives, precious little has been said about their emotions. Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. But understanding doctors’ emotional responses to the life-and-death dramas of everyday practice can make all the difference on giving and getting the best medical care. Digging deep into the lives of doctors, Dr. Danielle Ofri examines the daunting range of emotions—shame, anger, empathy, frustration, hope, pride, occasionally despair, and sometimes even love—that permeate the contemporary doctor-patient connection. Drawing on scientific studies, including some surprising research, Dr. Ofri offers up an unflinching look at the impact of emotions on health care. Dr. Ofri takes us into the swirling heart of patient care, telling stories of caregivers caught up and occasionally torn down by the whirlwind life of doctoring. She admits to the humiliation of an error that nearly killed one of her patients. She mourns when a beloved patient is denied a heart transplant. She tells the riveting stories of an intern traumatized when she is forced to let a newborn die in her arms, and of a doctor whose daily glass of wine to handle the frustrations of the ER escalates into a destructive addiction. Ofri also reveals that doctors cope through gallows humor, find hope in impossible situations, and surrender to ecstatic happiness when they triumph over illness.
Author : Victoria Sweet
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594486549
Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—“anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God’s Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern “health care facility,” revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.
Author : Selene Yeager
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1594866635
Hundreds of tips to help you boost immunity, fight fatigue, ease arthritis, and protect your health.