The Medicine & Health Care Industry category has 225 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 424 ratings. The most-rated is Lies My Doctor Told Me.
The Thrill of the Case
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Clinical pharmacology is often one of the most challenging topics for healthcare professionals. This is a compilation of my favorite case scenarios, drug interactions, and clinical pearls from my practice as a clinical pharmacist. This book is a perfect piece of education for pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians, physician assistants, and nurses who are looking to pick up real-life clinical practice pearls about medication management. It is ideal for the new professional or student trying to gain more confidence when it comes to medication management.
©2018 Eric Christianson (P)2018 Eric Christianson
Medication Don't Cure Mental Illness
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You're about to discover how medication helps the symptoms of mental illness. Often, the side effects are the main reason most people stop taking medication. Some side effects can be temporary, though, and will improve over time as your body adjusts to the medication. Learn why it's important to take your medication and how it'll improve your mental health symptoms. Here's a preview of the mental health symptoms you'll learn to improve: Understanding medication Depression symptoms Schizophrenia symptoms Generalized anxiety disorder symptoms Bi-polar disorder symptoms Psychosis disorder symptoms Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms Social anxiety disorder symptoms Much, much more!
©2015 Patricia A. Carlisle (P)2015 Patricia A. Carlisle
Carte Blanche
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Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for COVID-19. This medical right that we have long taken for granted was first sacrificed on the altar of military expediency in 1990 when the Department of Defense asked for and received from the FDA a waiver that permitted it to force an experimental anthrax vaccine on the ranks of ground troops headed for the Persian Gulf. Since then, the military has pressed ahead to impose nonconsensual testing of the blood substitute PolyHeme in civilian urbanities, quietly enrolling more than 20,000 nonconsenting subjects since 2005. Most Americans think that their right to give or withhold consent is protected by law, but the passing in 1996 of modifications to the Code of Federal Regulations, such as statute CFR 21 50.24, now permit investigators to conduct research with trauma victims without their consent or event their knowledge. More than a dozen studies since have used the 1996 loophole to recruit large numbers of subjects without their knowledge. The erosion of consent is the result of a US medical-research system that has proven again and again that it cannot be trusted.
©2021 Harriet Washington (P)2021 Random House Audio
Beware of Your Doctor: How to Survive the Medical System
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From the author of How to Reverse Your Diabetes (If You Really Mean It). A must-listen guide to help you make YOUR everyday medical decisions. Everybody needs to rely on medical assistance, more or less frequently, but are we getting what we need and deserve? For example, you know those pills that your doctor prescribed for you? There is at least a 20 percent chance that you don't need them and that they may be harming you. There is also a 10-15 percent chance that the diagnosis you received was wrong. Shocking, isn't it? The information needed to obtain a better and more appropriate treatment is not secret, it is hiding in plain sight and is available to everybody who wishes to take the time to listen, compile, interpret, and draw conclusions from it. This book connects the dots for the listen and helps patients to navigate the maze of decisions that they have to make in the present-day medical system. Scroll up and buy this audiobook!
©2018 Kfir Luzzatto (P)2018 Kfir Luzzatto
Can Medicine Be Cured?
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A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of individuals. He excoriates the claims of Big Science, the spending of vast sums on research follies like the Human Genome Project. And he highlights one of the most dangerous errors of industrialized medicine: an over-reliance on metrics and a neglect of things that can't easily be measured, like compassion.
©2019 Seamus O'Mahony (P)2019 Head of Zeus
Pandemics
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Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty offers a level-headed guide to all aspects of pandemics-what they are, how they spread, and what we can do to prevent them Pandemics. The word conjures up images of horrific diseases sweeping the globe and killing everyone in their path. But such highly lethal illnesses almost never create pandemics. The reality is deadly serious but far more subtle. In Pandemics, Peter Doherty, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells, offers an essential guide to one of the truly life-or-death issues of our age. In concise, question-and-answer format, he explains the causes of pandemics, how they can be counteracted with vaccines and drugs, and how we can better prepare for them in the future. Doherty notes that the term "pandemic" refers not to a disease's severity but to its ability to spread rapidly over a wide geographical area. Extremely lethal pathogens are usually quickly identified and confined. Nevertheless, the rise of high-speed transportation networks and the globalization of trade and travel have radically accelerated the spread of diseases. A traveler from Africa arrived in New York in 1999 carrying the West Nile virus; one mosquito bite later, it was loose in the ecosystem. Doherty explains how the main threat of a pandemic comes from respiratory viruses, such as influenza and SARS, which disseminate with incredible speed through air travel. The climate disruptions of global warming, rising population density, and growing antibiotic resistance all complicate efforts to control pandemics. But Doherty stresses that pandemics can be fought effectively. Often simple health practices, especially in hospitals, can help enormously. And research into the animal reservoirs of pathogens, from SARS in bats to HIV in chimpanzees, show promise for our prevention efforts. Calm, clear, and authoritative, Peter Doherty's Pandemics is one of the most critically important additions to the What Everyone Needs to Know series.
©2013 Peter C. Doherty (P)2014 Audible Inc.
PCAT AudioLearn
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PCAT AudioLearn offers a complete science review for the Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT), covering key topics in: Biology Chemistry Organic Chemistry Biochemistry This audio course helps you study for this challenging test in three powerful ways: You can study anytime, anywhere - on your commute to work or school, at the gym or while shopping, and before you go to sleep. You will remember the key points tested on the PCAT like the lyrics to your favorite song. You will greatly increase your study time efficiency, allowing you to do other things important to you. Included bonus audio guide : Pharmaceutical Drugs AudioLearn - review names, indications, mechanisms of action, and side effects of the most commonly prescribed medications in the United States.
©2017 AudioLearn (P)2017 AudioLearn
Intermittent Fasting
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For many people, intermittent fasting is far superior to old school dieting. Although it’s difficult to deal with the hunger pangs in the beginning, they practically disappear as our hormones find their new rhythm, and our bodies adjust to not eating as frequently. Very few diets offer the multiple benefits of intermittent fasting: the weight loss, the improved health, the longer life, the mental clarity. The longer you maintain the practice of fasting, the more you will see the benefits. As research into intermittent fasting continues, as it must, it’s entirely possible even more benefits will be uncovered. There are not too many things in this world that have such an optimistic outlook.
©2018 Amanda Walker (P)2018 Amanda Walker
Emotional Intelligence
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Do you wish you understood others better? Do you want to master your own emotions? In recent years, it’s become increasingly obvious that emotional intelligence just as important, if not more so, than simply possessing a high IQ. Research suggests that people with higher emotional intelligence lead more successful, productive lives. They are happier, healthier, and generally better at achieving their goals. But what is emotional intelligence? How does it differ from IQ? And how can you learn to improve yours? Learn all this and more in Emotional Intelligence: Simple Ways to Fix Your EQ! Dr. Alex Canny is a psychologist with a decade of experience working with the UCLA Psychology Clinic. He’s authored numerous books focused on self-help for mental disorders, depression, drug addiction, personality disorder, and related mental health topics. In Emotional Intelligence: Simple Ways to Fix Your EQ, he can teach you how to raise your emotional intelligence, and, in doing so, enhance your personal and professional relationships with others. Working in simple steps and practical examples, Dr. Canny explains the five core principles of emotional intelligence and how they relate to real life. You can learn these principles to master your emotions, and gain control of how you react to those around you. You’ll discover how to emphatically assess emotions in others to understand how they are feeling and relate to them on another level. The audiobook is filled with helpful tips and tricks that make it easy - even for beginners - to understand these psychological concepts without the jargon. When your emotional intelligence is high, you are better equipped to identify your own emotional state, analyze and understand the emotional states of the people around you, and engage with those people more fully. With Emotional Intelligence: Simple Ways to Fix Your EQ you can take your “people skills” to the next level!
©2019 Alex Canny (P)2019 Alex Canny
Lab Values
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Doctors and therapists do not have to depend only on a solitary laboratory findings; instead, they should also think about other medical components. For instance, physicians should know about the time the laboratory sample was drawn, potential medication interactions, or the patient's recent meals. In like manner, it is vital to understand the importance of patterns in the values over time. In this book, you will get more familiar with all you need to know about lab values ranging from; the necessary tests carried out, to understanding the results of every test, and being able to interpret these results. Listening to this book will enable you to understand Common Results and Health Reference Intervals and the basic difference between consecutive laboratory test results. The book enriches you with an in-depth understanding of common medical tests to diagnose several medical conditions, as well as sampling and the preparation for laboratory measurements. The book goes deep into responding to some of the inquiries you may have about lab values and common results from various perspectives to make you have a full insight and comprehension. The content of this book includes: Body Fluid Testing Arterial Blood Test Analysis Blood Gas Test Common Medical Tests To Diagnose Heart Conditions Blood Tests For Heart Disease Full Blood Count Testing Sampling and Preparing For Laboratory Measurements What Lab Results Mean The Laboratory Testing Cycle A Comprehensive Guide to Normal Lab Values Clinical Performance Characteristics of Laboratory Tests Basic Difference Between Consecutive Laboratory Test Results Kidney Health Nutrition This book gives a detailed analysis of all you need to know about lab values. This book covers all these and more. It should be considered as a valuable book of reference.
©2020 Jacqueline Watson (P)2020 Jacqueline Watson
Your Medical Mind
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Your doctor suggests you take a drug to lower your blood pressure, but you’ve read that it has risky side effects for some patients. Do you take the drug given the risks it entails, or do you risk living with high blood pressure? The answers to questions like this can be maddeningly—even dangerously—elusive, because our best interests are often hidden by our doctors’ preferences, drug companies’ propaganda, the vagaries of the healthcare system, and especially by our own anxieties, ideals, personal histories, and cognitive foibles.
As patients, each of us falls at some point along each of three spectrums: believer vs. doubter, naturalistic vs. technological, and narrative vs. numbers (that is, some put their faith in stories, others in statistics). Knowing where our personalities place us along these spectrums allows us to determine whether, say, a wait-and-see approach might make us feel better, physically and psychologically, than an intensive treatment, or whether our doctor is well or poorly suited to our needs and attitudes. Crucially, understanding our own personalities also alerts us to cognitive obstacles that might trip us up while making decisions about our care.
Drs. Groopman and Hartzband provide groundbreaking guidance any patient can use to tailor their medical choices to their own physical and emotional needs.
©2011 Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband (P)2011 Simon & Schuster
Nightcrawlers
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A revealing ride-along with New England’s teenage volunteer EMTs - boys and girls pulled away from their homework to save lives when the sun goes down. It’s a Darien, Connecticut, tradition: an emergency medical service managed by adolescents. One kid is a varsity soccer captain. There’s a future doctor, a band dork, a theater geek. Theirs is a view of town without the niceties. A drunken spouse turned violent. Lonely old people stuck in the bath. A midlife suicide. How do these kids process the sometimes shocking and violent life-and-death secrets of their community? The answer is a story of high stress and uncommon high school lives, told by a writer who spent his own youth on the night shift. Welcome to Post 53. Rosecrans Baldwin’s Nightcrawlers is part of Exposure, a collection of six incredible and true stories of American double lives from millionaire CEOs and suburban teens to undercover investigators and scam artists - all for whom secrets are a way of life. Each piece can be listened to in a single astonished sitting.
©2019 by Rosecrans Baldwin. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
The Dance of Life
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A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to make pregnancy easier, safer, and more successful. In The Dance of Life, developmental and stem-cell biologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz takes us to the front lines of efforts to understand the creation of a human life. She has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of development, as a simple fertilized egg becomes a complex human being of 40 trillion cells. Zernicka-Goetz's work is both incredibly practical and astonishingly vast: Her groundbreaking experiments with mouse, human, and artificial embryo models give hope to how more women can sustain viable pregnancies. Set at the intersection of science's greatest powers and humanity's greatest concern, The Dance of Life is a revelatory account of the future of fertility - and life itself.
©2020 Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield (P)2020 Basic Books
The New Nurse Survival Guide: Survive and Thrive as a New Nurse
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Survive and Thrive as a New Nurse Being a new nurse is hard. Now you have a preceptor in your pocket with the top 50 tips for succeeding as a new nurse. In The New Nurse Survival Guide: Survive and Thrive as a New Nurse, experienced nurse Jon Haws, RN, provides you with 50 tips to not just survive as a new nurse but to thrive and excel. Nursing is hard. Being a new nurse is torture. With these 50 tips taken directly from Jon's experience as a new nurse preceptor and charge nurse, you will have the tools you need to make it! Learn how to handle difficult situations, difficult doctors, difficult patients, and difficult nurses. This book provides the key to unlocking success as a nurse. The transition from school to the real world can be very hard for many nurses. One in five new nurses leave their first job before reaching the one-year mark. With these tips you will make it! The Preceptor You Need to Succeed After working with thousands of nursing students and new nurses, Jon has seen what habits and skills lead to success on the hospital floor. Those tips are now compiled into one resource. It's like having a preceptor in your pocket. After listening to this book you will: Learn how to handle the stress of real world nursing Know how to communicate with physicians Learn what information from school is most important Discover what is really important on the floor Find the motivation to succeed ...so much more! Jump-start your career today! Don't waste another second.... Now you have the tools.
©2018 NRSNG (P)2018 NRSNG
50 Things to Know About Becoming a Doctor
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What is it like in medical school? What should I expect from choosing medicineas a career? How do I decide if it's right for me? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this audiobook is for you... 50 Things to Know About Becoming a Medical Doctor by Dr. Toni Liu offers an approach to understanding the medical training path. Most books on medical school tell you how to study and prepare for tests and tasks. Although there's nothing wrong with that, they don't talk about how mentally and emotionally difficult and rigorous medical training will be, and how best to prepare yourself for the tough journey ahead. You'll discover the truth about training to become a doctor. This audiobook will help you prepare yourself if that's the path you choose. By the time you finish this audiobook, you will know all about the medical training path, what to expect, and whether it's right for you. So buy your copy today. You'll be glad you did.
©2019 CZYK Publishing (P)2020 CZYK Publishing
Coronary Death and Marijuana
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"Jimbo" thought that he played by the rules and raised his kids right. He found out that pain relief through "marijuana" was not necessarily the right path for his family.
©2020 J.R. Collins (P)2020 L&H Productions
Circular Health
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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated our fragility as a species. Humanity was attacked by a previously unknown virus that spread very rapidly, thanks to a speed of population mobility never before seen in human history. It succeeded in creating the complete upset of the global socioeconomic system. Such an event gives us an important stimulus to reevaluate health in the context of a circular system that encompasses humans and the environment in which we live. The key challenge we face is the discovery of novel paths to crisis resolution. Can we abandon the often cherished but now rather obsolete tendency to specialize in a restricted subject area? Can we rediscover the ability to become permeable to ideas that reach us from other disciplines and embrace a thinking-out-of-the-box approach? This book encourages the listener to consider this challenge via the telling of stories, both great and small. Stories that, although sometimes overlooked, have defined the course of our history and thus open the door to a new pathway of progress. In some ways, COVID-19 may have shown the direction nature expects us to take. Ilaria Capua suggests to us that, today more than ever, we are the responsible actors in the circle of life, guardians of our planet and defenders of its health. As one entity of circular nature.
©2020 Bocconi University Press (P)2020 EGEA Spa - Bocconi University Press
The Art of Dying Well
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An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end-of-life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times best-selling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. In the mid-1400s, an unnamed Catholic monk composed a popular self-help book called Ars Moriendi, or The Art of Dying. Written in Latin, this medieval death manual taught people how to navigate the trials of the deathbed using simple rituals of repentance, reassurance, and letting go. Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Katy Butler argues that we have lost touch with the “art of dying” as practiced by our ancestors, yet we still hunger for rites of passage and a sense of the sacred, especially in the important life transitions of aging and dying. Butler has lectured at medical schools and spoken with community and caregiving organizations across the country. Here she reveals what she has learned about dying in America today - and how to have a better end of life. We are coping with a medical system in disarray in its approach to people who are aging, dying, or chronically ill. Butler argues it's not about living as long as possible, it's about living as well as possible. Not only does our current system poorly serve our medical needs, it also crowds out any sense of the sacred. It’s time to restore a sense of ?honor?, and through exploring the stages of later life, sharing “good death” stories, as well as offering practical takeaways, The Art of Dying Well illuminates a path to a better end of life. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Katy Butler (P)2019 Simon & Schuster
Mindfulness
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This book will allow you to uncover the secrets of happiness and free yourself from anxiety and stress! Are you tired? Are you stressed? Do you constantly find yourself filled with worry and anxiety? Are you consumed with everything you must get done, everything that is happening, and everything that has happened? Are you ready to make a change and start an adventure that will help you live in the present moment, stop your worries, and make your life more meaningful? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you are ready to take on a life of mindfulness. Give it a shot; listen to this book and try your hand at mindfulness for a few days. I promise you won't regret it. Whether you decide to totally transform your life to one of mindfulness and peace, or you simply want to add a few mindful moments into your day, you will see an improvement. Mindfulness has been proven as a stress reducer and life improver, take your shot now. Benefits of mindfulness: Increased happiness Reduced stress Better social relationships Weight loss Emotional intelligence Less anxiety Reduced depression Improved health Increased focus New experiences
©2016 Isaiah Seber (P)2016 Isaiah Seber
EKG/ECG Interpretation Made Simple
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Grasping concepts relating to the most common rhythms is essential for today’s nurse who sees sicker patients - many requiring telemetry. It is also the backbone of Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support training - a must-have for nurses interested in critical care. Contrary to popular belief, cardiac rhythm identification isn’t hard. What most of us need is access to a good book. EKG/ECG Interpretation Made Simple makes learning to read and interpret rhythm strips simple. Among other things, the book explains how to obtain and interpret a rhythm strip and interpret 12-lead ECGs. Here is a preview of what you will learn: Understanding the principles of cardiac electrophysiology and ECG interpretation The electrical conduction system of the heart: the sinoatrial node (SA node) Studying the clinical aspects of automaticity Cardiac electrophysiology: action potential, automatic and electrical vectors The ECG leads: electrodes, limbleads, chest (precordial) leads, 12-Lead ECG (EKG) Presentation of ECG leads Standard display of ECG leads in the 12-lead ECG ECG interpretation: definitions, criteria, and characteristics of the normal ECG (EKG) waves, intervals, durations and rhythm NCLEX practice test questions Much, much, more! You can expect to fully understand EKG interpretation and ultimately pass the NCLEX with ease! What are you waiting for? Scroll up and hit the buy button to add this book to your library!
©2019 Amanda Caldwell (P)2019 Amanda Caldwell