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#1 I had my left knee replaced when I was 62 years old. The surgeon said there was a 1 to 2 percent risk of infection, but I later learned that the pain from the surgery was beyond the reach of oxycodone. I became desperate for relief, and tried everything from acupuncture to electro-acupuncture to cold laser.
#2 The book Arthrofibrosis, which my wife found, explained...
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Book Preview: #1 There have been two main ideas about cardiovascular disease over the past 150 years: the cholesterol hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The cholesterol hypothesis has become so dominant that it stands alone, unquestioned and unchallenged.
#2 The alternative hypothesis is that blood clots, and blood clotting, are the key players in cardiovascular disease. From...
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#1 Nausea is worse than pain. I remember thinking this during the early days of my first pregnancy, a pregnancy I had prayed and wept for, despaired about, and agonized over. But 6 weeks in, I found that I was hating every moment.
#2 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a common problem that affects 70 to 90 percent of pregnant women. It is unclear if it is a disease...
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#1 The hospital at the Yambuku Catholic Mission in Zaire, Africa, was filled with African oil palms and tropical vegetation. The buildings were made of brown bricks and had open porticoes running along their sides. The maternity ward was a modest pavilion with a room that contained nineteen beds.
#2 The experience of Sister Beata, a nurse at the Yambuku hospital, demonstrates...
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#1 I had never visited the campus, but I was excited to start college. I was especially out of place because I had never visited Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and 100,000 fishermen.
#2 I learned that water in Southern Florida is especially contaminated with birth control hormones. I also learned that reclaimed water is all around me in Florida, and that lawns use...
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#1 I'm a traveling nurse, and I currently live in California. I don't think I'm cut out to be a nurse. The hospital job is important because it's a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, but they project to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected.
#2 As a traveling nurse, I was assigned to a hospital...
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#1 This book is a collection of stories about the effects of aging on patients, doctors, and nurses. It is both conventional and countercultural, fact- and story-based, affectionate and opinionated, part battle cry and part lament.
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#1 Lister's father, Joseph Jackson Lister, was a scientist who made many discoveries in optics. He was the couple's fourth child and second son. Lister was born on April 5, 1827. He had many opportunities to explore miniature worlds with the microscope while he was growing up.
#2 Lister was a surgeon, and he was very against the use of foreign substances in medicine....
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#1 Alice Collins Plebuch is a retired teacher who loves to sew. She is very short, and her grandchildren call her Grandma Nerd for her love of technology. She warned me not to take my shoes off, because sewing pins were scattered all over her house.
#2 Alice's brain was trained to solve problems and find solutions years before she was asked to answer the most important...
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#1 The reading brain is the result of our intellectual evolution, and it has changed over time as we have learned to read new things. It has expanded our capacity to think, feel, and infer, and it has changed how we communicate.
#2 The brain's ability to learn new things is based on its plastic design, which allows it to make new connections among structures and circuits...
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#1 When you get a diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you feel relief, but also betrayal. Your body has let you down, and you don't know what you can trust anymore if you can't trust your body to be on your side.
#2 If you've been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you may have heard that you're aging prematurely. While your story is your own, and the specifics of what...
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#1 Modern man is the man of the 20th century, and he is the first to have to consider what the future of man will be. The question of man's future is not just relevant for modern man, but for all men of the 20th century.
#2 The first stage in the development of Western man spans the time from approximately 1500 B. C. until the beginning of the Christian age. This stage...
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#1 Cara was a thirty-something woman who came to see me because she was struggling with depression. She had friends, but much of what they had already achieved served only to remind her of what she had not. She was single and longing for a committed relationship, but she saw herself as less than desirable.
#2 The key to healing from the Western world's emphasis on knowledge...
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#1 Health is not a fixed entity, but rather something that varies from person to person. It is the ability to adapt to one's environment. Health is not synonymous with a high metabolic rate, but rather a warm body, good digestion, and daily bowel movements.
#2 The thyroid is the butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of your neck. The thyroid synthesizes four thyroid...
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#1 The carpenter was sitting on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan with his buddies, half a dozen subcontractors in hard hats sipping their coffees before the morning shift got started. The crane fell directly across a busy intersection and the police shut it down, snarling traffic in all directions.
#2 The author was a medical student when she was assigned to autopsies....
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#1 The first thing I noticed about Jesse was the fear and anxiety in his eyes. He was a boy with severe social anxiety, sensitivity to touch, and difficulty processing language. He also had a seizure disorder that was detected when he was a toddler.
#2 The traditional approach to diagnosing autism is to look for a combination of deficits, such as difficulty communicating,...
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#1 If you've picked up this book, it's likely that you are stressed, overwhelmed, and worried about your child's delays. You might be frustrated with a long wait for an evaluation or intervention services.
#2 The system for detecting and treating the earliest signs of autism and other developmental disorders is broken. It is far too long to wait to see the right professionals...
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#1 S. , the chief resident, was about to do my first central line. I had never done one before, but S. explained how it was done. She said there were slight risks, such as bleeding or lung collapse, but that these only occurred in experienced hands.
#2 The central line procedure involves inserting a plastic tube into a patient's vein, and then connecting it to a bag...
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#1 The disease that stunted the growth of tobacco plants was first discovered by a microbiologist named Martinus Beijerinck. He believed that a new form of life must be the cause, and he named it the virus.
#2 I teach a seminar at Stanford called Viral Lifestyles. The title was meant to evoke curiosity among prospective students, but also describe one of the course's...
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#1 I was born in 1947, which was before the diagnosis of autism was established. My mother took me to a neurologist, who diagnosed me with brain damage. She then took me to a speech therapist, who made me hear sounds and taught me how to eat and talk.
#2 The diagnosis of autism has been confusing and variable over the years. It is based on observing and evaluating behaviors, which...
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