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English
Description
Why are doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnosing healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions? In this book the author examines the factors that have led to our current crisis, provides parents with information about symptoms that to a casual or untrained eye can mimic a psychiatric disorder, and gives parents of struggling children hope, perspective, and direction. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
"From award-winning,...
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Diagnose any health problem with this simple visual symptom guide: simple illustrations of every part of the body lead you straight to the problem ; easy-to-follow descriptions of symptoms guide you to the likely cause and more information about the condition ; symbols indicate the appropriate form of medical help ; ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged ; written and authenticated by a team of doctors."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium — the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus — sheds, but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead, it grows outside of the uterus, spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically and emotionally insufferable that it can mercilessly dominate a woman's life. The average woman with endometriosis is twenty-seven years old before...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This sensitive and supportive story helps children recognize and cope with sadness. Using gentle and straightforward language, this simple story offers an entrance point for adults and children to identify and address childhood depression symptoms and helps banish the stigma around mental illness. Includes a section with tips for adults"--
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nurses are involved daily in the emergency care of people who have strokes and head injuries. Later these same people and others may require nursing of a different kind if they suffer from dysphagia or swallowing difficulty. This programme outlines the causes of dysphagia and examines feeding techniques which can help to overcome swallowing difficulties. The nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation is explained in relation...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A thorough physical assessment is necessary for all clients whether in long term care, acute care or home health. Our focus is to take the professional through a comprehensive physical assessment, divided into upper body and lower body components. Includes proper documentation guidelines.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Richard Horowitz moved to the Hudson Valley over a decade ago to start his own medical practice, he didn't know that he would be jumping into the center of one of the fiercest, most heated medical disputes being waged today. The ongoing debate over Lyme disease as a chronic illness has made it difficult for sufferers to find care, as doctors are in many cases unable or unwilling to diagnose it. This is how once-treatable infections can become...
14) Concussions
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book will define concussion, discuss the acute effects of concussion, describe the current treatment of concussions, outline the current concepts of the potential for long term and cumulative effects from concussion, and recount the research that has led to the modern understanding of concussions. Furthermore, this book will describe the current controversies surrounding concussions, sport-related concussions in particular. After completing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Full-color photographs and state-of-the-art computer imaging provide a compelling portrait of the growth of a baby from conception to birth, tracing the development of individual body parts and systems and celebrating each milestone along the way
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