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Contraceptive Technology, 19th Edition (Contraceptive Technology)

Robert A. Hatcher, James Trussell, Anita L. Nelson, Willard Cates Jr., Felicia Stewart

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Crucial Desk Reference 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is an integral desk reference for the reproductive health educator. This text outlines all that there is to know to date about contraceptive methods and their function. I don't inted to part with this until the 19th edition is released.

Fantastic! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great book in great condition for a great price and I got it in less than a week!
Will definitely use this vendor again!

Editorial Review:

New scientific and medical developments in reproductive health have emerged in the past 5 years. This latest edition of Contraceptive Technology focuses on the benefits of a variety of safe and effective contraceptive methods, enabling physicians to counsel their patients on some of the most important decisions that will shape their lives.

Edited for ob/gyns, reproductive medicine MDs, gynecologists and primary care physicians specializing in women's health, the 19th edition of Contraceptive Technology continues to provide recommendations that will ensure that every pregnancy is intended and as safe as possible.

This edition refers to the soft cover version of this title.

FAMILY MEDICINE: PRETEST SELF-ASSESSMENT AND REVIEW (Pretest)

Doug Knutson

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Good enough to use 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Because the FM NBME is fairly new there aren't a lot of review books out there for it (there is not a FM section of Kaplan). I found Case files extremely helpful, but this book was a good way to polish off studying the day or two before the test. It isn't exactly like the test, but is the best question book as of my writing this.

Standard Pre-test 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Just your standard Pre-test book. It is divided into 3 chapters: Preventive Medicine, Acute, and Chronic Disease.

If you learn through questions it is very helpful.

Editorial Review:

The closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it!

PreTest Family Medicine is the best question-and-answer review for family medicine questions on the USMLE Step 2 and shelf exams. You will find 500 board-format questions, complete with explanations of both correct and incorrect answers. All questions have been student-tested and reviewed to ensure they truly reflect the exam experience. This high-yield resource is written by an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine who has won excellence in teaching awards every year for the past five years and truly targets what you really need to know.

Professional Review Guide For The CCA Examination, 2008 Edition (Professional Review Guide for the Cca Examination)

Patricia Schnering

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CCA Exam 2008 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

The book and cd are a excellent study guide for the preperation for taking the exam.

Editorial Review:

Use this book and the Interactive CD-ROM to help you prepare for the Certified Coding Associate (CCA) certification examination. Practice interpreting documentation and applying your clinical knowledge in assigning codes to diagnoses and procedures for a variety of patient settings.

The Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine Board Review 2008-2009: with Online Exam Simulation (Johns Hopkins Internal Medical Board Review)

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Redonda Miller, Bimal Ashar, Stephen Sissons

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Don't gamble on the most important exam of your career! The Johns Hopkins University was the birthplace of the Internal Medicine residency and has led the field ever since. Now it's also the source of the most effective review tool in the specialty! 70 respected experts summarize everything you need to know for certification or recertification, focusing on the information you really need to know. Then, they test your knowledge with 1,050 questions and answers - more than you'll find in any other internal medicine review tool - both in print and online. The web site offers you a highly realistic exam simulation as well as detailed feedback on your performance.

• Be sure you're studying the latest information with a book that's totally updated every two years.
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• Get the information you need fast with a high-yield outline formatUnderstand and memorize complicated concepts effortlessly with abundant algorithms and conceptual diagrams.
• Review the most important content easily with must-know information highlighted throughout the textGet additional practice, and a realistic board exam simulation, by answering the same 1,050 questions online! The subject balance, number of questions and timing are just like the actual ABIM exam. You can get explanations of why each of your answers is correct or incorrect, either as you go along or at the end of the test. And, you can review your score and see how it compares with national norms... analyze your performance in different subject areas...and follow links to high-yield sources of remedial information.
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  • Thoroughly test your knowledge with 1,050 questions mirroring the content and format of the ABIM exam - far more than you'll find in any other review text - plus explanations of why each answer is or is not the best answer.

Thelan's Critical Care Nursing - Text with Free Case Studies in Critical Care Nursing

Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, Mary E. Lough, Sheila Drake Melander

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great Review and Explination 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I love this book becasue it give you a basic A/P review and the pathophysiology is explained well. The disease process are also we explained and I plan to keep and use this book for a long time.

Great reference for beginners and experienced nurses alike. 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

One of the best purchases I have made! It is very well written and easy to follow. I will keep this book for as long as I nurse.

Nursing Course Text Book 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 2 people found this review helpful.

My son needed this book for one of his nursing courses. Must be okay...haven't had any complaints from him.

Great resource book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Nicely organized with invaluable information. Specially designed for the critical care nurse. Focuses on Nursing Management, unlike others, which focus on medical management. Excellent Book. I highly recommend!

Intense Book 4 out of 5 stars.
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No problems in shipment. The book is full of useful information but it is on the dry side and hard to read without frequent breaks.

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Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis

James L. Oschman

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Total reviews: 19 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Best energy book for beginners i've ever encountered 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

If you want to start learning about energy throughout history, and understand how it all started and especially why new age vibrational healing is rising up like a motherf... hammer killing all them damn classic doctors who want to keep you drugged up so you will shut up and stop complaining about pain. Get this book right now!

It will provide you with wisdow that will change your point of view when we're talkin about (vibrational) healing, illness and where we get our energy from, concerning the information we have about CRYSTALS!!!! just a second there, isn't practically everything a vibration!! ha, think about that!!! verrryyy interesting! It's subject is focused on the 'Brain' like the doctor said, thinking: tssss all your bloody problems, but saying: madame/sir it's all between your ears. So this is a good book to start helping yourself without any doubt that the material is wrong, cause their mostly facts presented by true scientists who are truely concerned about us and not only about their paycheck.

Verrrrry easy to understand since I'm from Belgium and I speak dutch, french and persian too I still could understand everything about every subject in this book, I'm only 21y old, using the credit card of my mom hehe. I did study sports so anatomy comes in handy understanding some bio pictures from cellular material, but not nessesairy cause we have google don't we ;-)
Also good to mention are the very good references towards other books, but I would still search them here @ amazon and look for the 5 starred miracle that can improve/change your life in a positive way. Have fun with this one, it's truely blessed.

Editorial Review:

This book, written by a well-known scientist with a background in biophysics and biology brings together evidence from a range of disciplines to provide an acceptable explanation for the energetic exchanges that take place in all therapies. It addresses a growing interest in the field of mind-body medicine and the role of natural "energy forces" within the body in maintaining normal health and wellbeing. This in turn has lead to interest in how these energies or forces may be channelled to assist in healing and the restoration of normal health.

Teatment Guidelines for Medicine and Primary Care, 2008 Edition

Paul D. Chan, MD, Margaret T. Johnson

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Good 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

Treatment guidelines is a really nice book to have one can have quick overview of the diseases he is treating

Editorial Review:

This pocket handbook is a compilation of current diagnostic and treatment guidelines for patient management in primary care. New NMS guidelines are included. It outlines the diagnosis and therapy for common problems encountered by family physicians, internists, and other primary care providers. This book is useful for physicians, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants.

Health Information: Management of a Strategic Resource

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This book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the vast technological changes in the field for 2-year or 4-year health management programs. This text focuses on health data, its collection and use. It emphasizes the deployment of information technology and the role of the HIM professional in the development of the electronic health record.

The Business of Healthcare Innovation

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The Business of Healthcare Innovation - Highly Recommended 5 out of 5 stars.
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The market dynamics, business models, and corporate strategies of pharma, biotech, genomics, medical device development, and health care information technology are converging. And you better get ready.

Written by business gurus at the Wharton School and health industry executives, The Business of Healthcare Innovation provides an invaluable analysis of key business trends in the manufacturing side of health care. Editor Lawton R. Burns, Ph.D. and contributors focus on the producer side of health care and demonstrate how manufacturers serve as the principal drivers of health care innovation.

Specifically, The Business of Healthcare Innovation:

1. Provides an insightful, detailed overview of the most influential players - namely, the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, genomics/proteomics, medical device, and information technology sectors.

2. Describes and assesses the market structures, business models, and corporate strategies of each of these six sectors.

3. Shows how the six sectors are converging, drawing increasingly on the trends, tools, and solutions of each other.

A compelling, business-savvy look at the manufacturing side of health care, The Business of Healthcare Innovation is highly recommended for executives, policy makers, investors, and consultants to business and government decision makers.

Editorial Review:

Robert Lawton Burns focuses on the key role of the 'producers' as the main source of innovation in this wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing branch of the health care industry. Written by industry academics and executives, the book provides a detailed overview of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, genomics/proteomics, medical device and information technology sectors. Most importantly, it describes the growing convergence between these sectors and the need for executives in one sector to increasingly draw upon trends in the others.

Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets)

Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Classic and worth reading 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

For any one interested in women's history and in the real idea of "total history" from the Annales school, this book is a must. Of course is not perfect, what it is? However it is time to recover our past, and for that we have to depart from a different perspective, even if it is threatening and contested by some.

An Outdated and Flawed Thesis 1 out of 5 stars.
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Ehrenreich and English's book has been highly influential in some feminist and New Age circles since its publication in the early 70s. Its thesis - that the women persecuted as "witches" in the Witch Craze tended to be midwives and healers - fits neatly with some ideological views of the suppression of women and has since been seen as historical confirmation of a patriarchal desire to control science and medicine and maintain control over birth, healing and women's bodies.

As a result, their thesis has become orthodoxy in these circles and has recently been given a popular boost via Dan Brown's pseudo historical thriller, *The Da Vinci Code*.

Unfortunately, Ehrenreich and English's research was selective, incomplete and ultimately false. Their study was subjected to critical analysis in later decades and found to be deeply flawed. Ehrenrich and English had taken a few isolated cases, assumed they were the norm and then extrapolated from them to conclude that healers and midwives were a particular target of the Witch Crazes. In fact, the evidence indicates otherwise.

David Harley systematically examined the evidence in his article "Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch" (Social History of Medicine 3 (1990), pp. 1-26.) and found that being a midwife actually *decreased* the chances of being charged with witchcraft. Many accusations of witchcraft centred on still-births and infant deaths, with the blame for these occurrences being put on the malicious magic of witches. Far from being more likely to be accused of witchcraft, midwives and village healers were more likely to be the accusers, or to be witnesses summoned to support such accusations. In *The Witch in History*, feminist historian Diane Purkiss writes "midwives were more likely to be found helping witch-hunters" than as victims of their inquiries.

As a result, this book's value lies mainly in its indication of how some early feminist views of history were marked more by ideology and enthusiasm than rigor, comprehensive analysis of the data and objective methodology. It's value as a work of history is minimal.

Editorial Review:

Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States. The authors conclude that despite efforts to exclude them, the resurgence of women as healers should be a long-range goal of the women's movement.