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"For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking for relief from the pain of gender dysphoria. The surgical skill and nonjudgmental compassion of surgeons Stanley Biber and his transgender protege Marci Bowers not only made the phrase “Going to Trinidad” a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery...
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One Step Med was created to ensure no one ever looses track of their medical history. Stressful times come, when we or someone close is dealing with a medical issue, so I created One Step Med to help log important medical information. Let One Step Med assist you with retaining and providing medical data.
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This book covers Life and Death but is mainly about Life. It covers the five worse causes of death in the history of mankind and what has been done to prevent a repeat of these causes. This story covers the dramatic efforts since the eighteenth century by key individuals to overcome illness and extend the life of man. It takes you to the present time (2015) and what is being done to overcome many of the everyday illnesses and the death threatening...
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This Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the history of Influenza. Brief and salient facts are set forth relating to "Flu" epidemics and pandemics: other collateral features have also been discussed, connected with or bearing upon this subject. EXPLANATION OF MEDICAL WORDS: Infection. The entrance into the system or body of living disease-producing germs, such as by...
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'Yet another compulsively readable, astonishingly encyclopedic book from Roy Porter...his best to date: an epic, one-volume narrative history of man's struggle with the infirmities of his body, from Aesculapius to AIDS.' SIMON SCHAMA
'Whether you are interested in the advent of the stethoscope, the history of yellow fever, the bubonic plague or, closer to home, coronary heart disease, the feminist influence on medicine, drug abuse, childbearing or...
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Excerpt: "Sexuality is the most powerful factor in individual and social existence; the strongest incentive to the exertion of strength and acquisition of property, to the foundation of a home, and to the awakening of altruistic feelings, first for a person of the opposite sex, then for the offspring, and, in a wider sense, for all humanity. Thus, all ethics and, perhaps, a good part of esthetics and religion depend upon the existence of sexual feeling....
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This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.
The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for-and skepticism of-electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television...
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This tool kit comprises information on how to create a shared vision for digital health through a national strategy, focused on maximizing the value of resources. It supports efforts to introduce digital health solutions that make systems interoperable and less fragmented, and thus provide equitable access to health care services and offer every patient continuity of care. This tool kit provides a practical framework for structuring digital health...
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The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. He was sleek and prosperous, with a dainty goatee. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, the physician explained the treatment: stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating tub to cleanse the disease from the skin. The doctor warned of minor side effects: uncontrolled drooling,...
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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help-not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, but by actually treating or even curing diseases, and significantly improving our lives.
For most of human history, however, that was far from the case, as veteran medical historian Michael Bliss explains...
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Les défis posés par les maladies rares agitent de plus en plus les mondes politiques, médical et scientifique.
Ces 30 dernières années, il est de plus en plus question de maladies rares, souvent assimilées aux maladies dites « orphelines ». Outre que leur nombre a explosé, ces maladies se sont aussi imposées au point de devenir un véritable problème de santé publique.
Quelles sont donc les raisons de l'engouement presque planétaire...
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Tobacco has been one of the most important gifts from the New World to the Old. In spite of the attempts of various authors to prove its Old World origin there can be no doubt that it was introduced into both Europe and Africa from America. Most species of Nicotiana are native to the New World, and there are only a few species which are undoubtedly extra-American. The custom of smoking is also characteristic of America. It was thoroughly established...
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Patients legally own their medical records that are stored either manually or on an assortment of computers, software, and operating systems in a variety of disorganized healthcare facilities, which are spiraling healthcare costs out of control. In 1910, the Flexner Report by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, established medical education standards and licensing of qualified physicians who took the moral and ethical Hippocratic Oath to Do...
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Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years,...
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Regresa en el tiempo hasta finales del siglo XIX mientras la poderosa United Fruit Company toma el protagonismo en la bulliciosa ciudad de Bocas del Toro. Sea testigo de su ascenso al dominio y del establecimiento de Punta Hospital, un centro médico vital que garantiza el bienestar de la mano de obra. Este cautivador relato se adentra en la historia entrelazada del comercio y la sanidad en una época pasada. Clyde S. Stephens, estadounidense de Florida,...
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After the start of the National Health Service, ambitious dental surgeons expanded their role from dental extractions, minor mouth surgery and the treatment of jaw fractures with wires and dental appliances to comprehensive surgery of the mouth, face and jaws often in the face of sustained opposition from the established surgical specialties.
The result was the specialty of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, which was recognised by the wider surgical...
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Des chamanes aux médecins scientifiques de nos jours en passant par les prêtres-médecins, parcourez l'histoire surprenante des pratiques médicales!
Recours des malades victimes des maléfices de sorciers hostiles, le chamane des origines fit place au prêtre. Dans l'Ancien Empire égyptien, les sciences sont en la possession de Thot, le dieu à tête d'ibis, qui connaît tout et est chargé de diffuser la connaissance. Thot donne l'habileté...
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