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"Principles and Techniques for the Aspiring Surgeon is an easy-to-read, handbook-style guide to learning the core principles and techniques required to establish strong foundational surgical skills. This book will help readers learn key maneuvers like one-handed, two-handed, and instrument tying, suturing, surgical scrubbing, gowning, gloving, prepping, draping, and instrument selection.

Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the "good life", or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being.

This engaging ethnography explores how Indigenous women and their communities practice collective care to sustain traditional lifeways in what has been called Canada's "HIV hot zone."

A point-of-care resource for the management of rheumatologic problems. Topics include: Physical examinations and approaches to common rheumatologic presentations, How to select and interpret laboratory tests and imaging, How to handle specific rheumatologic emergencies, and when to involve rheumatologists and other specialists, Joint aspiration and injection techniques. Joint pain, back pain, and weakness are frequent reasons for people to seek medical attention.

The updated second edition of this highly practical guide helps pathology professionals quickly and accurately describe surgical and autopsy specimens as they perform gross dissection. It also helps clinicians and medical students interpret pathology reports with ease and precision. Gross Pathology Handbook provides a comprehensive list of 171 gross descriptive terms paired with images of gross specimens, including five new listings for the second edition. Each listing includes a brief commentary describing the gross appearance, the underlying disease process and commonly affected tissues.

In Impact, 21 women writers consider the ramifications of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By sharing their complex, non-linear, and sometimes incomplete healing journeys, these women convey the magnitude of a disability which is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility.

Mark Hyman explains how to take the best aspects of the paleo diet and combine them with the vegan diet to create a delicious diet that is good for your brain, your body, and the planet.

Dr. Eric Goodman's innovative approach to self-healing--Foundation Training--has helped folks around the world feel and look better. He now builds on this core program, to help us understand how to maintain a healthy body.

A fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of park rangers who respond to emergencies in some of the most isolated and rugged parts of America. Between calls, Grange reflects upon the democratic ideal of the National Park mission, the beauty of the land, and the many threats facing it.

From a doomed Iraq soldier to a self-destructive young woman to a talented artist, Frank Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor's edge between life and death.