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Front Line Nursing Stories
Making a Difference: An Anthology from the 1940s to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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When reading real-life stories about nursing, you might not expect mentions of fox fur coats or cages full of snakes (“five feet long and very skinny”). Yet these amusing vignettes sit alongside harrowing tales of plane crashes and time-honoured...
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The Whole Person
Advancing an Anthroposophic Paradigm for Holistic Health and Homeopathy
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In a world where many are disillusioned with the highly drug-dependent medical establishment, integrative medicine is gaining popularity because of its more holistic approach. Holism by definition implies greater than the sum of its parts, and is...
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Pandora's Box
A Survival Guide in the Coming Age of Viruses
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This book is about the coronavirus and the pandemic it spawned, and what this outbreak means for future pandemics. It analyses the official response and sees where improvements can be made, for example, the World Health Organization waited till...
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Guide to Wellness Through Stretching
Change your range and improve mobility. Get ready to change your life!
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Stretching—you’ve probably heard of it. The fitness market is flooded with conflicting and confusing information about stretching. In The Guide to Wellness through Stretching, physiotherapist Dale Deis and physiologist Ed Stiles have taken a...
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No More Tears
Quality of Care, Love, and Compassion for the Elderly
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* Elderly while in a nursing homes should have color to room, bedspreads with design to match their curtains. * Elderly should be able to celebrate main holidays on the same day, just like they would in their own home before entering nursing...
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Living With Cancer
A Few Things Your Friends Want You to Know
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After happily achieving many of my personal and professional childhood dreams, I was unexpectedly diagnosed with terminal cancer while pregnant with my 3rd daughter at the age of 36. In this book I write about my lived experience since that time...
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This is Dementia
Disrupting the Decline
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This is Dementia: Disrupting the Decline seeks to dispel the myths surrounding dementia. It invites you to take a journey to explore the misconceptions, stereotypes, and various perspectives surrounding this devastating disorder. This journey is...
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Ten Tips for Passing the OSCE
A Practical Guide For Success In The Objective Structured Clinical Examinations
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The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has become the predominant method of assessing clinical competence. Taking an OSCE is a skill which needs to be learned. Medical curriculum provides little formal training in this area. Rather...
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Dying to be Seen
The Race to Save Medicare in Canada
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Canada’s public health care system is under attack. Defunding, deregulating, defrauding, and deliberate disintegration have manipulated Canadians into despising their once-beloved system as unsustainable, unfixable, and cost-prohibitive. There is...
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Death Calls
A Coroner’s Memoir
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I wade waist-deep into the ocean to reach a body floating face down in the local harbor. Police, first responders, and onlookers quietly watch from the shoreline, but blood splotches and marks in the sand suggest that something awful has happened...
