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Love Anyway
A Mother Daughter Journey of Caregiving
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A poignant memoir about a daughter’s life changing journey as her mother’s caregiver and the many challenges of caring for a chronically ill parent. Pat’s relationship with her mother, Anne, changed drastically when she moved in with Pat and her...
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Hockey Doc
Cinquante ans d’anecdotes médicales avec le Club de hockey Canadien
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Le service des urgences de l’Hôpital général de Montréal (HGM) se trouvait si près du Forum que les joueurs du Club de hockey Canadien pouvaient enfiler leurs protège-lames et s’y rendre à pied. Cette proximité, qui n’était pas une coïncidence,...
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Helen Hurts
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Helen is a little girl who is experiencing physical and emotional pain. When she is in the hospital for an operation, the healthcare professionals help her manage her pain through a variety of approaches. But Helen still hurts! At home with her...
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In the Shadow of Angels
Intimate Stories from a Hospice Counsellor
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“You people are angels!” This is how many respond to those who work in palliative care. How hospice care professionals manage the emotional tension of being surrounded by sick, dying, and grief-stricken people is unfathomable. Over her 20 years...
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Plasticity
My Life and Vocation
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Plasticity: My Life and Vocation is the autobiography of Dr. Mirek Stranc, a world-renowned Plastic Surgeon. It captures his childhood as a displaced person during World War II, forcibly taken from his home in Poland, loaded in a cattle car and...
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Music for Other Reasons
Conversations with Music Therapists
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Music therapists use music to achieve non-musical goals. Their clients range from children with autism or developmental disabilities, through adults recovering from brain injuries or addiction, to seniors with Parkinson’s disease, depression, or...
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Scapulothoracic Assessment in Three Simple Steps
Unique Three Dimensional Approach
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Sometimes, a ‘winging scapula’ reveals a disabling scapulothoracic condition. Sometimes it does not. Often, despite no observable winging, debilitating scapulothoracic conditions go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. This “shoulder” problem is poorly...
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Path of a Healer
A Time to Reflect
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“Path of a Healer: a time to reflect,” is a story of the boundaries between life and death. Written by a pediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr. Jacques LeBlanc, the memoir examines and pays homage to a father-son relationship, faith, friendship,...
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Useful Admonitions to the Christian Nurse
A Pragmatic, Theological, and Empirical Equipoise
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The author explored the idea of healing of the whole person, and the understanding of health in holistic context evident in nursing practice, and persuasively argued that same idea is not radically distant and distinct from the context and the...
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Science and Logic in Medical Diagnosis
In Defense of Individual Patients
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Clinicians and patients know the importance of correct diagnosis for proper treatment. So important – a correct diagnosis – it is the first theme of this book. Several other themes are also important. A second theme is established as “cause and...
