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Author : Dian Dincin Buchman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590434683
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Medical Mysteries written by Dian Dincin Buchman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dian Dincin Buchman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595091318
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Deadly Medical Mysteries written by Dian Dincin Buchman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is more thrilling than solving an epidemic sweeping through a city? How was the boy in the jeans poisoned? How is it that Lyme disease was never ‘discovered’ until two mothers tracked it? Who started that hepatitis epidemic in a Michigan town? These are true- life mysteries, real-life medical riddles and the story of how they were solved.
Author : Ann Reynolds
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 140139485X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Medical Mysteries written by Ann Reynolds and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Mysteries takes you to the front lines of the medical fringe, where absolutely anything is possible.From the files of the hit ABC primetime show Medical Mysteries comes this impossible-to-put-down collection of the strangest medical stories you are ever likely to hear.
Author : Scott Auden
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426303562
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Medical Mysteries written by Scott Auden and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids love to read about things that are gross and bizarre, and we're sure to caption their attention with this intriguing collection of true case files that have baffled the scientific community. A fascinating combination of clinical facts and investigative research that considers all theories, no matter how strange. "National Geographic Investigates" introduces young people to cutting edge techniques of scientific investigation, the most current discoveries, and the way that those discoveries are interpreted to throw new light on our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Special features include: map showing major sites discussed in the book, plus locator maps to start each chapter; sidebars explaining the latest technology being used by scientists; a 'Meet the Expert' sidebar presenting an interview with a scientist currently working in the appropriate field; timelines placing research and researchers in historical context and pinpointing the time period for each chapter; and, lavish design including photographs, illustrations, and diagrams.
Author : Ann Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437973020
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Medical Mysteries written by Ann Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you to the front lines of the medical fringe, where absolutely anything is possible. From the files of the hit ABC prime-time show ¿Medical Mysteries¿ comes this impossible-to-put-down collection of the strangest medical stories you are ever likely to hear. Learn about the man who seems to be turning into a tree; the woman who¿s seasick -- on land; the little girl who was born with all her organs reversed; and the musician who can hear everything inside his body -- even his eyeballs moving back and forth in their sockets. Put yourself in the examination room as doctors uncover and try to cure the most bizarre of medical conditions. Illustrations
Author : Lisa Sanders
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593136640
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Diagnosis written by Lisa Sanders and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose. A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were “slamming a door inside his head.” In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis—and treatment—is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor’s place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel—and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.
Author : Gerald Astor
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452255401
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (554 download)
Download or read book The Disease Detectives written by Gerald Astor and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control details the lives and work of the doctors and researchers involved and their significant accomplishments in the battle against life-threatening diseases
Author : Julie Chibbaro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442420413
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Deadly written by Julie Chibbaro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the search for Typhoid Mary in this early twentieth-century CSI. Now in paperback! Prudence Galewski doesn’t belong in Mrs. Browning’s esteemed School for Girls. She doesn’t want an “appropriate” job that makes use of refinement and charm. Instead, she is fascinated by how the human body works—and why it fails. Prudence is lucky to land a position in a laboratory, where she is swept into an investigation of a mysterious fever. From ritzy mansions to shady bars and rundown tenements, Prudence explores every potential cause of the disease to no avail—until the volatile Mary Mallon emerges. Dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the press, Mary is an Irish immigrant who has worked as a cook in every home the fever has ravaged. But she’s never been sick a day in her life. Is the accusation against her an act of discrimination? Or is she the first clue in solving one of the greatest medical mysteries of the twentieth century?
Author : Gail Jarrow
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 1629792152
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Red Madness written by Gail Jarrow and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100 archival photographs, Red Madness includes stories about real-life pellagra victims and accounts of scientific investigations. It concludes with a glossary, timeline, further resources, author's note, bibliography, and index. This book is perfect to share with young readers looking for a historical perspective of the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic that is gripping the world today.
Author : Jonathan A. Edlow
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154992
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Deadly Dinner Party written by Jonathan A. Edlow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where Berton Roueché's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.
Author : Tammy Euliano
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608094170
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Fatal Intent written by Tammy Euliano and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: End-of-life care—or assisted death When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. "Old people die, that's what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it's all she has left. Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit's identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and, tragically, the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save—and which must be sacrificed. Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen
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Publisher : ACP Press
ISBN 13 : 1934465836
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries written by and published by ACP Press. This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilee Peters
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 1773215124
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Patient Zero (Revised Edition) written by Marilee Peters and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engrossing true stories of the pioneers of epidemiology who risked their lives to find the source of deadly diseases—now revised to include updated information and a new chapter on Covid-19. More people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters, but the process of identifying these diseases and determining how they spread is often a terrifying gamble. Epidemiologists have been ignored, mocked, or silenced all while trying to protect the population and identify “patient zero”—the first person to have contracted the disease, and a key piece in solving the epidemic puzzle. Patient Zero tracks the gripping tales of eight epidemics and pandemics—how they started, how they spread, and the fight to stop them. This revised edition combines a brand-new design with updated information and features diseases such as Spanish Influenza, Ebola, and AIDS, as well as a new chapter on Covid-19.
Author : Lisa Sanders
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0767922476
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Every Patient Tells a Story written by Lisa Sanders and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, ‘What is wrong with me?’ They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it—on some level—restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer." A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory—making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment—only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU—bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent—and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness—the diagnosis—revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients’ lives.
Author : Cuyler Overholt
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492637378
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)
Download or read book A Deadly Affection written by Cuyler Overholt and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award and the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Mystery Shortlisted for the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel "Do no harm" is easier said than done... Dr. Genevieve Summerford prides herself on her ability as a psychiatrist to understand the inner workings of the human mind. But when one of her patients is arrested for murder—a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked—she begins to doubt her training and intuition. Unable to believe that her patient could have committed the gruesome crime, Genevieve seeks out answers, desperate to clear the woman's name—and her own. Over the course of her investigation, Genevieve uncovers a dark secret—one that could, should Genevieve choose to reveal it, bring down catastrophe on those she cares most about. But, should she let it lie, it will almost certainly send her patient to the electric chair. Steeped in the gritty atmosphere of turn-of-the-century New York City, A Deadly Affection is a riveting debut mystery and the first in an exciting new series featuring Dr. Genevieve Summerford.
Author : D. T. Max
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588365581
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Family That Couldn't Sleep written by D. T. Max and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. In England, cows attack their owners in the milking parlors, while in the American West, thousands of deer starve to death in fields full of grass. What these strange conditions–including fatal familial insomnia, kuru, scrapie, and mad cow disease–share is their cause: prions. Prions are ordinary proteins that sometimes go wrong, resulting in neurological illnesses that are always fatal. Even more mysterious and frightening, prions are almost impossible to destroy because they are not alive and have no DNA–and the diseases they bring are now spreading around the world. In The Family That Couldn’t Sleep, essayist and journalist D. T. Max tells the spellbinding story of the prion’s hidden past and deadly future. Through exclusive interviews and original archival research, Max explains this story’s connection to human greed and ambition–from the Prussian chemist Justus von Liebig, who made cattle meatier by feeding them the flesh of other cows, to New Guinean natives whose custom of eating the brains of the dead nearly wiped them out. The biologists who have investigated these afflictions are just as extraordinary–for example, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a self-described “pedagogic pedophiliac pediatrician” who cracked kuru and won the Nobel Prize, and another Nobel winner, Stanley Prusiner, a driven, feared self-promoter who identified the key protein that revolutionized prion study. With remarkable precision, grace, and sympathy, Max–who himself suffers from an inherited neurological illness–explores maladies that have tormented humanity for centuries and gives reason to hope that someday cures will be found. And he eloquently demonstrates that in our relationship to nature and these ailments, we have been our own worst enemy.
Author : Amy S. Peele
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631521853
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Cut written by Amy S. Peele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend, Jackie, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago―a sometimes fun, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives.
