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Digital healthcare can dramatically revolutionise the delivery of healthcare in health and social care settings. Technology enabled care greatly improves health outcomes, enhances end users’ experiences and saves money. This practical book from frontline with case studies, checklists, FAQs etc.

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used...

Nursing Education in Thanatology is an excellent source book for planning thanatology courses or for integrating concepts of thanatology into a nursing curriculum. As the formal teaching of thanatology in schools for health care professionals is generally overlooked and ill-defined, many students...

Manage Type 2 Diabetes the Natural WayAre you at risk for Type 2 diabetes and looking for natural ways to prevent it? Are you seeking natural remedies and therapies to complement your conventional treatment plan? Do you want more options to manage diabetes and prevent all the complications and serious...

'Thomas died at 2.30 a.m. on the 16th March 2004. He was eighteen.How do I know that? Strictly speaking, I don't. I don't know what death is.'This was the last challenge. But Thomas, disabled, paralysed and epileptic, faced challenge after challenge with a childlike innocence and love of happiness. Joke...

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable....

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | Includes & Analysis Preview: The Checklist Manifesto is a non-fiction investigation of human fallibility in high-stakes environments, such as medical surgeries, airline flights, and skyscraper construction. It explains how the introduction...

Few realize a New World Order (NWO) plans to replace our constitution with a Single World Government; nor that our Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned and is not subject to oversight by our Congress or the President. Peter Kershaw, in his book “Economic Solutions” exposes this NWOs controlling...

"This country is fairly crowded with doctors, families, and patients—all possessed of good intentions—failing to achieve the simple goal of allowing people to die with dignity and grace." In the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly and brutally: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in...

Why do life-saving prescription drugs cost so much? Drug companies insist that prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development. In this gripping exposé, Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research...

Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Guide to Bibliotherapy introduces clinical social workers and other helping professionals to bibliotherapy, an innovative approach to helping individuals deal with psychological, social, and developmental problems. Literally meaning “treatment through...

Cooking For Pregnant And Lactating Women by Kanchan Kabra This book presents a feast of delicious and nutritious recipes created for women planning a baby, for pregnant women and for lactating ones. This is a boon to them. Kanchan Kabra being a nutrition consultant and a dietician has...

In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving...

Sharing stories of real people they have encountered as professional hospice caregivers, the authors explore both the practical and philosophical aspects of the hospice movement. Straightforward and nontechnical in approach, Hospice, A Labor of Love offers help and inspiration to hospice volunteers, pastoral counselors, and the families of those who are receiving hospice care.