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The Florida Healthcare Professionals Medico-Legal Guide

Do I Stay or Do I Go?: How to Make a Wise Decision About Your Relationship

Description:

It was George Moore who said, "the difficulty in life is the choice." Perhaps there is no better example of how modern Americans are handling choice and having to face tough decisions than in their marriages.

$15.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

This updateable book is a single-source reference for any healthcare professional in the state of Florida looking to maintain a safe, malpractice-free, compliant practice.

$295.00 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Sixth Edition

Law for the Expert Witness, 2nd Ed.

Description:

This authoritative reference, the Sixth Edition of an internationally acclaimed bestseller, offers the most up-to-date information available on multidisciplinary pain diagnosis, treatment, and management.

 

$289.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Written by a trial lawyer turned professor, Law for the Expert Witness, Second Edition is for professionals who participate - voluntarily or involuntarily - in the legal system as expert witnesses.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Validate Your Pain! Exposing the Chronic Pain Cover-Up

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice

Description:

Legal Nurse Consulting: Principles and Practice, Second Edition presents up-to-date, practical information on consulting in a variety of practice environments and legal areas. Whether you are an in-house LNC or you work independently, this book is your definitive guide to legal nurse consulting.

$99.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

There are some 50 million people throughout the U.S. suffering from chronic pain at any given time, according to a national survey. Chronic pain devastates both body and mind.

$19.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Professions

Assessment of Rehabilitative and Quality of Life Issues in Litigation

Description:

Assessment of Rehabilitative and Quality of Life Issues in Litigation focuses on quality of life as a means of conceptualizing and measuring pain and suffering in the controversial enjoyment of life debate.

$99.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Ethical Reasoning in the Mental Health Profession discusses the ethical codes of both psychology and counseling. This interdisciplinary approach promotes a better understanding of the similarities and differences in the points of emphasis in the two codes, which, in turn, enriches your understanding of the range of ethical considerations relevant to the practice of the mental health professions.

$44.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

The Concise Dictionary of Medical-Legal Terms

MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

Description:

A General Guide to Interpretation and Usage brings together the philosophies, principles, causes and effects, approaches, and other fundamentals that seem to be relatively stable in medical-legal spheres.

$39.95 (Click HERE for more info)

 

Description:

MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals tells you everything you need to know about the effective business management of a modern medical practice.

$59.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Effective Expert Witnessing; Third Edition

The Health Care Provider's Guide to Facing the Malpractice Deposition

Description:

Effective Expert Witnessing, Third Edition incorporates recent court rulings concerned with reliability, relevancy, and admissibility of expert testimony, which have drastically altered the nature of expert witnessing and trial strategy.

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

The Health Care Providers Guide To Facing The Malpractice Deposition can provide anyone in the health care industry with the tools necessary to come out of a malpractice deposition unscathed or with as few bruises as possible.

$44.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

The Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Description:

The Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Professionals shows you how to avoid litigation, what to do when sued, and what to do in the midst of litigation.

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Now with over 3000 color coded illustrations, Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Fourth Edition remains the reference against which all others are measured.

$44.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of Obstetrics and Gynecology Documentation Requirements in Non-Acute Care Facilities & Organizations

Description:

The dictionary's masterfully drawn illustrations focus on a single concept to help the reader concentrate on the meaning of a single word. Many depict precisely and accurately the female reproductive system, incorporating fourteen plates of color illustrations.

$49.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

This is an exceptionally well-organized, complete classroom textbook on non-acute care documentation requirements for students taking undergraduate courses in health information management (HIM) and health information technology (HIT) programs.

$39.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
CRC Directory of Outpatient Prescribed Medications: Demographics Data Analysis 2003/2004 Edition
Equal to the Task: One Family's Journey Through Premature Birth

Description:

Contains specific information on the most common diseases seen in outpatient practice and the most common medications used to treat them. Based on the latest data collected in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) of office-based physicians, the authors distill essential information from the NAMCS and present it in a user-friendly format.

$249.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

What they did, you too can do. What their child did, you child can do as well. Strength comes in different sizes and shapes. Perhaps your strength will come from that little one for whom you’d give your very life.

$19.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
If it Weren't for You, We Could Get Along! Stop Blaming and Start Living Immunology of the Soul: The Paradigm for the Future

Description:

People are searching for ways to stop blaming others and things, events and fears for the way their lives turn out. People want control of their lives. They are tired of indecision. They want to live their lives to the fullest.

$19.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

One thing that first strikes readers is the question: how can anyone think of such a subject? In what some have described as a “masterpiece,” the author raises questions about our ability to not only protect the earth’s children from physical diseases through immunization – but to protect their souls through new forms of life and spiritual immunization.

$14.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Who Cares... A Loving Guide for Caregivers: Providing future caregivers the most important facts about my life
Treating Spiritual Disorders: Promoting Spiritual Recovery

Description:

Who Cares is a handy reference that you create that might one day prove to be the best thing you ever did for yourself - or for someone else.

$14.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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Thought Provoking... Inspirational... Challenging... Perfect for Both Professional and Lay Readers

$24.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Who's Right? (Whose Right?): Seeking Answers and Dignity in the Debate Over the Right to Die
Alzheimer's Disease: Cause(s), Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care

Description:

The debate over one's right of choice, when it comes to end of life decisions, is certainly a hot one. No two people have the exact same opinion, yet thousands upon thousands of individuals and families face terminal situations every day. Here is a book that offers readers the first and only truly objective look at all the issues -- from a most unique perspective.

$24.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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Alzheimer's Disease: Cause(s), Diagnosis, and Care is intended for a diverse audience, including professional care providers, and also students, family members, and everyone who is concerned about this disease.

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Antioxidants and Disease Prevention
Atlas of Common Subluxations of the Human Spine and Pelvis

Description:

This single-volume reference contains balanced coverage of possible effects of nutritional agents in major disease areas, including cancer, heart disease, immune dysfunction, and eye disease. It includes such nutrients as beta-carotene, vitamin E, vitamin C, and selenium.

$120.00 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Packed with illustrations and photographs, including advanced imaging of sections of the spine and pelvis, this atlas makes for quick and easy access to and recognition of the characteristic patterns of subluxations. The common types of changes that occur in the structures of the spine have been classified, documented, and arranged in the order of progressive severity of dislocation and degeneration.

$129.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       
Attention Deficit Disorder Misdiagnosis Approaching ADD from Brain-Behavior /Neuropsychological Perspective for Assessment and Treatment A Brief History of Cocaine

Description:

This is an essential text for doctors, parents and any individual working with an ADD child or adult. It will also help professionals in related disciplines approach ADD as a biochemical medical disorder and understand the reasons for its inherent complexity and frequent misdiagnosis.

 

$65.00 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

A Brief History of Cocaine is a thoroughly researched, fascinating account of the role cocaine has played in worldwide history, politics, economics, and science.

 

$22.00 (Click HERE for more info)

       

A Dictionary of Medical Derivations

Concussive Brain Trauma 

Description:

This dictionary explains the original meanings and correct use of the 500 Greek and Latin words and word parts that make up 98% of all medical terms used today. It stimulates better, quicker comprehension of medical terminology with less grinding memory work and is the ideal way for students to learn how medical words are formed from Latin and Greek roots and how to construct a medical vocabulary for both old and new medical words.

 

$54.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

The book is unique in its coverage of the personality changes, family dysfunction, and stress that often occur in wake of concussive brain trauma. Case examples illustrate persistent and acute alterations of consciousness, as well as cognitive, mood, personality, and social effects of head injury, in order to guide appropriate treatment. In addition, the book documents unfamiliar signs not included in the usual list of postconcussive symptoms.

 

$149.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Dictionary of Medical Eponyms 

Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook  

Description:
This is an attractively priced softcover edition of Firkin and Whitworth's internationally popular dictionary of medical eponyms used in internal medicine. Each entry tells the meaning of the eponym and provides bibliographic information about the person. The authors' considerable scholarship and the care they devote to their work is evident in their Introduction to this updated edition of the book.

 

$39.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:
Life care planning has become a buzz word in the rehabilitation field as it has become recognized as an effective method for managing care and predicting future care costs. As this industry evolves, professionals need to be aware of existing standards of practice.

 

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Medicolegal Issues for Radiographers - 3rd Edition 

Minor Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook: Diagnosis and Treatment 

Description:

Designed to enhance the work and study of radiographers and imaging specialists, this book (now in its 3rd edition) provides critically relevant applications of the law from a radiographer's perspective. Written in a clear and highly understandable format, the book enlightens readers on medicolegal and ethical situations that they might encounter in their daily professional routine.

 

$49.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Almost two million individuals experience minor traumatic brain injury (MTBI/MATBI) each year. Patients from all over the country have similar - even identical - complaints from comparable types of trauma. Unfortunately, the vast majority of medical professionals do not recognize or understand the appearance, etiology, or problems associated with MTBI.

 

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Neuropsychology for Healthcare Professionals and Attorneys - Second Edition 

Occupational Health Guide to Violence in the Workplace 

Description:
Regardless of your specialty - physician, psychologist, nurse, rehabilitation specialist, or attorney -post-traumatic stress disorder cases and brain injury cases are arguably the most difficult to understand, treat, and evaluate. All of the tools you need are in the new Neuropsychology for Health Care Professionals and Attorneys, Second Edition.

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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20 murders every week. 18,000 assaults in the same time. All on the job.
Sharp increases in workplace violence continue to take an unfortunate toll on American business-and its employees, families and communities. Preventative measures may be well-intentioned, but pose troubling conflicts in themselves, pitting each employee's privacy vs. overall worker protection.

$74.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Antioxidant Status, Diet, Nutrition, and Health 

Attention Deficit Disorder: Practical Coping Methods 

Description:
This is the first book to integrate the biological, nutritional, and health aspects of antioxidant status. Fifty contributors integrate and transfer the knowledge of free radicals and antioxidants from the test tube to the laboratory of the biologist, clinical nutritionist, and medical researcher, as well as to the office of the dietician, nutritionist, and physician.

 

$109.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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Answering questions logically and systematically, Attention Deficit Disorder: Practical Coping Methods eliminates the confusion common among professionals treating this disorder. The book reflects the authors' belief that ADD represents a very complex syndrome that requires very specific diagnosis, including identification not only of specific attentional symptoms but also of the other accompanying issues. 

 

$49.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Beyond Difference 

Burnout in Families: The Systemic Cost of Caring 

Description:
Difference is something that we all have known or felt. It is not necessarily cause for negative experiences, hostility, or rejection. However, when people assert that they feel different it is usually a statement that they feel bad, lonely, or isolated.

 

$54.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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Sleeplessness, depression, anxiety... these are common symptoms of the burnout that often accompanies living with a loved one who has experienced some kind of traumatic stress. It's well known that the loss of a child, a life-threatening injury, sexual assault or combat experience can affect the victim in traumatic ways, but what's often overlooked is how this trauma affects those closest to the victim - the family.

 

$49.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Caffeine 

Caffeine and Behavior: Current Views and Research Trends 

Description:
Caffeine-found in tea, coffee, maté, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products-is an integral part of the diet of many people. Caffeine answers questions for a broad range of readers interested in the effects beverages and foods containing this dietary methylxanthine have on human health, nutrition, and physiological functioning. The composition, processing, consumption, health effects, and epidemiological correlations of caffeine are examined in detail.

 

$129.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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The psychobehavioral effects of caffeine on humans is analyzed in this book from an experimental approach.
Caffeine and Behavior: Current Views and Research Trends is unique in its emphasis on empirical research and its inclusion of articles concerning the addictive potential of caffeine.

 

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Chronic Pain Assessment: Diagnosis and Management 

Collective Violence: Effective Strategies for Assessing and Interviewing 

Description:
Chronic pain affects every aspect of life-physical well-being, mood, stamina, and feelings of self worth and self respect. This book focuses on conquering pain and its related problems through proper management. It offers numerous tools and concepts with which to attack chronic pain and win the battle that more than 35 million people in the U.S. alone fight every day.

 

$89.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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Collective Violence: Effective Strategies for Assessing and Intervening in Fatal Group and Institutional Aggression explores the variety of groups and institutions explicitly committed to destructive aggression. Topics addressed include population groups which pursue their own specialized forms of violence against others; culture-infecting and polluting themes which desensitize citizens and societal institutions to deadly force and preparations for catastrophic violence; and the role of our scientific establishment and the media in promoting culture-wide themes that justify, legalize, and reify violence.

 

$159.95 (Click HERE for more info)

   

CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition  

CRC Desk Reference of Clinical Pharmacology 

Description:

The CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition concisely defines hundreds of terms used in nutrition science, providing quick answers to questions encountered by physicians, nurses, dietitians, physical therapists, pharmacists, and students in their day-to-day work and research. Reflecting the hybrid nature of nutrition science, the book collects terms from biochemistry, molecular biology, and other related disciplines in one convenient volume.

 

$79.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Designed specifically with physicians, pharmacologists, and other members of the health care delivery team in mind, the CRC Desk Reference of Clinical Pharmacology features more than 2,000 entries appearing in three formats.

$129.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Cytokines and the CNS 

Cytokines Stress & Immunity 

Description:
In Cytokines and the CNS, leading practicing physicians and scientists review the current status of cytokines, with an emphasis on their role in developmental and pathological processes in the central nervous system (CNS). They describe various cytokine families and their receptors, focusing on the delineation of known mechanisms by which ligand-receptor interactions mediate biological effects.

 

$149.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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Studies indicate that the well-known effects of stress hormones-ACTH and corticosteroids-are modulated to a large degree by various cytokines-interferons and interleukins. Cytokines: Stress and Immunity provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary knowledge of the role of cytokines in interreactions between the neuroendocrine and immune systems, and the clinical implications of these interactions.

 

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Developmental Neurotoxicology 

Drug Abuse Handbook 

Description:

Developmental Neurotoxicology addresses a number of basic principles underlying the vulnerability of the developing nervous system to environmental toxicant exposure. Evidence of functional alterations, induced at levels of chemical exposure that fail to produce structural teratological alterations, indicates that the evaluation of the functional capacity of exposed animals may indeed offer a sensitive evaluation of developmental toxicity.

 

$179.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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This is the handbook that professionals who deal with problems related to drugs and drug abuse have been waiting for. The impressive list of more than 80 contributors, each experts and leaders in their field, testifies to the importance of this outstanding new handbook. The volume contains detailed discussions of drug-related issues in criminalistics, pathology, and toxicology.

 

$129.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Drugs of Abuse & Addiction: Neurobehavioral Toxicology 

Drugs of Abuse, Immunity, and Infections 

Description:

Drugs of Abuse and Addiction: Neurobehavioral Toxicology examines drugs of abuse and addiction and how they affect behavior. This book considers the entire range of addiction research in humans and animals, using a multidisciplinary approach to discuss all areas of the neuro- and behavioral sciences involved.

 

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

During the past few decades, drugs of abuse, including marijuana, cocaine, opiates, and alcohol have been studied in detail by biomedical scientists in terms of their effects on the neurophysiology and psychological responses of individuals. Research over the last few years has provided increased knowledge about possible mechanisms by which such drugs increase the likelihood of infections in humans and experimental animals.

 

$239.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Ecological Validity of Neuropsychological Testing 

Emotion, Memory and Behavior Studies on Human and Nonhuman Primates 

Description:

Ecological validity, the functional and predictive relationship between a patient's performance on a set of neuropsychological tests and their behavior in a variety of real-world settings, is emerging as a powerful tool. Since neuropsychological data were not designed to be ecologically valid, attempts to use the data in such a manner have been filled with pitfalls.

 

$119.95 (Click HERE for more info)

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This book presents a complete account of the 18th International Taniguchi Symposium on Brain Sciences, held on the island of Hawaii, February 5-8, 1995. The first part of this comprehensive volume examines emotion, including the limbic system, animal models of autism, the neuronal mechanism of emotion and behavior, and a PET study on depression.

 

$109.95 (Click HERE for more info)

       

Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety 

Exercise and Disease Management 

Description:

As the need for attentive health care becomes more important than ever, on-the-job risks to physicians, nurses, and related professionals have continued to relentlessly increase. Ever-changing technology, new and unforeseen hazards, the dramatic shift to managed care, and a lack of skilled workers have only heightened the difficulties of maintaining safe environments for caregivers and patients alike.

 

$149.95 (Click HERE for more info)

Description:

Exercise and Disease Management consolidates the current knowledge base on exercise and chronic disease, providing a ready-made format for health care providers to use when prescribing exercise programs for patients.

 

$169.95 (Click HERE for more info)