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The Doctor's Communication Handbook

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Of Previous Editions:“... breaks new ground in its readability … It is concise, wise, and firmly pragmatic”.British Medical Journal“Since it was first published in 1994, Peter Tate’s The Doctor’s Communication Handbook has been essential reading to improve GP registrars’ communication skills”.Practical Diabetes InternationalThis essential text for doctors in both general practice and hospital ... Read more

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Of Previous Editions:“... breaks new ground in its readability … It is concise, wise, and firmly pragmatic”.British Medical Journal“Since it was first published in 1994, Peter Tate’s The Doctor’s Communication Handbook has been essential reading to improve GP registrars’ communication skills”.Practical Diabetes InternationalThis essential text for doctors in both general practice and hospital
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Sister Sebastian's Library

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All is not what it seems in this gripping novel about two sisters' lives: one who leaves her secular Catholic life to become a nun in deepest Africa, and her sister who goes to search for her when she goes missing.Elodie O'Shea abandons her children to her estranged husband to go on the search for her sister, Bridie. What she uncovers reveals as much about herself, her marriage and her family than ... Read more

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All is not what it seems in this gripping novel about two sisters' lives: one who leaves her secular Catholic life to become a nun in deepest Africa, and her sister who goes to search for her when she goes missing.Elodie O'Shea abandons her children to her estranged husband to go on the search for her sister, Bridie. What she uncovers reveals as much about herself, her marriage and her family than
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Chicken Unga Fever

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Is it a new strain of bird flu? A strange neurological condition characterised by an irresistible urge to eat poultry-based foods?No, Chicken Unga Fever is a collection of the very best of Dr Phil Whitaker's 'Health Matters' columns – much loved by readers of the New Statesman magazine, where they have appeared fortnightly for the past five years.Funny, touching, informative, and often profoundly ... Read more

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Is it a new strain of bird flu? A strange neurological condition characterised by an irresistible urge to eat poultry-based foods?No, Chicken Unga Fever is a collection of the very best of Dr Phil Whitaker's 'Health Matters' columns – much loved by readers of the New Statesman magazine, where they have appeared fortnightly for the past five years.Funny, touching, informative, and often profoundly
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Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits ... Read more

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2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits
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The Seven Ages of Death

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The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful. Unflinching' THE TIMES'A finely-crafted detective story' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Enlightening, strangely uplifting' DAILY MAIL'... ... Read more

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The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply insightful. Unflinching' THE TIMES'A finely-crafted detective story' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Enlightening, strangely uplifting' DAILY MAIL'...
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Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and ... Read more

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Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.Originally published in the London Review of Books, this diary by the acclaimed author Hilary Mantel explores in forensic detail her loss of dignity, her determination, the concentration of the senses into an animalistic struggle to get through, and
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Long Shadows

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BOOK 3 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'SI don't know who I am. I don't know what I am.The identity of Elizabeth Cage has always been a mystery. Even she doesn't know who, or what, she is. But she's learned to live with it.Until now, when what should have been a peaceful holiday turns into anything but, and Elizabeth is forced to recognise ... Read more

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BOOK 3 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'SI don't know who I am. I don't know what I am.The identity of Elizabeth Cage has always been a mystery. Even she doesn't know who, or what, she is. But she's learned to live with it.Until now, when what should have been a peaceful holiday turns into anything but, and Elizabeth is forced to recognise
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An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.How can Izzy be a ... Read more

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An insight into what it's like to be a first-year junior doctor - the ups and downs, the drama, and how terrifying it is to finally be making decisions.Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.How can Izzy be a
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The Carer

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Ankylosing Spondylitis: THE CURE

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INTRODUCTION:Thanks to an antibiotic, I am cured of ankylosing spondylitis. I feel it my duty to convey my experience to all sufferers of this extremely painful and debilitating disease.In this book, I will also disclose my personal medical record (Rheumatology, radiology, MRI, medical biology laboratory) stating that I had ankylosing spondylitis and that I recovered.My annual radiography checks ... Read more

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The Language of Kindness

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**#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Could not be more compelling or more welcome. It's about how we survive, and about the people who help us do so.” —The New York Times“I challenge anyone to get through all 336 pages without weeping.” —The Sunday Times**Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its ... Read more

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