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Stay on track with your diet, maintain a long-term healthy eating plan while saving time and money with these keto-friendly meal prep recipes.

The Mommy Makeover is the proven way to reverse the physical impact of childbirth through safe, effective plastic surgery. Dr. Michael Burgdorf, an award-winning plastic surgeon, shows you how to make the decision for cosmetic surgery, how to prepare for it, and what to expect each step of the way from consultation through recovery. With a mommy makeover, you'll regain your body: a flatter tummy, tighter skin, and rejuvenated breasts through simple outpatient surgery.

A career in surgery is immensely rewarding and challenging at the same time. This helpful guide written by leaders in surgery is meant to inspire young surgeons and make their career journey a bit easier. The career guide is now available as an audiobook, making this priceless and practical advice even more accessible.

At the start of his second year at Harvard, Martin was hit by a car and thrown 150 feet. He landed on his head, suffering severe traumatic brain injury. He resolved to get back. Climbing Back: A Family's Journey Through Brain Injury follows Martin's sister, father, and mother (the author) as they accompany Martin through rehabilitation and recovery. They find that they too must work to get back, to heal their own minds and souls.

If you're going through your days feeling unmotivated and lethargic, it may not be your fault! Adrenal fatigue may be to blame! If you're having difficulty focusing, unmotivated to do physical activities, losing your sex drive and you're not a sloth type of person, then you may have adrenal fatigue. Discover the steps and strategies you need to restore your energy levels and return to a state of clarity and calmness. This book will explain important facts on how you can get relief and restore your energy levels back to normal.

Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions.

This self-help medical guide will guide you, step-by-step, through the definition of a cerebral shunt, some common causes for infections and obstructions, case studies, and some common diseases that may require patients to have a shunt placements.

One of the top complaints for many people as they go about making changes to lead a more active and fit lifestyle is suffering from severe back pain. There's no question about it, if you begin to suffer from back pain, this could in fact become a life-long issue if you aren't treating things properly. There are two primary types of back pain, chronic back pain which tends to stick around for lengthy periods of time and then acute back pain, which comes and goes.

The laparoscopic adjustable gastric band, or Lap-Band, can be the weight loss tool you need to overcome obesity - but only if you use it right. The Big Book on the Lap-Band: Everything You Need to Lose Weight and Live Well with the Adjustable Gastric Band! is your complete manual, from considering surgery until maintaining your goal weight - and everything in between.

Their odds were 100,000 to one. Her faith was 1 in a million. In The Gift of Love, bestselling fiction author Amy Clipston shares her story of almost losing the love of her life to kidney disease and the ultimate sacrifice that kept their family together. An ordinary woman who cherishes family...

Join Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital. Warren's life as a neurosurgeon in a trauma center began to unravel long before he shipped off to serve the U.S. Air Force in...

Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The 2 men - the one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class, the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught, and self-determined - inevitably become adversaries. As he does in Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London dramatizes in this story the violent encounter between safe, genteel comfort and a brutal set of circumstances.

Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.

Bienvenido al mundo de Enfermera Saturada, un mundo donde el delirio se mezcla con el humor, a veces negro y siempre muy fino, pero donde el día a día del hospital siempre supera a la ficción.

HighBridge Audio presents four titles in the American Diabetes Association's 21 Things series, collected here in an essential, must-listen omnibus edition.

In I Love My Kids, but I Want My Body Back, Dr Malcolm Linsell shares his patients’ experiences so other women will know what to expect when contemplating plastic surgery. From initial consultation to surgery and beyond, 10 women reveal how their body image issues had a negative impact on their mental and physical health, relationships, and quality of life. Their stories are honest accounts of how they found the courage to change what they didn’t like about their bodies, creating for themselves a calm self-assurance that radiates out to those around them.

In Guardians of the Sterile Field: A Magical Journey in OR Nursing, the world of perioperative nursing comes alive through storytelling, humor, and a touch of wizardry. This is no dry manual. It is a journey—from trembling novice to confident circulator—filled with lessons learned in real ORs, told with wit and warmth.

At least one hysterectomy is performed every minute of the year, making it the most common gynecological surgery worldwide. By the age of sixty-five, one out of five people born with a uterus will have it removed. So, why do we seldom talk about this surgery? Get It Out weaves centuries of medical history with rich qualitative data from 100 women, trans men, and nonbinary people who had, want, or are considering hysterectomy.

The purpose of this book is to demystify headache surgery and explain why it works so effectively. I want you to understand what is causing your pain and how and why this procedure works. By understanding this procedure, you can make an empowered and informed decision about whether it might be the right path for you. While peripheral nerve decompression surgery may not be suitable for everyone, it has brought substantial relief to countless people suffering from migraines, tension headaches, occipital neuralgia, and more.

Chronic pain takes a heavy toll on your life. Dr. Oliver Ghalambor has spent over 17 years as an interventional spine and joint physician dedicated to helping patients explore non-invasive, regenerative solutions. His book provides honest explanations of the science behind regenerative medicine, practical guidance on choosing treatments, and real-life examples of how patients have reclaimed their lives without invasive surgery. Dr. Ghalambor is not here to offer miracles, but to help you understand your options so that you can make informed decisions about your care.