This issue of Clinics in Plastic Surgery, Guest Edited by Jeffrey Gusenoff, is devoted to Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss. Articles in this outstanding issue include: The Obesity Epidemic and Bariatric Trends; Patient Evaluation and Surgical Staging; Patient Reported Outcome Measures: Body-Q; Safety in Body Contouring to Avoid Complications; Pain Management in Body Contouring; Abdominal Contouring and Combining Procedures; Fleur-de-lis Abdominoplasty and neo umbilicius; Lower Body Lifting and the Rule of 16; Breast Reshaping after Massive Weight Loss; Bra-line Upper Body Lifting; Arm Contouring; Thigh Contouring; Face and Neck Lifting after Weight Loss; and Common Complications and Management after Body Contouring.

This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice, Guest Edited by Dr. Sarah Czerwinski, is devoted to the Medical and Surgical Management of Ocular Surface Disease in Exotic Animals. Dr. Czerwinski has assembled a list of articles that covers ocular surface disease in a wide range of animals, including: Rabbits; Rodents (Guinea pigs, mice, rats, and chinchillas); Ferrets; Marine mammals; Birds; New world camelids; Fish; Amphibians; and Reptiles (crocodilians, lizards, chelonians, and snakes).

Try to picture always needing to go to the doctor to take care of some kind of ailment. Depending on your circumstances, it may not be very hard to do.

After a while, you might want to know how these doctors think. To learn more about medical diagnoses and to improve his own personal health, Hock Chye Yeoh went to extremes-he became a doctor himself.

But the answers he learned as a medical doctor left him wanting more. He still had questions, so he began focusing on spirituality, including feng shui, Taoism, and Hindu and Buddhist teachings.

Now, Dr. Yeoh reveals how his understanding of the metaphysical world enables him to help his patients. They suffer from cancer, diabetes, obesity, and other problems, but with his help, they are getting better. You can, too, using his holistic approach to well-being.

The reclusive doctor's solutions defy traditional science, but you can't argue with results. Learn how you can improve your own health by blending science and spirituality as you discover "Esoteric Views on Health."

Written from the perspective of a diagnostic radiography educator, t his book introduces readers to ethnography as a methodology and examines how an ethnographic researcher sees the world in which they live.

Human-computer interaction studies the users and their interaction with an interactive software system (ISS). However, these studies are designed for people without any type of disability, causing there to be few existing techniques or tools that focus on the characteristics of a specific user, thus causing accessibility and utility issues for neglected segments of the population. This reference source intends to remedy this lack of research by supporting an ISS focused on people with visual impairment. User-Centered Software Development for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a collection of innovative research on techniques, applications, and methods for carrying out software projects in which the main users are people with visual impairments. While highlighting topics including mobile technology, assistive technologies, and human-computer interaction, this book is ideally designed for software developers, computer engineers, designers, academics, researchers, professionals, and educators interested in current research on usable and accessible technologies.

El Dr. Luis Andres Labrada Rondon egreso como Medico General del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas de Santiago de Cuba. Especialista en Cardiologia no invasiva del Hospital Universitario "Saturnino Lora" de Santiago de Cuba. Felow en Cuidados Intensivos del Adulto. Master en investigaciones biomedicas. Investigador titular. Experto en Ecocardiografia de la Universidad de Viena, Austria. Es el Director Cientifico de CARDIOCENTER. Miembro activo de la Sociedad Americana de Ecocardiografia y de la Sociedad Colombiana de Cardiologia y Cirugia Cardiovascular. Exmiembro de la Sociedad Cubana de Cardiologia. Es el Editor General de la "Revista Cardiocenter." Ha publicado varios libros, entre los que quiero destacar "Dolor Precordial. Implicaciones clinicas y Terapeuticas," del que ha dicho el Dr. Ignacio Chavez Rivera, exdirector general del Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia de Mexico: "Tenemos que reconocer al Dr. Labrada como un experto de talla mundial en un tema tan controvertido como lo es el dolor precordial" Sus companeros de bachillerato lo reconociamos como un "genio" de las Fisicas y las Matematicas por lo que desde muy temprano en su juventud logro el respeto y la admiracion de todos nosotros. Es un estudioso incansable y un lector insaciable, dotado de una memoria prodigiosa. Siempre estuvo entre las lumbreras de nuestro curso y ya desde estudiante de medicina se vislumbraba el especialista de alto nivel que conocemos hoy. Amplio sus conocimientos en Cardiologia en el hospital clinico "San Carlos" de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espana. Alli conocio Dr. Pedro Zarco, quien en cierta ocasion expreso, refiriendose al Dr. Labrada: "No hay que ser espanol para alcanzar las cumbres cardiologicas." Para mi, "Adios al infarto" es un libro raro al que he calificado como una novela cientifica porque se mueve entre lo autobiografico y los descubrimientos cardiologicos mas modernos. El libro tambien nos muestra un profundo recorrido por la historia de la cardiologia mundial, con sus logros y descalabros, con sus avances y retrocesos, mostrando con sutileza las conexiones que muchas veces de forma caprichosa, nos brinda el recorrido ascendente de una especialidad. Reciba una vez mas Dr. labrada el reconocimiento de la comunidad cientifica internacional por entregarnos un libro tan necesario en muchos paises del mundo. Es un texto indispensable en estos tiempos atormentados y convulsos en los que el egoismo cientifico y las ambiciones por el dinero, son capaces de perturbar las mentes mas prodigiosas de los mejores hombres de ciencia de nuestros paises y de corromper sistemas completos de salud."

"Katrina's Imprint" highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster, explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of rebuilding and starting over replicates past vulnerabilities, and analyze Katrina's imprint alongside American's myths of self-sufficiency. A case study of new weaknesses that have emerged in our era, this book offers an argument for why we cannot wait for the next disaster before we apply the lessons that should be learned from Katrina.

The second edition of Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing, uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyze research findings. Students are guided through the complete analysis process from performing a statistical analysis to the rationale behind doing so. In addition, management of data, including how and why to recode variables for analysis, how to "clean" data, and how to work around missing data, is discussed.

For all courses in medical. This is a true introductory-level "essentials" text focusing solely on medical terminology, and on teaching students how to build and translate medical terms with confidence. Designed to be fun, accessible, and eye-catching, its powerful approach guides students step-by-step through mastering relevant word parts, understanding word roots, and word assembly. To help students learn meanings, correct spelling, pronunciation, and other components of each term, the book contains numerous exercises, tips, and colorful figures for learning and practice. It is flexible enough to be used either in support of lectures, or as an independent student workbook. MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY: GET CONNECTED!, 1/e encourages students to "get connected" to an engaging multimedia experience on www.myhealthprofessionskit.com, We have done all the work for you! Students log onto Medical Terminology Interative, create their avatar and they are ready to begin! Students will learn in a dynamic, virtual online environment that includes exercises, videos, animations, activities and more! Learning Modules provide core content for learning medical terminology. Users can access Medical Terminology Interactive, anytime, day or night, where they can study on their own and practice their word-building skills.

For all one-semester courses in medical terminology in any institution. Using a consistent, logical, and step-by-step approach, this book introduces students to the anatomy and physiology of body systems and the corresponding medical terms related to them. For each body system, broad coverage of anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnostic procedures, treatment procedures, and pharmacology is provided. The author emphasizes both terms built from Latin and Greek word parts, and modern English terms, helping students develop a full working word part vocabulary they can use to interpret any new term. This edition contains many new terms, and has been reorganized for more efficient learning. To eliminate confusion, Word Building tables have been removed from each chapter and the terms have been distributed throughout the pathology, diagnostic procedure, and treatment procedure tables, where they are more immediately relevant to students.

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This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider international climate given current globalization and migration trends. The authors draw from a large body of evidence based across different sites and illnesses, scrutinising both the language dynamics of intercultural health interactions and the perceptions and narratives of multiple participants. Including a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical considerations, the volume sheds light upon qualitative research methods and their application in the intercultural context. This book will be a valuable resource for health professionals, medical educators and language practitioners as well as students and scholars of discourse analysis and the medical humanities.

This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions. It does so through the experience of faculty and students at Duke University and Duke Kunshan University, a US-China joint venture university. The book reveals the intimate stories of Chinese people trapped in quarantine, situating these stories in a longer historical perspective of plagues and disease prevention in China. It describes the impact of the virus on the racialized perceptions of Chinese-Americans and Chinese students in America. Finally, it offers a preliminary assessment of the impact of the coronavirus on the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, and on US-China relations. Featuring the work of artists, student journalists, historians, anthropologists and political scientists, this book presents a breadth of insights into the impact of COVID-19.

User Centered Design for Medical Visualization features a comprehensive review of leading advances in medical visualization and human-computer interaction. This book investigates the human roles during a visualization process, specifically motivation-based design, user-based design, and perception-and-cognitive-based design. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, healthcare practitioners, and medical technology specialists, ""User Centered Design for Medical Visualization"" provides real-world examples and insight into the analytical and architectural aspects of user centered design.