STRESS: it can save your life or kill you.<br><br>Stress is defined as the response of the body to a "demand" placed upon it by any nonspecific stress or stressors. At the beginning of the demand the body prepares itself for fight or flight. This first stage is instantaneous and intense and can only be sustained for a short interval. Assuming survival and with continuous and/or recurrent demand, there ensues hormonal and neurological effects, which if not relieved...
Cancer, the second leading killer after heart disease, has plagued mankind for centuries. This book outlines its past history and primitive therapy, discusses the breakthrough advances in understanding the cellular mechanisms, the current therapeutic approaches and future hopes for cures. Never a single entity amenable to a specific, generalized cure for all, cancer represents a different disease in each individual requiring targeted therapy directed against the specific cellular change causing...
This book describes how bad habits contribute to ill health. The habits the author refers to that so negatively impact patients by leading to significant illness and mortality, include the following:<br><br>–Alcohol abuse<br>–Tobacco abuse<br>–Obesity<br>–Poor dietary habits<br>–Excessive stress<br><br>The impact of the above on all parts of the human body are described in...
The author has taken his previously published medical ebooks and incorporated them into a single book: ALL THINGS MEDICAL, which includes the following topics:<br><br>* The Prevention of Medical Errors<br>* The Complete Medical Examination including The Medical History, Physical Examination and Laboratory Data<br>* Case Reports<br>* Risk Factor Analysis and Health Screening<br>* Summary and Patient Responsibility<br>* Symptoms Never to Ignore<br>*...
Are you contemplating a career in the medical field; an M.D., D.O., Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant? If so, let a former practicing physician guide you through his own career from incubation through fruition, through the good and the bad. Let him describe for you forty years of primary care medical practice through a period of breath-taking advance and change as medical care transitions into the future. The need is greater than ever and will require more than a few good men and women....
