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After twenty-seven years treating patients in emergency rooms, Dr. Mona Balogh noticed a trend: from heart failure to addiction, people chronically use ERs to address disease. These "frequent flyers" are ER regulars with little understanding of their illness or how to help themselves. Dr. Balogh knew these patients deserved more from medicine-there had to be a better way.
In How to Stay Out of My Emergency Room, Dr. Balogh combines Western and Eastern...
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The Chronic Wound Care book series is generally considered the gold standard for wound care textbooks. Over the past 23 years, each new edition has brought you the latest educational and clinical information, from a who's who of wound care thought-leaders. The theme of the fifth edition of Chronic Wound Care (CWC5) - International Interprofessional Wound Caring - reflects the editor's personal experiences that the problems faced by people with chronic...
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When it comes to CBD and Cannabis, the jury is still out. Once individual states began to legalize medical marijuana, physicians found themselves in a unique situation. Caught between conflicting federal and state laws, they also were challenged with several conflicting studies, and were still left with many questions. Dr. Mary Clifton and Dr. Tom O'Bryan combed through those studies, extracting the evidence-based research from more heavily biased...
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We will never forget the pain & loss of past and present experiences. In a time of depression, grief, and loss.
We give tributes to The First Responders and all essential workers for their invaluable service and tireless dedication to the public at large, saving lives and offering grief counseling to grieving families and loved ones so in need of a support system at this time. Just as we overcame all Pandemic in the pass: This too shall pass. In this...
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Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) was born in 980 in Buhara, and died in 1037 in Hamadan, Persia (now Iran). He is a physician, physicist, writer, philosopher and scientist. He was known in the West as the founder of modern science in the medieval ages, the leader of physicians and dubbed as the "Doctors' Doctor". His fame rests on his book, Al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine) which was regarded as the principal medical work in the field of medicine...
47) Unbridled
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"A true to life story that exposes the atrocities of abuse, neglect, and trauma and the healing and redemption experienced by girls and horses who have suffered the same types of abuse."--www.imdb.com.
48) That's wild
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"An award-winning documentary that tells the inspiring journey of three underserved teenage boys from Atlanta who attempt to climb four 12,000 ft snow-capped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness"--www.imdb.com.
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In his groundbreaking first book, Your Soul's Plan, Robert Schwartz brought the idea of pre-birth planning into the mainstream. Now, his brilliant sequel Your Soul's Gift delves even deeper by exploring the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage and abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. Working with a team of gifted mediums, Schwartz brings forth great...
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Traditional herbal remedies have always been valued since time immemorial. Herbal remedies have been known to cure almost everything, right from spasm to heart Diseases and Common Ailments and that too without any post-medication blues. This book outlines the healing and curative properties of medicinal plants which are easily available all over the country. While the written records of this system of natural healthcare date back to almost 5000 years,...
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Bibliotherapy: Nature
Bibliotherapy: Walking
CAO Cafe: Health & Wellness - Maintaining Mental Health
Mental Health Forum
Bibliotherapy: Walking
CAO Cafe: Health & Wellness - Maintaining Mental Health
Mental Health Forum
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"The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness"--Provided by publisher.
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"Reduce stress and anxiety, increase your productivity, detox your body, balance your health, and find the path to greater mindfulness with this collection of signature breathing techniques by the world's leading breathmaster, Dan Brule. In this definitive handbook, world-renown pioneer of breathwork Dan Brule shares for the first-time his Breath Mastery technique that has helped more than 100,000 people in over forty-five countries. Just Breathe...
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"In Bad Faith, acclaimed physician and author Paul Offit gives readers a never-before-seen look into the minds of those who choose to medically martyr themselves, or their children, in the name of religion. Never afraid of controversy, Offit takes a stark and disturbing look at our surprising capacity to risk the health and safety of children in service of our beliefs. He tells the story of two devoted Christian Scientists who are shocked and heartbroken...
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2021 - I Read Canadian Day - Adult
Bibliotherapy: Social Justice
Canada Reads 2022: Longlist
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Bibliotherapy: Social Justice
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WINNER: Canada Reads 2022
WINNER: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award
WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize
Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize
Finalist: BC & Yukon Book Prize
Shortlist: Indigenous Voices Awards
National Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple
...58) The healer
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Marlena Oliveira has been given an extraordinary gift. She has been given the power to heal. She can cure paralysis, mental illness, even a broken heart. People with all kinds of ailments come from around the world seeking audiences with her, believing her to be a saint. But her power comes at a price. Marlena can't have friends or go to school. She can't date. She can't even touch anyone. The older she gets, the more trapped she feels. Then Marlena...
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"When the world gets too loud and chaotic, a young boy's grandfather helps him listen with wonder instead. Kids laughing, sneakers squeaking, balls bouncing--for Thunder, the sounds of the school day often brew into overwhelming noise storms. But when Thunder's mosom asks him what he hears on an urban nature walk, Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing water can help him feel calm and connected. Gentle, inviting...
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