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COVID-19: Scientific Denialism

A Path to Revelation

by Alexander Bez ...

In order to demonstrate how lethal Scientific Denialism is, this book broadens the horizon of the reader’s mind regarding COVID-19, going beyond the first book “What You Don’t Know About COVID - the mortal virus”, showing that Science, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Psychiatry are not formed by opinions but by standardized medical findings. In addition to being a historical and ... Read more

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In order to demonstrate how lethal Scientific Denialism is, this book broadens the horizon of the reader’s mind regarding COVID-19, going beyond the first book “What You Don’t Know About COVID - the mortal virus”, showing that Science, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Immunology and Psychiatry are not formed by opinions but by standardized medical findings. In addition to being a historical and
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What You Don't Know About COVID-19

The Mortal Virus

by Alexander Bez ...

A book written for the world’s population. Although it is a book based in science, it is not academic. It’s composed of nineteen chapters about the virus lethality with around 2,000 tips to help life and its preservation. Written in simpli ed language, this self-help book invites you to a deep self-re ection about existential values. ... Read more

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A book written for the world’s population. Although it is a book based in science, it is not academic. It’s composed of nineteen chapters about the virus lethality with around 2,000 tips to help life and its preservation. Written in simpli ed language, this self-help book invites you to a deep self-re ection about existential values.
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How We Die

Refelctions on Life's Final Chapter

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An international bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final ... Read more

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An international bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus. It also discusses how we can take control of our own final
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At Peace

Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life

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The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions. Many undergo painful procedures ... Read more

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The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions. Many undergo painful procedures
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Modern Death

How Medicine Changed the End of Life

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"Elegant and poignant . . . [Warraich] succeeds in humanizing a complex topic and gives us remarkable insights about the changing nature of 'modern death'." ―Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times –bestselling author of The Emperor of All MaladiesThere is no more universal truth in life than death but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age.... ... Read more

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"Elegant and poignant . . . [Warraich] succeeds in humanizing a complex topic and gives us remarkable insights about the changing nature of 'modern death'." ―Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times –bestselling author of The Emperor of All MaladiesThere is no more universal truth in life than death but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age....
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The Song of Our Scars

The Untold Story of Pain

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A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effectiveIn The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers the ways our notions of pain have been shaped not just ... Read more

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Pain

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Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or ... Read more

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Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or
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The Uncertain Art

Thoughts on a Life in Medicine

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“Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.”–attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E.The award-winning author of How We Die and The Art of Aging, venerated physician Sherwin B. Nuland has now ... Read more

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“Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals, cooperate.”–attributed to Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C.E.The award-winning author of How We Die and The Art of Aging, venerated physician Sherwin B. Nuland has now
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The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine

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This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One ... Read more

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This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One
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Snowball in a Blizzard

A Physician's Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine

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There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humor, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X-rays to endless ... Read more

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There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humor, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with similar difficulties every day when sifting through piles of data from blood tests to X-rays to endless
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The Healing Paradox

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Why does Western medicine fail to cure chronic physical and mental illness? Why do so many treatments and drugs work only for a limited time before eventually losing effectiveness or producing harmful side effects?Dr. Steven Goldsmith's answer is at once counterintuitive and commonsensical: the root of the problem is our combative approach. Instead of resisting and fighting our ailments, we should ... Read more

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