A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...

"¿Por qué aceptar que los demás decidan tu felicidad? ¿Por qué tener miedo de elegir tu trabajo, tus amistades, tus relaciones? ¿Deseas una vida plena y saludable? ¿Anhelas realizar todos tus sueños sin dudar de tus elecciones? Noi lo dudes más: Decide. Toma las riendas de tu vida y elige el amor, el éxito y la gratitud"--cover.

Conflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious efficacy--these and other critical flaws leave little doubt that the current U.S. health-care system is in need of an overhaul. In this essential guide, preeminent physician Nortin Hadler urges American health-care consumers to take time to understand the existing system and to visualize what the outcome of successful...

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey towards a healthier, happier life? "Healthy Habits, Happy Life: Your Roadmap to Wellness" is your comprehensive guide to achieving lasting well-being through the power of positive habits. In this insightful and practical book, Jarrel combines the art of habit formation with the science of wellness to provide you with a clear and actionable roadmap to a life filled with vitality, balance, and joy. Drawing...

Vivre avec le diabète peut être difficile et décourageant, mais cela ne doit pas vous empêcher de vivre pleinement votre vie. Dans ce livre, découvrez une méthode simple pour mieux gérer votre diabète grâce à un carnet de suivi personnalisé. Vous apprendrez à mieux comprendre la maladie, à suivre efficacement votre traitement et à prévenir les complications. Vous découvrirez également des astuces pratiques pour mieux vivre avec le...

In a series of true stories from across Canada, this collection seeks to point out the considerable human toll that medical errors cause. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their willingness to share their harrowing stories has helped to lay the foundation for numerous patient safety programs and continues to identify problems, provide solutions,...

America is in a chronic state of confusion and anxiety about matters ofhealth. Each day, we are bombarded with news of medical breakthroughs,wonder drugs, and hidden dangers. Now author and radio host Dr. DeanEdell clears things up with this at-home medical resource that squarelyconfronts more than five hundred common health concerns, including: • The skinny on fat, carbs, Atkins, and Xenical • Sex, with a look at Viagra, orgasms, chlamydia, and...

Know what's driving your doctor's decisions-and how to protect yourself. Through compelling real-life stories, Health Your Self reveals the forces that compromise your medical care, and arms you with the tools to navigate around them. When a doctor refers you to a colleague in a hospital, there's a hidden influence: he gets a bonus; When a psychiatrist prescribes medication to school children, it might have more to do with the colossal overreach of...

Las bacterias, virus, hongos, protozoos y priones son seres "invisibles" que, sin embargo, desarrollan acciones determinantes y paradójicas en nuestras vidas: al mismo tiempo que hacen posible la existencia del pan, los quesos, el chocolate, las bebidas fermentadas y medicamentos, afectan gravemente nuestra salud y son responsables de gran parte de nuestras enfermedades: 7 de cada 10 muertes que se registran en países en vías de industrialización...

"This country is fairly crowded with doctors, families, and patients-all possessed of good intentions-failing to achieve the simple goal of allowing people to die with dignity and grace." In the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly and brutally: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. In Last Rights, Stephen Kiernan reveals the disconnect...