The Placebo Chronicles
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The Placebo Chronicles
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Author : Douglas Farrago, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Release Date : 2009-07-08
The Placebo Chronicles written by Douglas Farrago, M.D. and has been published by Crown Archetype this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-08 with Humor categories.
True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache. Doctors have a sick sense of humor. This is the deep, dark, and hilarious secret of the medical profession revealed by the irreverent Dr. Douglas Farrago in his popular satirical magazine, Placebo Journal—affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors” and called, by U.S. News.com, “raunchy, adolescent, and very funny.” Now, in The Placebo Chronicles, Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country. Submitted by actual physicians, these are the stories they tell each other at cocktail parties and in doctors’ lounges, trading sidesplitting and truly unusual tales of their most embarrassing medical moments, the grossest things they’ve ever seen in medicine, their favorite Munchausen patients, and much more, including “The X-Ray Files”—mind-boggling anecdotes and images of the oddest foreign objects doctors have removed from patients. Not for the faint of heart, the humor in The Placebo Chronicles is brutally funny—just what the doctor ordered to guard against the ill effects of an M.D.’s worst enemies: the Medical Axis of Evil, a.k.a. drug companies, HMOs, and malpractice insurers. Fully illustrated with fake advertisements—for pseudopharmaceuticals like OxyCotton Candy and Indifferex (the mediocre antidepressant)—this refreshingly honest collection invites doctors and patients alike to share the laughter, a liberal dose of the very best medicine.
The Placebo Effect
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Author : David Rotenberg
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-03-12
The Placebo Effect written by David Rotenberg and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Fiction categories.
In this first action-packed novel in The Junction Chronicles, professor and acting coach Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth—that turns into deadly curse. For years Decker’s rare sensory ability to discern the truth proved to be a lucrative sideline to his acting teaching. Only his closest friends know, and he keeps his "synesthete" identity secret from the companies that pay him to tell them if the people they are planning to hire are truthful. But Decker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart. His house burns down, his credit cards are cancelled, his bank loan is called and his studio is condemned. He realizes that he must have heard something in one of his truth-telling sessions that someone didn’t want him to know. Decker has to go on the run and figure out why he’s been targeted. There’s also a government agent hunting him who seems to know absolutely everything about Decker Roberts’ identities, real and false—and other people of “his kind.” How will Decker find out which truth was endangering his life? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? Decker needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.
Diary Of A Drug Rep
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Author : Douglas Farrago
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Diary Of A Drug Rep written by Douglas Farrago and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with categories.
By the year 2000, pharmaceutical companies were spending more than $15 billion dollars a year on promoting prescription drugs in the United States. It was not uncommon to see doctors going to extravagant dinners, amusement parks and golfing events, all sponsored by these companies and all orchestrated by what are called drug reps. In 2002, Douglas Farrago first pieced together a fictionalized, diary-like version of this tale, which spread virally on the Internet and became an instant hit, especially with drug reps. Initially called Diary of a Pharmaceutical Representative (Drug Rep), it was reproduced first in Dr. Farrago's humorous medical magazine called the Placebo Journal and then in his book The Placebo Chronicles. It even inspired a 2005 NY Times article called "Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales". In Diary of a Drug Rep, Dr. Farrago has expanded this initial vignette, giving the reader a unique look into how drug reps lived, worked and "sold" their products in their heyday. The intent of this book is not to belittle this profession, but rather to understand it and, ok yes, laugh at it a little. Diary of a Drug Rep will give readers insight into a very peculiar profession that affects us all more than we even know. "I loved this book. The best way to process some of the crazy things that happened, and continue to happen, in healthcare is to laugh - otherwise we just might have to cry. Diary of a Drug Rep had me howling at times and thinking "that's funny cuz it's true," and you just may learn some truths about life and business too." ZDoggMD (Zubin Damania MD), writer, medical parody singer
The Pain Chronicles
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Author : Melanie Thernstrom
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2010-08-17
The Pain Chronicles written by Melanie Thernstrom and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with Medical categories.
Each of us will know physical pain in our lives, but none of us knows when it will come or how long it will stay. Today as much as 10 percent of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain. It is more widespread, misdiagnosed, and undertreated than any major disease. While recent research has shown that pain produces pathological changes to the brain and spinal cord, many doctors and patients still labor under misguided cultural notions and outdated scientific dogmas that prevent proper treatment, to devastating effect. In The Pain Chronicles, a singular and deeply humane work, Melanie Thernstrom traces conceptions of pain throughout the ages—from ancient Babylonian pain-banishing spells to modern brain imaging—to reveal the elusive, mysterious nature of pain itself. Interweaving first-person reflections on her own battle with chronic pain, incisive reportage from leading-edge pain clinics and medical research, and insights from a wide range of disciplines—science, history, religion, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and art—Thernstrom shows that when dealing with pain we are neither as advanced as we imagine nor as helpless as we may fear. Both a personal meditation and an intellectual exploration, The Pain Chronicles illuminates and makes sense of the all-too-human experience of pain—and confronts with extraordinary grace and empathy its peculiar traits, its harrowing effects, and its various antidotes.
Placebo
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Author : Dylan Evans
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2004
Placebo written by Dylan Evans and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Health & Fitness categories.
Can we really cure ourselves of disease by the power of thought alone? Faith healers and alternative therapists are convinced that we can, but what does science say? Contrary to public perception, orthodox medical opinion is remarkably confident about the healing powers of the mind. For the past fifty years, doctors have been taught that placebos such as sugar pills and water injections can relieve virtually any kind of medical condition. Yet placebos only work if you believe they work, so the medical confidence in the power of the placebo effect has provided scientific legitimacy to popular claims about the healing power of the mind. In this intriguing exploration, Dylan Evans exposes the flaws in the scientific research into the placebo effect and reveals the limits of what can and cannot be cured by thought alone. Drawing on new ideas in immunology and evolutionary biology, Evans proposes a new theory about how placebos work, and asks some searching questions about our concepts of health and disease
The Placebo Effect
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Placebo Effect written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Placebos (Medicine) categories.
Beginning with a review of the role of placebos in the history of medicine, this book investigates the current surge of interest in placebos, and probes the methodological difficulties of saying scientifically just what placebos can and cannot do.
The Marilyn Chronicles One Man S Effort To Become A More Understanding Dementia Care Giver For His Wife
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Author : Dr. Allen R. Remaley
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2023-01-26
The Marilyn Chronicles One Man S Effort To Become A More Understanding Dementia Care Giver For His Wife written by Dr. Allen R. Remaley and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-26 with Health & Fitness categories.
The Marilyn Chronicles was written for one single person, the love of my life. She, this woman whom I married sixty-three years ago, is now suffering from late-stage dementia, and I am her care giver. In an effort to better understand the disease and what it is doing to my wife, I have researched, documented and built in advice to anyone who might become involved in the preservation of dignity and passion which remains in the mind of the person afflicted with the disease. The portrayal of the inevitable march toward finality is a literary approach done as a tender tribute to a remarkable woman, and its message serves as a beacon to those who want to understand and care for the person afflicted with the insidious disease called dementia. This book is my love story.
Placebo
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Placebo written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
The Powerful Placebo
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Author : Arthur K. Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2000-10-17
The Powerful Placebo written by Arthur K. Shapiro and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-17 with Medical categories.
"The Powerful Placebo" discusses the placebo effect over the centuries, reminding the reader how complex the issue is, from the very definition of a placebo and the success of dubious or fraudulent remedies to the modern worship of placebos as controls in clinical trials. The authors assert that "until recently, the history of medical treatment was essentially the history of placebo effect".
The Official Guide To Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice
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Author : Debra Farrago M. Ed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-30
The Official Guide To Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice written by Debra Farrago M. Ed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Medical categories.
Douglas Farrago MD uses the insights he has learned from twenty years of being a family physician, his vast connection to DPC docs from around the country and his own odyssey into Direct Primary Care that he used to create an incredibly successful practice in the central Virginia area. He teaches you the secrets you need to know to fill your practice as well as laying the groundwork into making your office great so patients are clamoring to get in.