If you are one of the 45 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, you've most likely seen numerous doctors and tried a wide range of medicines and treatments, only to alleviate your pain. You've probably come to believe that there's nothing to be done and that your chronic pain, is, well, chronic. Now, in a groundbreaking contribution, Dr. Scott Fishman introduces an interdisciplinary pain-management approach that integrates traditional and alternative techniques including pharmcology, neuroscience, experimental precedures and mind-body medicine. For anyone who suffers from chronic pain conditions such as back pain, post-surgical pain, migraines, and arthritis, The War on Pain, with the latest research personal stories of patients, and the wise and compassionate advice of a leading pain expert, is a patient's best defense.
This book shows how communicating better with patients about their pain can help clinicians create safer and more effective treatment strategies. This book offer clinicians a wealth of pratical guidance about asking the right questions and assessing patient responses.
This third edition of Essentials of Pain Medicine offers an accessible and concise, yet complete, overview of today's theory and practice of pain medicine and regional anesthesia. From a review of basic considerations through local anesthetics and nerve block techniques, this book provides the reader with an excellent tool for exam review or practice of Pain Management. Organized in a concise, practical quick-reference format. All chapters are brief and easy to read quickly. Offers specific strategies for the evaluation and management of a full range of pain syndromes, including cancer pain. Features over 230 diagrams, illustrations, summary charts and tables that clarify the information and make it easy to apply. Discusses the latest drugs and therapeutic approaches, such as acupuncture. Presents the management of pain for every setting where it is practiced, including the emergency room, the critical care unit, and the pain clinic. Includes new topics such as: imaging in pain medicine, radiation safety, issues associated with the use of narcotics, intraarticular and intraperitoneal use of opioids, pain management in the emergency room and in the intensive care unit, pain management issues during pregnancy, geriatric pain, and hospice care and end-of-life issues. New chapters on interventional procedures include discography, intradiscal electrothermal coagulation (IDET), vertebroplasty, and piriformis injections. Truncal blocks and neuraxial blocks and anticoagulants are added to the section on nerve blocks.
Preserving the Promise: Improving the Culture of Biotech Investment critically examines why most biotech startups fail, as they emerge from universities into an ecosystem that inhibits rather than encourages innovation. This "Valley of Death" squanders our public investments in medical research and with them, the promise of longer and healthier lives. The authors explicate the Translation Gap faced by early stage biotech companies, the result of problematic technology transfer and investment practices, and provide specific prescriptions for improving translation of important discoveries into safe and effective therapies. In Preserving the Promise, Dessain and Fishman build on their collective experience as company founders, healthcare investor (Fishman) and physician/scientist (Dessain). The book offers a forward-looking, critical analysis of "conventional wisdom" that encumbers commercialization practices. It exposes the self-defeating habits of drug development in the Valley of Death, that waste money and extinguish innovative technologies through distorted financial incentives. Explains why translation of biotech discovery into medicine succeeds so infrequently that it’s been dubbed the Valley of Death Uncovers specific decision-making strategies that more effectively align incentives, improving clinical and financial outcomes for investors, inventor/entrepreneurs, and patients Examines the critical, early stages of commercialization, where technology transfer offices and Angels act as gatekeepers to development, and where tension between short-term financial and long-term clinical aspirations sinks important technologies Deconstructs the forces driving biotech, recasts them in a proven conceptual framework, and offers practical guidance for making the system better
It's time you got out of your own way and found sales success! Scott Fishman's Sell Smarter Collection is full of tactical insights designed to augment your sales skill-set and increase your earning potential. All three of the included books contain battle-tested advice collected from Scott's decades as a top sales professional. Each chapter shows you how to approach the sale conscientiously while still maintaining your integrity and reputation. You don't have to have an inflated ego to inflate your pipeline. In Sell Smarter: Seven Simple Strategies For Sales Success, you get seven results-oriented tactics each with its own challenging and fun homework assignment. Each assignment is specially designed to get you on the path to acquiring more customers and increasing your bottom line in a matter of minutes. Next, you get Sell Even Smarter: Seven More Simple Strategies For Sales Success, which turns up the heat and takes you to the next level with homework assignments geared toward getting you to think more like a business owner and keeping your eye on the bottom line. Last, but not least, you get Sell Smartest: Optimize Your Mindset For Sales Success. Mindset is key, and Scott shows you how to get your mind right so you can keep your sales game tight. The Sell Smarter Collection will take your sales game to the next level. Are you ready? Read The Sell Smarter Collection now.
Spinal cord stimulators (SCS) are implantable medical devices used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin, such as sciatica, intractable back pain, and diabetic. The device generates an electric pulse near the spinal cord's dorsal surface, providing a parasthesia sensation that alters the perception of pain by the patient, and is typically used in conjunction with conventional medical management. Spinal cord stimulators (SCS) are implantable medical devices used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin, such as sciatica, intractable back pain, and diabetic. The device generates an electric pulse near the spinal cord's dorsal surface, providing a parasthesia sensation that alters the perception of pain by the patient, and is typically used in conjunction with conventional medical management.
Spinal cord stimulators (SCS) are implantable medical devices used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin, such as sciatica, intractable back pain, and diabetic. The device generates an electric pulse near the spinal cord's dorsal surface, providing a parasthesia sensation that alters the perception of pain by the patient, and is typically used in conjunction with conventional medical management. Spinal cord stimulators (SCS) are implantable medical devices used to treat chronic pain of neurologic origin, such as sciatica, intractable back pain, and diabetic. The device generates an electric pulse near the spinal cord's dorsal surface, providing a parasthesia sensation that alters the perception of pain by the patient, and is typically used in conjunction with conventional medical management.
Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN) is one of the two most common neuropathic pain disorders (the other is diabetic neuropathy), which in turn is a common type of chronic pain syndrome. The prevalence of neuropathic pain in the United States has been estimated at almost 3.8 million and PHN may account for as many as one million in these cases. PHN is a chronic pain disorder associated wtih skin eruptions due to the varicella zoster virus (VZV), known as shingles or zoster, usually occurring in adults. The primary infection with the VZV, mostly in childhood, produces chicken pox (varicella). Following the initial infection, the virus remains latent in the body until it is reactivated, producing the shingles rash. Shingles is characterized by painful, grouped skin lesions, most commonly on the trunk or face. The eruption is the most distinctive feature, but frequently, the most debilitating symptom is pain. Once the acute phase and its usual rash have healed, lingering or new onset pain can occur and is referred to as postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). Although the duration of pain symptoms in PHN generally does not exceed three months, a significant proportion of patients (up to 20% of those with PHN over the age of 50, and up to 50% in those over age 70) develop chronic pain lasting more than one year. In some patients, the pain may persist indefinitely, if not properly treated. Damage from the VZV can lead to persistent severe neuralgia, facial, or other nerve paralysis, blindness or other visual impairments, and encephalitis. The impact of pain on quality of life may be severe with chronic fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, physical inactivity, insomnia, and depression. Part of the new Oxford American Pocket Notes series, this ultra concise guide presents a brief overview of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of postherpetic neuralgia. Uniquely compact and affordable, the guide covers the use of antivirals and vaccines in preventing PHN, as well as treatment options once PHN occurs, including both pharmacological (oral, parenteral, and topical agents) and non-pharmacological therapies. In addition, the book provides actual pain assessment tools, such as the Short-Form McGill Questionnaire, and the Zoter Brief Pain Inventory, ready for practical use in the clinical setting.
If you are one of the 45 million Americans suffering from chronic pain, you've most likely seen numerous doctors and tried a wide range of medicines and treatments, only to alleviate your pain. You've probably come to believe that there's nothing to be done and that your chronic pain, is, well, chronic. Now, in a groundbreaking contribution, Dr. Scott Fishman introduces an interdisciplinary pain-management approach that integrates traditional and alternative techniques including pharmcology, neuroscience, experimental precedures and mind-body medicine. For anyone who suffers from chronic pain conditions such as back pain, post-surgical pain, migraines, and arthritis, The War on Pain, with the latest research personal stories of patients, and the wise and compassionate advice of a leading pain expert, is a patient's best defense.
This book offers a timely analysis of work and labor processes and how they are rapidly changing under globalization. The contributors explore traditional sectors of the U.S. and world economies—from auto to steel to agriculture—as well as work under new production arrangements, such as third world export processing zones. They explain why more intensified forms of control by the state and by capital interests are emerging under globalization. Yet they also emphasize new possibilities for labor, including new forms of organizing and power sharing in a rapidly changing economy.
Now in its Fourth Edition, with a brand-new editorial team, Bonica's Management of Pain will be the leading textbook and clinical reference in the field of pain medicine. An international group of the foremost experts provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented coverage of the entire field. The contributors describe contemporary clinical practice and summarize the evidence that guides clinical practice. Major sections cover basic considerations; economic, political, legal, and ethical considerations; evaluation of the patient with pain; specific painful conditions; methods for symptom.
Get out of your own way and find sales success! Do you want to be more successful in your sales career? If you are reading this, the answer to that question is obvious. Looking for help is a step in the right direction. Everybody needs a coach. From Michael Jordan to Muhammad Ali, it has been proven that having the right people in your corner can only increase your odds of finding success. That's where The 30 Minute Sales Coach comes in. You can get the coaching you need in a format that fits in your pocket! With decades of sales experience, Scott offers you simple-to-follow advice in bite-sized portions. Each clearly written chapter provides easily implemented strategies and exercises designed to take no more than half an hour each. Whether you are new to the sales game or a wily veteran, The 30 Minute Sales Coach answers these questions and more... Who is the biggest enemy to your success? How is the sales process analogous to dating? What are the biggest mistakes we all make as sales professionals? How is your goal setting hindering your success? This is not an in-your-face Boiler Room, pound a Red Bull and chest bump sales book. The techniques and strategies Scott employs will show you how to succeed in your sales career without alienating your clients. He shows you how to cultivate a mutually beneficial business relationship with your customers that will pay dividends. Scott breaks it down in layman's terms without resorting to hiding behind industry jargon. If you are: New to sales An experienced salesperson that has fallen into a slump A grizzled vet that just needs to get back to basics Sitting on top but want to get a leg up on the competition This book is for you! As a sales professional, you can't afford to not buy this book. You are losing money if you do not click BUY "We've all heard the one about the guy who could sell ice cubes to an Eskimo. Scott sold that guy the recipe!" - Jon D. from The Seven Minute Sales Minute podcast
Hannity is not afraid to be an alarmist about repelling the specter of what he calls the “Leftist Juggernaut.” Lurking in the shadows of a sinister and diabolical Deep State, this Juggernaut is not only out to stomp into oblivion President Trump, but also all Conservatives and the freedom they love. That Juggernaut beast is radical socialism. The same Conservatives elected Trump to fight this Juggernaut and drain the swamp after eight years of a corrupt and damaging anti-American Obama administration. Under attack from day one of his campaign, Trump--the social media warrior with a personal touch for all of his base--has fought back and wounded the beast to make it angrier. Important books demand widespread readership and understanding. Live Free or Die is one such book. Scott Campbell’s Best Seller Summary and Analysis series provides a complementary summary of main points that will help the reader to fully understand the longer book from which it was based. A Best Seller Summary and Analysis is not meant to be a substitute for its parent book. Option #1: Read a chapter or section from the parent book, and then the summary and analysis for that part. Option #2: Buy the summary and analysis book first. Make sure the parent book is for you. If it is, then dive into the parent book with a built-in framework. These techniques will help you fully understand and master the concepts and ideas and why they are important. FULL DISCLAIMER FOR BEST SELLER SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS BOOKS Best Seller Summary and books and audiobooks are unofficial and unauthorized. They are licensed for educational purposes or goals, or reading pleasure only. They are meant to serve as companion books and not intended to replace the original books.
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