Author: Billie
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148369822X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The time setting of this story is the end of October and through most of November of 2008. This was the year Obama was elected President, and the year that right down the highway from San Angelo, TX, the raid on the compound of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Sect occurred. The raid occurred because of their bigamy practices, and male member marriages to under aged girls. These actions and practices were not acceptable to the locals of this area. In 2008 many attempts to extradite Warren Jeffs for trial for being the polygamous sect leader of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, TX dominated the local Headlines. That compound being raided was the main topic of conversation in San Angelo, because Texas, which is considered part of the Bible belt, did not graciously accept the fact that he had 77 wives, and these wives were married to him when they were minor girls of 12 or 14 years of age. During this time period my friend and I worked in the home healthcare business in San Angelo. This job was tending to the needs of the elderly and other patients needing special care. All patients, mentioned in this story, health problems, locations, incidents, and time settings have been scrambled to protect the patients privacy. Of course no real names are used. We began writing this story in hopes of bringing a better understanding to the public of the care of the elderly and other individuals whom require special attention. As the story progressed, due to patients and Caregivers lives blending, a need arose to write about problems and/or incidents involving Witchcraft, Alcoholics, and the Mentally Challenged. The story further blossomed into turning to Biblical scriptures in seeking to calm and/or help soften some patients delicate emotions. After reading this novel we hope you have a better insight as to what Without Delusion really means!
Without Delusion
Author: Billie
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148369822X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The time setting of this story is the end of October and through most of November of 2008. This was the year Obama was elected President, and the year that right down the highway from San Angelo, TX, the raid on the compound of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Sect occurred. The raid occurred because of their bigamy practices, and male member marriages to under aged girls. These actions and practices were not acceptable to the locals of this area. In 2008 many attempts to extradite Warren Jeffs for trial for being the polygamous sect leader of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, TX dominated the local Headlines. That compound being raided was the main topic of conversation in San Angelo, because Texas, which is considered part of the Bible belt, did not graciously accept the fact that he had 77 wives, and these wives were married to him when they were minor girls of 12 or 14 years of age. During this time period my friend and I worked in the home healthcare business in San Angelo. This job was tending to the needs of the elderly and other patients needing special care. All patients, mentioned in this story, health problems, locations, incidents, and time settings have been scrambled to protect the patients privacy. Of course no real names are used. We began writing this story in hopes of bringing a better understanding to the public of the care of the elderly and other individuals whom require special attention. As the story progressed, due to patients and Caregivers lives blending, a need arose to write about problems and/or incidents involving Witchcraft, Alcoholics, and the Mentally Challenged. The story further blossomed into turning to Biblical scriptures in seeking to calm and/or help soften some patients delicate emotions. After reading this novel we hope you have a better insight as to what Without Delusion really means!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 148369822X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The time setting of this story is the end of October and through most of November of 2008. This was the year Obama was elected President, and the year that right down the highway from San Angelo, TX, the raid on the compound of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Sect occurred. The raid occurred because of their bigamy practices, and male member marriages to under aged girls. These actions and practices were not acceptable to the locals of this area. In 2008 many attempts to extradite Warren Jeffs for trial for being the polygamous sect leader of the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, TX dominated the local Headlines. That compound being raided was the main topic of conversation in San Angelo, because Texas, which is considered part of the Bible belt, did not graciously accept the fact that he had 77 wives, and these wives were married to him when they were minor girls of 12 or 14 years of age. During this time period my friend and I worked in the home healthcare business in San Angelo. This job was tending to the needs of the elderly and other patients needing special care. All patients, mentioned in this story, health problems, locations, incidents, and time settings have been scrambled to protect the patients privacy. Of course no real names are used. We began writing this story in hopes of bringing a better understanding to the public of the care of the elderly and other individuals whom require special attention. As the story progressed, due to patients and Caregivers lives blending, a need arose to write about problems and/or incidents involving Witchcraft, Alcoholics, and the Mentally Challenged. The story further blossomed into turning to Biblical scriptures in seeking to calm and/or help soften some patients delicate emotions. After reading this novel we hope you have a better insight as to what Without Delusion really means!
Case No. ________
Author: Lance Wheeler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781797700113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Don't spend time flipping through pages in a blank notebook. Show up to clinics prepared with a veterinary patient organizer! "Case No. ________" is a notebook designed for the small animal veterinarian or veterinary nurse with a heavy case load. It will keep your patient data organized and easy to reference. It will serve as a foundation for performing a thorough and consistent history and physical exam. It will provide normal reference values for those critical physical examination findings. This notebook holds a total of 52 templates: 43 complete history and physical exam templates, 3 orthopedic exam templates, 3 neurology exam templates, and 3 ophthalmology exam templates. Each patient is given 4 pages (2 pages front and back), which are oriented side by side for convenient viewing and include signalment, history, physical exam, problem list, diagnostic plan, treatment plan, and extra space for notes. This standard edition notebook is 8.5×11 inches. Advantages of this standard edition notebook compared to the pocket edition notebook include: larger (11 pt) font throughout the history and physical exam templates, larger page margins for note taking, and an overall greater area of space for note taking. Considering a veterinarian's most useful diagnostics are a thorough history and physical examination, 4 pages (2 pages front and back) is an appropriate number of pages to dedicate to each patient. While on clinics, the standard edition notebook is this author's format of choice. Thank you for your interest and happy doctoring!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781797700113
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Don't spend time flipping through pages in a blank notebook. Show up to clinics prepared with a veterinary patient organizer! "Case No. ________" is a notebook designed for the small animal veterinarian or veterinary nurse with a heavy case load. It will keep your patient data organized and easy to reference. It will serve as a foundation for performing a thorough and consistent history and physical exam. It will provide normal reference values for those critical physical examination findings. This notebook holds a total of 52 templates: 43 complete history and physical exam templates, 3 orthopedic exam templates, 3 neurology exam templates, and 3 ophthalmology exam templates. Each patient is given 4 pages (2 pages front and back), which are oriented side by side for convenient viewing and include signalment, history, physical exam, problem list, diagnostic plan, treatment plan, and extra space for notes. This standard edition notebook is 8.5×11 inches. Advantages of this standard edition notebook compared to the pocket edition notebook include: larger (11 pt) font throughout the history and physical exam templates, larger page margins for note taking, and an overall greater area of space for note taking. Considering a veterinarian's most useful diagnostics are a thorough history and physical examination, 4 pages (2 pages front and back) is an appropriate number of pages to dedicate to each patient. While on clinics, the standard edition notebook is this author's format of choice. Thank you for your interest and happy doctoring!
Challenging Operations
Author: Katherine C. Kellogg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226430014
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successful—in fact, two of the three hospitals she studied failed to make the change. Challenging Operations takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Kellogg shows the complex ways that institutional reforms spark resistance when they challenge long-standing beliefs, roles, and systems of authority. At a time when numerous policies have been enacted to address the nation’s soaring medical costs, uneven access to care, and shortage of primary-care physicians, Challenging Operations sheds new light on the difficulty of implementing reforms and offers concrete recommendations for effectively meeting that challenge.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226430014
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In 2003, in the face of errors and accidents caused by medical and surgical trainees, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education mandated a reduction in resident work hours to eighty per week. Over the course of two and a half years spent observing residents and staff surgeons trying to implement this new regulation, Katherine C. Kellogg discovered that resistance to it was both strong and successful—in fact, two of the three hospitals she studied failed to make the change. Challenging Operations takes up the apparent paradox of medical professionals resisting reforms designed to help them and their patients. Through vivid anecdotes, interviews, and incisive observation and analysis, Kellogg shows the complex ways that institutional reforms spark resistance when they challenge long-standing beliefs, roles, and systems of authority. At a time when numerous policies have been enacted to address the nation’s soaring medical costs, uneven access to care, and shortage of primary-care physicians, Challenging Operations sheds new light on the difficulty of implementing reforms and offers concrete recommendations for effectively meeting that challenge.
Murder and the Masquerade
Author: Dorothy Phaire
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595891055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Mystery, murder, and romance weave a tale around characters who are Black professionals living in today's world. Phaire writes with a style that struts from start to finish." -E. Ethelbert Miller, director, African American Resource Center, Howard University "Murder and the Masquerade, demonstrates how important it is to address your unfinished business since the only true relationship begins with yourself. This book makes the point very well. I am sure it will change the way many women think and behave in their romantic experiences." -Audrey B. Chapman, author, Seven Attitude Adjustments When Dr. Renee Hayes is suspected of involvement in a murder case, she becomes conflicted about her ethical oath as a psychologist. Torn between her professional loyalty to a patient and her young lover, who is investigating the case, Renee is forced to do whatever it takes to clear her own name and rethink her purpose in life. But the most shocking secret of all is unlocked in the end, and it will change all of their lives forever. Packed with drama and intrigue, Murder and the Masquerade opens up the details of an intense love triangle, woven around a murder plot that is anything but typical.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595891055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Mystery, murder, and romance weave a tale around characters who are Black professionals living in today's world. Phaire writes with a style that struts from start to finish." -E. Ethelbert Miller, director, African American Resource Center, Howard University "Murder and the Masquerade, demonstrates how important it is to address your unfinished business since the only true relationship begins with yourself. This book makes the point very well. I am sure it will change the way many women think and behave in their romantic experiences." -Audrey B. Chapman, author, Seven Attitude Adjustments When Dr. Renee Hayes is suspected of involvement in a murder case, she becomes conflicted about her ethical oath as a psychologist. Torn between her professional loyalty to a patient and her young lover, who is investigating the case, Renee is forced to do whatever it takes to clear her own name and rethink her purpose in life. But the most shocking secret of all is unlocked in the end, and it will change all of their lives forever. Packed with drama and intrigue, Murder and the Masquerade opens up the details of an intense love triangle, woven around a murder plot that is anything but typical.
The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309262011
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309262011
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
In 1996, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report Telemedicine: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications for Health Care. In that report, the IOM Committee on Evaluating Clinical Applications of Telemedicine found telemedicine is similar in most respects to other technologies for which better evidence of effectiveness is also being demanded. Telemedicine, however, has some special characteristics-shared with information technologies generally-that warrant particular notice from evaluators and decision makers. Since that time, attention to telehealth has continued to grow in both the public and private sectors. Peer-reviewed journals and professional societies are devoted to telehealth, the federal government provides grant funding to promote the use of telehealth, and the private technology industry continues to develop new applications for telehealth. However, barriers remain to the use of telehealth modalities, including issues related to reimbursement, licensure, workforce, and costs. Also, some areas of telehealth have developed a stronger evidence base than others. The Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) sponsored the IOM in holding a workshop in Washington, DC, on August 8-9 2012, to examine how the use of telehealth technology can fit into the U.S. health care system. HRSA asked the IOM to focus on the potential for telehealth to serve geographically isolated individuals and extend the reach of scarce resources while also emphasizing the quality and value in the delivery of health care services. This workshop summary discusses the evolution of telehealth since 1996, including the increasing role of the private sector, policies that have promoted or delayed the use of telehealth, and consumer acceptance of telehealth. The Role of Telehealth in an Evolving Health Care Environment: Workshop Summary discusses the current evidence base for telehealth, including available data and gaps in data; discuss how technological developments, including mobile telehealth, electronic intensive care units, remote monitoring, social networking, and wearable devices, in conjunction with the push for electronic health records, is changing the delivery of health care in rural and urban environments. This report also summarizes actions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can undertake to further the use of telehealth to improve health care outcomes while controlling costs in the current health care environment.
Half a Look of Cain
Author: William Goyen
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810150881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. They were the Ishbels". Chris, whose leg is injured, and his lover Stella, with whom he lives in a ruined, abandoned house; Chris's male nurse; Marvello the circus aerialist; a lighthouse keeper; a flagpole sitter in small-town America - these are the creatures of William Goyen's visionary fable of love, lust, and loneliness. Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative was written in the 1950s and early 1960s, and is now being published for the first time. Part fable and part rhapsodic exploration of desire and loss, Half a Look of Cain bears Goyen's unmistakable artistic signature on every page. Too far ahead of its time in its swirling visionary structure, this novel was rejected by Goyen's first publisher as not sufficiently commercial and remained unpublished despite extensive revisions. The novel is shaped as a group of "medallions" - a series of related episodes. It dreams of defying mortality - as if living in the air, like the aerialists or the flagpole sitter - and of finding perfect companionship in lover and friend. The novel is both a rediscovered cry against the conformity and suppressed emotions of the 1950s and a celebration of passion. Reginald Gibbons has edited the novel from the author's multiple manuscripts and has contributed an illuminating afterword.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810150881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"I was twenty when I followed away from my town a trapeze family, aerialists, a group of beautiful winged people, mother, father, son and daughter. They were the Ishbels". Chris, whose leg is injured, and his lover Stella, with whom he lives in a ruined, abandoned house; Chris's male nurse; Marvello the circus aerialist; a lighthouse keeper; a flagpole sitter in small-town America - these are the creatures of William Goyen's visionary fable of love, lust, and loneliness. Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative was written in the 1950s and early 1960s, and is now being published for the first time. Part fable and part rhapsodic exploration of desire and loss, Half a Look of Cain bears Goyen's unmistakable artistic signature on every page. Too far ahead of its time in its swirling visionary structure, this novel was rejected by Goyen's first publisher as not sufficiently commercial and remained unpublished despite extensive revisions. The novel is shaped as a group of "medallions" - a series of related episodes. It dreams of defying mortality - as if living in the air, like the aerialists or the flagpole sitter - and of finding perfect companionship in lover and friend. The novel is both a rediscovered cry against the conformity and suppressed emotions of the 1950s and a celebration of passion. Reginald Gibbons has edited the novel from the author's multiple manuscripts and has contributed an illuminating afterword.
Patient-Provider Communication
Author: Sarah W. Blackstone
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1597567957
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Patient-Provider Communication: Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists and Other Health Care Professionals presents timely information regarding effective patient-centered communication across a variety of health care settings. Speech-language pathologists, who serve the communication needs of children and adults, as well as professionals from medical and allied health fields will benefit from this valuable resource. This text is particularly relevant because of changes in health care law and policy. It focuses on value-based care, patient engagement, and positive patient experiences that produce better outcomes. Authors describe evidence-based strategies that support communication vulnerable patients, including individuals who have difficulty speaking, hearing, understanding, seeing, reading, and writing, as well as patients whose challenges reflect limited health literacy, and/or differences in language, culture, religion, sexual orientation, and so on. Topics addressed include patient-provider communication in medical education, emergency and disaster scenarios, doctor's offices and clinics, adult and pediatric acute care settings, rehabilitation, long-term residential care, and hospice/palliative care situations. The editors are recognized internationally for their work in the field of communication disorders and have been active in the area of patient-provider communication for many years. Patient-Provider Communication is a must-have resource for speech-language pathologists and other health care providers at the forefront of quality patient-centered care.
Publisher: Plural Publishing
ISBN: 1597567957
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Patient-Provider Communication: Roles for Speech-Language Pathologists and Other Health Care Professionals presents timely information regarding effective patient-centered communication across a variety of health care settings. Speech-language pathologists, who serve the communication needs of children and adults, as well as professionals from medical and allied health fields will benefit from this valuable resource. This text is particularly relevant because of changes in health care law and policy. It focuses on value-based care, patient engagement, and positive patient experiences that produce better outcomes. Authors describe evidence-based strategies that support communication vulnerable patients, including individuals who have difficulty speaking, hearing, understanding, seeing, reading, and writing, as well as patients whose challenges reflect limited health literacy, and/or differences in language, culture, religion, sexual orientation, and so on. Topics addressed include patient-provider communication in medical education, emergency and disaster scenarios, doctor's offices and clinics, adult and pediatric acute care settings, rehabilitation, long-term residential care, and hospice/palliative care situations. The editors are recognized internationally for their work in the field of communication disorders and have been active in the area of patient-provider communication for many years. Patient-Provider Communication is a must-have resource for speech-language pathologists and other health care providers at the forefront of quality patient-centered care.
Cultural Histories of Ageing
Author: Margery Vibe Skagen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000383105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Drawing on sixteenth- to twenty-first-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood. The internationally known humanistic gerontologist Jan Baars, the prominent historian of old age David Troyansky and the distinguished cultural historian and pioneer in the field of literature and science George Rousseau join a team of literary historians who trace out the interfaces between their chosen texts and the respective periods’ medical and gerontological knowledge. The chapters’ in-depth analyses of major and less-known works demonstrate the rich potential of fiction, poetry and autobiographical writing in the construction of a cultural history of senescence. These literary examples not only bear witness to longue durée representations of old age, and epochal transitions regarding cultural attitudes to the aged; they also foreground the subjectivities that produced some of these representations and that continue to communicate with readers of other times and places. By casting a net over a variety of authors, genres, periods and languages, the collection gives a broad sense of how literature is among the richest and most engaging sources for historicizing the ageing self.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000383105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Drawing on sixteenth- to twenty-first-century American, British, French, German, Polish, Norwegian and Russian literature and philosophy, this collection teases out culturally specific conceptions of old age as well as subjective constructions of late-life identity and selfhood. The internationally known humanistic gerontologist Jan Baars, the prominent historian of old age David Troyansky and the distinguished cultural historian and pioneer in the field of literature and science George Rousseau join a team of literary historians who trace out the interfaces between their chosen texts and the respective periods’ medical and gerontological knowledge. The chapters’ in-depth analyses of major and less-known works demonstrate the rich potential of fiction, poetry and autobiographical writing in the construction of a cultural history of senescence. These literary examples not only bear witness to longue durée representations of old age, and epochal transitions regarding cultural attitudes to the aged; they also foreground the subjectivities that produced some of these representations and that continue to communicate with readers of other times and places. By casting a net over a variety of authors, genres, periods and languages, the collection gives a broad sense of how literature is among the richest and most engaging sources for historicizing the ageing self.
Integrated Hospital Information Systems
Author: A. Laurence Smith
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0979723647
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0979723647
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Lifestyle Medicine
Author: Jeffrey I. Mechanick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319246879
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Lifestyle – the manner in which people live – is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease. It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that promises to enhance and strengthen a re-invigorated health care system that is still outpaced by the epidemic proportions and complexity of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and cancer, among others. Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice presents this formal approach in a pragmatic context. This unique and practical manual provides clear and succinct guidance on nearly all aspects of lifestyle medicine. The approach is both explanatory and pragmatic, providing case studies and bulleted translation of academic information into clinical practice recommendations. There is an emphasis on scientific evidence wherever possible as well as opinions by the expert chapter authors who practice lifestyle medicine. There is a “how-to” rationality to the book, consistent with a premise that any and all health care professionals should, and perhaps must, incorporate lifestyle medicine. A valuable checklist is included at the close of the book that summarizes key points and provides a practical tool for routine patient encounters.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319246879
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Lifestyle – the manner in which people live – is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease. It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that promises to enhance and strengthen a re-invigorated health care system that is still outpaced by the epidemic proportions and complexity of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and cancer, among others. Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice presents this formal approach in a pragmatic context. This unique and practical manual provides clear and succinct guidance on nearly all aspects of lifestyle medicine. The approach is both explanatory and pragmatic, providing case studies and bulleted translation of academic information into clinical practice recommendations. There is an emphasis on scientific evidence wherever possible as well as opinions by the expert chapter authors who practice lifestyle medicine. There is a “how-to” rationality to the book, consistent with a premise that any and all health care professionals should, and perhaps must, incorporate lifestyle medicine. A valuable checklist is included at the close of the book that summarizes key points and provides a practical tool for routine patient encounters.