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If you have to have an operation you may have no choice about it. But most surgery is "elective" meaning you chose to have it. Often there is apprehension, sometimes fear amounting to a level of terror. In the opinion of the author, an experienced surgeon, fear can be greatly reduced if the patient knows what to expect, and can understand the processes passed through on the way to the actual operation, and what might be expected after the ope...

Canada began a health system from the time the first settlers arrived. The systems have changed. They continue to change and perhaps continued change is inevitable and perpetual. The one element that all agree about, a system of health care for all is part of the national character and will not be abandoned.

History of formation and known activities of SEAL Team 6, later known as DEVGRU, describing formation, criteria for admission, training, activities in hostage rescue, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Grenada, Somalia, and the killing of bin Laden.

Description of the most up-to-date surgical treatments of eye conditions

Description of indications and techniques employed in cosmetic surgery of the eyelids, nose, face, neck, breast, and abdomen

The background to the problems that faced Lothario as he became Pope Innocent III, including the issues of simony, the investiture controversy, the power of earthly kings, the Holy Roman Empire, crusade, and landlord of a large part of Italy.

Describes the life of St Benedict, with the description of his Life by Saint Gregory, the poem of Mark and the Rule of Benedict. The origins and development of monasticism are outlined and the legacy of Benedict discussed.

In an effort to present an objective overview of the fibromyalgia situation in North America, Dr. Hall offers six fictional, though factually based, case studies of typical patients and describes the varying investigations, diagnoses, and treatments they have undergone.

A young female student of anatomy, Lam, on her first day in the dissection room, encounters a cadaver of a young woman which for administrative reasons is taken away. Several months later she is given a head to dissect, and recognises who must have been the head's former owner. Initial interest is purely anthropological, but soon becomes forensic when the possibility of unnatural death is raised. The police do not follow this through, and Lam ...

The history of the Crimea is recounted, from its earliest known settlements, through the many invasions it has experienced over 2000 years, to the present time when the world awaits the outcome of the return of the Crimea to Russia.

Description of the personal history and exploits of the individuals who led, recorded or were otherwise notable in the First Crusade, the only crusade that succeeded in capturing Jerusalem.

Martin, surgeon on the tournament circuit at the end of the twelth century becomes surgeon to the leaders of the Fourth Crusade which was diverted by the Doge of Venice away from their intention of taking Jerusalem from the Muslims to taking Constantinople from other Christians. Apalled at what has been done, Martin seeks to make amends.

An injured derelict receives inadequate attention and dies in Milltown Hospital. He's found to be a Federal agent The hospital will be forced to close unless their emergency surgical care is improved. Trauma surgeon, Simeon Macdonald, joins their staff. He performs a life-saving, damage control operation in the Emergency Department on a severely injured truck driver but is crudely criticized by the chief of surgery. The trucker recovers and th...

The author describes the difficulties experienced in working in the University of Hue, Central Viet Nam, in the period shortly before the Tet offensive.

Born and raised in the City of London, Martin is devastated when his adored older brother is reported killed in the Second Crusade. Determined his brother Geoffrey cannot be dead, Martin while waiting for an opportunity to follow him to the Holy Land, trains to be a cleric at Oxford. When the Third Crusade is called Martin joins King Richard the Lion Heart, to liberate Jerusalem and to search for his brother.