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From  NEW! Part 1: Finding My Place in LifeFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In Part 1 the author detailed his early life growing up in Iran, his family life, and his path to becoming a psychologist. The author also discussed stories and observations from throughout his … | Hassan Khalili | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From NEW! Part 2: Jackasses, Brain Farts, And a Magic ScrewdriverFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In Part 2 the author discussed the lessons he has learned and insight he has gained from his career as a psychologist. Topics in this part included finding psychological treatments that help … | Hassan Khalili | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From NEW! Part 3: Tune-Ups For RelationshipsFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In part 3 the author provided guidance for navigating our friendships, relationships, peer dynamics, and work partnerships in a healthy and fulfilling way. The topics in this part included … | Hassan Khalili | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From NEW! Part 4: Contentment CakeFrom: A Life Spent Listening |
In part 4 the author introduced his concept of the Contentment Cake and his criteria for being content in life. Topics included in this part are techniques for developing positive self esteem, … | Hassan Khalili | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From  Part Four-Cambie Goes to Court: The Pre-trial Era 2009 to 2016 |
In this chapter, Day traces the multi-year legal battle over private surgical care in British Columbia, from the 2009 filing through the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2023 refusal to hear the appeal. | Brian Day | 162 | 2024 | $16.20 Add |
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From Part One-Promoting Truth |
In this chapter, Day presents a forceful critique of Canada’s public healthcare system, tracing its decline from the 1980s to a 2022 British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling. | Brian Day | 79 | 2024 | $7.90 Add |
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From  Peace by the River – Christian McEachern and the Canadian Veteran Adventure FoundationFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading discusses … | Stephanie Westlund | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  People Are Dying for a HomeFrom: Medicare |
Examines how the fight for housing must be included in the fight for basic health care because as long as homelessness exists there will always be a two-tiered system | Cathy Crowe | 5 | 2007 | $0.50 Add |
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From Pharmacare:Equity, Efficiency, and Effectiveness — We’ve Waited Long Enough. From: Medicare |
Analyzes the debate about pharmacare by noting the similarity between how we fund perscription drugs and the way America funds their entire health care system and notes our rejection of this … | Joel Lexchin | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Physician Addiction in CanadaStakeholders, Services and Determinants From: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Derek Puddester | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
 Pilgrim SoulsCaring for a Loved One with Dementia |
This memoir focuses on an experience all of us dread. Pat Lotz was an accomplished author and editor, active in her community, and a loving wife and mother. She succumbed to dementia which was … | 224 | View | ||
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From Pixie Dust and Everlasting PlayFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol and Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors … | Kathryn Eve | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From Poverty and Health:Implications for Health and Quality of Life From: Medicare |
Analyzes the relationship between poverty and health and how this has been missing from the health discussions by the policy makers | Dennis Raphael | 16 | 2007 | $1.60 Add |
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From PrefaceFrom: Medicare |
Gives a definition of Medicare so as to pinpoint the difference between the term in Canada and the US, a brief history of Medicare in Canada, outlines the conference in 2007 that led to this book. | Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Prescription HeroinFrom: Fighting For Space |
The Downtown Eastside had accomplished a lot as a community. In 2004, Dr. Martin Schechter had secured funding to launch a heroin-maintenance program out of a small clinic in the Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 29 | 2017 | $0.58 Add |
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From Prescription Limits Driving Some Patients to Street DrugsFrom: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Amanda Preffer | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
