How can people position themselves at the center of their healthcare teams?

What are some ways to improve communication with a doctor?

How can patients make the most out of every moment with their doctor?

How can technology improve our health?

How do we prepare in advance for a visit to the doctor?

How can we mitigate the looming doctor shortage?

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The Sound of Her Voice: My Blind Parents’ Story is the inspiring chronicle of a remarkable couple, who against all odds, lived full and productive lives. Mario became the first blind graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and was later elected Judge of two different county courts in Muncie, Indiana. Jane ran the household and raised four children without outside assistance.

Their story is told by their youngest child, Mary Pieroni Harper, who used extensive archival material including hundreds of press clippings and photos, interviews with them recorded on audio and video tapes, and her own recollections of having parents whom she could see but only knew her by touch and sound.

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As a Mompreneur with a super-sized family, Christa Tharp has has been frequently asked, “How do you do it all?” Often called a Superwoman and always feeling like that was a title she could never live up to. The Superwoman Complex is killing woman at a fast rate and Christa says we have to do something about it now before we pass it on to the next generation of women. It became clear over the past 10 years that women are completely sacrificing themselves in order to be caregivers for everyone else. That leaves them exhausted and susceptible to getting ill from stress. In fact, this has become so widespread and normalized, that women don’t even know how sick they really are. They just buck it up and always put themselves last. No more! It is time for women to wake up and realize they NEED to put themselves first, do self-care, love themselves and get healthy for those who love them. So, Christa decided it is time to come out and answer the question of “How do I do it?” with raw and transparent honesty in hopes it will shake her fellow females out of their zombie-like states and show them they can live their Blyss and live it unapologetically.

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We live in a culture where the first question you're usually asked at an event is, "Red or white?"

Carrie Bradshaw and her rounds of cosmopolitans and Bridget Jones with her glasses of chardonnay; female drinkers are funny. They suffer through hangovers, swear they are going to cut back but and then renege.But many women find that their drinking isn’t funny at all.  In the U.S. and Western Europe, growing numbers of women struggle with alcoholism; in some places, women's rates of alcohol abuse have achieved parity with men's. Ann Dowsett Johnston, the author of Drink, the Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, will be talking about what's driving the increase in female binge drinking and alcoholism. She is going to share with us what she's learned, from research and from her own alcoholism, about advertising, addiction and the challenges facing women who seek treatment. Ann is the winner of five National Magazine Awards, she previously investigated the connection between women and alcohol in a 14-part series she wrote for The Toronto Star.

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Acclaimed family therapist and author of the classic bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? presents a comprehensive and actionable guide to understanding and healing from narcissistic family abuse.

A pioneer on the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse, Karyl McBride, PhD, has the answer for anyone desperate for help in overcoming the damage of being raised in a family headed by a narcissistic parent.

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      Dr Karyl McBride - dr. karyl mcBride

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For the first time ever, one of the former president’s lovers tells her story. It’s an old story. Really old: young woman, Great Man. Predictable outcome: heartbreak for her, no consequences for him. But wait … there’s a twist. He dies, abruptly, although he lives on in song and story, in history and in her story. “She”—her, just plain lives on. Flattened at first, marked by an invisible hoofprint seared into her being, but then reconfiguring and gathering speed toward an unexpected life.

More than 60 years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Diana De Vegh, an 84-year-old New York psychotherapist has broken her silence on an alleged love affair between the two. According to Diana, Kennedy courted her when she was a 20-year-old student at Radcliffe. The pair continued their affair for 4 years. It ended a year before his assassination. She chose to go public now to help other women who are engrossed in relationships where she feels there are unequal power dynamics. She says, “The whole idea of conferred specialness—‘You go to bed with me, I’ll make you special’, we have seen a lot of that with Harvey Weinstein, and Roger Ailes.

Author of "This is Assisted Dying", Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016.  Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes the extraordinary people she meets and the unusual circumstances she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of these powerful interactions.

      

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Ellie Shefi is the very definition of tenacious. Having overcome a lifetime of adversity, including abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, cancer, and a myriad of other health issues that have seen her defy the doctors’ death deadlines for over two decades, Ellie has mastered mindset, resiliency, and resourcefulness, and she has dedicated her life to the empowerment of others.