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82) Her fear
Author
Series
Amish of Hart County volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sadie Detweiler is a pregnant, unmarried Amish girl banished to Kentucky by unforgiving parents. She's living with kin she barely knows, and elderly matriarch Verba becomes mysteriously ill shortly after Sadie moves in. When EMT Noah Freeman arrives Sadie is drawn to him, but has little hope he will reciprocate her feelings once he learns she's with child. Noah senses Sadie is terrified of something, and they strike up a friendship. When Verba dies...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong -- with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. Groopman explores why...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
383 pages
Language
English
Description
Almost all health research is still performed on men, meaning thousands of treatments and diagnoses are designed for male bodies only. Meanwhile, women feel dismissed at the doctor's office, their concerns seen as false or exaggerated. Doctors who do focus on women's health are penalized financially, as procedures performed on men pay more.
These are just a few of the alarming facts revealed in this remarkable debut from acclaimed Guardian reporter...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.
86) Medicare
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Medicare brings valuable benefits to more than 58 million people and growing, but most of us don't even know the basics of how Medicare can work best for us. That's where Medicare For Dummies, 4th Edition comes in, explaining how this complex system functions and helping you confidently navigate your way through the maze to get the most out of your coverage. This indispensable resource untangles Medicare in friendly, straightforward language. Step...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the first comprehensive account of the health care workers who have been at the forefront of our fight against COVID-19. In fact, America's economy and politics have been, for years, increasingly defined by the growth of the healthcare industry, yet we have lacked convincing accounts of its rise and make-up. Winant delivers an incisive investigation of this new world"--
Author
Series
Grant County volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sara, a medical examiner, is called out to an apparent suicide on the college campus. The body provides little in the way of clues - and the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal - but for Sara and the police chief, things don't add up.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From one of the worldś greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms. Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and dispassion and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski still believes in "the good we can be if we so choose." His chosen medium for revealing this is stories from his own experience--a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 16
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
500 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospitalś psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk--and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1991
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor. Told through fifteen patient vignettes, and drawn from the author's decades of experience in Portland, Oregon, this revealing memoir illuminates the impact of poverty on the delivery of health services and the ways in which people adapt and survive (or don't survive) in conditions of abuse and deprivation. Kullberg's stories show the direct and...
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 9
Language
English
Description
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!
Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants
...Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina -- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous...
Publisher
distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines critical health care issues facing America today, including patient safety, medical and medication errors, hospital-acquired infections, family-centered care and the effective management of chronic disease. The program focuses on the advances being made in improving the quality of patient care and features profiles of providers and patients who are working together to change the way health care is provided in the United States.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers.
100) Honor thy symbionts
Author
Publisher
Human Food Project
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
vi, 139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
To paraphrase famed biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, “nothing in nutrition and health makes sense except in the light of the gut microbiome.” In Honor Thy Symbionts, the lens of our evolutionary past is focused on modern issues of obesity, GMO foods, diabetes, the rise in C-section births, ecology of our gut microbes, our African microbial origins, government dietary recommendations, probiotics vs. prebiotics, food poisoning, and more. This collection...
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