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2021.
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For centuries, the women in Ninon Moise's family have been afflicted by obscure, inexplicable medical phenomena. Seventeen-year-old Ninon is no exception to this bizarre family inheritance, and she wakes one morning with a debilitating and excruciatingly painful response to touch on her arms. Unlike her forebears, Ninon refuses to passively accept her cursed fate and rebels against the indifferent medical professionals who dismiss her condition as...
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They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.
“The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.”
–Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN
"James...
“The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.”
–Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN
"James...
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[2021]
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80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Young people who are in interested in health care can select from an incredible array of careers. They may work as dental assistants, doctors, or dieticians. Or they may lean toward exercise physiology, speech pathology, massage therapy, or medical transcription. With such promising growth potential, a mind-boggling array of job choices, and large variations in required education, health care offers tremendous potential for the future"--
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Women's Murder Club volume 5
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It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical...
7) Life flight
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Extreme measures volume 1
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EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a mountain in a raging storm with a critical patient-- and a serial killer on the loose-- tests her skills and her nerve to the limit. She survives with FBI Special Agent Holt Satterfield's help... but she's not out of the woods yet. In the ensuing days Penny finds herself under attack-- and news reaches Holt that he may not have gotten his man after...
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"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
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2021.
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vii, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
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"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, #1 bestselling coauthors of Walk in My Combat Boots, powerfully present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. Nurses. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From...
10) ER: Season 5
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[2006]
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6 videodiscs (977 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In its fifth season, third-year med student Lucy Knight joins the team in the ER and kindles a relationship with Dr. Carter. Dr. Green watches helplessly as his family is torn apart, and Dr. Ross leaves the ER for a new job.
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2021.
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288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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An articulate, compelling history of American battlefield medics. From Lexington and Concord to Afghanistan to the fight against Covid-19, America's frontline medical teams have braved arrows, bombs, bullets, and potentially fatal disease to do their job. They have always gone the extra mile to be there for others, and if need be, sacrifice their own lives. These are their stories related in gruesome detail. Read preferably after dinner.
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[2017]
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xiii, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
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The Institute of Medicine released a landmark report, which revealed that as many as 250,000 Americans die every year as a result of medical error. In Malpractice, neurosurgeon and attorney Dr. Lawrence Schlachter makes a case that most patients enter the system without any idea of the risks they face, due to a medical culture that denies there is a patient safety problem. He argues that medical culture actively avoids transparency, perpetuates an...
13) Emergency rescue
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2016.
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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What's your emergency? From flashing lights and blaring sirens to K-9 units and EMTs, emergency services have vital roles in saving lives. Find out what it takes to respond to an emergency in Emergency Rescue. Learn police officers' secret radio code, look at a firefighter's daily schedule, and hear what emergency dispatchers say on the phone. Make sure you are prepared for an emergency and that you know who to call! Emergency Rescue shows how hard...
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[2005]
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419 pages ; 21 cm.
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"In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters. But within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women were emaciated shadows of their former selves, waiting for death. They were not the first victims of Linda...
15) Battle circus
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c2012
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Major Jed Webbe is a brilliant, hard-bitten Army surgeon with a weakness for women and strong liquor. Fresh from the states arrives Lt. Ruth McCara, a naive young nurse ready to save the world. The story of their love and heroism, told against the grimly realistic background of pounding artillery and deadly ambushes, forms the core of the film.
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[2020]
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
17) Hacksaw Ridge
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2017.
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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During the bloodiest battle of WWII, in Okinawa, Desmond Doss saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss...
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The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald. As A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of the battlefield, Battle Ready dramatically immerses the listener in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic...
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