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For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance. But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests...
3) Dr. Knox
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 25 cm
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Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors--a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls--cash only, no questions asked--on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy is...
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Two teenage boys are missing and their disappearance may be linked to a shady fertility clinic Peter Kelly and Lily Madison visited in college as penniless students. When Pete and Lily learn that one of the missing boys looks exactly like Pete, they set out to discover what really went on at the clinic all those years ago.
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Sisterhood series volume 31
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"When Alexis Thorn encounters a distraught young woman, Bella Nolan, alone in a restaurant, crying instead of eating, she offers comfort and soon uncovers a mission that will require the very particular skills of the Sisterhood. Alexis learns that the woman's husband was recently killed in action in Afghanistan. Before he reported for duty, they took steps to preserve their chances of having children. But when Bella visits the fertility clinic, she...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
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209 unnumbered pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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"A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds...
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Familia Aragón volume 7
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
141 pages ; 23 cm
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Castellanos Moya vuelve al personaje de Moronga, su anterior novela, para retratar la paranoia y el desarraigo de un emigrado por la violencia. Erasmo Aragón sufre un abrupto cambio de vida al quedarse sin trabajo tras ser falsamente acusado de abuso sexual. La tensión que este incidente genera lo lleva a enterrar sus recuerdos. Sometido por los ansiolíticos, deja atrás la persona desinhibida que fue y se transforma en un ser torturado por la...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 292 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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As the life-affirming medical drama set in India returns, Dr. Ruby Walker is still reeling following Gabriel's shock departure, and then she's dealt another blow when her father is diagnosed with cancer. Two new doctors join the Good Karma team, while Greg and Lydia's relationship is threatened by the possibility of marriage.
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Brown Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
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Alisa spends each day with her big sister, who works in a medical clinic in Honduras. She feels alone and out of place until she meets a stray cat she names Cinco. Together they become involved in the activities at the clinic and make more friends along the way.
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Film Movement
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Based on harrowing true events, SONG WITHOUT A NAME tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic - and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions - suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru...
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Shantaram volume 1
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Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.
12) Estación delirio
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Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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346 pages ; 24 cm
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Noviembre de 1984, Estación Central de Stuttgart. Anne Kahl, secretaria de una famosa clínica psiquiátrica, encabeza una caravana de mujeres que están a punto de abordar distintos trenes que las llevarán a todos los rincones de Alemania. Anne ha asumido la misión de embarcarlas y, en buena cuenta, de liberarlas. Se trata de una operación clandestina, pues ellas son pacientes muy delicadas del doctor Curtius Tauler, que las ha dado de alta tras...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (6 hrs., 24 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. He has to repay his medical intern money by serving four years as a doctor there. Upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish-out-of-water as he's instead reassigned to the tiny village of Cicely, Alaska where the offbeat locals would love for him to stay forever.
14) Starbuck
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A forty-two-year-old underachiever discovers that he has fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic and must decide whether or not to reveal his identity after 142 of them file lawsuits.
15) Barbara
Publisher
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Pub. Date
©2013.
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1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (285 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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British ex-pat Dr. Ruby Walker has left the Good Karma Hospital to practice as a GP near her family in rural India. But when a medical crisis forces her to return, Ruby must make peace with the hospital's intimidating head, Dr. Lydia Fonseca, and face her handsome but reticent colleague, Dr. Gabriel Varma. Just as Ruby feels ready to rekindle her romance with Gabriel, she is faced with the sudden arrival of his former mentor, brilliant and beautiful...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
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2 DVDs (ca. 334 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Joel is still trying to figure out a way to get out of the fine print conditions of his scholarship, but still cannot find out how to do it. Still stuck in the eccentric Alaskan town of Cicely, Joel has opened his medical office where he is treating patients and getting to know the locals.
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