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Diving straight to the core of the analytical memoir, Under the Collar: Frank Conversations about Healing that Harms, Simply Speaking is an audiobook abridgement.
The narrated articles turn those problematic interactions, goofs and outright carelessness worsening healthcare into blunt snippets of cause-and-effect.
Simply Speaking still follows the lone hospitalist voicing the dirty truths among medical providers. Openly narrated, the experiences and...
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New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they’d have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes—the glamorous precision-dancing...
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We're a nation in love with the drama of the medical world-from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William Hanson brings to life the fascinating true world of doctors and nurses and reveals the revolutionary changes that will soon be sweeping through the medical community: pharmacies that double as walk-in clinics; health services that will be delivered online; electronic records that hold the history...
4) Yours truly
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Part of your world volume 2
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"Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man--doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's 'pain in my ass' scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter. And it's a really good...
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Chronicles of Castellane volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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"In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close...
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Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
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2023.
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"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail—she hasn’t had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother’s obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she’s met someone. That...
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2020 was a year that changed life as we know it. In this collection of poetry and prose, Gooden explores her longing for more than the daily routine as she makes her way through a "once in a lifetime" world event. In the middle of turmoil, she creates magic in the mundane as she examines her life in an honest, poignant, and often irreverent way. As she reflects on life and all it encompasses, she proves there can be light even in the darkest of days....
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Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
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3 DVDs (452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This final series sees the Doc making efforts to overcome his phobia and beginning to question whether he made the right decision about resigning. He and Louisa have also welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a sister to four-year-old James Henry; includes the feature-length finale special.
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2023.
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According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female...
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"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
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Doyle and Acton mystery volume 12
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Artemis Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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294 pages ; 23 cm.
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Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle was investigating a tip she'd received about doctors who were being assaulted at a London free clinic, but, strangely enough, none of the volunteers were willing to give her a statement. Instead, her only witness offered a fanciful tale about supernatural evildoers. Which was nonsense, of course; it was clearly an attempt to shift the blame to the appropriate cultural bogeyman. Although it did seem as though there...
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Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Martin and James wait patiently to see Santa in his Grotto, Martin spots a medical concern that has him shut it down and send Santa packing-- until he's sure he isn't infectious. Louisa is determined not to let Martin ruin Christmas.
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2011]
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345 pages, 10 pages ; 21 cm.
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Verghese's marriage is unraveling. He relocates to El Paso, Texas, hoping to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. He meets David, a medical student and former tennis pro, and their matches reawaken Verghese's passion for the game. As David's life takes some disturbing turns, Verghese finds himself forced to choose between his role as friend and that of authority figure.
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Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xi, 185 pages ; 20 cm
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A young reader's adaptation of the story of the youngest American to ever orbit the Earth - cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux - who shows us all that when we face our fears with hope and faith, the extraordinary is possible. "It may be hard to believe while I'm gravity-bound on my bedroom floor, but if there's one thing I've learned in my time on Earth, it's that as long as you keep saying yes, everything is possible," says Arceneaux. In this adaptation...
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TOR Essentials
Pub. Date
2020.
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398 pages ; 21 cm
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"In a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate. A noble Byzantine mercenary . . . A female Florentine physician . . . An ageless Welsh wizard . . . And Sforza, the uncanny duke. Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester--and make him Richard III. Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction...
19) Unnatural death
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
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Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...
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Scribner
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July 2018.
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356 pages ; 24 cm
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A richly compelling and deeply moving novel that traces the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a brutal murder, the doctor who tends to him, and an elderly woman guarding her long buried past. It seems like just another night shift for Lucy, an overworked ER physician in Providence, Rhode Island, until six-year-old Ben is brought in as the sole survivor from a horrifying crime scene. He's traumatized and wordless; everything he knows has...
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