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Henry Steadman didn't know what was about to hit when he pulled up to a red light. As a successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in a town just outside Jacksonville, Florida to deliver a keynote address at a conference when suddenly his life becomes an unrelenting chase to stay alive. A random act of violence plunges him into a nightmarish world; he is accused of murdering two people and must clear his name and discover who is trying to destroy...
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Preparing to implant a revolutionary mini-computer into the brain of a blind boy that will enable him to see, brilliant young neurosurgeon Ali O'Day finds her efforts sabotaged by a bomber who is demanding Ali herself as a ransom.
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An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low. Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zalmani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise...
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2010
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Following a tragic accident, two women--Tessa Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon, and Valerie Anderson, an attorney and single mother--living in the same Boston suburb but with relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children converge in ways no one could have imagined.
6) Gifted hands
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows the life of Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, who overcame problems in school and obstacles in life to become a world-renowned neurosurgeon. His lifelong journey led him to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, a bestselling author, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Includes behind-the-scenes, and featurettes.
7) A marked man
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MIRA
Pub. Date
c2006
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395 p. ; 25 cm.
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When Max Savage opens his practice in a remote bayou town he hopes it's the start of a new life. But soon Max discovers he can't escape a past riddled with accusations of murder, especially since another woman is missing and he was the last to see her alive. Annie Duhon knows all about nightmares and the need to escape the past, but as her fascination with Max grows she must decide if he can be trusted with her secrets and deepest desires. Max is...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
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viii, 373 p. ; 25 cm.
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Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller--the highly-paid master of the "non-kill." As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon,...
9) The society
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
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x, 691 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
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Atria Books
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2019.
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xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"From a bestselling author, the heartbreaking, redemptive story of two World War II soldiers whose fateful encounter in the Forgotten War of Alaska has fascinated Americans for decades. In researching his bestselling book The Big Year, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Obmascik rediscovered a long-lost document from World War II: the diary of a Japanese surgeon, recovered from his body by the soldier who killed him. In the Cradle of Storms reveals...
11) Trauma: a novel
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"Dr. Carrie Bryant's four years as a neurosurgical resident at White Memorial Hospital have earned her the respect and admiration from peers and staff alike. When given the chance of performing her first unsupervised brain surgery, Carrie jumps at the opportunity. What should have been a routine, hours long operation, turns horribly wrong and jeopardizes her patient's life. Emotionally and physically drained, Carrie is rushed back to the OR to assist...
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[BBC America]
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[2016]
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3 DVDs (550 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After reuniting with his long-lost daughter in Singapore, Dr. Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat, Australia, where a new Senior Constable and an old foe do their best to thwart his work as police surgeon. And yet they need Blake's help to solve the murder of the mayor of Ballarat, the stabbing of a rock 'n' roll star and the poisoning of a well-dressed picnicker.
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
2011.
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240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cm.
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Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In Gifted hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age thirty-three. Taking you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives, Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts the...
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Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
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5 DVDs (861 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The show is about a young surgeon with autism who is recruited to work at a pediatric unit of a hospital. The hospital is prestigious with many of the toughest cases a surgeon could ever see, but with autism comes clarity that most surgeons will never have. The television series focuses on the relationship between the doctor and patient, and how a man who cannot relate to the people who he tries to help.
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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133 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In 1841, a quiet, curious boy who stuttered when nervous committed to becoming a surgeon--a profession then more feared than respected. Through study, persistence, and careful research, Joseph Lister proved that unsanitary conditions contribute to infections. Despite others scoffing at his ideas, Lister slowly changed the way all surgeons work, saving countless lives"--
16) Every breath
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Pub. Date
2018.
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A chance encounter in 1990 becomes a transcendent turning point for two very different people, including the conflicted surgeon daughter of an ALS patient and a Sunset Beach newcomer from Zimbabwe who aims to meet his birth father. Spanning two decades, Sparks transports readers to the bush of Zimbabwe and the Carolina coast.
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2017
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3 DVDs (approx. 489 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.
18) Just go with it
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A plastic surgeon who is romancing a much younger schoolteacher enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
19) Sacrifice
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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379 p. ; 25 cm.
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Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it's the first time he's been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman's heart has been...
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Acorn TV
Pub. Date
[2019]
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3 DVDs (approximately 473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.
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