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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel. Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of efficiency. Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend...
25) La Doctora Cole
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
After a divorce, a woman physician forgoes a career in a prestigious hospital for a private practice in a small town in New England. Hoping for a simpler and richer life, she finds herself facing the same pressing issues she had hoped to leave behind in Boston.
26) The doctor & you
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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,...
31) Suddenly
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008, c1993
Language
English
Description
When her best friend and medical partner, Mara O'Neill, kills herself, small-town pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer takes in Mara's newly adopted daughter and discovers the unexpected pleasures of motherhood.
32) Mercy
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only...
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Series
Language
English
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"June Hudson is the town's doctor, a caring, capable woman who now has a bit of explaining to do. People are beginning to notice the bloom in her cheeks-- and the swell of her belly. Happily, DEA agent Jim Post is back in June's arms for good, newly retired from undercover work and ready for new beginnings here in Grace Valley."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Una abeja curiosa se pregunta qué será cuando crezca. ¿Por qué no un doctor? Oraciones sencillas e ilustraciones coloridas ayudan a los lectores principiantes a practicar la lecturea ¡al tiempo que apreden lo que hace un doctor!" -- Back cover.
"What do you want to BEE when you grow up? How about a doctor! Simple sentences and colorful illustrations help early readers practice their reading skills, while learning all about what a doctor does!...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of One Good Turn presents a mystery of suspense involving the unexpected intersection of three lives, including a woman whose life had been shattered thirty years earlier, an ex-detective on a crowded train, and a teenage girl who is called upon to test her preparedness.
38) Vamos al médico
Author
Series
Publisher
Parragon
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Mario está enfermo y lo llevan al médico por primera vez.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012, c1996
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her rebellious daughter and her conflicting feelings for a soul-seeking priest and a cynical man, cardiologist Madelaine learns to overcome past betrayals when a tragedy brings them all together.
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