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1) The hospital
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English
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Uses letters, stories, and informational text to explain what to expect when you have to go to the hospital.
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A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
5) Foreign body
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English
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A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, Dancer in the dark) delves into the world of the supernatural with the acclaimed series that inspired Stephen King's Kingdom hospital. At the kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin to occur, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an...
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Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
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Acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, The five obstructions) presents series two of his supernatural thriller set inside Denmark's most esteemed but cursed medical institution. Malicious forces are once again at work as the hospital's restless spirits become even more entwined with the eccentric staff and residents. Resuming after the birth of Little Brother, the deformed offspring of demon-doctor Aage Kroger (Udo Kier), these four episodes...
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Morrow
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English
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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even...
11) Motherland
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FilmRise
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Filipino
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Taking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the film continues, it's absorbingly intimate, rendering the women at the heart of the story increasingly familiar.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Reveals that simple surgical instruments, as well as patient wear, are produced for Swedish hospitals in unacceptable working conditions that even leads to environmental destruction. The film shows that Swedish tax money is funding production that violates the human rights of workers in India and Pakistan. Although private companies have been demanding suitable working conditions for the last ten years, Swedish county councils have not any such ethical...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen version ; Collector's edition.
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English
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Television comedy about the experiences of military doctors and nurses working in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War.
Series portrays both the horror and hilarity of the daily lives of MASH unit 4077 in Korea in 1950.
14) Adam resurrected
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
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English
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This star-studded drama follows the story of Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, The Grand Budapest Hotel), a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. He reads minds and confounds his doctors, lead by Dr. Nathan Gross (Derek Jacobi, The King's Speech, Gladiator). Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer--cabaret impresario, circus owner, magician, musician--loved by audiences and Nazis...
15) Glass
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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After the conclusion of the film Split, David Dunn pursues The Beast, which is Kevin Crumb's superhuman personality. The encounters with The Beast escalate as Elijah Price materializes as an orchestrator who knows critical secrets about both, Dunn and Crumb.
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Kanopy Streaming
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Romanian
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After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps that he can no longer bare, Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) calls for an ambulance, beginning one man's poignant journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. His lone ally, medic Mioara (Luminta Gheorghiu), admirably fights for his life with compassion and decency.
17) Asylum
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"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lyle the crocodile (Bernard Waber) volume 3
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English
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Lyle the crocodile becomes so jealous of Joshua's birthday party and presents that it makes him feel ill, and he ends up in the hospital, where he recovers his good nature by entertaining the children there.
19) Once there was
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Series
Once there was volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
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Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...
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