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1) Doctors
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks
Language
English
Description
"Hello, doctors! Young learners are introduced to this community helper in a beginning reader that's perfect for curious kids. Early readers will learn how different doctors help people stay healthy. Full color images and carefully leveled text highlight what doctors do, where they work, and how they help the community by taking care of people. Part of the Seedlings series from Creative Education, this title plants seeds of knowledge about jobs people...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Language
English
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"When Damon Tweedy first enters the halls of Duke University Medical School on a full scholarship, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. When one of his first professors mistakes him for a maintenance worker, it is a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his early career. Making...
3) Doctor
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Language
Español
Description
"Who can examine a patient, prescribe medicine, and help you feel better when you are sick? Doctors! Find out how these helpers make your community a better place."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Language
English
Description
In Breaking Ground, Sullivan recounts his extraordinary life, beginning with his childhood in Jim Crow south Georgia and continuing through his trailblazing endeavors training to become a physician in an almost entirely white environment in the Northeast, founding and then leading the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and serving as secretary of Health and Human Services in President George H. W. Bush's administration. Throughout his career,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
The quality of medical care is influenced by what doctors feel, an aspect of medicine that is usually left out of discussions of health care today. Drawing on scientific studies, as well as on real-life stories from other physicians and her own practice, Ofri examines the impact of emotions on medical care.
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Series
Chinese Cinderella volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement"--
Author
Publisher
One World
Language
English
Description
"From the heroic pediatrician who rallied a community and brought the fight for justice to national attention comes a powerful firsthand account of the Flint water crisis--a dramatic story of failed democracy and inspiring citizen advocacy and action. In the heart of the world's wealthiest nation, one hundred thousand people were poisoned by the water supply for two years--with the knowing complicity of their government. Written by the crusading pediatrician...
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Series
Publisher
Pebble
Language
English
Description
How much do you know about Susan La Flesche Picotte? Find out the facts you need to know about the first American Indian to become a doctor. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.--Provided by publisher.
17) Doctors
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Language
English
Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces doctors to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy...
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Publisher
Xlibris
Language
English
Description
One cold winter night, on my way to have dinner with friends, I got stuck in traffic. There had been an accident at the lights ahead. As I sat there in the dark and the wet, waiting for the mess to be cleared, I glanced across the road. There on a noticeboard outside a rundown weatherboard church was a message Unless you change direction you will end up where you are going. Its a sign, I said, Ha ha! But I had already taken the message to heart. Paul...
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