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1) Lock in
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 1
Language
English
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When a new virus causes one percent of the population to become completely paralyzed in body but not in mind, the United States pursues a scientific initiative to develop a virtual-reality world for victims, with unexpected consequences.
2) Viral
Author
Language
English
Description
"[A] family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the center of a terrifying danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by greed and corruption"--
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Most parents do not expect to begin life with their new baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). They often feel lost and powerless amidst this new world of medical vocabulary, technology, and numerous health care providers. Understanding the NICU will guide you through your NICU journey, help you communicate with members of the NICU team, and learn about your baby’s condition so that you can ask questions and participate as a valuable...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Impelled by the premature birth of her daughter, a journalist explores how modern medicine has changed regarding the care of babies born too early and of the ethical issues that can be involved"--Kirkus.
6) I'm not crazy: the true story of Frances Deitrick's flight from a psychiatric snake pit to freedom
Author
Publisher
New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fei explores the value of a human life: from the spreadsheets wielded by cost-cutting executives to the insidious notions of risk surrounding modern pregnancy; from the wondrous history of medical innovation in the care of premature infants to contemporary analyses of what their lives are worth; and finally, to the depths of her own struggle to make sense of her daughter's arrival in the world.
11) Virus mortal
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
La nueva novela del maestro del thriller médico. Cuando una enfermedad desconocida y letal golpea a su familia y una despiadada compañía de seguros amenaza con arrebatárselo todo, el expolicía Brian Murphy decide defenderse. Un mosquito tigre pica a Emma Murphy durante una barbacoa en la playa, de vacaciones con su familia. En el camino de regreso a casa, Emma sufre un ataque y su marido Brian la lleva a urgencias. Una decisión innecesaria...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[[2012] 2012]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of America's last surviving almshouse describes the author's practice at Laguna Honda Hospital, explaining how its patients and low-tech focus on "attentive medicine" transformed her views about health care
"Choosing service in the last remaining almshouse in America, and tracing our understanding of medicine back to its medieval roots, a physician uncovers lost lessons in the care of body and soul"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After being adopted from Vietnam by a loving family in Canada, Tuyet undergoes a series of operations to correct her foot, which was turned inward by polio, so that she may someday walk, run, and play like other children.
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The hospital arose out of the devastation of a tornado that had struck the town six years earlier. After the storm, Mother Alfred Moes of the Sisters of Saint Francis told the Mayos that she had a vision of building a hospital that would “become world renowned for its medical arts.”Based on the film by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science chronicles the history of this unique organization, from its roots...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
“Code Blue” is the phrase customarily announced over hospital public address systems to alert staff to an urgent medical emergency requiring immediate attention. How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed countrysuch that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex “the tapeworm of American...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness. In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she is promoted onto the Pfizer account and suddenly finds herself on the other side...
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