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41) You wouldn't want to be a nurse during the American Civil War!: a job that's not for the squeamish
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes what it was like to be a nurse during the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections, and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers--many of them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents were part of a large Hmong community in Merced. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors....
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 1050 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
Author
Publisher
Jeter Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
49) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"This full-color book tells the story of American healthcare history through color photographs of real objects from museums and both famous and little-known medical discoveries"--
52) Serving life
Series
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years. It documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for their dying fellow inmates. In doing so, they embark on a journey that may end in personal rehabilitation.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 704 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner.
Publisher
Hit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Wiggles, Captain Feathersword, Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog, and Dorothy the Dinosaur wiggle along as they meet a fireman, a dentist, an airline pilot and many more!
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 13 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Part EVAC hospital, part USO entertainment center--this outpost of craziness and compassion introduces us to the Vietnam War through the eyes of the women who served there"--Container.
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
"Part EVAC hospital, part USO entertainment center--this outpost of craziness and compassion introduces us to the Vietnam War through the eyes of the women who served there"--Container.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series that follows the fortunes of public health heroine Dr. Eleanor Bramwell as she takes on the medical establishment in Victorian-era London. In the second season, Eleanor finds her private practice failing and faces tough choices ahead in her encounters with a case of spousal abuse, pre-teen prostitution, an outbreak of cholera, and a mysterious aunt with a secret to hide. Along the way, she falls in love with her handsome and charismatic...
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