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If I stay volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death
4) Patch Adams
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
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
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, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely proud people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend Lizzie suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do whatever they can to serve, they enlist in the Army and embark on a new adventure as flight nurses. Risking their lives on...
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.
Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of thousands of troops will be returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next few years, many of them in acute pain and facing the possibility of a lifetime of chronic pain. Written by a wounded Iraq war veteran, in collaboration with pain management experts at the American Pain Foundation. This book and its companion website offer veteran's and their families need-to-know information
9) For Rouenna
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman's experiences in the Vietnam War
"After my first book was published, I received some letters." So begins Sigrid Nunez's haunting novel about the poignant and unusual friendship between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. Among the letters...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
A look at the state of America's medicine argues that environmental factors are the biggest factor affecting the nation's health, and suggests that some industries are particularly hazardous to the collective well-being in the U.S
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health discloses how women have been marginalized and hesitate to take control over their own healthcare. But what's behind this nationwide medical crisis? Too often, women downplay or ignore their symptoms to avoid being "difficult," often blaming themselves for serious illness. The end result could be inferior care, which can lead to serious consequences. Writer and researcher Susan Salenger explains...
Author
Publisher
Amplify, an imprint of Amplify Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
No matter your profession, The Medical Jungle will inspire you to have the courage to do what is right, even in the face of tremendous adversity. Join Dr. Frank Veith--one of America’s most celebrated vascular surgeons--as he illustrates that while your environment may feel like a fierce jungle, unwavering conviction can tame the elements. Part captivating memoir, part exposé of a self-serving system, The Medical Jungle unveils numerous behind-the-scenes...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
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.
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