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Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh)

Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.6 CLA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CLA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 CLA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Clark

Summary: In this program, NewsHour correspondent Susan Dentzer reports on life and death in Sun City, Arizona, a vibrant retirement community where hospice is the preferred form of end-of-life care. Dartmouth Medical School's John Wennberg and others consider the desire of many senior citizens with terminal illnesses to make peace with death rather than fight it. They also confront the fact that...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Operating theaters and patient rooms, labs and pharmacies, the maternity ward and the morgue: this program works its way through some of the many units of a hospital as it spotlights staff members doing their jobs. From sterilizing equipment to correctly interpreting the dance of cells across a computer screen to treating patients, these professionals deal with crucial matters every day.even as...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

View online at AVOD

Brenner, Marie

Summary: "A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis - based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting - that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America's largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 BRE

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