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Australia Coral reef ecology Forensic pathologists Fiction Forensic pathologists New York (State) New York Biography Medal of Honor Medicaid Law and legislation Medical examiners (Law) Fiction Medical examiners (Law) New York (State) New York Biography United States Women physicians FictionFaust, Timothy
Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FAUGoldfarb, Bruce
Summary: "Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended death in the state is scrutinized. Touching on numerous scandals, including Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing in police custody of Freddie Gray, Goldfarb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDFARB, BRUCE GOLButcher, Barbara
Summary: "Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, BARBARA BUTContents: The call of history : "We're gonna get this done" -- The house of Pelosi : deals and betrayals -- The power of one : Lieberman blocks the way -- The rescue : Obama's last chance -- Priority one : expanding coverage -- The individual mandate : how it will work -- The insurers : more customers, more resrnctions -- The insured : it's status quo for now -- Under thirty : joining the system, like it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 344.7303 WASMelinek, Judy.
Summary: The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's 'rookie season' as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases, hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex, that shaped her as both a physician and a mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MELINEK, JUDY MelScales, Helen
Summary: A renowned oceanographer introduces the Great Barrier Reef and its ecosystems, revealing how the reef came to be, its place in the world and what we can all do to help ensure that it is around for future generations to discover and enjoy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2022
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Summary: "The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MELINEK, JUDY MELCornwell, Patricia Daniels
Summary: Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CORChertoff, Michael
Summary: "Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343 CHECook, Robin
Summary: "Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. She insists a pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, and when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2595 BADGerritsen, Tess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GERGerritsen, Tess.
Summary: Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GERMazeika, Katie
Summary: "Meet "The Original Mermaid," Annette Kellerman! All her life, Annette wanted one thing: to feel free. As a girl she found freedom in the water, where she could swim without the leg braces she needed on land. As she grew up, Annette swam in Australia and England and America and beyond, performing synchronized swimming-which she invented!-and competing in swim races and diving exhibitions. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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Summary: Fosta overcomes many obstacles to make his mark in the Shahzada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.1 ANDHeiser, K. Gabriel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phylius Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.16 HEITumarkin, Maria M.
Summary: "How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past-ours, our family's, our culture's-wields in the present? Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections-each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present-Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.92 TUMShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAMatthews, J. L.
Summary: Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits. The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions completely updated for 2020.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Using Photicular® technology that's like a 3-D movie on the page, OUTBACK whisks you to the vast, remote world of wild Australia, where heat waves dance forever and animals, isolated by the vagaries of continental drift, are unlike those found anywhere else on Earth. Each moving image delivers a rich, immersive visual experience--and the result is breathtaking. The kangaroo hops. A wombat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Are you getting ready to take the HESI Admission Assessment Exam? You know the importance of this test, and the multiple topics you'll need to understand in depth. This book is directly from the HESI experts, so you'll know that your studies are aligned with the test. Give yourself the best chance to pass by using this comprehensive guide before you face the test! This easy-to-read gives you:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elsevier 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.76 HESTopol, Eric J.
Summary: "In The Patient Will See You Now, Eric Topol, one of the nation's top physicians, examines what he calls medicine's Gutenberg moment--much as the printing press took learning out of the hands of a priestly class, the internet is doing the same for medicine, giving us unprecedented control over our healthcare. With smartphones in hand, we are no longer beholden to an impersonal and paternalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 610.285 TOPMcKenna, Mark
Summary: "Return to Uluru explores the cold case that strikes at the heart of Australia's white supremacy -- the death of an Aboriginal man in 1934; the iconic life of a white, "outback" police officer; and the continent's most sacred and mysterious landmark. Inside Cardboard Box 39 at the South Australian Museum's storage facility lies the forgotten skull of an Aboriginal man who died eighty-five years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.899 MCKBoughton, Simon
Summary: "At the time of its completion in 1936, Hoover Dam was the biggest dam in the world and the largest feat of architecture and engineering in the country--a statement of national ambition and technical achievement. It turned the wild Colorado River into a tame and securely managed water source, transforming millions of acres of desert into farmland while also providing water and power to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024