Virga, Vint.
Summary: Based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, he delves into the inner lives of animals and explores the relationships we forge with them.
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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 636 VIRFong, Kevin.
Summary: Anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser Kevin Fong explores how physical extremes push human limits and spawn incredible medical breakthroughs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.02 FONChretien, Katherine
Summary: Being a physician is an amazing privilege, and it can be a deeply rewarding career...but first you have to get through medical school. Students, who were often at the top of their class prior to medical school, now find themselves surrounded by equally bright, hardworking, overachieving classmates and facing new challenges from rigorous curricula to specialty selection to navigation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.711 CHRWilson, F. Perry
Summary: "We live in an age of medical miracles. Never in the history of humankind has so much talent and energy been harnessed to cure disease. So why does it feel like it's getting harder to live our healthiest lives? Why does it seem like "experts" can't agree on anything, and why do our interactions with medical professionals feel less personal, less honest, and less impactful than ever? Through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.69 WILMelinek, 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 MelReilly, Brendan M.
Summary: In this engaging first-person narrative, Dr. Brendan Reilly takes listeners inside the medical profession as he solves real-life medical mysteries.
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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 REILLY, BRENDAN ReiHongoltz-Hetling, Matthew
Summary: "A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies. It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.8 HONButler, Katy
Summary: "An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggleto allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BUTHerbert, Martha R.
Summary: "Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . . After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child's genes and destined to remain fixed forever, as we're often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8588 HERKalanithi, Paul
Summary: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KALANITHI, PAUL KalAgus, David
Summary: "One of the world's leading doctors and bestselling author presents the simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy, and productive life.In his #1 New York Times bestselling book, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared whathe had learned from his work as one of today's most prominent cancer doctors and researchers, revealing the risks he takes in a field begging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 AGUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health AgusUbel, Peter A.
Summary: Based on case studies, groundbreaking research, and his own experiences, a practicing physician and behavioral scientist makes an important case for revamping the way doctors and patients communicate inside hospital and medical office walls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.69 UBEDeVita, Vincent T.
Summary: "The true story of the war on cancer from one of its generals In The Death of Cancer, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr.--former director of the National Cancer Institute, former physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering, director of the Yale Cancer Center, former president of the American Cancer Society, and developer of the first successful chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 DEVKalanithi, Paul
Summary: At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed that he had stage IV lung cancer. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. In Breath Becomes Air, Kalanithi approaches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 KALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health KalanithiBrown, Jasmine
Summary: "No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROTopol, 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 TOPGenova, Lisa.
Summary: "From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a powerful new novel that does for Huntington's Disease what her debut Still Alice did for Alzheimer's. Joe O'Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENMcRady, Rachel
Summary: Helping her beloved grandfather John, who suffers from dementia, break out of his nursing home, 6-year-old Gracie Lynn joins him on a quest to chase the sun while her estranged parents frantically try to locate them before something bad happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCRWhitlock, Janis
Summary: Parents who discover a teen's self-injurious behavior are gripped by uncertainty and flooded with questions - Why is my child doing this? Is this a suicide attempt? What did I do wrong? What can I do to stop it? And yet basic educational resources for parents with self-injuring children are sorely lacking. Healing after Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 WHIRaza, Azra
Summary: We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.99 RAZHoss, Kami
Summary: Your mouth is the gateway to your body and the most critical organ for improving your health. From its microbiome to its shape, it impacts your physical and mental well-being in countless ways. Hoss connects the dots between oral health and whole-body health. He offers a roadmap to a longer, more successful future for you and your family. - adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development-spanning the Stone Age to the present day-blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 617 RUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 RUTSmith, Craig R.
Summary: "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021