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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 GOLCornwell, 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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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CORCook, 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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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOGerritsen, 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 GERButcher, 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 BUTSwift, Earl
Summary: On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: 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 MelMelinek, 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. 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 MELBrazer, Marjorie Cahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peach Mountain Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.13 BRABaden, Michael M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2595 BADHeiser, 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 HEIBlackmarr, Amy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.8823 BLAIsikoff, Michael
Summary: "In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024
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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: "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 HESHerndon, Booton.
Summary: The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. They called him a coward, but the soft--spoken medic insisted that his mission was to heal, not kill. Herndon shares the story of how Doss became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Remnant Publications 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOSS, DESMOND HERSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARBlackman, Josh.
Summary: " This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a truly consequential Supreme Court decision"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7302 BLAWest, Tracey
Summary: Catch step-by-step secret tips on drawing your favorite Pokémon, like Pikachu, Togepi, Chikorita, Meowth, Pichu, Houndour, Lugia, Cyndaquil, and more! Plus, draw bonus poses of Pokémon in action, and create your own battle scenes! You'll be a Pokémon-drawing-Master in no time!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2002
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Summary: "A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life--his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016