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Chretien, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peterson's 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.711 CHR

Summary: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI

Montes, Raphael

Summary: "A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Schwartz, Dana

Summary: "Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Royal Edinburgh Anatomists' Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham's lectures for being...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCH

Adrian, Chris

Summary: A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADR

Parry, Ambrose

Summary: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Parry, Ambrose

Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Summary: Empires fall, love survives. When Michael, a brilliant medical student, meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana's boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRO

Montes, Raphael

Summary: A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Parry, Ambrose

Summary: Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back at 52 Queen Street, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd. 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Kidder, Tracy.

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 KID

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 KID

Kidder, Tracy.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KID

Buffa, Dudley W.

Summary: When a U.S. Senator is shot and killed, a young black man who was wounded as he fled the scene is arrested. Though the case is a career-maker, no attorney will touch it because of its explosive nature. Yet Joseph Antonelli leaves the comfort of his Portland, Oregon practice to head for "the City" to take on the young man's defense.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BUF

Bauer, Belinda

Summary: "The dead can't speak to us," Professor Madoc had said. That was a lie--because the body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. His Asperger's syndrome already makes life strange enough for him without having to solve a possible murder on top of it--especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAU

Cook, Robin

Summary: "Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cook 2015

Guinn, Matthew.

Summary: A medical student faces an ethical difficulty when he is asked to be part of a cover-up after a remodeling project on campus literally digs up bones of dissected African American slaves, once used for anatomy training.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUI

Palmer, Michael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAL

Schwartz, Dana

Summary: Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022

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Snelling, Lauraine.

Summary: 18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SNE

Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)

Summary: "Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman's life through mesmerism"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOP

McFadden, Freida

9 holds on 3 copies

Summary: Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Freida McFadden] 2023

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Taylor, Patrick

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to play rugby, and to romance a fetching,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAY

Wolf, Jack

Summary: A promising young medical student,Tristan Hart, is concerned with the prevention of pain, but also has an unhealthy obssession with causing it, a disorder which he tries to treat on his own as his illness threatens to overwhelm him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOL

Woods, Sherryl

Summary: For Caitlyn, catching the bridal bouquet at a wedding has set off a chain reaction that she's sure is more curse than blessing. Not only has she fallen in love with Noah, but an unexpected pregnancy threatens her well-laid plans for the future. It doesn't help that Noah is completely on board with marriage and happily-ever-after. It will take patience, love and family persuasion to help Caitlyn...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Woods 2014

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