Ofri, Danielle.
Summary: Ofri has finished her training as a physician and is learning through practice to become a more rounded healer. The book opens with the tables turned: Ofri has to enter her own hospital as a patient. She experiences the very real sense of invasion and panic that routinely visits her patients. These fifteen intertwined tales include that of a man who has lost the will to live, and she too comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.696 OFRGroopman, Jerome E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.001 GROGroopman, Jerome E.
Summary: While scientists look for a scienticfic basis for hope, many have learned that seeking hope is essential to life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.001 GROCall number: CD 616.001 Groop
Kalick, Rosanne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Books Publisher 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 KALSekeres, Mikkael A
Summary: "When Blood Breaks Down explores the lives and emotions of three leukemia patients, their caregivers, the doctor-patient relationship, and the history of the incredible discoveries that led to their treatment. Three people receive a diagnosis of leukemiawithin hours of each other. As is true of any person diagnosed with cancer, they must make decisions about how their cancer will be treated -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 SEKSosnowski, David.
Summary: All over the country people are sprouting wings. It's the result of a new virus and like any malady the wings give rise to new forms of prejudice, new support groups and new religious interpretations. A look at a new minority.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOSLogsdon, Gene.
Summary: A cancer survivor and farmer writes about the struggles of his childhood and life as a parent, the resilience of nature, and nature's cycles of life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOGSDON, GENE LOGLisk, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Lisk had no idea what was coming. At forty-three, she had a lot going on. A full-time job. Two young kids. A home to manage. And suddenly--a husband with inoperable brain cancer. How could this be her life? In between surgeries, ER visits, thousands of pills, and ultimately, hospice at home, Jenny kept her corner of the world updated through a CaringBridge online journal, and found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bluhen Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISK, JENNY LISScalise, Mike
Summary: "Winner of the Center for Fiction's Doheny Prize Mike Scalise hits his stride in this page-turner of a memoir featuring a sudden and strange sequence of medical disasters. From its gripping ruptured-brain-tumor emergency room opening, through a series of medical procedures and oddball doctors, Scalise creates a sharply observed, uproariously funny, and deeply moving account of acromegaly, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCALISE, MIKE SCACleave, Chris.
Summary: Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLEIngelman-Sundberg, C.
Summary: Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends—The Genius, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)—won’t stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INGSummary: Not wanted : Hollywood legend Ida Lupino makes her directorial debut in this ahead-of-its-time shocker! Naive teenager Sally Kelton falls for womanizing jazz pianist Steve Ryan. When the struggling musician suddenly leaves town for another gig, the lovestruck girl runs away from home to find him. But Steve rejects her, leaving Sally to fend for herself on the street. She is taken in by kindly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IDASummary: I want doctors! I'm gonna kill doctors! I want white coats! In 1993, gunman Damacio Torres shot up the Los Angeles County-USC Healthcare emergency room and took two hostages. Using the Torres case as a springboard, this program explains the tricky business of hostage negotiation while seeking to understand the mentality of hostage-taking. Psychologist Kris Mohandie, SWAT team supervisor Lt....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In 2001, the last piece of a serial rape/murder case that had tantalized London police for nearly 20 years finally fell into place. In this program, retired FBI profiler Robert Ressler, LAPD psychologist Kris Mohandie, and British law enforcement professionals discuss the history and techniques of criminal profiling within the context of the Railway Rapist crimes that terrorized greater London...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior. Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Situated in America's heartland among acres of Indiana cornfields, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility houses not just the state's most violent offenders but also a large population of the mentally ill. This MSNBC documentary looks at the challenges of confining thousands of hardened criminals in addition to those with deep-seated psychiatric needs. Wabash psychiatrist Dr. Mary Ruth Sims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The issue of race within psychiatry is most apparent in the psychiatric hospitals and institutions where, as one doctor who appears in this program puts it, "there is an overrepresentation of black people. There is also a problem of misdiagnosis and mistreatment because some medical staff don't understand why people from different cultures behave contrary to their expectations and therefore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As many Britons see it, the U.K. has become a nation obsessed with its psychological state, endlessly seeking out new "cures" for every hang-up under the sun. Others, by contrast, argue that the therapy culture has made the U.K. emotionally literate, giving the English a language through which to express their feelings and to change themselves for the better. In the final analysis, has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: While abortion will no doubt polarize our society for the foreseeable future, students can learn a great deal from the circumstances, anxieties, and life goals that surround the decision to end a pregnancy. This program presents a poignant and profoundly honest look at that decision through intimate discussions with young British women. Cheryl imagines other choices she might have made if her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This award-winning program brings to light the complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. It also debates whether deinstitutionalization has proved an overall failure, leaving more patients homeless than are mainstreamed into society, and if the time has come to reintroduce the asylum as a place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Jacobs, Hollye.
Summary: Hollye Jacobs describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience with breast cancer and gives details about diagnosis, treatment, side effects and recovery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 JACBeattie, Melody.
Summary: With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises and self-help tests, this guide has helped countless readers change their codependent behaviors and understand that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.86 BEAEndicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDGros-Daillon, Fritzi
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014