Hoag, Tami.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOASalenger, Susan
Summary: "Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health discloses how women have been marginalized and hesitate to take control over their own healthcare. But what's behind this nationwide medical crisis? Too often, women downplay or ignore their symptoms to avoid being "difficult," often blaming themselves for serious illness. The end result could be inferior care, which can lead to serious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.0424 SALVolandes, Angelo E.
Summary: "There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at all costs. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions tethered to machines and tubes, even though research indicates that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones. The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. If doctors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 VOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging VolandesSummary: House finds himself in an uncomfortable position: away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUParis, B. A.
Summary: "When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive.... As Alice is getting to know her neighbors, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARParis, B. A.
Summary: "The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive ... As Alice is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSummary: Make an appointment with the outrageous doctors of Sacred Heart hospital. This season, J.D. moves in with Turk and Carla, and Elliot uses an interesting form of blackmail in order to get her job back at the hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCRSummary: Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain and ignoring his pain killing addiction, he uses his cane to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. House and his team deal with unusual medical mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: He's sarcastic, incorrigible, bitter, and in a relationship? Dr. Gregory House has spent his career taking on seemingly hopeless cases, but when his rapport with Dr. Lisa Cuddy changes, he finds himself facing new, and very different, challenges. His team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital also continues to blaze trails as they investigate baffling medical cases involving a religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studio Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEIEpstein, Ronald
Summary: "The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most--safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care--from the foremost expert in the field,"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 EPSOfri, 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 OFRTopol, 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 TOPWilson, 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 WILSummary: Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Newcomer Dr. Phil Capra and his wife join the quirky residents of Cicely, Alaska. They adjust to small town life with the help of Dr. Joel Fleischman, Maggie, Chris and the rest of the town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV No 6Summary: The cold and quirks continue in Cicely, Alaska. Includes all 23 episodes from the third season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Paralyzed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien has overcome adversity time and time again. But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist, a sympathetic priest, and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humor, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SESClarke, Brock.
Summary: Therapist Dr. Pahnee, hired by young Miller Le Ray's mother, finds his own reality unraveling as he tries to deal with a patient dedicated to telling the truth who is unable to distinguish between fact and fiction, while grappling with his own growing attraction to the boy's mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASummary: After a tumultous fight for a patient's life, Hank abandons his life as a hotshot doctor in NYC. To blow off steam, he and his brother crash a party in the Hamptons where he ends up being the "doctor in the house" when a medical emergency occurs. With all eyes on him, he decides to build that reputation into a career as a concierge doctor to the wealthy residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROYFriedman, Becky
Summary: Daniel has to visit the doctor, and he's a little nervous. But with a little help from Mom and Dr. Anna, suddenly the trip isn't so scary anymore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Gottlieb, Lori
Summary: "From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOTTLIEB, LORI GOTSummary: A young doctor feels stuck in a system which can seem like it's against him as he faces 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, and so much gore all for a wage that barely pays for his parking meter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Puri, Sunita
Summary: "A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019