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 OFRWatts, H. David.
Contents: Facts and lies -- The orange wire problem -- Brain damage -- Let eagles come -- The chart in the window -- Thank you Mr. Nicholson -- Talking about Christmas -- Silence knows the right questions -- One cancer cell -- Anathema -- Telling the truth in the realm of truth -- Ghosts in the machine -- Blood butterfly -- Is something wrong with your prostate? -- The soft animal of the body -- Aspirin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.69 WATHolt, Terry.
Summary: Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLT, TERRY HOLDalrymple, Theodore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andre Deutsch 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 DALMarsh, Henry
Summary: A leading neurosurgeon offers a revealing look into his life and work, discussing the triumphs, disasters, and regrets of a medical practice that carries grave risks and often requires agonizing decisions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 MARReilly, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014