Brown, Jasmine
Summary: "No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention is made of these women in existing histories is often insubstantial or altogether incorrect. In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich new perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROSummary: Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTLatta, Sara L.
Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WALSummary: More love, laughs and Hart in a small Southern town! Season two opens with native New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart continuing her medical practice and beginning to find roots in tiny BlueBell, Alabama. As if Zoe's sizzling connection with bad boy bartender Wade Kinsella and strong emotional ties to sexy lawyer George Tucker aren't enough to send her over the edge, an election scandal is brewing between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HARDriscoll, Laura
Summary: Explains what a doctor is and what their responsibilities are, including helping people who are sick or hurt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN DRISummary: Dr. Zoe Hart's life was going according to plan: she was on her way to becoming a heart surgeon just like her father. But when she's told that she didn't have the bedside manner needed for an important fellowship, she's devastated. If she wants to get the fellowship next year, she must become a general practitioner. So, the New Yorker takes a chance on an offer from an admirer--in the deep south.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HARBourne, Shakirah
Summary: Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMMessner, Kate
Summary: The definitive picture book biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most crucial figures in the COVID-19 pandemic. Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci was a curious boy in Brooklyn, delivering prescriptions from his father's pharmacy on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PURI, SUNITA PURChopra, Deepak
Summary: Traces the lives of the Chopra brothers from India to the United States, where they both excelled in healing, one as a world-renowned spiritual teacher, the other as a professor at Harvard Medical School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CHOPRA, DEEPAK & SANJIV CHOMarsico, Katie
Summary: Explores the everyday life of a colonial doctor and his responsibilities, social practices, and importance to the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610.973 MAREpstein, 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 EPSSummary: East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARParent, Nancy
Summary: Fancy Nancy discovers a new talent for repairing broken toys in her neighborhood, but she must learn to keep her cool when her next patient is her beloved doll Marabelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "Alma's stuffed cow, Moo Moo, gets soaked when she is left outside in the rain. Alma is sad and Moo Moo is mooo-serable! Will Doc be able to help?"--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WEIAllen, Nancy Campbell
Summary: "London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLAnderson, AnnMarie
Summary: "Two children learn the importance of doctors in their community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610.69 ANDSteel, Danielle
Summary: Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEClarke, Jane
Summary: When Ginger injures her nose during a walk through Thistletown meadow, Dr. KittyCat must come to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J DKC 9Cook, Robin
Summary: "Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"-- an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COOHolowaty, Lauren
Summary: It's People Who Help Us day at playgroup so Peppa and her friends get a very special visit from Dr Brown Bear and Nurse Fox. They've come to show the children how to keep fit, eat healthy snacks and, most importantly, always remember to wash their hands! Then the children get to have a go at playing doctors and nurses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: "One hundred years ago, juvenile diabetes was a death sentence for millions of people around the world, most of them children. this book tells the story the discovery of insulin, a treatment for this disease and one of the most impactful milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2021
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Summary: Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at New York's Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country-and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of this 250-year-old institution as a tentative medical student, she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2002