Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEIGawande, Atul
Summary: Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families of the terminally ill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 GAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.17 GAWMarsham, Liz
Summary: Explains the back story of Harley Quinn, a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum who became obsessed with the Joker and turned into his demented sidekick to battle against Batman and Robin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MARSummary: This is the powerful story of 16-year-old Misha Heselwood, and her successful fight to regain her life after being seriously injured. The program begins with Misha's hospitalization with severe brain injuries suffered in a car accident and follows Misha, her family, and the medical staff over a nine-month period, charting her recovery from coma as she re-learns how to walk, talk, eat, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Pickert, Kate
Summary: Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2019