"A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital...Harrowing... An important book." THE NEW YORK TIMES What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of its health care, former NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Lisa Belkin takes a powerful and poignant look at the inner workings of Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, telling the remarkable, real-life stories of the doctors, patients, families, and hospital adm...
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her quick remarks. Frances, from Newfoundland, was famous for her improvised recipes. Justine, the union rep, wore t-shirts emblazoned with defiant slogans, like “Nurses Care But It’s Not in the Budget.” Sha...
The Great Physician's Rx for Colds and Flu (Rubin, #4)
by Jordan Rubin
Jordan Rubin, along with Joseph Brasco, MD, shows readers how to apply the 7 Keys to Health and Wellness and naturally eliminate colds, the flu, and sinus infections from their lives.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book “Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American...
Covid-19, an Issue of Cardiology Clinics, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #40)
Covid 19 Infection, an Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #36)
Global Health and Critical Care Medicine, an Issue of Critical Care Clinics, E-Book (Clinics: Internal Medicine, #38)
Principles of Pulmonary Medicine
by Steven E Weinberger, Barbara A Cockrill, and Jess Mandel
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Morning Report - E-Book (Morning Report)
by Paul N Frank and Tyler Gouvea
Kindliche Traumatisierung und Traumapadagogik fur Kinder und Jugendliche. Heilt die Zeit wirklich alle Wunden?
by Carolin Hellmuth
Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery
A unique question-and-answer book for surgical residents and trainees that covers all surgical aspects of critical care and acute or emergency medicine This is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind question-and-answer text for medical professionals and apprentices concentrating on the growing subspecialty of surgery in critical care and emergency surgery. Covering all surgical aspects of critical care and acute or emergency surgery, it is an ideal learning and review text for surgical residents and tr...
Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing, an Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, E-Book (Clinics: Nursing, #35)
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because she wanted to be a hero. She elected to specialize in critical care—to become an ICU physician—and imagined herself swooping in to rescue patients from the brink of death. But then during her first cod...
These eight essays by eminent scholars continue the provocative focus of the earlier volumes in the series, dealing with aspects of domination in an attempt to rectify the elitist bias afflicting much academic work on south Asia.