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While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest,...

In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training.

"From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine -- and lives. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family,...

Traces the efforts of Dr. Paul Farmer to transform healthcare on a global scale, documenting his visits to some of the world's most impoverished regions and the unconventional methods that enabled him to improve and save lives.

When Maisy hurts herself on a trampoline, she goes to the hospital, where she is taken care of and meets a new friend.

Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the post-apocalyptic battle for the joint survival of humans and the Partials is just beginning. Kira must discover the plan that can allow both races.

A brief biography of the woman who overcame her shyness to become a teacher, a nurse during the Civil War, and founder of the American Red Cross.

Introduces and defines the ABC's of visiting the doctor, from examinations and fevers to nurses and urine samples.

2018: Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. A Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education. Her article made racial disparities in health care impossible to ignore. Here she shows how today's medical texts and instruments still carry fallacious slavery-era assumptions...