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In the 19th century, women rarely study medicine. This means that Nora Beady, the only woman in her medical school, constantly feels like an outsider. And when she is chosen to work with the only female professor to develop the caesarian section, Nora draws the wrath of her male peers and professors. It's a dangerous-and divisive-procedure that could save countless lives and revolutionize women's health. But most doctors think it's too risky, many...
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Anatomy duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist's Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham's lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might...
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Home to Blessing volume 1
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English
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18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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Beautiful pre-med student Kari Evans believes she's found the man of her dreams, right up until the moment she discovers he's a two-timing cheat. Desperately gathering the pieces of her broken heart, she realizes that what she needs most is space to reconsider her future. A summer in Washington, DC, with her professional baseball player brother, Ben, sounds like just the change of scene she's after. But if complicated romantic entanglements are what...
5) Foreign body
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English
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Shocked by her grandmother's untimely death a day after she travels to New Delhi to have affordable hip-replacement surgery, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez heads to India for answers and uncovers a series of unexplained deaths.
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Courage to dream volume 3
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English
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When her mother suffers a stroke, medical student Deirdre O'Leary makes the difficult choice to put her career on hold to care for her. Dr. Matthew Clayborne is renowned for his amazing results with patients, but when Deirdre approaches him about helping her mother, she finds him challenging and surly. Deirdre has had enough of complicated men in her life. After her fiancé left her, she vowed never to give a man that kind of power again. Widower...
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Ghanaian-American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the Perfect Immigrant Daughter: enroll in an elite medical school, snag a suitable lawyer/doctor/engineer boyfriend, surround self with a gaggle of successful and/or loyal friends. But then it all quickly falls apart: she bombs the most important exam of her medical career, her boyfriend dumps her, and her best friend pulls away. And her parents, whose approval seems to hinge on how...
8) Re-animator
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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A dedicated medical student and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue, when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bette Davis rose from the ranks of Warner Bros. contract players to become a screen superstar when she was loaned out to RKO to appear in John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Leslie Howard (Gone with the wind) stars as Philip, a British medical student who becomes infatuated with a most unlikely woman: a vulgar waitress named Mildred (Davis). Undeterred by Mildred's obvious contempt of him (and her disgust for his...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor--and the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains...
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Criterion collection volume 772
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Polish
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A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
12) Vital
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
日本語
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Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in his 20s, awakens in a hospital bed to find an auto accident has completely wiped his memory away. Back home with his parents and attempting to rebuild his life, he comes across a medical textbook full of detailed drawings of dissection. Utterly fascinated by the subject, Hiroshi is drawn to the medical school to which he was once accepted, but refused...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
Description
Tru Davies, a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Medical student Tru Davies works in a morgue. She soon discovers that she has the power to go back in time and prevent innocent people from becoming murder victims. DVD set features six episodes, including the unaired final episode.
15) Nano
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English
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Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding.
16) "At least you'll be married to a doctor": managing your intimate relationship through medical school
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Publisher
Outskirts Press
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
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Pulling from her spouse's experiences with the medical training process as well as from her professional mental health background, Jordyn Paradis Hagar takes you on a step by step journey through the realities of managing an intimate relationship during medical school.
17) A country doctor
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English
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Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed...
18) Flatliners
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Five medical students--obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life--embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, they each trigger a near-death experience, giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.
19) Narcotic: Maniac
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
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Maniac (1934): Delve into the mind of a bona fide lunatic, whose distorted by fragmented scenes and ugly realities that mimic insanity's own warped perspective. Injected with catfights, nudity, necrophilia, and the ingestion of a fresh eyeball.
Narcotic (1933): Loosely based upon the life of William Davies, an opium-addicted snake oil salesman who was also producer Hildagarde Esper's uncle. This film follows his downward spiral as an idealistic medical...
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Within hours of her marriage to Lord Claverley, Elisabeth Ashcroft knows she has made a dreadful mistake. Unfortunately, in mid-nineteenth-century England, dissolving their less-than-sacred union seems all but impossibleeven if her new husband is only after Elisabeths inheritance. But soon the strong-willed vicars daughter has a chance at a new life far away from her sterile existence in the shadow of Claverly Halla...
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