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Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world where a human heart can be printed to order and tiny nanoscale machines constantly monitor our health. Where synthetic organs provide life-saving solutions for patients in need of organ transplants and robotic surgeons guided by artificial intelligence (AI) help perform delicate operations. That world is closer than you think. This book looks at the many ways that new medical technology is transforming the future of healthcare.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Cate's parents derail her perfect NYC life with their monumentally ill-timed divorce, she kind of loses it. By the time she gets it together, she's in Miami with no friends and none of the classes and activities she imagined for her senior year of high school. So, she decides to blow it all up. Do something that defies everyone's expectations. A chance encounter with an EMS crew at the scene of an accident leads her to start training as an...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic...
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
¿Tomar jugo de limón por la mañana adelgaza? ¿Cenar tarde engorda? ¿El exceso de ejercicio puede enfermarnos? ¿Realmente sirven los suplementos alimenticios? A partir de rigurosos estudios científicos y el conocimiento que ha obtenido en la sala de emergencias del New York Metropolitan Hospital, el doctor Mauricio González Arias, el influencer de la medicina, te recibe en su consultorio para desmentir los principales mitos médicos que circulan...
Author
Series
Black Harbor novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter's best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery--her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth...
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From the creator of Ichi the Killer and Voyeur, this hit supernatural horror tale inspired the live-action film on Netflix-and will be available in English for the first time in oversized omnibus editions! Nakoshi Susumu, age thirty-four, lives out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name. When a medical student begins to stalk him, offering to pay Nakoshi a significant sum of...
Author
Language
English
Description
After Dr. Jack Stapleton's near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at home and at work. When Laurie insists Dr. Ryan Sullivan--an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies--assist her on a suicide autopsy in the hopes of stimulating his interest...
12) The surgeon
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Trusted surgeon. Loving wife. Murderer? Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and charming smile always made me feel safe. As I call time of death, my voice is steady. My colleagues stand hushed around me, their eyes on me, confused, concerned. I have never lost a patient until today....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic injustice takes a physical, too often deadly, toll on Black, brown, working class and poor communities, and any group who experiences systemic cultural oppression or economic exploitation. Marginalized Americans are disproportionately more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger...
14) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 27
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.
Author
Publisher
Jaded Ibis Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, queer, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world's top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own; Dr. Frank, a queer biracial Indonesian scientist, who compromises everything she claims to love in the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid's death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police investigation. Aided by a diary filled with cryptic passages...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx--a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations--was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she'd been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public--from the apparent lack of urgency...
18) Night watch
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands that ConaLee introduce herself as her mother's nurse--not...
19) Random acts of medicine: the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health
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Language
English
Description
Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at...
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Helicopter Heroine is the story of Valérie André, who began her medical career in Paris under the eyes of the Gestapo, trained as a neurosurgeon, and blazed trails as a helicopter pioneer and battlefield medicine innovator during the French Indochina war. Flying through bullets and bombs to treat and evacuate the wounded, André became a legend.
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