From the author of the acclaimed "Crank" comes a gut-wrenching story of teens in crisis. Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act of desperation--suicide.
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
Consuelo Camacho Ramos, hospitalized after killing her lover, has been released, but her prospects look bleak. She receives telepathic visits from a genderless individual from the year 2137, who introduces her to a utopian world. Considered mad, she is returned to Bellevue, where she finds the strength to fight her captors and win.
In this chilling new novel from the master of the medical thriller ("The New York Times"), New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism and a sinister global conspiracy. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
A novelist and psychiatrist writes a sequel to his acclaimed THE HOUSE OF GOD. In this novel, a doctor in psychiatric training at a famous hospital encounters a mad collection of patients--and doctors.
Devastated by the fact that her brother nearly died while under her care, a teenager named Callie begins cutting herself to deal with her pain. Now in a psychiatric hospital, Callie refuses to speak but senses a kinship with the other female patients in her ward. When a serious cutting incident frightens her, Callie begins to seek the help she ...
An emergency room doctor illuminates messages of hope while sharing captivating stories that demonstrate how hope turns emergencies into opportunities and each trial is a demonstration of God's grace.
The author of "Be More Chill" takes a poignant look at teenage depression in this remarkably moving and authentic picture of the physicality, the despair, and even the hilarity of depression. Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax Books
As medicine grows more capable, our choices grow more complicated. How far should we go to save a life? Who decides? And who pays? "First, Do No Harm" looks at the inner workings of a modern hospital. Lisa Belkin takes through a dramatic summer at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, and introduces us to the people who make life-and-death decisions ...
As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an ...
When young intern Susan Wheeler encounters mysterious deaths at her first day on the job at Boston Memorial Hospital she must try to convince unbelieving police and hospital officials of what she suspects is illegal traffic in human organs.
Through a careful look at the effect of restructuring strategies chosen and implemented by Beth Israel Medical Center, the author examines management's efforts to balance service and survival.
Drawing on a year of field work at St. Elizabeth's in Washington , D.C., Asylums is an analyssis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds such as prisons, mental-hospitals, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monasteries, and nursing homes--where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave ...
This text contains the core body of knowledge for case management practice as delineated by the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), the largest professional organization of case managers. The core curriculum provides a 'synthesis of case management evolution,' and presents essential elements, concepts, and vision for current and future case ...
In these poignant, compassionate stories, an emergency room physician and poet describes both the dramatic decisions and the more subtle dilemmas he has faced throughout his medical career.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for ...
Dutiful and disciplined Sister Honour Langtry has sole charge of Ward X of a military hospital in the Pacific, caring for soldiers who are battle fatigued. The arrival of Sergeant Michael Wilson transforms the ward into a pressure cooker of emotion as Sister Honour is torn between duty and love.
Here is the remarkable and moving story about the love, violence, courage and humor in a state mental institution. Bedlam follows the dramatic stories of the hospital staff and the patients themselves, whose stories break hearts as much as they fascinate.
When war breaks out in 1914, Paul Tarrant, a student at the Slade School of Art, leaves behind his attempted life as an artist and his beautiful fellow-student Elinore to tend to casualties on the front line. His life as a volunteer for the Belgian Red Cross is a world away from his days at the Slade, yet at times he canā t help but think of the ...
In a gripping tale of love, loss, liberation and the endurance of women's friendships, heroine Susan Gray opens a window to the lives of women who served as nurses during the Civil War.
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