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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Atul Gawande
A book about medicine that reads like a thriller, "Complications" is "a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies" (Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon").
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
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Pauline Chen (Read by)
Chen, a brilliant transplant surgeon, charts her personal and professional rites of passage in dealing with mortality. Focusing on the enormous moral and psychological pressures on doctors, Chen also reports on signs of change within the profession.
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
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Katrina Firlik
This compelling tell-all by a brilliant young doctor cracks open the demanding, fascinating world of brain surgery, doing for the neurosurgeon what "Kitchen Confidential" has done for the professional chef.
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Faces of Fear
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John Saul
"Nip/Tuck" meets "Frankenstein" in "New York Times"-bestselling author Saul's creepiest novel yet--the story of a mad plastic surgeon who plots the extreme makeover of an innocent girl to sculpt her into the image of his dead ex-wife.
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If Angels Burn: A Novel of the Darkyn
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Lynn Viehl
Michael Cyprien is New Orleans' most reclusive millionaire--and in need of the skills of brilliant reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Vanessa Killian. Vanessa soon finds her most primal desires unleashed as she delves deeper into the life of her mysterious patient. Original.
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One Dark Night
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Jaid Black
In this erotic thriller, a strong-minded career woman discovers new heights of terror... and passion. The professionally dominant Dr. Nikki Adenike is tormented by fantasies in which she's sexually submissive. But her Internet search for someone to help her live out those fantasies connects her to a serial killer called "Lucifer" instead. ...
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The Patient Nurse
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Diana Palmer
Although the underlying passion between Ramon and Noreen was undeniable, Noreen had never been able to reveal her true feelings for the gorgeous surgeon. He'd always blamed her for the death of his wife and it was only when Noreen fell ill that Ramon realized how wrong he'd been...
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The Society
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Michael Palmer
A serial killer targets top executives at HMOs in this medical thriller by New York Times-bestselling author/physician Michael Palmer. Dr. William Grant, a devoted and highly altruistic surgeon, holds a very public grudge against HMOs: he's a member of the Hippocrates Society, an organization which believes that health-care insurers care more ...
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The Fourth Hand
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John Irving
Patrick Wallingford, a TV reporter, is good looking, successful, and a hit with women. On an assignment, his hand is bitten off by a lion, making him into an instant media celebrity. He meets a childless woman who offers him the hand of her dead husband if he will impregnate her. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
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Dr. Michael Collins
Michael Collins is an orthopedic surgeon who did his residency at the Mayo Clinic. In this memoir of those four years, he writes frankly and convincingly about the constantly alternating horror and exhilaration. As he learns not only to save lives through his increasing skill but to face death as well, Collins provides an often blackly funny ...
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QB VII
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Leon Uris
An author, Abraham Cody, stands trial in England for libel. The evidence against him is a book he wrote detailing his family's extermination at a concentration camp and naming the prominent Sir Adam Kelms as one of the sadistic inmate/doctors who committed the horrible atrocities there.
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Sacrifice
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S J Bolton
Moving to remote Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton; even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched Sunday afternoon ...Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole in her chest where her heart has been brutally removed. ...
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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Gregg Lewis, Deborah Shaw Lewis
In this special Johnson & Johnson TNT movie tie-in edition, kids will read how Ben Carson, an African-American, was able to accomplish his dream through faith and determination. Includes photographs of Ben and his family growing up with a special 8-page color photo section of movie and behind-the-scene images.
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A girl named Rose
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Betty Neels
Through chance Rose meets Holland's most eminent surgeon, Sybren Werdmer ter Sane, and is hired to nurse Sybren's godson. Rose loves everything about her new life--including Sybren. Thinking such an important man won't take an interest in her, Rose does not realize she has the gift of love--which touches even hardhearted surgeons. (July)
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Don't Let the Goats Eat the Loquat Trees: The Adventures of an American Surgeon in Nepal
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Dr. Thomas Hale
Dr. Hale writes about being a missionary surgeon in the same delightful way James Herriot writes about being a Yorkshire veterinarian.
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Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants
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Dr. Paul Brand, Philip Yancey, C Everett Koop, M.D., SC.D. (Foreword by)
Dr Brand began his career in India, where he became a pioneer in the treatment of leprosy. His discovery that leprosy patients could not feel pain was a turning point not only in the understanding of the disease, but in his own approach to pain. He learned that we should listen to pain as our body's most effective way of communicating. This book ...
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A Marked Man
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Stella Cameron
After Max Savage opens his practice in a remote bayou town, he hopes its the start of a new life. He soon discovers he cant escape a past riddled with accusations of murder and the faces of two dead women--especially since another woman is missing, and he had been the last to see her alive.
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Once Bitten, Twice Shy
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Jennifer Rardin
"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" meets "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in this wild, action-packed, debut series from Jennifer Rardin about CIA operative Jaz Parks and her boss, Vayl--a vampire assassin.
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Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife,
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John G Fuller
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Ice Trap
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Kitty Sewell
"Dear Dr Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter. My name is Miranda and I have a twin brother, Mark ...' Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff's life is about to be blown apart by the unexpected news that, fourteen years before, he fathered twins. But that's impossible according to Dafydd since, despite the ...
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Wish with the candles
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Betty Neels
- She is a USA Today bestselling author. - Her series novels consistently ranked #1 in their month, averaging 16 percentage points higher than other titles. - To date, The Best of Betty Neels titles have averaged a 55% NSR. - Since 1996, 21 consecutive #1 Harlequin Romance titles have been published. - Her novel Emma's Wedding (5/02) had a 61% NSR ...
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See Jane Die
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Erica Spindler
A woman confronts an unknown stalker from her past in this thriller from a bestselling writer of romantic suspense. Seventeen years ago, a motorboat ran over Jane Kilian as she was swimming, destroying her face. Today, she is a socially prominent sculptor with a wonderful, handsome husband, and a baby on the way. Plastic surgery restored Jane's ...
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Walk on Water: 3inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit
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Michael Ruhlman
Ruhlman, author of SOUL OF A CHEF, follows the exploits of the pediatric heart center at the Cleveland Clinic, focusing on the world-renowned Dr. Roger Mee. Along the way, Ruhlman offers a glimpse into some of the most controversial topics about pediatric health care in America.
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Every Second Counts: The Race to Transplant the First Human Heart
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Donald McRae
In the tradition of "The Right Stuff" comes the true story of four men locked in a race to transplant the first human heart--a riveting tale of surgical daring, unyielding ambition, and scientific adventure.
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The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France
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Meg Ostrum, Martha Ostrum (Meg) G
Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundred owe their lives to a daring scheme that Belgian Charles Schepens masterminded in Mendive, a remote Basque village near the French-Spanish border. The story of this near-miraculous resistance effort, an epic undertaking carried out in plain view of ...
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