Frank Carlson Library

Feeling weak from not having eaten properly all day, Kevin visits the school nurse, finding out about the four major food groups and observing her helping children with all kinds of problems.

On a visit to the hospital Billy and Wendy learn about different kinds of X-ray machines.

"A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees' income and Medicare guarantees them affordable health insurance. But few people know what Medicare covers and what it doesn't, what it costs, and...

Follows a young girl on a trip to the doctor's office where she has a checkup.

"The nurses of the Civil War ushered in a new era for medicine in the midst of tremendous hardship. While the country was at war, these women not only learned to advocate and care for patients in hostile settings, saved countless lives, and changed the profession forever, they regularly fell ill with no one to nurse them in return, seethed in anger at the indifference and inefficiency that left wounded men on the battlefield without care, and all...

Text and pictures describe what might happen during a visit to the doctor's office and during a chest X ray.

Uses letters, stories, and informational text to explain what to expect when you have to go to the hospital.