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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the 1870's, surgery was a crude affair performed on the patient's kitchen table. In the frontier town of Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. W. W. Mayo brought his young sons, Will and Charlie, to assist him with operations. Fifty years later, Rochester became a medical mecca as the Mayo brothers were established as world-class surgeons. With a firm belief in sharing information and learning from others, the Mayo brothers proved the benefits of cooperation...
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A riveting memoir from the Navy doctor praised as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of Newsweek. Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. At thirty-eight, the last place the Navy doctor was expected to be was on the front lines. He was too old to be called up, but not too old to volunteer. In November 2004, with the military reeling from an acute doctor shortage, Jadick chose to accompany the First Battalion,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An introduction to the life and achievements of the first American female doctor describes the limited career prospects available to women in the early nineteenth-century, the opposition Blackwell faced while pursuing a medical education, and her pioneering medical career that opened doors for future generations of women.
8) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
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"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Neal shares the details of her life in which she has experienced not just one miracle, but many. Her experiences provide confirmation that miracles still occur, shows how God keeps his promises and why there is sufficient reason to live by faith.
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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...
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ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Highlights the life and accomplishments of the woman who earned a medical degree and volunteered her services during the Civil War, earning her a Medal of Honor and helping her crusade for women's rights.
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Rosen Pub. Group's PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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A simple presentation of the achievements of the woman who was the first to enter medical school, who established the first nursing school in the United States, who began medical colleges for women, and who made it possible for other women to become doctors.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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With features on "20/20" on August 18 and "Good Morning America," on August 19, the buzz is building for this terrifying true tale. The bestselling author of Den of Thieves and Blood Sport returns with another revealing, shocking, era-defining story of deception and misdeeds. This time around, Pulitzer Prize-winner James B. Stewart follows the path of one Michael Swango, a serial killer in a doctor's coat. Stewart slips inside America's cloistered...
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