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The explosive new thriller from "New York Times-"bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with "Coma" what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical "incubators" against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A science writer specializing in medicine, Fleischman tells how Gage, foreman of a railroad construction gang, survived an iron rod being blasted through his brain in 1848, and how the subsequent study of him contributed to the modern understanding of the central nervous system.
15) Awakenings
Pub. Date
©1997
Description
Based on a true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he saves.
16) Call Jane
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Since THE THYROID DIET hit the New York Times bestseller list in 2004, the number of Americans diagnosed with thyroid disease has more than doubled--and that's just a fraction of the 50 million people suspected of living with the condition in the US. Now even more topical than its predecessor, THE THYROID DIET REVOLUTION identifies the factors that inhibit a thyroid patient's inability to lose weight and offers much-needed solutions"--