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82) The doctor
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a self-centered doctor is diagnosed with cancer, he becomes better able to empathize with his patients and appreciate a life outside his career.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 227 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It was New Year's Day. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, a young mother and scientist, was celebrating with family and friends when she was struck down with a sudden fever. Within hours, she'd suffered multiple organ failure and was clinically dead. Then, brought back to the edge of life - trapped in a near-death coma - she was given a 5 percent chance of survival. She awoke to find herself completely paralyzed, with blinking as her sole means of communicating...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 704 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner.
87) Case study
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character. In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet...
89) Mumford
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford comes to the idyllic town of the same name, and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tom Brokaw had led a lucky life--marrying his childhood sweetheart (they have been married for 51 years), rising to fame in the journalism world on the Today Show and as the NBC Nightly News anchor for 22 years, publishing the world-renowned book The Greatest Generation--when suddenly he took two inexplicable falls. Nagging back pain led him to the doctors at Mayo, who had shocking news: he had multiple myeloma, the treatable but incurable blood...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
15 DVDs (74 hr., 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a tumultous fight for a patient's life, Hank abandons his life as a hotshot doctor in NYC. To blow off steam, he and his brother crash a party in the Hamptons where he ends up being the "doctor in the house" when a medical emergency occurs. With all eyes on him, he decides to build that reputation into a career as a concierge doctor to the wealthy residents.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Each year, one out of every four hospital patients in the United States will be harmed by the care they receive. Over 400,000 will die as a result. Watson delivers a patient-centered blueprint on how to transform the patient-safety movement, and provides key safety habits that people must learn to recognize so they can be sure hospital personnel use them during every patient encounter.
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past few decades, technology has been touted as the cure for all of healthcare's ills, yet medicine stubbornly resisted computerization-- until now. Thanks largely to billions of dollars in federal incentives, healthcare has finally gone digital. Wachter examines healthcare at the dawn of its computer age, and shows how technology is changing care at the bedside. He questions whether government intervention has been useful or destructive--...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (1,060 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain and ignoring his pain killing addiction, he uses his cane to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. House and his team deal with unusual medical mysteries.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 1,050 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk."--Container.
97) The hatbox baby
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
98) Mumford
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wanna-be psychologist comes to the idyllic town of the same name, he offers his talent for listening, and a disarming frankness as the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets, including those of the beautiful and troubled Sofie Crisp, no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her mother become a renowned anesthesiologist too. As a young girl, Puri realized that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own was nearly impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and faith. Puri spent her childhood in nurse's lounges waiting for her mother to exit the OR, and also in deep conversation with...
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