Haven on the Hill

Haven on the Hill
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Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0865263329
ISBN-13 : 9780865263321
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Haven on the Hill by : Marjorie O'Rorke

Haven on the Hill tells the story of Dix Hill (or Dorothea Dix Hospital, as it became known in 1959) from Dorothea Lynde Dix's investigative trip to North Carolina in 1848 to the debate over the property's future following the proposed closing of the hospital in the early 21st century.

The Haven

The Haven
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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781250022530
ISBN-13 : 1250022533
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Haven by : Carol Lynch Williams

For the teens at The Haven, the outside world, just beyond the towering stone wall that surrounds the premises, is a dangerous unknown. It has always been this way, ever since the hospital was established in the year 2020. But The Haven is more than just a hospital; it is their home. It is all they know. Everything is strictly monitored: education, exercise, food, and rest. The rules must be followed to keep the children healthy, to help control the Disease that has cast them as Terminals, the Disease that claims limbs and lungs—and memories. But Shiloh is different; she remembers everything. Gideon is different, too. He dreams of a cure, of rebellion against the status quo. What if everything they've been told is a lie? What if The Haven is not the safe place it claims to be? And what will happen if Shiloh starts asking dangerous questions? Powerful and emotional, The Haven takes us inside a treacherous world in which nothing is as it seems. "Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea of what Carol Lynch Williams has done for early teen readers." (Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Near to Baby)

New Haven's Civil War Hospital

New Haven's Civil War Hospital
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780786476824
ISBN-13 : 0786476826
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis New Haven's Civil War Hospital by : Ira Spar, M.D.

As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States created a national care system primarily funded and regulated by the federal government. When New Haven, Connecticut, was chosen as the site for a new military hospital, Pliny Adams Jewett, next in line to become chief of surgery at Yale, sacrificed his private practice and eventually his future in New Haven to serve as chief of staff of the new thousand-bed Knight U.S. General Hospital. The "War Governor," William Buckingham, personally financed hospital construction while supporting needy soldiers and their families. He appointed state agents to scour battlefields and hospitals to ensure his state's soldiers got the best care while encouraging their transfer to the hospital in New Haven. This history of the hospital's construction and operation during the war discusses the state of medicine at the time as well as the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers.

Medicine Stories

Medicine Stories
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Publisher : South End Press
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 0896085813
ISBN-13 : 9780896085817
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Medicine Stories by : Aurora Levins Morales

Drawing vibrant connections between the colonization of whole nations, the health of the mountainsides and the abuse of individual women, children and men, Medicine Stories offers the paradigm of integrity as a political model to people who hunger for a world of justice, health and love.

Five Days at Memorial

Five Days at Memorial
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 602
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ISBN-10 : 9780307718976
ISBN-13 : 0307718972
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Days at Memorial by : Sheri Fink

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Our Malady

Our Malady
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780593238905
ISBN-13 : 0593238907
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Malady by : Timothy Snyder

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of ill patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children’s future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.

The Children's Hospital

The Children's Hospital
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 628
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ISBN-10 : 0802143334
ISBN-13 : 9780802143334
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Children's Hospital by : Chris Adrian

A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny.

American Medical Directory

American Medical Directory
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1572
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924096394378
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

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The Hospital

The Hospital
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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9781250828682
ISBN-13 : 1250828686
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hospital by : Brian Alexander

"An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before."--Publisher's description.

Nursing World

Nursing World
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 776
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3064826
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

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