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An important contribution to medical history and women-in-medicine collections, this volume presents nine physicians' stories arranged according to the era in which they received their training -- those that were heir to the 19th-century tradition of female physicians stories arranged according to the era in which they received as nurturers, well-suited for preventative medicine; those trained during the great social and technological changes of the...
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This short documentary highlights how the mechanism of discrimination prevents foreign-trained doctors from practicing in Canada - even after they've received their Canadian qualifications. Every year, scores of these doctors are turned down for the residencies they need in order to practice - and many of those residencies stay vacant. Through interviews with medical professionals and human rights advocates it becomes clear that systemic racism is...
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At the age of four, Philip Zazove was speaking to his father, who turned away to replace some books on a shelf. "Daddy," Philip cried, "look at me when I talk!" His father replied, and Philip said, "What did you say, Daddy?" His father turned around and repeated what he'd just said, "Philip, I don't have to look at you to hear you." "Yes, you do. How else could you hear me?" The question led to extensive tests that confirmed that, except for minimal...
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Medical practitioners are key actors in many well-known works of fiction and literature, presenting a vital insight into the social, medical, scientific and ethical concerns of their authors and readers. However, medical professionals are often left little time to explore such cultural perceptions of their profession, and by extension themselves, despite the extent to which the views of their patients and society have been - and still are - shaped...
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In Vermont, a prosecutor forges documents to save an alternative-medicine healer from a malpractice suit. Leland Fowler had his throat infection cured by homeopath Carissa Lake and they fell in love. Now a patient has died on her and she has problems, and soon so will he. By the author of Midwives.
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"In this backwater in the war on terror, Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semicomfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it"--Provided by Publishers Weekly...
19) Random Winds
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The saga of three generations of doctors in the Farrell family begins with a country doctor at the turn of the century in rural New York.
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