Medical Reading

Get ready to gag, laugh, and learn with Scary Medicine: Horrible Cures and Creepy Diseases from History! From leeches and bloodletting to quack devices that promised to cure everything from headaches to “the vapors,” medical history is stranger - and grosser - than you ever imagined. This book dives into the weird, shocking, and sometimes hilarious world of medicine from 1800 to the 1970s, revealing: Deadly diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid, smallpox, and the Spanish flu - and how people tried to survive them Bizarre treatments including electric belts, vibrating chairs, and “...

It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events, culminating in an ominous package—possibly a bomb—showing up at the front desk of the apartment building where she and her husband, Benton, live.

Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers.

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age.

In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Marino dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.

The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning. A sixteen-year-old tennis star, fresh from a tournament win Charleston, is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. The body of an abused young boy is dumped in a desolate marsh. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-dollar beach home.

The Unexpected Crush, the hot and sexy series by Alexa Wilder, is now available as a complete series. For the first time you can read all five books in one volume! She won’t sacrifice her dreams for a man. He proves she doesn’t have to. Kaia Davenport has left her old life behind. Now an intern at a prestigious hospital, she’s sacrificed so much to get where she is. She’s confident in her job, but when it comes to her curvy body, she’s learned she’s not in every man’s taste. And it’s not like she has time to date - all she cares about is her dream of being a doctor. ...

He’s my patient. The legend I’m supposed to heal. And the one man I’m not allowed to want. I’m a surgeon. Rules and control are what keep me steady. But Derek Callahan is anything but steady. He’s chaos in cleats and my biggest mistake waiting to happen. He’s supposed to be recovering. I’m supposed to keep my distance. Instead, I’m watching the man who once owned the football field fight his way back…and fight me every step of the way. He tests my limits and my patience. Every smug grin, every cocky wink, every inch of six-foot-two confidence he struts around with. But ...

“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine” (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned...

Brought to you by Penguin. *** Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright *** When identical twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons were three they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up...

This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia - now reissued with a new postscript - follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. "Sylvia Frumkin" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her life.

Since the first book things have progressively and rather rapidly got worse. That book was about living cheap so you can have a better life, now it seems you have to live cheap just to survive. Things have changed and not for the better. The virus that kind of invaded our space and the government's reaction to it has doubled down, so now we have to live cheap just to survive. Before living cheap was a lifestyle choice now it seemed it is more of a necessity just to keep your head above water. The government's reaction to the virus is a concern, but the government reaction to climate change ...

SAT 1560 Plus: The Ultimate Real Practice, Secrets & Strategies Guide — Realistic Questions, Elite Hacks, and Insider Techniques to Master Every Section and Ace the SAT Test If your dream is an Ivy League acceptance letter and an SAT score that leaves admissions officers speechless — you’re holding the ultimate key to make it happen. SAT 1560 Plus isn’t just another test prep book — it’s your all-access pass to the strategies, real questions, and score-boosting secrets used by the top 0.1% of SAT scorers. This is the guide for students who refuse to settle for average. Inside ...

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast...

A pediatric ER doctor. Her brother's best friend. One forty-pound pumpkin. Three years of unfinished business. Claire Bennett saves children for a living — but she can't save herself from the confession she made three years ago. The night she told Ryan Mitchell she'd had feelings for him since high school, he said nothing. She's been avoiding him ever since. Ryan Mitchell builds custom furniture and carries the weight of words he never said. He froze that night because he was dating someone else. He ended that relationship six months later — because of Claire. But by then, she'd stopped...

An emotional story that encourage us to overcome ourselves We will meet a doctor who only prescribes injections and medicines. Will he cure all the patients who go through his consultation? In this emotional story we will get into the skin of a child who is afraid of punctures and who may also need a special treatment. Bilingual Tale available in both English and Spanish. The book also contains pictures to learn the alphabet through three sections: Learn the alphabet Letter ... is for ... Spell it out Other books in the series Tales to be told All the tales together can also be found in a ...

A funny and empowering memoir from a girl with a severe form of cerebral palsy, for fans of Wonder and Out of My Mind. When she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed...

An emotional story of two inseparable friends with very special abilities In our classroom we have always had classmates with different skills, and group work allows us to do tasks that we could not carry out on our own. You will discover the fantastic skills of two friends and how they manage to enhance them by working together. Bilingual Tale available in both English and Spanish. The book also contains pictures to learn the alphabet through three sections: Learn the alphabet Letter ... is for ... Spell it out Other books in the series Tales to be told All the tales together can also be ...

Author T. Lee Baumann, MD, was introduced to the Edgar Cayce readings through the publication of his first book, God at the Speed of Light. Subsequently, physician Baumann began to research the clairvoyant's medical readings. In this book, Baumann analyzes the documentation utilizing scientific data, the modern medical literature, quantum physics references, and the world's major religions.

Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowska who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for a married couple - two disorganized, rather poor scientists so distracted by their work that their house and young child are often neglected.