Wellons, Jay
Summary: "Tumors, injuries, natural malformations -- there is almost no such thing as a non-emergency brain surgery when it comes to kids. For a pediatric neurosurgeon working in the medical minefield of the brain -- in which every millimeter in every direction governs something that makes us essentially human -- every day presents the challenge, the opportunity, to give a new lease on life to a child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLONS, JAY WELThomas, Vivien T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 THOKarl, Richard C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 KARMorris, Charles R.
Contents: Fixing Mr. Goldfarb -- A very short history of heart surgery -- Artisans at work -- The most precious resource -- Erika's story -- School for heart surgeons -- The measurement problem -- The future of heart surgery -- Money -- Policy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.092 MORRelin, David Oliver.
Summary: David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. This book takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 610 RELAptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe
Summary: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUTTER, THOMAS D APTBrownstein, Gabriel
Summary: "Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the Tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world at a unique moment in the history of heart disease. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, but surviving with his condition meant riding wave after wave of innovation to keep his heart beating. The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of mortality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNSTEIN, GABRIEL BROFirlik, Katrina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4809 FIRRuhlman, Michael
Summary: Documents the environment of a pediatric heart center that specializes in neonatal open-heart surgery, profiling Cleveland Clinic's renowned Dr. Roger Mee while exploring a range of controversial topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health RuhlmanDittrich, Luke
Summary: In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation--the lobotomy--that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality. These "psychosurgeons," as they called themselves, occupied a gray zone between medical research and medical practice, and ended up subjecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 DITNott, David (David M.)
Summary: For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOTT, DAVID NOTSmith, Craig R.
Summary: "The celebrated cardio-thoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, writes an elegant story of life in the land of illness and daily miracles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, CRAIG R. SMIBennitt, John.
Summary: "In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, physician John Bennitt of Centerville, Michigan, joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service until the end of the war. During this time, Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters. In them he shared his careful and detailed observations of army life, including dramatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.775 BENFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "A biography of the plastic surgeon Harold Gillies with an emphasis on the development of plastic surgery during WWI"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILLIES, H.D. FITGawande, Atul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health GawandeLieu, Susan
Summary: "An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIEU, SUSAN LIETrout, Nick.
Summary: From the frontlines of modern medicine, this is an insider portrait of a veterinarian, his furry patients, and the blend of old-fashioned instincts and cutting-edge technology that defines pet care in the 21st century. Dr. Trout, an Englishman who is a staff surgeon at Boston's Angell Animal Medical Center, takes the reader on a vicarious journey through 24 intimate, heartrending hours in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 TROLevy, David (David I.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.561 LEVChilton, Leanne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: English Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.853 CHIFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISTER, JOSEPH FITGrey, Jennifer
Summary: "A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found-from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B GREY GREMarkel, Howard.
Summary: The astonishing account of the decades-long cocaine use of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted. The author discusses the physical and emotional damage caused by the constant use of the then-heralded wonder drug, and of how each man ultimately changed the world in spite of it--or because of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MARReiner, Jon.
Summary: "Based on his Esquire magazine article, The man who couldn't eat is the very personal journey of Jon Reiner's struggle with chronic illness"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 REISwartz, Mimi
Summary: "In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier's lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018