Nargi, Lela
Summary: Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG NARWellons, 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 WELHabnit, Eleonora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.477 HABNargi, Lela
Summary: Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone Imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.089 NARSchwartz, Theodore H.
Summary: "A popular biography of brain surgery told by one of its preeminent practitioners"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.4 SCHKarl, 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 KARRutkow, Ira M.
Summary: "From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development-spanning the Stone Age to the present day-blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 RUTThomas, 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 THOMorris, 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 RELSummary: Follows the lives of two plastic surgeons in their Miami practice. All 15 episodes from the fourth season of the television series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIPCalvin, William H.
Summary: In a series of highly charged encounters before, after, and during neurosurgery, an epileptic patient, Neil; his surgeon, George Ojemann; and neuroscientist William Calvin explore the intricate landscape of the brain, and in so doing, reveal the mystery of human memory, thought, and language. With novelistic detail, Conversations with Neil's Brain tells the story of a man offered the promise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 CALGutiérrez, Jolene
Summary: "Using innovative designs and technology such as 3-D printing, humans are helping animals in need. Discover the amazing true stories of five animals that have survived thanks to their prosthetic body parts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.089 GUTHamilton, Douglas
Summary: A guide to facial-care treatments and procedures presented by two top Beverly Hills doctors covers surgical and non-surgical options and discusses how to make a selection in accordance with skin type and personal needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.9 HAMJamieson, Stuart
Summary: Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R. Stuart Jamieson has lived two lives. One began in heat and dust. Born to British ex-pats in colonial Africa, Jamieson was sent at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JAMIESON, STUART JAMContents: Disc one: Carly Summers (Includes scene from the cutting room floor) ; Joyce & Sharon Monroe ; Special feature: Hollywood hedonism -- Disc two: Everett Poe (Includes scene from the cutting room floor) ; Dawn Budge II ; Chaz Darling -- Disc three: Damien Sands ; Dr Joshua Lee ; Duke Collins (Includes scene from the cutting room floor) -- Disc four: Rachel Ben Natan ; Magda & Jeff ; Kyle Ainge --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIPSummary: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are two plastic surgeons running a partnership in Miami, Florida with different views on life. Sean is a weak family man who distances himself with work to avoid a dysfunctional home life that includes his wife Julie and his rebellious teenage son Matt. Christian is an arrogant, narcissistc, unethical ladies' man who worships wine, women, and the almighty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIPAptowicz, 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: 617.98 RUHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health RuhlmanSchneider, David
Summary: The Invention of Surgery explains this dramatic progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures. It links together the lives of the pioneering scientists who first understood what causes disease, how organs become infected or cancerous, and how surgery could powerfully intercede in people's lives, and then shows how the rise of surgery intersected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617 SCHSummary: Follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, where all transgender and gender nonconforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. This feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor's work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BORSummary: Flash and cash. Sex and style. Power and prestige. All it takes is a Nip/Tuck. The acclaimed series continues in this 16-episode season two set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004