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81) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the ambulance crash that ended Season One, medical director Dr. Max Goodwin grieves the death of his wife, Georgia, and learns the difficulties of being a single parent all the while continuing his commitment to solve systemic health care issues at the hospital. With his new responsibilities as a father and cancer still lingering in the rearview mirror, everyone around Max must wonder how long he can sustain this impossible load. But...
84) Dead inside
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms and engaging in destructively aberrant behavior. As the unwittingly help each other understnad a world in which neither seems to belong, they begin to realize what it truly means to be alive... And that it might not...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New Orleans to San Francisco, Cheney and Shiloh are now working at a large hospital - a contrast from their previous circumstances. Though Cheney is accepted and respected by most of the other doctors, the medical personnel under her supervision question her character, her intent, and her skills. Further, she and Shiloh must constantly be on alert to ensure that fair and conscientious medical treatment is provided to the city's down-and-outers....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ali McGovern, the mentally unstable narrator of this unsettling thriller set in Scotland from Edgar-finalist McPherson (Quiet Neighbors), manages to land a well-paying job at Howell Hall, a psychiatric hospital in the Galloway countryside, despite her lack of experience with special-needs clients. On the home front, her husband has run his business into the ground, and her beloved 15-year-old son is sullen and uncommunicative. At Howell Hall, Ali...
88) Wildthorn
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the courageous team of doctors, nurses and staff of Chicago Med deal with the pulse pounding pandemonium of the emergency room, heart wrenching drama impacts them both professionally and personally. With lives on the line every day, the ED team finds themselves on an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the hospital that gets Chicago's most difficult and challenging cases.
93) The house of God
Author
Series
House of God volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intern becomes disillusioned with the medical establishment when he sees his fellow interns fall for the illusions that destroy a doctor's ability to relate to and really care for his patients.
94) Foreign body
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
95) Elyse
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital. It's the care from Dr. Lewis and the unconditional love from her nurse, David, that promise recovery.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Salpetriere Asylum: Paris, 1885. Dr. Charcot holds all of Paris in thrall with his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad and cast out from society. But the truth is much more complicated--these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives, those who have lost something precious, wayward daughters, or girls born from adulterous relationships. For Parisian society, the highlight of the year is the Lenten ball--the Madwomen's...
99) Angels in the ER
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Series
Language
English
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Description
You should spend some time in the ER. You will learn that angels do exist. Some are nurses, a few are doctors, and many are everyday people. In these true stories--some thoughtful, some delightful, some heart-pumping--you will see close-up the joys and struggles of people like you. Along with them, you can search your own heart for answers to finding grace and peace in the darkness, and living well in the light.
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