"In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...

"Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated World War II medic who risked his life to save the heroes of D-Day."--

Welcome to Apple Grove, Ohio (pop. 597), a small town with a big heart. Caitlin Mulcahy loves her family. She really does. But sometimes they can drive her to her last shred of sanity -- from her dad (I'm not meddling, I just want what's best for you) to her eight-months-pregnant older sister to her younger sister, who will do just about anything to avoid real work. Cait just needs to get away, even if for only an hour. When she sees someone in need...

"Young people who are in interested in health care can select from an incredible array of careers. They may work as dental assistants, doctors, or dieticians. Or they may lean toward exercise physiology, speech pathology, massage therapy, or medical transcription. With such promising growth potential, a mind-boggling array of job choices, and large variations in required education, health care offers tremendous potential for the future"--

"Physician and author Danielle Ofri investigates how medical error could be killing 10% of patients and causing 33% of hospital deaths. These stories ask us to reconsider what happens when the medical system does us harm"--

"More than 180 pages of sample resumes and cover letters designed especially for health care professionals, from technicians to physicians!"--Cover.

Laughter is the best medicine. This classic comedy continues its tour of duty as the complete 8th season premieres. Including an emotional farewell to Radar.

"Health care is an attractive career choice for today's young people for several reasons. Overall job growth in this sector has increased dramatically in recent years and shows no sign of stopping. The population in the United States is getting older, and advances in health care mean that people are living longer than ever before. This means that the demand for health care will only increase in the coming decades."--

Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...

"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....