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Meet my neighbor, the paramedic / by Crabtree, Marc.;
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Subjects: Emergency medical technicians; Emergency medical services; Allied health personnel;
© c2010., Crabtree Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Every minute is a day : a doctor, an emergency room, and a city under siege / by Meyer, Robert(Robert H.),author.; Koeppel, Dan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."An urgent, on-the-ground account of chaos and compassion from the front lines of COVID-19, from a New York Times journalist and a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency room. When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer's grave reply-100-was merely the cusp of the crisis that has since touched every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he'd seen and whom he'd treated, their exchanges acting as part diary, part family therapy, and eventually a document of historic chaos and grief. Combining the frontline perspective of an ER doctor and a journalist's discerning research and reporting, Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by COVID-19, filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life and death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved"--
Subjects: Meyer, Robert (Robert H.); Montefiore Medical Center.; COVID-19 (Disease); COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Emergency physicians; Hospitals;
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Life on the ground floor : letters from the edge of emergency medicine / by Maskalyk, James,1973-author.;
"A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive. In this deeply personal book, humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, author of the highly acclaimed Six Months in Sudan, draws upon his experience treating patients in the world's emergency rooms. From Toronto to Addis Ababa, Cambodia to Bolivia, he discovers that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital may differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. Here, on the ground floor, is where Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of "human aliveness"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty of being and the resilience of the human spirit. And it's here too that he is swept into the story, confronting his fears and doubts and questioning what it is to be a doctor."--
Subjects: Maskalyk, James, 1973-; Emergency physicians.; Hospitals; Emergency medicine.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lockdown / by May, Peter,1951-author.;
"Written over fifteen years ago, this prescient, suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop of a capital city in quarantine, and explores human experience in the grip of a killer virus. 'They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren't good.' A city in quarantine. London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No-one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are overwhelmed. A murdered child. At a building site for a temporary hospital, construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. A powerful conspiracy. D.I. Jack MacNeil, counting down the hours on his final day with the Met, is sent to investigate. His career is in ruins, his marriage over and his own family touched by the virus. Sinister forces are tracking his every move, prepared to kill again to conceal the truth. Which will stop him first - the virus or the killers?"--Publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Medical fiction.; Murder; Epidemics; Avian influenza; Quarantine; Conspiracies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Complications : a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.;
Known for its luxurious accommodations and bespoke service, the Hotel Louis XVI has been the most lauded boutique hotel in all of Paris for decades, attracting an international clientele of the rich and famous. Now, after four years of renovations and the death of its legendary and beloved manager, it is set to reopen its doors at last. An esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a number of new faces who have managed to secure coveted bookings in the wake of last-minute cancellations. Awaiting them all is the Louis XVI's new manager, Olivier Bateau, an anxious man whose lack of experience leaves him unprepared. He and his level-headed assistant manager, Yvonne Philippe, both strive to continue the hotel's tradition of excellence. But they quickly realize that anything can happen at any moment, and on one cool September evening, everything does. A successful art consultant arrives at the hotel for the first time since her brutal divorce, and is surprised to find new love--if she is willing to risk her heart again. A new guest contemplates ending his life, and saves a life instead. A couple finds their once-in-a-lifetime trip interrupted by a tragic medical emergency, leaving the idyllic future they've long waited for hanging in the balance. And one of the hotel's most high-profile guests, a French politician and assumed presidential candidate, holds a mysterious meeting in his suite that will threaten his life and legacy. Rocked by the events of this one fateful night, guests and staff alike brace themselves for the aftershock, as it quickly becomes apparent that more dramas and misfortunes are still in store. Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story about a famed hotel, where a few complications quickly escalate into a matter of life and death, changing the lives of everyone who passes through its doors.
Subjects: Hotels; Hotel management; Life change events; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Nurse Jackie. [videorecording] / by Bernstein, Adam,1960-; Best, Eve,1971-; Facinelli, Peter,1973-; Falco, Edie.; Feig, Paul.; Schulze, Paul.; Taylor, Alan,1965-; Wever, Merritt.; Lions Gate Television (Firm); Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.;
Disc 1. Comfort food -- Twitter -- Candyland -- Apple bong.Disc 2. Caregiver -- Bleeding -- Silly string -- Monkey bits.Disc 3. P.O. box -- Sleeping dogs -- What the day brings -- Years of service.Edie Falco, Eve Best, Peter Facinelli, Paul Schulze, Merritt Weaver.Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. For Jackie, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. In the second season Jackie struggles to keep up as a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation, 2.0 Dolby Digital, 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Chronic pain in women; Dark comedy television programs.; Hospitals; Hospitals; Medical television programs.; Nurses; Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2011., Lionsgate ; Distributed by Maple Pictures,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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