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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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For Dr. David Beck everyday for the past eight years he has relived the horror of what happened. Everyone tells him its time to move on, but for Beck there can be no closure. A message appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Beck is taunted with the impossible--ELizabeth is still alive.
Series
Doc Martin volume Series 7
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
When a London surgeon develops an aversion to blood, he leaves the city to become the doctor for the rural fishing village of Portwenn.
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Series
Language
English
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"Welcome Back to the Village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello again to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kinkaid, and O'Reilly's pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat. And of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty. After Barry's first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O'Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty's excitement...
6) Third degree
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Language
English
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Laurel Shields awakens to find her physician husband, Warren, in his study, wildly pulling books from the shelves. A home pregnancy test confirms Laurel's fear that she is pregnant, and she believes her lover is the father. Later that morning, Laurel is surprised to find her husband still at home, pale and fearful. Then, in come the children, innocent of it all. In less than five hours the Shields house becomes the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege....
7) Arrowsmith
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Language
English
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Portrait of an American whose work becomes his life.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini.
The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset.
The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for the Duke of Monmouth....
9) Cell
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English
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"George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. George's initial collision...
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Language
English
Description
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Franciscos busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
11) The promise
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Scott Grant has a bustling family practice in Thunder Point, Oregon. The town has embraced the widowed doctor and father of two, his children are thriving, and Scott knows it's time to move on from his loss. But the dating pool is limited. That is, until a physician's assistant applies for a job at his clinic. Peyton Lacoumette has already been burned by a man with kids. When Scott offers her a job, at a much lower salary than she's used to, Peyton...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the tale in which a kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
13) Of human bondage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a clergyman, but Philip sheds his religious faith and begins to study art in Paris.
14) The citadel
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c.1965
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award Winner. The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as he navigates the challenges of practicing medicine across interwar Wales and England. Based on Cronin's own experiences as a physician, The Citadel boldly confronts traditional medical ethics, and has been noted as one of the inspirations for the formation of the National Health Service. The...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Widower Leland Fowler, a deputy state prosecutor, finds love again when he makes an appointment with homeopath Carissa Lake in an attempt to rid himself of a chronic sore throat, but he faces an ethical and moral dilemma when Carissa is suspected of causing the death of one of her asthma patients.
17) Madame Bovary
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Landmark 19th century novel in which a woman defies the standards of conventional French society.
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Language
English
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"Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States." "One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician...
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Series
Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound... At the end of a long day, 16-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful...