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A medical memoir focusing on one emergency room doctor's shift in an urban ER follows the experiences of real patients and focuses on the story of a forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in sudden cardiac arrest and the challenges it presents for physicians.
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"Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's 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,...
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"A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life--his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test himself, see how he might respond to pressure and danger. He...
4) EMT's tools
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"Understanding each tool is made easy with simple definitions and in-use photos that will show kids how an ambulance, gurney, defibrillator and oxygen mask works."--
5) Ambulances
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"A basic introduction to ambulances. Simple text and full color photographs. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
6) ER doctors
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This title takes a look into the education, career, and daily tasks of emergency room doctors, and how they help in emergency situations. This series is at a Level 2 and is written specifically for emerging readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
7) ER nurses
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This title takes a look into the education, career, and daily tasks of emergency room nurses, and how they help in emergency situations. This series is at a Level 2 and is written specifically for emerging readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
8) Paramedics
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This title takes a look into the education, career, and daily tasks of paramedics, and how they help in emergency situations.
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David Ryland's final mission is to fly a Middle Eastern orphan to Texas for lifesaving surgery. Yet, the secret awaiting the brave pilot at home requires courage of a new kind. The father David never knew suddenly has a name. A late war hero confessed his parentage in a deathbed letter-;a letter that beautiful charity worker Anna Terenkov knows all about. If David can open his heart to the truth, will he also find room there for Anna?
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Harlequin medical romance volume 1030
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Surprise reunion......with her husband! Dr. Ruby Cloutier agreed to a marriage with army doc Aran Atkinson in name only so she could continue working in Alaska. Aran's military service has suitably kept them apart--and their attraction at bay--until he unexpectedly returns, more brooding and tempting than ever! Now working together on life-threatening cases, it's getting harder to resist the burning chemistry between them. Suddenly Ruby finds herself...
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Known as one of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans plays host to incidents ranging from the tragic and disturbing to the completely bizarre-and during his career as an emergency medic, Jon McCarthy saw it all. He chronicles some of the most formative calls of his career in this autobiography that reads like crime fiction. McCarthy demonstrates with detail and clarity that the difficult choice is often the right choice. While not for the...
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Firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians are all essential front-line workers. They work hard to help people in emergency situations, and they need to do their jobs well under a lot of pressure. Readers take a closer look at what it takes to work in the field of emergency services in this exciting guide to a high-interest group of community helpers.
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A Day In The Life Of An Ambulance Driver is a collection of stories told from the viewpoint of the author during his time as an EMT, paramedic, and Navy Corpsman. These stories are based on real life situations and told with attention to detail in an attempt to help the reader visualize the experience for him or her self.
17) Super paramedic!
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When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.
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La gran pausa es una radiografía uno de los momentos más complejos de las últimas décadas. Asistimos a pérdidas humanas en cifras sin precedentes fuera de una guerra, así como a un impacto económico de proporciones bíblicas, abocándonos a la desazón y al caos; pero como en el caos también hay orden, un grupo de intelectuales y especialistas nos propone un análisis, una suerte de gramática de la pandemia, para entender cómo un pequeño...
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Scott Eberhart has worked 911 emergency services for over thirty-eight years. Come inside his ambulance and experience the exhaustion, raw emotion, fall off the chair humor and desperation that comes with the job. This is what it's like as a paramedic over the long haul.
"In this business, you do learn degrees of dead. There is almost dead, sorta dead, and kinda dead. Those you can do something about."
"Rescue workers are not immune to human...
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"On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured. In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the...
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