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Women's Murder Club volume 5
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Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospitals reputation.
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Fredrik Welin is a reclusive ex-surgeon living alone on a tiny island in the north of Sweden. His only companions are a pair of aged pets, and the only society callers to his living room are ants that are transforming his table into an enormous anthill. Every morning, the loner goes out to the frozen lake, cuts a hole in the ice, and then plunges himself into the freezing water to remind himself that he is still alive. Four women enter his life: Harriet,...
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Discover A New Series (WPL-ADULT)
OBD All About Romance- ADULT
OBD First in Series - ADULT
Small Town Sweethearts
OBD All About Romance- ADULT
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Small Town Sweethearts
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"When a high-risk neurosurgery procedure results in the death of a teenager, Maggie Sullivan finds herself in the middle of a lawsuit. She knows she needs to slow down before she burns out completely, and the best place she can think to do that is Sullivan's Crossing, the land that now belongs to her eccentric father, Sully. But shortly after arriving, Maggie's world is rocked once again and she must take on more responsibility than she'd planned....
4) Charlatans
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"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"-- an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy...
5) The Art of Settlement: A Lawyer's Guide to Regulatory Compliance when Resolving Catastrophic Claim
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The regulatory landscape of the personal injury lawyer has become exceedingly complicated. Assisting clients with catastrophic disabilities now exposes you personally to government recovery actions, damages, and malpractice risks. It's vital that your personal injury practice has a comprehensive plan for compliance when resolving cases if you want to protect yourself-and protect your clients.
In The Art of Settlement, Jason Lazarus helps you navigate...
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The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson' is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England...
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With America's healthcare system in the midst of upheaval, and with government officials, physicians, and the public-at-large focused as never before on the cost and quality of these vital services, a hidden epidemic-medical malpractice-destroys hundreds of thousands of lives each year and is ignored by the majority of the medical establishment.
Lethal Medicine is the first book to thoroughly examine malpractice, and its author, Harvey F. Wachsman,...
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En este ensayo, el autor describe con total claridad el proceso policial y judicial desde la aprensión del presunto delincuente hasta su liberación, y con algo de cinismo ilustra las graves y endémicas fallas de un sistema judicial uruguayo que niega derechos humanos básicos a los indagados, en una máquina de procesar delitos de toda índole a pasos acelerados, con las cárceles abarrotadas y los juzgados penales trabajando muy por encima de...
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"For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her. Suddenly, it's much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely...
10) Hope: a novel
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"A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends her free time helping resettle refugees. Their...
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"Three generations of Cartwright women have run the Four Winds cattle ranch, and Liz Cartwright is being pressed to keep the tradition going. But Liz wants to continue her legal practice in town, not spend her time working the land. She needs a man to do the heavy lifting! Travis Anderson is also a big-city lawyer, claiming to be back in Laramie County with a desire to reconnect with his ranching roots. Only Liz isn't buying it. When it turns out...
13) Deadly deals
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After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves.
14) Trial
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A memoir of the last five years experiences of an average guy who ran into a "few" problems that were not of his making. These experiences of life couldn't really be true in this day and age and in this republic, could they?
Do lawyers get cut slack? What if you did it? Or, I did it?
Who stands up for the average guy?
What if the average guy is somebody's target?
Franz Kafka understood. He had a handle on it.
And yet, we trust our systems and our...
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"In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms. When the child dies suddenly later that night, Noah is accused by the boy's regular physician--the powerful and politically connected Dr. Arnold Frias--of prescribing a lethal dose of laudanum. To prove his innocence, Noah must investigate the murder--for it must be murder--and confront...
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"El doctor Benjamín comete un error en el quirófano, y enfrenta cargos por negligencia médica. Abrumado por la frustración, ocasiona un accidente automovilístico en el que fallece su propia esposa. Es acusado de asesinato y le retiran la custodia de su hija. Al tocar fondo, solo tendrá dos opciones."--Page [4] of cover.
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La réparation d'une atteinte à l'intégrité physique est le plus souvent ressentie comme injuste et aléatoire.
Injuste car cette atteinte est, dans notre droit, traitée différemment selon son origine : pathologique ou accidentelle, avec ou sans responsabilité d'un tiers, indemnisable ou non selon le régime juridique dans lequel — par hasard — elle s'inscrit. Aléatoire selon la qualité des experts qui auront à connaître de son estimation,...
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Every mob boss needs a hitman. Somebody who will do the dirty job on the mob boss' behalf by threatening, assaulting and if needed killing those, the mob boss wants away.In this shocking world super-exclusive book, we present one of the most famous and active hitmen inside Microsoft. Yes, you read that right! Microsoft does have such people on its rolls because it employs such tactics inside the company to ensure the heads of the company stay powerful...
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The landmark study of how medical errors are managed among surgeons and other hospital staff-now in an updated edition with a new preface and epilogue.
When it was first published, Forgive and Remember offered groundbreaking insight into the training and lives of young surgeons. It quickly emerged as the definitive sociological study on the subject. While medical errors are both inevitable and potentially devastating, Bosk found that they could be...
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