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"Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In 'Gifted Hands', he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions at age thirty-three. Taking you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives, Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts...
42) Proof of heaven
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Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander argued against near-death experiences until a rare illness forced him into a coma for seven days. When he came to, Alexander recounted his journey into new realms of existence, where he met an angelic being not of this world.
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Brilliant brain surgeon Banzai just made scientific history. Shifting his Oscillation Overthruster into warp speed, he's the first man ever to travel to the Eighth Dimension and come back sane! But when his sworn enemy, the demented Dr. Lizardo, devises a plot to steal the Overthruster and bring an evil army of aliens back to destroy Earth, Buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the madman in an extra-dimensional battle that could result in total annihilation...
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"The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart,...
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"Since her brother took his life after WWI, Ruth Emeraldine has had one goal: to help those suffering from mental illness. Then she falls in love with charismatic Robert Apter--a brilliant doctor championing a radical new treatment, the lobotomy. Ruth believes in it as a miracle treatment and in Robert as its genius pioneer. But as her husband spirals into deluded megalomania, Ruth can't ignore her growing suspicions. Robert is operating on patients...
47) Gifted hands
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The inspiring story of Ben Carson, M.D. takes readers into the life of an inner-city youngster who rose above his circumstances to become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
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The final season of the series set in a welcoming town in the Rockies is all about finding oneself, and finding each other. Drawn by his feelings for Amy, Ephram returns home and mentors a troubled piano prodigy. When Nina chooses Jake over him, Andy struggles to remain friends with the woman he loves. Bright and Hannah make their unlikely romance work. The Abbotts open their arms to a new child. Intriguing characters arrive and beloved characters...
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Love is in the clear mountain air of Everwood. Back from Juilliard, Ephram commits himself to his music and to Amy, Dr. Jake Hartman moves to town and starts eating lots of pancakes, as long as Nina's serving them, and Hannah Rogers flips over Bright. But love can't conquer all, especially when the secret Andy kept from Ephram comes spilling out.
52) Dr. Death
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Based on the hit podcast from Wondery, Dr. Death tells the shocking true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a seemingly bright, young neurosurgeon with a thriving medical practice. But all is not as it seems. When a growing number of Dr. Duntsch's defenseless patients end up permanently maimed or worse, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeons Robert Henderson and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby, attempt to stop him before he causes any more harm.
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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...
54) It ends with us
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"Czasem te osoby, które najmocniej nas kochają, potrafią też najmocniej ranić. Lily Bloom zawsze płynie pod prąd. Nic dziwnego, że otworzyła kwiaciarnię dla osób, które... nie lubią kwiatów, i prowadzi ją z pasją i sukcesami. Gdy poznaje przystojnego lekarza Ryle'a Kincaida i rodzi się między nimi wzajemna fascynacja, Lily jest przekonana, że jej życie nie może być już lepsze. Tak mogłaby skończyć się ta historia. Jednak...
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"En esta brillante novela, en la que el suspenso nunca termina, un renombrado neurocirujano se ve forzado a decidir entre terminar la vida de la persona más importante de los Estados Unidos o garantizar la terrible muerte de su propia hija. No soy un santo, ni un mártir, tampoco un terrorista, un maníaco, ni asesino... Soy un padre. Esta es mi historia. El Dr. David Evans es un reconocido neurocirujano en un hospital en Washington, DC, y un padre...
57) Monroe: Series 1
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Dr. Gabriel Monroe is a neurological genius with a quick wit and a heart to match his titanic ego. Follow Monroe and his staff with a riveting look inside high-stakes medicine featured in these first six episodes.
59) You have a brain
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Throughout his life, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson has needed to overcome many obstacles: his father leaving the family, being considered stupid by his classmates in grade school, growing up in inner-city Detroit, and having a violent temper. But Dr. Carson didn't let his circumstances control him and instead discovered eight principles that helped shape his future ... Dr. Carson unpacks the eight important parts of Thinking Big: Talent,...
60) Crisis
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"Eugene Ferguson pledged to help people when he became a doctor, but will he perform a life-saving surgery on a South American tyrant who's taken him captive? Yes, if Ferguson hopes to leave the troubled land. No, if he heeds the threats made by revolutionaires determined to overthrow the despot" -- Container.
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