Download or read book A Hard Day at the Orifice written by Dr. John M. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This very personal account provides unique insights into the training and life of a dedicated Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. There are also fascinating accounts relating the history of the profession. Dr. Miller underwent extensive training both in Australia and overseas prestigious institutions. In addition to delivering well in excess of fifteen thousand babies in his private practice, in his long career he was responsible for numerous thousands more in his roles as medical superintendent of the then largest maternity hospital in the state and specialist consultant in charge of units in large teaching hospitals.He was also a specialist surgeon. The book is eminently readable and although there are descriptions of obstetric procedures and surgical operations it is certainly not a medical text. His credo; – to be a good doctor one needs knowledge, proficiency in his craft, compassion and humility. Otherwise he will be merely skilled. “While Dr. Miller’s reminiscences are bound to interest his peers and medical colleagues, they are written with a great deal of wit, verve and charm, and make fascinating reading for the layman. The author’s lightness of touch makes the memoir accessible and easy to read, and while he deals with many topical issues ( I found the recollection of his experience in delivering one of the first Thalidomide babies deeply moving ), these moments are balanced by Dr. Miller’s obvious pride in his profession, and his delight in sharing many amusing anecdotes along the way. No reader can close the final page without the feeling an enormous debt of gratitude to those who have have worked so tirelessly in this field to ensure our own or our loved ones’ safety during pregnancy and childbirth." —Annette Gilbert, The Raven’s Parlour Bookstore

Download or read book A Hard Death written by Jonathan Hayes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic pathologist Edward Jenner survived the horrific ordeal of the Inquisitor serial slayings in New York, but not the political fallout. With his state medical license suspended, he hopes to repair his shattered life while working as a medical examiner in Douglas County, Florida. But evil is not confined to big cities alone. Two corpses pulled from a sunken car—followed by the grisly discovery of four more bodies hanging in the Everglades—are evidence of an insidious rot infecting this quiet coastal resort community. Suddenly Jenner's investigation is turning up grim traces of a nightmarish conspiracy—and with no one to trust and nowhere to turn, his only hope of survival is to walk away . . . something Jenner could never do.

Download or read book A Hard Day s Write written by and published by Walter Rhodes. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Rhodes was the pop music writer for The Phoenix Gazette in Arizona from 1989 to 1994. During that time, he talked with a bevy of musicians and singers, including Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Stevie Nicks, Tony Bennett, Paul Simon, Liz Story and even Michaelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A Hard Day's Write includes those interviews, as well as his entertaining memories of talking with musicians, attending numerous concerts and receiving tons of music for free.

Download or read book Top Five Regrets of the Dying written by Bronnie Ware and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Download or read book A Hard Day s Night Searcher written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in the anthologies My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding and Dark Bites, Sherrilyn Kenyon's A Hard Day's Night Searcher is now available as a standalone e-novella! As a Dark-Hunter and an immortal pirate who once intimidated the entire Spanish Main, Rafael Santiago thinks he has it made. Until his Squire writes a story that threatens to expose their covert world and Celena shows up to kill him for the story. In order to protect his Squire, he is now forced to endure Celena who is the greatest aggravation of his life. Celena, for all her bluster, only wants what’s best for all Dark-Hunters, but there’s something about Rafael that makes her want to forsake her deepest held oath. That is if her well intentions don't kill him first.

Download or read book Five Days at Memorial written by Sheri Fink and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Download or read book Death Is Hard Work written by Khaled Khalifa and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria’s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination. Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is—after all—only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There’s only one problem: Their country is a war zone. With the landscape of their childhood now a labyrinth of competing armies whose actions are at once arbitrary and lethal, the siblings’ decision to set aside their differences and honor their father’s request quickly balloons from a minor commitment into an epic and life-threatening quest. Syria, however, is no longer a place for heroes, and the decisions the family must make along the way—as they find themselves captured and recaptured, interrogated, imprisoned, and bombed—will prove to have enormous consequences for all of them.

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Download or read book The art of Healing written by Sanjeev Sareen and published by sanjeev sareen. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of suffering; the challenges are inevitable, but there are big differences in how we deal with them and how we grieve. We have to be grieving the right way. We must understand that we are not insane and that grieving is "normal." Grieving is loving. It's OK that we're not OK. And we must also realize that we're required to recover from it. We have the power to overcome our suffering. Life-changing crises can produce a transformation of similar depth. When we accept death, transform our attitude towards life, and discover the fundamental connection between life and death, a dramatic possibility for healing can occur. The pain reshapes our world. But all we have to do is try to survive. Learning that others have had similar reactions can help to normalize the reader's sense of hopelessness and helplessness. This can encourage them to see that, with time and support, they too may become hopeful again. It may give a bit of hope to the bereaved that if others have gotten through the dark times and regained meaning and purpose in their lives, it is also possible for them. If we’re having a bad day, we might be wondering what we did to deserve it. Why do even good people suffer? Once we find meaning in our suffering, it almost ceases to be suffering. There are universal reasons for the tragedies in our lives. It's painful to live without knowing why we lost the love of our lives. In its broadest sense, spirituality is a search for meaning, purpose, and connection. This subject is covered extensively in this book, citing quotes from the realized masters. We don’t have to accept the unfortunate situations we may be in as part of our destiny. We should rather make efforts to come out of them. And yes, we can, when we understand the larger picture behind all happenings and that there is indeed a reason behind everything. We will see how in this book. It is necessary to engage with questions as they arise. After all, our world has been rocked, and when that happens, the foundation on which it is built needs to be investigated and cracks filled. Where is God in grief? is one of the most disquieting symptoms. Why did He create such an imperfect world and an imperfect body for man? This helplessness during death is mistakenly supposed by some to be a punishment from God. If we’ve lost someone close to us, believing in a pain-free existence after death may ease the burden of grief. This book's selected questions and answers will help the readers in that regard. We will surely miss them badly, and at times the emotions will be very intense. Working with grief takes time. Far longer than anybody would like it to be. It will be like bearing the unbearable. You aren’t ready to say goodbye. But we need to realize that our loved ones who have gone want us to be happy too, even though they are no longer with us. Life does not end with death. If we are sad and grieving for a person who is dead, we may keep him earthbound. That attitude is selfish. When our loved ones are reborn on earth, if our love for them is strong, they will be brought back to us. Instead of weeping and feeling a sense of loss after the death of those who are dear to us, always send them our love. By doing so, we can help the progress of their souls, and they can help us. Why pity the dead? In new-learned wisdom, they pity us. Never drag them down with unreasonable feelings of selfish attachment and sorrow. Just say to them, "I love you." Dare to let go. Know that there is a life beyond this world and that all of our loved ones do, indeed, continue to live on, though they have shed their physical bodies. This book will help you understand what death is and where our loved ones are. It will be a spiritual healing journey.

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Download or read book The Death of a Nobody written by Jules Romains and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this modern classic is not a man. "It is an event," says Jules Romains, who is considered "the French Dos Passos." The event starts with the death of Jacques Godard, a man of no importance. It unfolds through his brief survival in the minds of others - the porter of his tenement in Paris, his fellow lodgers, a few acquaintances, his old father, who comes up from the country for the funeral, a young stranger who feels that the dead pass into "a great soul that cannot die." The event expresses Romains's belief in "collective beings," the famous theory of "Unanimism." In dramatizing his theory, Romains developed an advanced motion-picture technique when films were in their infancy, a technique of group portraits and sudden shifts from scene to scene that keeps this work far ahead of conventional novels. Here, Romains explores the ideas and the devices used in his twenty-seven-volume masterpiece, Men of Good Will, which André Maurois calls "the boldest attempt to describe completely his own time that any French novelist has made since Balzac."

Download or read book Original Death written by Eliot Pattison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Edgar–winner Pattison combines action, period details, and a whodunit with ease in his impressive third mystery set in Colonial America.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian on his quest to find the last surviving members of his tribe. But the joy they feel on reaching the little settlement of Christian Indians is shattered when they find its residents ritually murdered. As terrible as the deaths may be, Conawago perceives something even darker and more alarming: he is convinced they are a sign of a terrible crisis in the spirit world which he must resolve. Trying to make sense of the murders, Duncan is accused by the British army of the crime. Escaping prison to follow the trail of evidence, he finds himself hounded by vengeful soldiers and stalked by Scottish rebels who are mysteriously trying to manipulate the war to their advantage. As he pieces together the puzzle of violence and deception he gradually realizes that it may not only be the lives of Duncan and his friends that hang in the balance, but the very survival of the native tribes. When he finally discovers the terrible truth, Duncan is forced to make a fateful choice between his beloved Highland clans and the woodland natives who have embraced and protected him.

Download or read book Hasty Death written by Marion Chesney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in Chesney's Edwardian mystery series features Captain Cathcart, Lady Summer, and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard as they investigate the crimes of aristocrats within London society. Martin's Press.

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Download or read book A Hard Day s Fright written by Casey Daniels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to a teenager named Lucy one night in 1966 after a Beatles concert? She rushed the stage, kissed Paul, started home with her friends, and was never seen again-until cemetery guide and unintentional PI to the dead Pepper Martin sees her as a ghost. Lucy's spirit can't rest in peace until her body is found and buried. But how will Pepper track down a missing corpse after forty-five years?

Download or read book Death of a Hawker written by Janwillem van de Wetering and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riot has erupted in New Market Square, transforming the normally sedate streets of Amsterdam into a mass of angry protesters. So when the body of the “King” of the local street market is found in his house with his head bashed in, the police are puzzled. The adjoining street has been closed off all day, and the constables stationed outside the scene of the crime didn’t detect any unusual activity. There are only two people who could have reasonably committed the violent act: the victim’s roommate upstairs and his beautiful sister downstairs. Both claim to have seen or heard nothing suspicious when the crime took place. But something isn’t adding up. Is one of them the killer?