Download or read book County written by David A. Ansell and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing tale of “County” is the story of one of America’s oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From its inception as a “poor house” dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has been renowned as a teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city’s uninsured. Ansell covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the “Final Rounds” when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who underwent rigorous training with him. He writes of politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient dumping,” and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the Out of Printening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. And finally it is a coming-of-age story for a young doctor set against a backdrOut of Print of race, segregation, and poverty. This is a riveting account.

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-06-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Download or read book Easy Company Soldier written by Don Malarkey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Band of Brothers" soldier and elite paratrooper describes his role in providing defense during 1943's Operation Overlord, his receipt of a Bronze Star and numerous other honors, and the loss of his best friend during the engagement at Bastogne.

Download or read book Lone Star J R written by Johnny Rutherford and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his signature Texas flag painted on his helmet, Johnny "J.R." Rutherford captured the hearts of racing fans all over the world during his stellar three-decade-long career. A versatile driver, he is world renowned for his record-breaking successes in the ultra-competitive world of Indy and Sprint cars. In Lone Star J.R., Johnny himself takes us on an exciting drive through his life and gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the racing world. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1938, John Sherman Rutherford III did his duty in the U.S. Marine Corps for six years before beginning his legendary racing career in Texas. After overcoming a serious accident in 1966, in which he suffered two broken arms, he began to achieve his greatest success. J.R. relives his historic Indianapolis 500 wins (in 1974, 1976, and 1980) and explains the allure and excitement of racing in this personal look back at his storied racing career.

Download or read book Legend of Good Women written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding poem and a consummate example of employing the dream vision technique. It is one of the longest works of Chaucer. The poet unfolds ten stories of virtuous women in nine sections. It is one of the first mock-heroic works in English Literature. Inspirational!...

Download or read book Trauma Patient to Trauma Nurse written by Rolfe Ordona and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolfe Eric Ordona, RN, has been working in the medical field since 2003. He was tragically involved in an accident with his fiance Monica Janette Azero. He has been working hard to achieve his goals and dreams. He was inspired by his journey to success and wanted to motivate and influence others to live life to the fullest. I'm an ordinary guy doing ordinary things. Most of the time, I spent my younger years thinking I knew everything. I really didn't listen to anyone, no one was going through what I was going through. There was an event in my life that changed my whole world. This event became the inspiration behind writing this book. There are different types of people that I became while growing up and going through tough times. I became a person who made things happen, a person who watched things happen and a person who didn't know what was happening. Don't be the person who doesn't know what's happening. Once you get there, it's tough to get out of being that person. Most people start out making things happen, but as soon as tragedy comes, they become the person who starts to watch things that happen. After a while, depression sets in, and they fall so far back in a hole, they become a person who no longer knows what's happening. This book was written to show how an ordinary guy with everyday problems was faced with a traumatic event in his life, where he had no choice but to believe in his dreams and to make things happen with no help but his faith in God and most of all believing in himself. Rolfe talks about how he had to think outside the box in order to save his house and why making it through nursing school was so important to him. Rolfe's goal in life after the accident was to have a story to tell. He wanted to influence people to do better and to live the best life they can. Be passionate about who you are and where you see yourself in the future. He wanted people to understand that hard work will always pay off. This ordinary guy went from being a trauma patient to becoming a trauma nurse.

Download or read book Equity and Gender written by Ellen Frankel Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparable worth-the idea that women ought to be paid the same wages as men performing comparable although not the same jobs-has generated a firestorm of controversy. This analysis of the comparable worth debate takes up its pros and cons in an extraordinarily disciplined and fair-minded manner. After outlining the debate, Paul attempts to resolve

Download or read book How to be a Legendary Teacher 2 written by Adam Prociv and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Be a Legendary Teacher highlighted how to survive and thrive as an educator—and more importantly, how to help students succeed. Adam Prociv follows up that groundbreaking book with this sequel, drawing on his more than twenty-five years of teaching experience to help educators inspire students. In straightforward language, he explains how to: • incorporate cautionary tales into teaching to steer students to the right path; • leverage opportunities to further your own learning; • stick with teaching even when you confront obstacles; • use social media without becoming overwhelmed by it. The book also offers readers a snapshot of what the teaching profession is like in Australia, with the author observing that strong unions have protected the rights of school staff. Teachers in Australia can take many types of leave that simply are not available elsewhere. Join the author as he shares an array of insights on how to help students succeed as you move toward becoming a legendary teacher.

Download or read book Alanna written by Tamora Pierce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight in this first book in Tamora Pierce’s Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning young adult series—now with a new look! From now on, I’m Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I’ll be a knight. In a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors, Alanna of Trebond wants nothing more than to be a knight of the realm of Tortall. So she finds a way to switch places with her twin brother, Thom, and, disguised as a boy, begins her training as a page at the palace of King Roald. But the road to knighthood, as she discovers, is not an easy one. Alanna must master weapons, combat, and magic, as well as polite behavior, her temper, and even her own heart. So begin Alanna’s adventures—filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil—that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and make her a legend in the land.

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Download or read book Easing Pain on the Western Front written by Paul E. Stepansky and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.

Download or read book Sisters of Mokama written by Jyoti Thottam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains."—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam’s mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Bihar—an impoverished and isolated state in northern India that had been one of the bloodiest regions of Partition—in order to train to be a nurse under the tutelage of the determined and resourceful Appalachian nuns who ran Nazareth Hospital. Like Thottam’s mother’s journey, the hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to everyone who walked through its doors, regardless of caste or religion. Fascinated by her mother’s story, Thottam set out to discover the full story of Nazareth Hospital, which had been established in 1947 by six nuns from Kentucky. With no knowledge of Hindi, and the awareness that they would likely never see their families again, the sisters had traveled to the small town of Mokama determined to live up to the pioneer spirit of their order, founded in the rough hills of the Kentucky frontier. A year later, they opened the doors of the hospital; soon they began taking in young Indian women as nursing students, offering them an opportunity that would change their lives. One of those women, of course, was Thottam’s mother. In Sisters of Mokama, Thottam draws upon twenty years’ worth of research to tell this inspiring story for the first time. She brings to life the hopes, struggles, and accomplishments of these ordinary women—both American and Indian—who succeeded against the odds during the tumult and trauma of the years after World War II and Partition. Pain and loss were everywhere for the women of that time, but the collapse of the old orders provided the women of Nazareth Hospital with an opening—a chance to create for themselves lives that would never have been possible otherwise.

Download or read book Patient Safety written by Sidney Dekker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors

Download or read book The Culture of Death The Assault on Medical Ethics in America Large Print 16pt written by Wesley J. Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon afterwards he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley Smith recounts in his groundbreaking new book, The Culture of Death. Smith believes that American medicine ''is changing from a system based on the sanctity of human life into a starkly utilitarian model in which the medically defenseless are seen as having not just a 'right' but a 'duty' to die.'' Going behind the current scenes of our health care system, he shows how doctors withdraw desired care based on Futile Care Theory rather than provide it as required by the Hippocratic Oath. And how ''bioethicists'' influence policy by considering questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate, yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made ''the new thanatology'' his consuming interest.

Download or read book Girl on the Run written by B. R. Myers and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A YA novel with a strong female protagonist.

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Download or read book Born of Legend written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?” Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn’t in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly escapes a trap that leaves him severely wounded. With what he believes is his dying breath, he saves a boy born to an extinct race from a group out to enslave the kid for his legendary abilities. Ushara Altaan has spent her entire life hating the Andarion royal house that drove her entire species into virtual extinction. As a rare Andarion Fyreblood, she is sworn to end the existence of any royal she finds. But when Dagger saves her son’s life, she is torn between her people and a debt that can never be repaid. Yet worse than Dagger’s family that’s still out to end hers and him, are the League assassins after him who will stop at nothing to claim the lives of her Tavali family. The only hope she has to save them all is to put their future and her faith into the hands of the very enemy whose grandmother personally extinguished Ushara’s legendary lineage. But how can she ever trust Dagger when he is a disinherited outlaw whose real name is synonymous with betrayal?