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Book The Hospital

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ahmed Bouanani
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2018-06-26
  • ISBN : 0811225771
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Hospital written by Ahmed Bouanani and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic “When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…” So begins Ahmed Bouanani’s arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani’s own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in and out of the narrator’s consciousness as the hospital transforms before his eyes into an eerie, metaphorical space. Somewhere along the way, the hospital’s iron gate disappears. Like Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl, the works of Franz Kafka—or perhaps like Mann’s The Magic Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder—The Hospital is a nosedive into the realms of the imagination, in which a journey to nowhere in particular leads to the most shocking places.

Book The Hospital

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  • Author : Brian Alexander
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2022-03-08
  • ISBN : 1250828686
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Hospital written by Brian Alexander and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before."--Publisher's description.

Book The Hospital

Download or read book The Hospital written by Dr. Christle Nwora and published by Neon Squid. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A STEM-rich nonfiction story by Dr. Christle Nwora showing what happens at a hospital all day, following doctors, nurses, and patients—perfect for kids nervous about a trip to the hospital.

Book Five Days at Memorial

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

Book When Molly was in the Hospital

Download or read book When Molly was in the Hospital written by Debbie Duncan and published by Rayve Productions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna's little sister Molly needs to go to the hospital for an operation.

Book Curious George

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  • Author : H. A. Rey
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0544237919
  • Pages : 29 pages

Download or read book Curious George written by H. A. Rey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George and his friend Steve eat all of the honeycomb Betsy was going to use for her report on bees, so they build a beehive to make more.

Book A Visit to the Hospital

Download or read book A Visit to the Hospital written by Francine Chase and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hospital by the River

Download or read book The Hospital by the River written by Catherine Hamlin and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gynecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left their home in Australia for Ethiopia, they never dreamed that they would establish what has been heralded as one of the most incredible medical programs in the modern world. But more than forty years later, the couple has operated on more than 20,000 women, most of whom suffered from obstetric fistula, a debilitating childbirth injury. In this awe-inspiring book, Dr. Catherine Hamlin recalls her life and career in Ethiopia. Her unyielding courage and solid faith will astound Christians worldwide as she talks about the people she has grown to love and the hospital that so many Ethiopian women have come to depend on. She truly is the Mother Teresa of our age. The second edition includes an afterword that brings Catherine's story up to date and new color photographs.

Book The Hospital

Download or read book The Hospital written by Barbara O'Hare and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking expose of the appalling abuse and experimentation carried out on vulnerable children at Aston Hall Hospital, Derbyshire, in the 60s and 70s.

Book Hospital

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  • Author : Julie Salamon
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781594201714
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Hospital written by Julie Salamon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the delivery of health care today, but those issues may not always be what we think they are. In 2005, Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, unveiled a new state-of-theart, multimillion-dollar cancer center. Determined to understand the whole spectrum of factors that determine what kind of medical care people receive in this country, bestselling author Julie Salamon spent one year tracking the progress of the center and getting to know the characters who make the hospital run. Located in a community where sixty-seven different languages are spoken, Maimonides is a case study for the particular kinds of concerns that arise in institutions that serve an increasingly multicultural American demographic. Granted an astonishing “warts and all” level of access by the hospital higher-ups, Salamon followed the doctors, patients, administrators, nurses, ambulance drivers, cooks, and cleaning staff. She explored not just the action on the ground—what happens between doctors and patients—but also the financial, ethical, technological, sociological, and cultural matters that the hospital community encounters every day. Drawing on her skills as interviewer, observer, and social critic, Salamon presents the story of modern medicine, uniquely viewed from the vantage point of those who make it run. She draws out the internal and external political machinations that exist between doctors and staff as well as between hospital and community. And she grounds the science and emotion of medical drama in the financial realities of operating a huge, private institution that must contend with issues like adapting to the specific needs of immigrant groups that make up a large and growing portion of our society. Salamon exposes struggles of both the profound and humdrum variety. There are bitter internal feuds, warm personal connections, comedy, egoism, greed, love, and loss. There are rabbinic edicts to contend with as well as imams and herbalists and local politicians. There are system foul-ups that keep blood test results from being delivered on time, careless record keepers, shortages of everything except forms to fill, recalcitrant and greedy insurance reimbursement systems, and the surprising difficulty of getting doctors to wash their hands. This is the dynamic universe of small and large concerns and personalities that, taken together, determine the nature of our care and assume the utmost importance. As Martin Payson—chairman of the board at Maimonides and ex-Time-Warner vice chairman—puts it: “Hospitals have a lot in common with the movie business. You’ve got your talent, entrepreneurs, ambition, ego stroking, the business versus the creative part. The big difference is that in the hospital you don’t get second takes. Movies are make-believe. This is real life.”

Book The Hospital Suite

Download or read book The Hospital Suite written by John Porcellino and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mini-comics master's poetic musings on illness & the art of getting by The Hospital Suite is a landmark work by the celebrated cartoonist and small-press legend John Porcellino—an autobiographical collection detailing his struggles with illness in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1997, John began to have severe stomach pain. He soon found out he needed emergency surgery to remove a benign tumor from his small intestine. In the wake of the surgery, he had numerous health complications that led to a flare-up of his preexisting tendencies toward anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Hospital Suite is Porcellino’s response to these experiences—simply told stories drawn in the honest, heart-wrenching style of his much-loved King-Cat mini-comics. His gift for spare yet eloquent candor makes The Hospital Suite an intimate portrayal of one person’s experiences that is also intensely relatable. Porcellino’s work is lauded for its universality and quiet, clear-eyed contemplation of everyday life. The Hospital Suite is a testimony to this subtle strength, making his struggles with the medical system and its consequences for his mental health accessible and engaging.

Book Going to the Hospital

Download or read book Going to the Hospital written by Anne Civardi and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to introduce young children to unfamiliar situations in an amusing and friendly way.

Book The Hospital

Download or read book The Hospital written by Julie Murray and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospital is an important place in our communities. Kids will learn about why hospitals are needed, who works there, and what kinds of things happen there. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Book The Hospital Book

Download or read book The Hospital Book written by James Howe and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1994-04-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going to the hospital for the first time will be easier for children if they know what to expect when they get there. This award-winning book introduces them to the various professionals who will take care of them during their visit. It describeswhat certain pieces of equipment do and how they are used. "A must for sharing between a hospital-bound child and his or her parents."--Booklist.

Book Why We Go to the Hospital

Download or read book Why We Go to the Hospital written by Rosalyn Clark and published by Lerner Classroom. This book was released on 2018 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hospital has lots of doctors and nurses who help you when you visit them. Do you know what they do? Learn more about how the hospital takes care of you!

Book The Hospital Ship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Bax
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-07
  • ISBN : 9781906615598
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Hospital Ship written by Martin Bax and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, Martin Bax's seminal cult novel is back in print after three decades. From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties, emergency cases of men and women in states of severe psychic withdrawal and large groups of autistic children. They are victims of a worldwide disaster; a holocaust that spreads as the hospital ship sails on, struggling to save itself from its own lunacy.

Book Little Critter  My Trip to the Hospital

Download or read book Little Critter My Trip to the Hospital written by Mercer Mayer and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Little Critter breaks his leg in a soccer game, he has to make his first trip to the hospital. Follow brave Little Critter as he rides in an ambulance, meets the doctor, and gets his first X-ray and his first cast.