Download or read book The Woman with a Worm in Her Head written by Pamela Nagami, M.D. and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities. A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn. A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep. Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting bitten by an insect, and swimming in the sea bring human beings into contact with dangerous, often deadly microorganisms. In The Woman with a Worm in Her Head, Dr. Pamela Nagami reveals-through real-life cases-the sobering facts about some of the world's most horrific diseases: the warning signs, the consequences, treatments, and most compellingly, what it feels like to make medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death. Unfailingly precise, calmly instructive, and absolutely engrossing, The Woman with the Worm in Her Head offers both useful information and enjoyable reading.
Download or read book The Woman with a Worm in Her Head written by Pamela Nagami, M.D. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on infectious diseases discusses the various patients she has encountered and treated, sharing her experiences making medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.
Download or read book The Woman with a Worm in Her Head written by Pamela Nagami and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordering a salad for lunch? When Danielle Jordon ordered one she had no idea that she was to become host to an organism that 6 years later would grow into a worm that would burrow into her brain. Been bitten by an insect? This gave Allan Roth flesh-eating strep, which resulted in his skin shedding like a snake. Walking along a dusty road? The dust might contain fungus spores that will kill the person who simply breathes them into their lungs. These hazards & others are examined in this fascinating foray into the world of Nagami, who specializes in finding the cause of the strange infections presented by her patients. She teaches us what these diseases are, & how it feels to make med. & ethical decisions that can mean the diff. between life & death.
Download or read book Bitten written by Pamela Nagami and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all been bitten, and we all have stories. The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami has chosen to write about in this book take place all around the world, and throughout history. With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and her own career as a practicing physician and infectious disease specialist, the author offers readers intrigued by infection, disease, and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disturbing, and always engrossing. -- Publisher description.
Download or read book The Tequila Worm written by Viola Canales and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio in McAllen, Texas, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quinceañera, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. It’s a different mundo, but one where Sofia’s traditions take on new meaning and illuminate her path.
Download or read book I Am the Ice Worm written by Maryann Easley and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the plane carrying her to visit her mother crashes above the Arctic Circle, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is rescued by an Inupiat man who takes her back to his village, where she slowly comes to admire their very different way of life.
Download or read book The Blood of Strangers written by Frank Huyler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors—a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."
Download or read book The Lair of the White Worm written by Bram Stoker and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim...
Download or read book Parasite written by Mira Grant and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system — even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them. But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . . . and will do anything to get them. "A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams More from Mira Grant: Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout Feedback Rise
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Download or read book Word Fire written by Allyn Ransom and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Earth Fire, Zheann Sevem learns the price of hate as she is called on to prevent rebels from finding and gaining the aid of the dragons, known as Athenque, in freeing her people, the Rys from their Med rulers. On the way, she discovers that the dragons are also rebels who have been imprisoned for centuries. She is joined in her quest by two loyal Athenque, and Estaen teaches her about the magic she thought she understood, warning her that it would be needed in her fight against the dragons. They reach the dragon’s prison too late to stop the rebels from freeing them and setting off a chain reaction that Zheann realizes may destroy her world. She races to a mountain pass where she hopes to take a stand against the forces of nature, and watches helplessly as refugees swarm to three passes hoping to save their lives while others sabotage the effort. It all comes down to a contest between Rys magic and the forces of nature. In Soul Fire, the Med and Rys who fled to the central pass begin to pull their lives together, and Zheann learns the price of love. Their world has been saved but is no longer safe. Ash falls from the sky, clouds hide the sun, and the dragons have built a rival city north of the pass. Zheann finds enemies on every side, and when she is hexed, and her daughter is abducted, she learns the price of love. Now, in Word Fire, it turns personal. Zheann rides away from all she’s been trying to build in search of her daughter, the king’s mother, and a legendary trove of books that may hold the key to stopping the dragons. On the way, she struggles to master the hex that gives her great power, but power from which she longs to be free. On the way, she makes new friends and enemies but also discovers that one of the dragons, Venkis, has been busy. They reach Jitrodek, where Zheann learns the price of freedom.
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Download or read book Revelations written by Jeff Collignon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ultimate war between Good and Evil, Harold and Bart go to battle. Using the Dead, the Undead, a 19th century accountant, and a variety of board games to decide their fate, as well as the fate of the world
Download or read book The Surveillance written by Kimberley Troutte and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2025-02-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the enemy catches her, she won’t get out alive…. HQ suspects that President Blockwell’s right-hand man, the ruthless killer Senator Smith, conducts meetings inside his impenetrable mansion. Agent Heather Slade’s mission: infiltrate Smith’s home and extract secret intel. She devises an operation to throw an exclusive A-list Patriot officers party at the Smith mansion to celebrate his son being drafted into the Patriot Army. Heather leads a small team of spies on the high-risk op, where she schmoozes with her worst enemies while planting surveillance devices under their noses. The stakes are high for the team. Espionage is punishable by death in the Patriot Union, so Miguel Robles is surprised when Heather requests him for the top-level mission, especially since he’s heard rumors that he nearly got Heather killed on their last mission, which neither of them remember. Heather’s worried she’s being set up by someone at HQ but instinctively trusts Miguel, who might have answers she needs—if they survive the party.
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