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  • Paramedic

    On the Front Lines of Medicine

    by Peter Canning ...
    In this unforgettable, dramatic account of one man's experience as an EMT, Peter Canning relives the nerve-racking seconds that can mean the difference between a patient's death and survival, as Canning struggles to make the right call, dispense the right medication, or keep a patient's heart beating long enough to reach the hospital. As Canning tells his graphic, gripping war stories--of the ... Read more

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  • Rescue 471

    A Paramedic's Stories

    by Peter Canning ...
    TRUE LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMAIn taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning has written a book that captures the rarely seen real world of emergency medicine. A seasoned paramedic who fights under enormous pressure to save lives, Canning trains new paramedics for the rigors of a nonstop, action-packed battle. From a four-month-old baby who has stopped breathing to a sixty-seven-year-old woman with a strange ... Read more

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  • Killing Season

    A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

    by Peter Canning ...
    A devastating, empathetic look at the opioid epidemic in the United States, through the eyes of a paramedic on the front lines.[I] set my cardiac monitor down by the young man's head. He is lifeless, his face white with a blue tinge. I apply the defibrillator pads to his hairless chest . . . A week from today, after the young man's brain shows no signs of electrical activity, the medical staff ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Friends and Family Guide to the Opioid Overdose Epidemic

    Including How to Recognize and Treat an Overdose

    by Peter Canning ...
    A practical and compassionate guide to understanding and addressing the opioid crisis.The opioid crisis in the United States continues to kill Americans at an alarming rate. Over the past two decades, annual overdose deaths have skyrocketed, growing from roughly 20,000 per year to over 100,000 per year. In this deeply informed and compassionate guide, Peter Canning shares the devastating realities ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Small Animal Dermatology, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

    Small Animal Dermatology, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, E-Book

    Edited by Bailey Brame, Peter Canning ...
    Series Book Volume 55-2 - The Clinics: Veterinary Medicine
    In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest editors Drs. Bailey Brame and Peter Canning bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Small Animal Dermatology. Top experts discuss areas of veterinary dermatology with recent developments in treatment or diagnosis, as well as emerging diseases, pathogens which are on the rise in North America, and clinical entities that ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Killing Season

    A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

    by Peter Canning ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five years ago, he believed drug users were victims only of their own character flaws. Although he took care of them, he did not care for them. But as the overdoses escalated, Canning began asking his patients how they had gotten started on their perilous journeys. And while no two tales were the same, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Blood on My Shirt

    Memoirs of a Bc Paramedic

    Emergency response is an unpredictable and ever-changing experienceboredom one moment and chaos the next. The efforts of the paramedic are singular in purposethat is, to save lives. But not everyone is cut out for a career in emergency medicine; the demands can be overwhelming. In his memoir, Blood on My Shirt, former British Columbia paramedic Michael Burzek provides a fascinating glimpse into ... Read more

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  • Miracles in the ER

    Extraordinary Stories from a Doctor's Journal

    You’ve heard about them. Extraordinary…unexplainable…seemingly miraculous true stories that couldn’t have happened—but did. Real-life stories of life changes, answered prayers, inner and outer healing where they appeared impossible.Again and again, bestselling author Dr. Robert Lesslie has encountered such Miracles in the ER during his decades of experience in emergency medicine. In these ... Read more

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  • Angels on the Night Shift

    Inspirational True Stories from the ER

    Combined sales of over 250,000 copies demonstrate the terrific impact Robert Lesslies first three books have had on readers. In Angels on the Night Shift, the fourth book based on his 30 years experience in the ER, Dr. Lesslie draws open the curtain on the lives, the dramas, and the close human connections hidden away behind hospital walls—events that, day and night, reveal nurses, doctors, ... Read more

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  • Tending Lives

    Nurses on the Medical Front

    by Echo Heron ...
    As the healthcare debate rages on with the growth of the HMO industry, nurses quietly continue to provide the day-to-day grit and deeply-felt passion that hold the healing profession together. Within these remarkable women and men are poignant, outrageous stories drawn from the edge of life. But fear of career backlash and reprisals have made them reluctant to talk to outsiders about their ... Read more

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  • Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives

    Tales of Life and Death from the ER

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    With unflinching honesty, an ER doctor tells readers what it's really like to be a caring physician with one of the most demanding, exhilarating, frustrating, and rewarding jobs in the world.An emergency medicine physician for nearly a decade, Dr. Pamela Grim has delivered babies, treated heart attacks, saved car accident victims, comforted the dying, and consoled the living who were left behind. ... Read more

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