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“stephen a brown”

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  • Are You Ready to Call It?

    by Stephen A Brown ...
    When Stephen A. Brown collapsed in his own backyard, he had no warning and no guarantee he'd ever see his wife and daughter again. Declared clinically dead for forty-two minutes, he wrote himself back from the edge of oblivion with nothing but sheer grit, stubborn questions, and a daughter's fearless love.In Are You Ready to Call It? Brown pulls you into the unnerving silence of a flat-lined heart ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Communication in the Design Process

    by Stephen A. Brown ...
    The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real steps forward are slow, and most damning is the continuous repetition of the same mistakes. Communication in the Design Process considers the gap that can exist between client expectation and realisation in building projects. It focuses on the ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

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    Complete Square, The

    An Olympian's Equation for Life

    by Stephen A. Brown ...
    Narrated by Stephen A. Brown ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    Growing up in Washington, D.C., Steve Brown dreamed of competing on the world's biggest stage. What followed was a journey marked by setbacks that would have convinced most people to quit. He missed Olympic teams by fractions of a second. He trained with limited resources. He balanced athletics with academics, professional football, teaching, and business school opportunities. Time after time, his ... Read more

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  • Tending Lives

    Nurses on the Medical Front

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    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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  • Operating Room Confidential

    What Really Goes On When You Go Under

    by Paul Whang ...
    Go behind the scenes of the OR in this "fact-filled, poignant, and funny" account by an anesthesiologist ( Booklist).Even patients who've spent time in the operating room don't really know much about them—thanks to the important work of anesthesiologists like Dr. Paul Whang. But here, he takes readers into the hospital and past the OR doors—fully alert.Combining personal stories with staff ... Read more

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  • Opening My Heart

    A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again

    by Tilda Shalof ...
    Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results came in, it was time to face the music: Tilda required immediate open-heart surgery to replace a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Heart Matters

    A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon

    by Kathy Magliato M.D. ...
    An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeonDr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform heart transplants. Heart Matters is the story of the making ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nightingale Tales

    Stories from My Life as a Nurse

    by Lynn Dow RN ...
    In the 1950s, nurses served as handmaidens to the physician; by the start of the new millennium, they had become admired independent practitioners. Nightingale Tales is a peek into that transition, as told by a nurse who lived it. Each chapter is a stand-alone story depicting the ridiculous mores nurses have been subjected to over the years, the archaic equipment they’ve had to struggle with, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Dim Prognosis

    Our health system in crisis — and a doctor's view on how to fix it

    by Ivor Popovich ...
    A gripping exposé of New Zealand's failing health systemThis compelling tell-all reveals the realities of working as a doctor in New Zealand.Fast-paced and darkly funny, it chronicles ten years of working in medicine - treating the victims of the Whakaari White Island eruption, being on the frontline during pandemic, dealing with chronic understaffing -and sheds a light on where and why the health ... Read more

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  • The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales From the Emergency Room

    by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D. ...
    Series Book 1 - Unfeeling Doctor Series
    When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say,Are you a nurse?Wow. That must be really hard.What's it like?This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor.That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring out of a terrified pregnant woman? Call me. And, of course, the patient who no longer has a nosebleed screaming at me across ... Read more

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  • This Won't Hurt a Bit

    (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood

    by Michelle Au, MD ...
    If Atul Gawande were funny--or Jerome Groopman were a working mother--they might sound something like Michelle Au, M.D., author of this hilarious and poignant memoir of a medical residency.Michelle Au started medical school armed only with a surfeit of idealism, a handful of old ER episodes for reference, and some vague notion about "helping people."This Won't Hurt a Bit is the story of how she ... Read more

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