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| Author | : Dean-David Schillinger |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2024-07-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1541704223 |
A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him, and what they can teach us about listening, healing, and public health. For over three decades, Dr. Dean-David Schillinger has served in one of the country’s busiest and most important public hospitals. A public health leader and primary care physician for underserved patients, Schillinger learned that high-tech tests and novel medications are often not enough to save lives. Rather, accurate diagnosis, treatment and true healing come from listening deeply to patients and their stories. In Telltale Hearts, Schillinger reveals what is lost when patients’ stories are ignored or overlooked, and how much is gained when these stories are actively elicited. The stories themselves, at times shocking and always revelatory, disclose secrets, prompt awe, forge unexpected connections, and even catalyze public health action. Each vignette delves into a patient's complicated life, uncovering numerous factors that influence their medical outcomes. Together, these stories provide a narrative roadmap, guiding the reader to a deeper understanding of the societal forces that shape health, disease, and recovery, and advocating for a transformative shift in medical care and public health. Telltale Hearts serves as a call to action, urging us to reshape public policy to improve the nation's health.
| Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
| Publisher | : SAMPI Books |
| Total Pages | : 22 |
| Release | : 2024-01-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 656133115X |
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.
| Author | : Adam M. Garfinkle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Radicalism |
| ISBN | : 9780333698433 |
More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam war, America's wounds have yet to heal. Still there is one conviction that most hawks and doves, then and now, share: that for better or worse, the Vietnam antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, limiting and ultimately ending US military activity in Southeast Asia. In reality however, this article of faith is quite wrong, as Telltale Hearts convincingly demonstrates. The antiwar movement, even at its radical height, was of marginal value and at times actually proved counterproductive to stopping or limiting the war. The movement unwittingly helped prolong the carnage, and more people on both sides were killed as a result.
| Author | : Mike Scardino |
| Publisher | : Little, Brown |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2018-07-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316469602 |
An adrenaline-fueled read that will stay with you long after you turn the final page, Bad Call is a "compulsively readable, totally unforgettable" memoir about working on a New York City ambulance in the 1960s (James Patterson). Bad Call is Mike Scardino's visceral, fast-moving, and mordantly funny account of the summers he spent working as an "ambulance attendant" on the mean streets of late-1960s New York. Fueled by adrenaline and Sabrett's hot dogs, young Mike spends his days speeding from one chaotic emergency to another. His adventures take him into the middle of incipient race riots, to the scene of a plane crash at JFK airport and into private lives all over Queens, where New Yorkers are suffering, and dying, in unimaginable ways. Learning on the job, Mike encounters all manner of freakish accidents (the man who drank Drano, the woman attacked by rats, the man who inflated like a balloon), meets countless unforgettable New York characters, falls in love, is nearly murdered, and gets an early and indelible education in the impermanence of life and the cruelty of chance. Action-packed, poignant, and rich with details that bring Mike's world to technicolor life, Bad Call is a gritty portrait of a bygone era as well as a bracing reminder that, though "life itself is a fatal condition," it's worth pausing to notice the moments of beauty, hope, and everyday heroism along the way.
| Author | : Kenneth Silverman |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521422437 |
A variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination by concentrating on such famous tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
| Author | : Stephen Westaby |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2017-06-20 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0465094848 |
In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a profession where death is only a heartbeat away. In Open Heart, Westaby reflects on over 11,000 surgeries, showing us why the procedures have never become routine and will never be. With astonishing compassion, he recounts harrowing and sometimes hopeful stories from his operating room: we meet a pulseless man who lives with an electric heart pump, an expecting mother who refuses surgery unless the doctors let her pregnancy reach full term, and a baby who gets a heart transplant-only to die once it's in place. For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Open Heart offers a soul-baring account of a life spent in constant confrontation with death.
| Author | : Ali Khan |
| Publisher | : Public Affairs |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2016-05-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1610395913 |
An inside account of the fight to contain the world’s deadliest diseases--and the panic and corruption that make them worse Throughout history, humankind’s biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat--Ebola, SARS, Zika--seems imminent, we send our best and bravest doctors to contain it. People like Dr. Ali S. Khan. In his long career as a public health first responder--protected by a thin mask from infected patients, napping under nets to keep out scorpions, making life-and-death decisions on limited, suspect information--Khan has found that rogue microbes will always be a problem, but outbreaks are often caused by people. We make mistakes, politicize emergencies, and, too often, fail to imagine the consequences of our actions. The Next Pandemic is a firsthand account of disasters like anthrax, bird flu, and others--and how we could do more to prevent their return. It is both a gripping story of our brushes with fate and an urgent lesson on how we can keep ourselves safe from the inevitable next pandemic.
| Author | : Rick Ankiel |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2017-04-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1610396871 |
Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it. The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch -- not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as "the Yips." It came without warning, in the middle of a playoff game, with millions of people watching. And it has never gone away. Yet the true test of Ankiel's character came not on the mound, but in the long days and nights that followed as he searched for a way to get back in the game. For four and a half years, he fought the Yips with every arrow in his quiver: psychotherapy, medication, deep-breathing exercises, self-help books, and, eventually, vodka. And then, after reconsidering his whole life at the age of twenty-five, Ankiel made an amazing turnaround: returning to the Major Leagues as a hitter and playing seven successful seasons. This book is an incredible story about a universal experience -- pressure -- and what happened when a person on the brink had to make a choice about who he was going to be.
| Author | : Shaw Hart |
| Publisher | : Shaw Hart |
| Total Pages | : 77 |
| Release | : 2023-10-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The worst day of my life is the one that people can't stop asking me about. Mabel: When my car breaks down one night, I'm sure that I'm about to be murdered. Isn't that how most horror stories start? Instead, I'm saved by a grumpy giant. Jonah isn't much of a talker but that's okay because I am. He lets me chatter at him as he takes me home and when he returns with my car that he fixed the next morning, he instantly becomes my hero. Now I just need to convince him that the curvy girl he rescued is also his perfect match. Jonah: They keep calling me a hero. I feel like a fraud. I don't deserve the congratulations or the accolades. I was just in the right place at the right time. I thought that things would be better once I got out of the military, but when I land in Fallen Peak, it feels like I'm living under a microscope. Now I can't leave the house without being stopped and thanked for my service. I hate it. Until one night I run into Mabel. She makes me feel like the hero that everyone keeps saying I am, but can I juggle a relationship while also navigating reintegrating to civilian life? Do I even deserve to get a happily ever after?
| Author | : Shaw Hart |
| Publisher | : Shaw Hart |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2023-08-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
A delicious set of romances sure to heat up the holiday season! From coworkers kissing under the mistletoe to an accidental pregnancy, can irresistible heroes convince these ladies to be theirs in time for Christmas? Snowed In For Christmas Catherine "Candy" Rockefeller hates Christmas but when she gets snowed in with Forrest, will he be able to change her mind about his favorite holiday? Stuffing Her Stocking Beau is the least cheerful person in Christmas, Michigan. Then he saves Holly after her car slides off the road. One look into her green eyes and it feels like his tiny Grinch heart just grew three sizes. Will Beau be able to convince Holly that he’s the man for her and that she should stay in Christmas with him forever? Mistletoe Kisses Noel works for Mason and they both have too much to lose to start a relationship, but when they kiss under the mistletoe at work, they both can't deny their feelings any longer. Will a sprig of mistletoe be enough to get these two to see that they’re both crazy about each other? A Very Mountain Man Christmas Ledger has been in love with Tilly since she got to town. When a car accident scrambles his brain and has him thinking that they're married, will he get what he wants most for Christmas? A Very Mountain Man New Year Snow was supposed to be a one night stand so when she turns up in Fallen Peak a few weeks after their night of passion, Wells is less than happy to see her. Scars from his childhood have left him believing that he's better off alone. When Snow tells him that he's pregnant, will he get his second chance to realize just how right they are together? His New Year Resolution Bishop Styles is resigned to his boring life. Then he meets Lennon and suddenly, she’s all he can think about. This New Year, Bishop’s resolution is to make Lennon his.
