Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War. Over the next four years, the two cared for each other through sickness and health, air raids and...
Medical Care
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Author:McKenzie, AndreaSummary: -
Author:Cook, RobinSummary:Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER as she begins seizing...
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Author:Cook, JudySummary:The increasingly outrageous costs of medical care, combined with the increasing difficulty of getting medical care present a complex problem for both patients and their doctors. There are many things patients can do, despite the...
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Author:Quiney, Linda J.Summary:With her linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the Great War. This book tells the story of the nearly 2,000 women from Canada and...
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Author:Fadiman, AnneSummary: - Author:Morris, ChristopherSummary:
Z.A.K.A is an Orthodox Jewish volunteer force in Israel that collects the remains of Jews killed in accidents. When Jacob, a Z.A.K.A volunteer, makes the split-second decision to treat a young Palestinian woman instead of the soldier...
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To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of...
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Author:McPherson, John, Canfield, JackSummary:If laughter is the best medicine, The Get Well Book by John McPherson is just what the doctor ordered. Filled with inside laughs about the cures, the pills and the little indignities that doctors deliver, it will help heal the sick and...
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Author:Oliver, Sean HarrisSummary:Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season is a searing investigation into the Afghan War through the eyes of a Canadian field medic (Kristy), an OR surgeon (Terry), and a recovery room nurse (Karine). When all three medical professionals...
- Author:Fitzharris, LindseySummary:
"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park."--Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the VileLindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering...
- Author:Moisan, MartinSummary:
This book is the result of a personal and professional journey. After having practiced general medicine in private practice and hospitals in Quebec for more than 15 years, Dr. Martin Moisan shares his observations with us. He concludes...
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Author:MacKinnon, Neil, Church, RhondaSummary:Take As Directed gives Canadians a much-needed guidebook to safely navigate our encounters with health-care providers and optimize the management of our own health. In recent years, evidence indicating that our health-care...
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In 1964-65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold...
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Author:Toman, CynthiaSummary:In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s first women soldiers – nursing sisters who enlisted as officers with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The nursing sisters...
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Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:In 1919, Kitty Weekes obtains a nursing position at a remote hospital for soldiers shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. But something more is going on at Portis House; the former occupants left abruptly, and all the patients...
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Author:THOMPSON, E. VSummary:Cornwall, 1854: Alice Rowe is rescued from the workhouse by the Rev. Arnold Markham to work in his parsonage as a housemaid. When the Reverend dies of a sudden heart attack, she faces an uncertain future.
- Author:Timm, Annette F., Taylor, Michael Thomas, Herrn, Rainer, Bakker, AlexSummary:
An illuminating look at the transatlantic, transgender community that shaped the history and study of sexuality. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created...
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Her weakest moment spawned a crusade for change. Julie Devaney takes us on a journey through the health care system as she is diagnosed and treated for ulcerative colitis. In and out of emergency rooms in Vancouver and Toronto, she’s...
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Author:Boyer, YvonneSummary:Continuing the theme of social determinants of health, this book is an historical examination of Canadian legal regimes and the negative impact they have had on the health of Aboriginal peoples. Everything from the early ban on...
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Author:McDonald, LynnSummary:Mary Seacole: The Making of the Myth is the first book to challenge the popular misconceptions that surround Mary Seacole’s iconic status as a “pioneer nurse” and battlefield heroine, intended, by some, to replace Florence Nightingale...
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