Judy Moody, M.D. (Book #5) Review

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(More customer reviews)In this book Judy Moody is on a adventure to be a doctor! She wants to be a M.D. (Medical doctor) And on the road to being a doctor is not always smooth! You can hit potholes of problems. So read this book and find out if Judy gets to be a doctor or not!

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En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between Review

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(More customer reviews)"En Route" is a series of vignettes that tell great stories with great feeling, often putting you right there with the author.
However, there is often a lack of connective material. He seems to change jobs and companies often with no comments or connections. He meets a nurse, asks her out, then is engaged, married, and divorced in little more than a few sentences. People are mentioned with little context- why do we need the full name of a person who pops up a single time without knowing anything else about them?
There is also an assumption that you are familiar with both rural Louisiana and basic paramedic skills- he often mentions locations as if you are already intimately familiar with them, where a brief commentary that this is a one-horse town, or this is a suburb of a better known town, etc. A little more context or background would have been nice.
I also missed any sort of a glossary or explanations of terms he used(although I MUCH prefer explanations in the text). For example, there is a running gag about 'spiking a bag of saline' that I am sure has paramedics in stitches, but becomes kind of annoying to the rest of us.
On the other hand, unlike so many of EMS stories, it does not devolve into an 'its all about me' tale, a morality tale, or anything like that. Instead, it is a good overview of the life of a paramedic- the ups and downs, and built on a nice outline in which each story moves us towards his thoughtful ending.

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Stephen "Kelly" Grayson has seen the best of us at our worst. When hearts stop working, when blood alcohol levels exceed limits we shouldn't contemplate, when bodies are extricated from car wrecks, he's been there to pick up the pieces, save our lives, and watch us slip away. His touching stories of life and death and the hilarious ones of times in between are here to give us an insight of what happens after we call 911, the ambulance doors close, or even what happens inside the ER when the nurse shows the family to the waiting room.

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When My World Was Very Small: A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch Review

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(More customer reviews)This book was outstanding. While much of the book focuses on the author's ultimately successful battle with breast cancer, it is far from being just a "cancer memoir". It is a beautifully written, vivid and inspiring memoir of a woman with a very full life, the devastating effects that breast cancer and its treatment had on her, and the many ways in which a whole community of dedicated friends and family helped her to cope and ultimately emerge with renewed strength.

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Life with Sudden Death: A Tale of Moral Hazard and Medical Misadventure Review

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(More customer reviews)With the language, imagery and humor of the novelist he is, Michael Downing creates a powerful and beautiful memoir about the boy he was and the patient he became upon the discovery of a genetic mutation. I laughed and I cried, often at the same time. For example, he writes, "I didn't black out the Kennedy tragedy. I do remember being shown a newspaper picture of the president's kids and feeling something like a paper cut in my guts when I noticed the little boy. I'd seen some old black-and-white photographs of my mother and the nine Downing kids lined up at a public event to honor my father and I knew exactly what it felt like to be the only one forced to wear short pants in public."
Downing sheds light where many would rather look away. With candor and compassion, he recalls the injustices and injuries of childhood and he exposes the harm done to him in the name of medicine. Whether you prefer John Updike or David Sedaris, Frank McCourt or Alice McDermott, you'll enjoy every page of this remarkable book, every book by this extraordinarily talented writer.


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The youngest of nine children, Michael Downing was three when his father died - suddenly and inexplicably. No autopsy was performed. The family diagnosis was God's will. As a boy, Downing rigorously trained as a spiritual athlete, preparing to vault into heaven. But eventually he escaped the religious dogma, and the family arena - until one of his brothers died in 2003, suddenly and inexplicably. No autopsy was performed.Alarmed, Downing pursued a diagnosis: Drawn into a world of researchers, clinicians, and manufacturers with their own arcane ethics and faith, Downing discovered he had inherited a mutant protein from his father, and the first symptom would be his sudden death. To save his life, a defibrillator was hard-wired to his heart. Within weeks, he needed emergency surgery to remove the device and the life-threatening infection he got with it. Two months later, he was re-implanted - only to read in his morning newspaper that the new wires anchored to his heart were prone to failure. His device might be powerless, or it might deliver a series of unwarranted, possibly fatal, shocks. From a bedeviled boyhood in the Berkshires to a grim comedy of errors in one of Boston's best hospitals, Life with Sudden Death is a wild ride.

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Little Critter: Just a Little Sick (My First I Can Read) Review

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(More customer reviews)My Granddaughter and I love the Little Critter series and she asked me to read this one several times in a row, so I knew it was a hit!

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Little Critter has a day off from school!

When Little Critter® feels just a little sick, Mom lets him stay home from school. Hooray! But between visiting the doctor and staying inside all day, missing school is not what Little Critter expected.

Just a Little Sick is a simple story—perfect for emergent readers who are eager to join Little Critter on his adventures.

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A Piece of My Mind: A New Collection of Essays from JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association Review

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(More customer reviews)Roxanne K. Young, the editor of this book, is Director of the Department of Medical Humanities of the Journal of the American Medical Association. As a practicing physician, each week I and many of my colleagues turn first to the Journal's "A Piece of My Mind" column from which the essays in the book come. Mostly written by physicians, essays also come from other health care professionals, patients, families, and others. In reading this work, the reader will find the hopes, fears, feelings, dreams, concerns, and clear and poignant observations of those who heal. If you desire to know not just the science of medicine, but its heart and soul, read this book.

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A Piece of My Mind" (APOMM) is a weekly feature in JAMA; physicians, residents, medical students, nurses, patients, family members of patients, and others submit stories that reflect their experience and thoughts regarding health, illness, medical care, and death and dying. "APOMM" is the cornerstone of the JAMA Medical Humanities program, and surveys reveal that when readers open their new copies of JAMA each week , most turn first or second to "APOMM". Many stories are heart-warming. some are sad, some are funny, and all are thoughtful and thought-provoking. This new collection is the cream of the crop about 80 stories culled from the past 10 years. A previous collection in 1988, published in conjunction with Feeling Fine, Inc., and Alfred A. Knopf, sold about 14,000 copies.

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Medical Sign Language: Easily Understood Definitions of Commonly Used Medical, Dental, and First Aid Terms Review

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(More customer reviews)This dictionary helps address an important issue in medical communication: Just because you or the interpreter knows the correct sign for a medical term doesn't mean your deaf patient does. This spiral bound book is designed to be laid flat on a table during a medical interview. It not only illustrates the proper signs, it also gives definitions of medical terms in plain English. In addition, it defines many terms which would need to be fingerspelled because they have no established signs. There are anatomical diagrams in the back to assist with explanations as well. It does not discuss grammar and doesn't address Deaf culture as it relates to medical care, so it is not intended as a stand-alone book for medical professionals or interpreting students.

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Twelve Breaths a Minute: End of Life Essays (MEDICAL HUMANITIES SERIES) Review

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(More customer reviews)Although the topics covered are not easy ones, they are presented in a compassionate, thought provoking way. End of life topics are ones that all of us face...many times in life. Worth the read.

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"A gripping and passionate account of how we face the final rite ofpassage. These stories mine the agility of the human spirit, and willnot easily be forgotten."—Danielle Ofri, author of Medicine in Translation and Singular Intimacies Twelve Breaths a Minute—the latest collaboration between SMUPress and the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, with the support of theJewish Healthcare Foundation—features twenty-three original, compellingpersonal narratives that examine the way we as a society care for thedying. Here a poet, a former hospice worker, reflects on death'smysteries; a son wanders the halls of his mother's nursing home, lost inthe small absurdities of the place; a grief counselor struggles withlosing his own grandfather; a medical intern traces the origins of timeand the quality of our final days; a mother anguishes over her decisionto turn off her daughter's life support and allow her organs to beharvested; and an emergency dispatcher tries to quantify what astranger's death should mean. "This remarkable anthology collects the reflections of family members,nurses, physicians, and hospice workers as they care for thedying. Looking back on their experiences, they ponder what they did welland what they might have done differently or not done at all. Theydespair over flailing efforts to do something when that can only prolongmisery. Biomedical technology is sometimes a blessing and sometimes acurse, and never sufficient in itself. Readers, who will at some timebe in one or more of these caregiving roles, can learn important andvaluable information from these reflections."—Carol Donley, formerco-director of the Center for the Literature, Medicine, and the HealthCare Professions and co-author of Literature and Aging: An Anthology

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