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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Description
The author provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous...
2) Hospitals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces the world of hospitals describing emergency rooms, field hospitals, operating theaters, animal hospitals, hospital ships, air ambulances, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"There was a huge public outpouring to the recent articles in The New York Times about Family Foundation School, a last-resort institution for troubled teens in upstate New York. It described the near 50% death rate of alumni-including many by suicide-and how the survivors lived with their trauma in the years after leaving the school. A follow-up piece this January covered the shocking facts that came to light through multiple lawsuits and the continuing...
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