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One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's life is changed forever. It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns to the baby's father for help and agrees to marry him, moving to the small, rural town of Hickory, North Carolina. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is...
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" ... provides current, understandable medical information, resources, and support services for 213 pediatric disorders. A repeat winner of the National Health Informaion Awards 'Honoring the Nation's Best Consumer Health Information Programs and Materials, ' this reference work provides vital information for afflicted children and their support network, including family, friends, and medical professionals."-- From Introduction.
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"Visiting the doctor is a healthy habit many children are familiar with doing each year, or even more often. Both well checkups and sick visits are an important part of taking care of our bodies. In this book, low-ATOS text explains both kinds of visits in achievable text for emerging readers using relatable examples. Full-color photographs correlate directly with the text aiding in comprehension and increasing familiarity with what happens when children...
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Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, and Policy in Public Health, Third Edition takes a developmental approach to Maternal and CHild Health (MCH). Organized according to fundamental principles of MCH, this book covers traditional MCH topics such as family planning and maternal and infant health, in addition to skills that are applicable across Public Health disciplines such as planning, research, monitoring, and advocacy. Successfully tested...
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Provides current, understandable medical information, resources and support services for over 200 pediatric disorders. This reference work provides vital information for afflicted children and their support network, including family, friends, and medical professionals. It includes 8,000 listings, and each listing has updated contact data - address, phone, fax, web site, e-mail - and helpful descriptions. Users will find 6,000 fax numbers, 6,000 e-mail...
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Traces how the author worked through grief and anxiety by founding the Global Medical Relief Fund to raise money for child war victims, recounting her efforts with the Shriners Hospitals to provide dozens of injured children with free housing and ongoingmedical care.