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61) Ben Carson
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A biography of the surgeon who overcame poverty and racism to become chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
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What is it like to have God-like surgical powers, yet to struggle against your own humanity? What is it like to try and save a life, and yet to fail? British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh openly confronts the dilemmas of the doctor patient relationship on his latest mission to the Ukraine.
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Harlequin medical romance volume 1355
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Robotics scientist Harper dreams of helping prosthetics patients worldwide. The problem? Infuriating neurosurgeon Dr. Dom. This man raises her temper--and her pulse But despite a series of heated clashes, the layers of his cold exterior begin to melt. Soon, cautious Harper finds resisting her rival an impossible task, as days--and nights --in the lab blur the lines between professional and deeply personal...
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"Distinguished scholars and scientists at the 128th Summer Convention of the Theosophical Society in America discuss the implications of the near-death experience, as well as revolutionary views on consciousness, including research on psychic abilities such as remote viewing and more!"--Publisher.
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"Rahul has spent the last 20 years treating patients whose lives hang in the balance, from keeping a gun victim's heart pumping with his own hand, to saving a woman from paralysis and performing brain surgery while time is running out on a haemorrhaging patient. Rules for Survival distills the resilience, courage and belief he has witnessed from patients and explains how he has harnessed them into 10 practical rules for living a better, more fulfilled...
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"Un libro que ha cautivado y conmovido a crítica y público. Henry Marsh, el eminente neurocirujano británico expone a ojos del mundo la esencia de una de las especialidades médicas más difíciles, delicadas y fascinantes que existen. El resultado es este volumen que poco tiempo después de su publicación se encaramó a las listas de más vendidos del Sunday Times y el New York Times. Escogido ±Mejor Libro del Año¿ por el Financial Times...
74) Paging Dr. Gupta
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When Dr. Sanjay Gupta travels the world for CNN to report on natural disasters, conflicts, and catastrophes, he illuminates the stories of the affected and the afflicted. But a few times in his career, while reporting abroad, he's been asked to don his surgeon's cap and gloves to intervene in high-stakes medical emergencies. Far from his controlled and highly regulated operating rooms, Gupta found himself trying to save lives in the most makeshift...
76) El buen doctor
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"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
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Harlequin medical romance volume 1367
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Reunited with her first love! Setting up a charity matching therapy dogs with patients in need is Dr. Raquel's calling. Her career took a back seat for too long and she can't afford to be distracted. Enter hotshot neurosurgeon Christian--her brother's best friend and her teenage crush!--who's looking for a pup for his niece. The tension between them is as unchanged as it is undeniable... Will one night to get things out of their systems solve all...
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"Pide tres deseos. Esa es la extrana propuesta que escucha el joven Jim, un chico de doce anos procedente de una familia desestructurada, cuando entra en una tienda de magia del desierto de California. Jim aun no lo sabe, pero esta a punto de descubrir en que consiste la verdadera magia: en utilizar el poder de la mente y del corazon para hacer cosas que superan lo que creiamos posible."--provided by Amazon.com.
79) Confesiones
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An autobiography of British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh.
80) The scalpel and the soul: encounters with surgery, the supernatural, and the healing power of hope
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"Based on thirty years of medical experience, The Scalpel and the Soul tells the unspoken stories behind remarkable patients and strange events, and shares the moral and spiritual lessons found in them." "For physicians, supernatural inklings and intrusions are disturbing. Doctors often cannot be candid with colleagues and patients about anomalous events because they are trained to disregard the inexplicable and unbelievable. They are taught to discount...