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Humanitarian doctor and activist James Maskalyk, draws upon his experience treating patients in emergency rooms around the world. Dr. Maskalyk argues that although the cultures, resources and medical challenges of each hospital differ, they are linked indelibly by the ground floor: the location of their emergency rooms. It is here that Dr. Maskalyk witnesses the story of "human aliveness"--our mourning and laughter, tragedies and hopes, the frailty...
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In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other teens and a woman who punches another woman out of jealousy over a man. But Goldman also reveals the emotional, heartbreaking side of everyday E.R.
...8) Egg shooters
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Suzanne Dietz, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club Café, is visiting her fiancée, Dr. Sam Hazelet when a masked gunman bursts into the emergency room. He shoots two people and would probably have done more damage had Suzanne not brained him with a thermos full of chili. Still, the gunman manages to escape. Now the ladies of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer before he finds them.
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Military history continues to evolve and grow. Every conflict that had American troops on the ground is full of historical notice and activity, and the Vietnam War is no exception.
Chief Michael L. Kuk's writing tells of the time that he spent in Vietnam with the US army as a combat firefighter. This work encompasses what a very small detail of soldier-firefighters did, while they were stationed there in support of the overall war effort.
It wasn't...
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I am not an Astrophysicist, but I've studied Astrophysics all my life.. - I'm likely the only one of them who are very-well studied in it you'll ever get close enough to, who can and has explained it to average people simply enough to understand, as I have done in this book for you. --RK
11) Into the Flames
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Bob Ritchey enjoyed being a wildland firefighter and EMT. He fought fire all over Montana, big and small, from Yellowstone Park to Glacier Park. One day, he and his crew got a routine call to check out some smoke, so Bob and Joe, one of his crew members, loaded up in the truck and drove to the location. It was a small fire, so Bob proceeded to walk around it to get information for Harlowton headquarters so they would know what type of equipment was...
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Bobbie Scopa spent close to five decades working through nearly every challenge a firefighter can face.
Scopa was a strike team leader for the Dude Fire in 1990, where six firefighters were tragically killed, and she served at Ground Zero immediately after 9/11. She's worked mountain rescues, city fires, mega-wildfires, and everything in between.
While battling conditions and harsh flames on the outside, she also found herself waging a tougher battle...
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Doctors hold a pretty special place in our lives. They're often there when we're born, and they're usually there when we die. They're there for a lot of the scary or weird stuff that happens in between, too.
In That's Why I'm a Doctor, award-winning journalist Mark Bulgutch brings together forty-six stories from a diverse group of physicians, including pediatricians, interventional radiologists, general surgeons, psychiatrists, family doctors, gastroenterologists,...
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Do You Believe in Miracles?
For more than three decades, Andrea Jo Rodgers has served her small-town community as a volunteer EMT. Over the years, the incredible events she's witnessed have taught her that behind the scenes of every dark and dire situation waits a God capable of doing the impossible to help, protect, and save those He loves.
In “Heaven-Sent Miracles and Rescues”, Andrea shares tales of amazing and supernatural occurrences she's...
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This book will expose you to the typical life of a firefighter or paramedic, or even a law enforcement officer. You will see how the author got started in the field and had an exhilarating forty-two years on the job highlighting the good, the bad, the sad, the ugly, and the downright messed up world a first-responder is exposed to. This book will show you that everyone from all walks of life will have some type of emergency and how responders provide...
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A Fireman's View of the World From The Back Step is a captivating memoir that takes you behind the scenes of a firefighter's life. Sal's story is a tribute to the heroes who run toward danger, driven by an unwavering sense of duty. Join him on the back step of Engine #1 and feel the heat, hear the roar, and witness the bravery that defines the life of a firefighter.
18) On Fire
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On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In “On Fire”, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma, from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes, catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist.
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Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of park rangers who respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in some of the most isolated and dangerous parts of America. In 2014, Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million acres: Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban...
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For twenty-five years, paramedic and firefighter Christy Warren put each tragic, traumatizing call she responded to in a box and closed the lid. One day, however, the box got too full and the lid blew open-and she found herself unable to close it again. Her brain locked her inside a movie theater in which film after film of gut-wrenching scenes from her career played over and over again; she found herself incapable of forgiving herself for what happened...
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