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Madame Bovary

Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.
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Doctors to the rescue

When Pedro Pony gets hurt, Doctor Brown Bear, Doctor Pony, and Doctor Hamster all show up to save the day, and Peppa and her friends learn what each doctor does to make patients feel better.
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Mountains beyond mountains

Presents the life of the American physician and medical educator, Paul Farmer, who dedicated his life to serving the poor of Haiti and Peru and challenging world health policies.
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Living and dying in Brick City

an E.R. doctor returns home
Dr. Sampson Davis, one of the three doctors of the Three Doctors Foundation, writes about his life as an ER doctor working in the city he grew up in, discussing why inner city medical conditions are so disproportionately high when it comes to heart disease, asthma, strokes, AIDS, and obesity.
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The greater journey

Americans in Paris
Tells the stories of American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who spent time in Paris between 1830 and 1900, pursuing knowledge that would help them excel in their careers, including Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, author James Fenimore Cooper, pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many others.
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An Acquaintance with darkness

When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
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Mae Jemison

An introduction to the life of Mae Jemison, engineer, physician, and astronaut.
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Remembering John McCrae

soldier, doctor, poet
Examines the life of John McCrae, discussing his childhood, family, careers in medicine and the military, World War I experience, and other related topics, and including more than one hundred photographs, documents, and images.
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SpongeBob goes to the doctor

When SpongeBob develops a case of the suds, he must overcome his fear of going to the doctor.
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Doctors

Looks at the role of doctors in a community, and explains what doctors do, where they work, and the tools they use.
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