Chronicles the achievements of eleven Afro-American physicians whose contributions helped raise the country's health standards through medical practice, research, or teaching.
An illustrated biography of Kenyan doctor Bonyo Bonyo, who decides to pursue a career in medicine after his baby sister died when he was a child and worked hard to achieve his dream.
After vanquishing the Conclave, Arabella Sharp tries to focus on her medical studies but soon discovers that she and those she loves have not escaped the manipulations of the Ripper.
When his mother becomes the doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, twelve-year-old Tor learns of a curse placed on the town's doctors many years before by an eccentric Ute woman, but suspects that a villain is hiding behind that curse.
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
innovative female physician and inventor of the Apgar score
Apel, Melanie Ann
2004
Profiles a woman anesthesiologist who was a pioneer in medicine, graduating from medical school at a time when few women attended college and going on to develop the Apgar score for measuring a newborn's physical condition at birth.
A biography of the African-American doctor who performed the first surgery on the human heart in the nineteenth century and who founded the first interracial hospital in the United States.
