medical care

When he wakes up with a sore throat, Jamie's mother takes him to visit the doctor.

Contains over three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the history, politics, and terminology of the debate over health care in America.

Introduces cancer, its treatments, such as diagnostic tests, chemotherapy, radiation, side effects, hospitalization, and nutrition, and the changes it brings to daily life.

The author recalls her fourteen-month experience as an emergency medical responder in Baghdad with the Italian Red Cross, and writes of the death and destruction as well as the efforts of many who attempt to bring peace to a war-torn country.

James McManus reflects on the events that forced him to face his own mortality and re-evaluate the choices he had made in his life and offers a broad exploration of the American health care system.

Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics that provide current and historical information about a range of health issues, focusing on U.S. health care and standards, with discussion of costs, insurance, health care professionals and institutions, disease, mental health, and prevention.

Hundreds of riddles and jokes about getting sick and getting well.

Explains to young children what happens when they go to the doctor for a check-up or a shot.

Freddie visits the doctor and gets flavored medicine for his sore throat.

Describes the hospital and its medical personnel, their role in the community. and the services provided by them.