medical care

An examination of the techniques and tools used by early healers and modern physicians to uncover the signs of disease.

Photographs, illustrations, and text show how our present health care system evolved and what is now available to American citizens. Various proposals for reform are considered.

When Tom and Ally, visit the doctor for a check-up, Tom is scared of receiving a shot, but soon realizes there is nothing to fear.

Considers how other countries are able to offer affordable health care for their citizens and questions whether the United States will ever be able to do the same. Explores the various benefits offered by foreign health care systems and provides an assortment of guidelines the United States can follow to reform health care and benefit the public.

Argues that America's health care system is providing unnecessary, high-tech medical care thereby enriching hospitals and doctors, driving up the overall cost of health care, and endangering patients' lives. The author offers a way to control costs, cover the uninsured, and improve the quality of America's health care.

Big Bird finds out that going to the doctor's office isn't so bad after all.

Rhyming tale of a sick dolly, the care she receives from her doctor and Miss Polly, and the treat she is offered when she becomes well.

An excited, eighteen-year-old Cherry Ames enters the training program at Spencer Hospital that will lead her to a nursing career in just three years.