medical care

Describes caregiving careers in seven settings, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home health, provides advice for entering the broad caregiving field, and lists related organizations and further reading.

Provides an overview of the helping professions, discussing working conditions, training and skills, job outlook, and earnings, and features interviews with practicing professionals in a variety of fields in which they discuss the realities of their jobs.

A little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do when he goes for his check-up.

Elizabeth learns what goes on in a hospital when she enters to have her appendix removed.

Explains what happens during a physical examination by the doctor.

Identifies common doctor's tools such as the stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and thermometer, and describes how they are used and what they feel like.

A collection of essays that addresses controversies related to uninsured individuals in the United States, discussing if the lack of health insurance is a serious problem, if access to health insurance improves people's health, if government should mandate the purchase of health insurance, and if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will improve medical care.

Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.

Contains over twenty articles from a wide range of national publications that provide a variety of perspectives on health care in sub-Saharan Africa--the topic assigned for the National High School Policy Debate for the 2007-08 school year.