medical care

Provides information about a wide range of health-related topics and lifestyle issues; and includes chapter overviews, definitions of words and terms, lists of reference books and web sites, sidebar boxes, photographs and illustrations, bibliographies, and indexes.

Contains twenty-seven essays in which various authors present opposing viewpoints on issues related to health care, discussing reform, managed care, and the problem of uninsured Americans.

Arthur the bear must stay at the hospital after falling off his bike, and learns how the doctors and nurses can make him feel better.

Fred takes Betty to a doctor because she has a stomach ache. Includes facts about eating right and staying fit.

Chris's chronic ear infections affect his hearing until he goes into the hospital for a simple operation.

Robby wakes up with a bad earache, but he feels better after going to the doctor and taking several doses of medicine.

Feeling weak from not having eaten all day, Kevin visits the school nurse, finding out about the four major food groups and observing her helping children with all kinds of problems.

Contains first-hand accounts of five true cases which reveal the inside of a major city hospital.

Brief text and photographs introduce doctors and their role in the community.