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A memoir of Ashok Rajamani, who at the age of twenty-five suffered from an brain aneurysm, which he thankfully survived despite continuing physical and emotional problems.

Forty-three-year-old surgeon Dr. Ted Cogan struggles to clear his name when he is accused of statutory rape and manslaughter after seventeen-year-old and former patient Kristen Kroiter kills herself, leaving behind a diary that provides details describing a sexual encounter.

When the death of the head of San Francisco's largest HMO in his own hospital turns out to be murder the attending physician, Dr. Eric Kensing, turns to lawyer Dismas Hardy to defend him. As Hardy attempts to find the real culprit he uncovers a twisted conspiracy of greed and death.

After the grief of losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, Sarah Gabriel had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer---the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the BRCA1 gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female ancestors. Eating Pomegranates is Gabriel's candid and incredibly intimate story of being forced to acknowledge that while you can try to overcome the loss of a parent, you can never escape your genetic legacy. When she was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her mother, Gabriel began her treatments and wrote her story.

Profiles a number of the minds behind some of historys greatest industrial advances, including Robert Fulton, Margaret Knight, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.

The author shares what he has learned about hope caring for patients with cancer, blood diseases, HIV, and hepatitis C, and discusses his personal experience with hope which led him to investigate whether there is a scientific basis for believing hope contributes to recovery.

Examines the growing influence managed care organizations have on the lives of people in the United States, focusing on the rising costs of care and the fear that reducing costs will deny ill people the care they need.