"Nonfiction, simple text with full-color photography presenting community helpers on the scene at a hospital"--

Visit the Doctor! focuses on doctor visits while discussing steps children can take to practice healthy lifestyles. Readers are introduced to what may happen during a typical medical exam and specifics about the job of a doctor. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

Ed Marx and Cris Ross, executives in two of the best hospitals in America, discuss what can be done to improve the patient experience in the United States, and explains what needs to be done to reform current models and implement lasting changes for better health outcomes.

When it is time for his yearly checkup, Max goes to the doctor and gets very good news.

"Trying to find some normalcy during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brian Murphy and his family are on a summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with concerning flu-like symptoms. But their leisurely return home to New York City quickly becomes a race to the local hospital as she suddenly begins seizing in the car. At the ICU, she is diagnosed with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease seemingly...

Chronicles major scientific breakthroughs throughout history that have come as the result of inventions. Details the discovery of X-ray machines, the electrocardiograph, automated external defibrillator, and home pregnancy tests. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a timeline, a glossary, and additional resources.

Elaine Benson comes to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job--elderly Moira Madison wishes to write her memoirs, specifically her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of World War II. Somehow the project stirs someone to murder.

"'Eat smart, exercise regularly, and get routine health screenings,' the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advises the public in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. And that is absolutely true--except for the checkup part. The American public has been sold the idea that seeking medical care is one of the most important steps to maintain wellness. However, surprisingly, medical care is not in fact well correlated with good health. The major...

Psychologist Alan Gregory befriends a suicidal fifteen-year-old girl and her ill little sister, and when a high-level associate of the HMO that denied the child treatment with an experimental drug is murdered, he realizes that his patient is somehow involved.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz Byrski, growing up in East Grinstead, the burnt faces of these airmen filled her nightmares. In her late 60s, Liz returned to make peace with her memories and to speak not only with the survivors-known as the Guinea Pig Club-but with the nurses who...