The story of a deformed youth whose handicap causes loneliness.

Dr. Leigh Culver loves practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado. It is a much-needed change of pace from her stressful life in Chicago. The only drawback is she misses her Aunt Helen, the woman who raised her. But it's time Leigh has her independence, and she hopes the beauty of the Colorado wilderness will entice her aunt to visit often. Helen Culver is an independent woman who lovingly raised her sister's orphaned child. Now, with Leigh grown,...

Book 7 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston--a large, "civilized"...

Kevin MacIntyre never expected to see Dr. Emily Berthoff again—and didn't want to. Not after they'd broken off their engagement eight years ago and she'd left for medical school. He'd wanted to forget her as easily as she'd seemed to forget him. But he couldn't.
And now she was back.
When she'd taken a job back home in Colorado, Emily had dreaded running into Kevin. She didn't want to relive the anger and the hurt of their breakup. Or...

"For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her. Suddenly, it's much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely...

Castle Connolly's America's Top Doctors® for Cancer represents the much-needed and long-overdue answer for consumers – and physicians - seeking the top cancer specialists. Castle Connolly's physician-led Research Team has tackled some of the tough issues and developed criteria for selection. Castle Connolly's well respected national survey process that has enabled them to identify the leading physicians in more than twenty medical specialties associated...

One of the greatest and most common criticisms of modern medicine is that physicians and healthcare providers communicate poorly with their patients. Based on decades of research, practical experience and interviews with real patients, Dr. Orsini uses his unique storytelling skills to provide practical communication techniques that help medical providers quickly build rapport and form relationships with patients and families even in the most difficult...

Our primer is an elementary introduction to the complexities of use of transcriptomics in medical care. Focusing on chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS), this short book leads us through the jargon of gene names, gene symbols and the maze of transcription factors to help us begin to understand how differential activation of genes underlies all chronic illness. In the specific case of CIRS, pertinent metabolic pathways are presented, populated...

Sonya M. Sloan, M.D., #OrthoDoc, has established herself as a force to be reckoned with in the male-dominated field of Orthopedic Surgery. Licensed to practice medicine in several states, she travels the country to extend the impact of her unique approach to patient care, including one of the first telemedicine companies privately owned as a partnership venture. Dr. Sloan is the quintessential fusion of her love for medicine and her passion to help...

You can’t dance this dance unless it’s in your blood. Claire McCall is praying it’s not in hers. Claire McCall is used to fighting back against the odds. Hard work, aptitude, and sheer determination have helped her rise from adverse circumstances to an internship in one of the nation’s most competitive surgical residencies. But talent and tenacity mean nothing in the face of the discovery that is about to rock her world.

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