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Antoine, jeune étudiant en médecine, quitte sa routine montréalaise et s’expatrie pour un mois de stage dans un modeste dispensaire sénégalais. Là-bas, il soignera les malades de Koudiadienne et des environs, supervisé par Joseph, un chef infirmier rigide et intransigeant. Empli de questionnements et de doutes envers les limites de la pratique médicale, Antoine s’occupera des maux de chacun et tissera ainsi des liens avec les gens de ce pays sablonneux.

«Non, je ne sais pas comment elles font pour survivre à leur quart, pour trouver du sens et de la cohérence dans ces actes qu’elles doivent poser, jour après jour, comme des bêtes automates.» Francis, un jeune homme désabusé, cherche sa place dans un monde survolté où il voit peu d’espoir. Après avoir traversé une période de découragement et songé au suicide, Francis se retrouve, par un concours de circonstances, préposé au bénéficiaire, histoire de gagner sa vie. Cet emploi lui redonne un peu de confiance, mais Francis ne se doute pas de ce qui l’attend.

The eagerly anticipated fourth medical thriller in the award-winning series Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo hopes an extended cruise on the Indian Ocean with his girlfriend and his son will salve the wounds of the rough times they've been weathering at home. As they set sail coddled in unaccustomed luxury on the Coral Dynasty, things below deck are a little less sunny for the ship's physician. Dr.

This collection bundles all three titles from Candace Calvert's exciting Mercy Hospital series into one e-book, for a great value!#1 Critical CareAfter her brother dies in a trauma room, nurse Claire Avery can no longer face the ER. She's determined to make a fresh start-new hospital, new career in nursing education-move forward, no turning back. But her plans fall apart when she's called to offer stress counseling for medical staff after a heartbreaking day care center explosion.

This collection bundles all three novels from author Candace Calvert's exciting Grace Medical series into one e-book for a great value!Trauma PlanSidelined by injuries from a vicious assault, chaplain Riley Hale is determined to return to her former duties as an ER nurse. But how can she show she's competent when the hospital won't let her attempt even simple tasks' Determined to prove herself, Riley volunteers at a controversial urban free clinic despite her fears about the maverick doctor in charge.Dr.

At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He'll send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath? TB. Another patient rolled to the ward. And the round swellings, the rashes with dimpled centres, the small rough patches on a boy's foot? HIV. Iris will make him comfortable. They'll move on. Then there will be sleeplessness, rationed energy, a censuring of hope: the doctor's disease. Iris sees that one all the time.

Bestselling Author Tracie Peterson Teams Up with Kimberley Woodhouse for a Depression-Era Drama Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her family life has been rough ever since her mother, hating Alaska, took Gwyn's younger sister back to Chicago to live. Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan finds his life suddenly turned upside down when his medical license is stripped away after he loses an affluent patient. In a snowball effect, he then loses his engagement to Gwyn's sister, Sophia.

A man of science must overcome public ignorance and the petty greed of associates as he seeks knowledge.

The story of one girls struggle with tuberculosis and her journey to recovery.

Portland, Maine, 1910. An assembly gathers to listen to a fundraising lecture by the esteemed medical missionary Doctor Wilfred Grenfell. Grenfell has been working for eighteen years with trappers, fishermen, and their families on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula and in coastal Labrador. Thanks in part to the wild adventures recorded in his recent bestseller, Adrift on an Ice Pan, Grenfell is becoming ever more famous in North America. But tonight something is wrong. The man who appears before the audience as “the good doctor” suddenly receives a challenge from the floor.