Central Kansas Library System

A female, Pakistani doctor describes her practice treating women in Saudi Arabia, where the harsh code of orthodoxy for women is contradicted by some of the private behavior of wealthy women, but imposes a harsh reality on poor women.

The stories of a young veterinarian making his way in the rugged English countryside?and of the people and animals he met along the way ? In the rolling dales of Yorkshire, a simple, rural region of northern England, a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. A stranger in a strange land, he must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and...

"Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of park rangers who respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in some of the most isolated and rugged parts of America. In 2014, Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million acres: Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban EMS,...

"The opioid epidemic is responsible for the first sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy since the 1960s. In 2016, more than 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose -- to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who live with some measure of opioid addiction every day. The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know® is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis...

Children in Moonlight Bay, California, are missing and Christopher Snow believes they are still alive and that their disappearances have something to do with clandestine scientific experiments at a nearby abandoned military base.

When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on the operating table, a medical student determines to find the reason.

Examines the effects stess has on human health, summarizing the latest scientific findings about the role stress and emotional makeup play in diseases such as diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer, and arthritis.

Describes the various plants used by the early settlers as food and medicine and includes recipes as well as instructions for making a garden, pressing plants, and dyeing cloth.