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Author
Publisher
Anansi
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets. What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymens term, cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston, a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband's portable ultrasound machine...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 316 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the U.S. into consuming more than 80 percent of the world's opioid painkillers. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but...