Annotation This poignant and eloquent book is a memoir of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, written by a physician whose encounters with his dying patients allowed him to come to terms with his own losses, history, and family secrets. It is a story with an important message for anyone dealing with the challenges of living, dying, and being human.

There are four major dilemmas at work in the rapid decline of the United States' healthcare system: the disappearing primary care sector, healthcare insurance reform, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the practice of medicine, and reform of malpractice litigation. In this book, Dr. Robert A. Linden provides a comprehensive explanation of these dilemmas, from the perspective of a primary care physician who has spent 30 years working directly with patients and seeing first-hand how changes in the system have impacted patients and physicians. Dr. Linden sorts out the fragments of information that most readers get through the media and fills in the blanks to provide a clear picture of what's wrong with the U.S. healthcare system, an impartial review of proposed solutions, and a look at what other countries have done to reform their healthcare systems. Unlike many academician authors who have covered the problems only in part with skewed information, this book will finally help the healthcare consumer understand the problems facing us and form their own assessments of what should be done to restore the American healthcare system.

From the # 1 New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: The “shocking” story of the country’s unlikeliest drug kingpin (The Baltimore Sun). By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin had everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class roots to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice, and a beloved father with a well-respected family in one of Philadelphia’s most exclusive suburbs. But behind the façade of his success was a dark secret: Lavin was also the mastermind behind a cocaine empire that spread from Miami to Boston to New Mexico, catering to lawyers, stockbrokers, and other professionals, and generating an annual income of $60 million for the good doctor. Now, Mark Bowden, a “master of narrative journalism” (The New York Times Book Review) tells the harrowing saga of Lavin’s rise and fall in “a shocking American tragedy . . . [that] shoots straight from the hip” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). “An engrossing crime story and a compelling morality tale.” —The Arizona Republic “Has all the elements of a chilling suspense thriller . . . A smoothly crafted, exciting, can’t-put-it-down book.” —The New Voice (Louisville)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.

Ashley is a hospital housekeepr who can't seem to get a break. Between a boss who hates her guts and grad school rejection letters she can't seem to get ahead. And on top of that, Dr. Tobers, a cardiologist just named Dr. Sexy in the local social magazine does not remember her name.But Dr. Tobers does notice Ashley. He just calls her the wrong name to keep that jealous, pesky nurse away from Ashley. Not only that, he is afraid his panic attacks will turn Ashley off to him. And besides, he does not have time for a relationship. He saves lives and a relationship will compromise that.They don't want to fall in love with each other but after their first kiss they may not have a choice.

Hazel Working at Portland Grace has always been fun, until Tanner Wilson arrives—or Doctor Drop-Dead Gorgeous as all the scrub nurses have started calling him. Not me, though. Just thinking about him gives me heart palpitations. Not only is Tanner my brother’s best friend, he’s also my new boss. A boss who looks way too good in scrubs. To make matters worse, I’ve got to share an apartment with him, all thanks to my stupid brother who offered him our spare room. Ugh. Do you know how torturous is it to watch a hot doc scoop cereal into his mouth every morning and having to pretend he means nothing to you? Tanner Being offered Head of Trauma at Portland Grace is a dream come true, but I didn’t count on Hazel Green becoming my new scrub nurse. Don’t get me wrong, she’s good at her job, but to me she’ll always be my best friend’s little sister. Extremely cute, but also extremely off-limits. As long as I can convince her that I don’t like her at all, I’ll be fine. At least, that’s the lie I keep telling myself. Falling for Doctor Drop-Dead Gorgeous is a feel-good, lighthearted, funny romcom by USA Today Bestselling RomCom Author Sophie-Leigh Robbins. Perfect for fans of closed-door romances that make you laugh out loud.

The man to mend her heart Dr. Katherine Burns desperately needs time to grieve—and what better place to do it than Greece? The peaceful shores are a far cry from the bright lights of bustling London! Yet when her new sanctuary is disrupted by a hunky Hercules on the beach, Dr. Alexander Dimitriou, Katherine soon finds herself being swept away with this delicious man and his adorable young daughter, Crystal. But falling in love with Alexander means that Katherine discovers she can't hide from her old life forever….