It was a shocking way to find out he had a nearly grown son — one so like him in looks and intention. GP Quinn Jamison knew that more than an unexpected pregnancy must have kept Faith away from him for so many years. He couldn't believe she had fallen out of love with him, any more than he had stopped loving her. Now he had a chance to discover the truth…and plan their future.

When the influenza epidemic of 1918 comes to Vermont, eleven-year-old Margaret, who has always wanted to be a physician, finds out what doctoring is like.

In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the cat who shows them some tricks and games.

Biomedical theories of autism can offer a plausible explanation of the supposed ‘autism epidemic’ and are increasingly accepted by parents and activists but do they work and are they safe? Dr Fitzpatrick, himself the father of an autistic boy, investigates the scientific evidence around a number of theories.

The readers should be motivated by the passionate approach even the author was born with severe diarrhoea illness. The reverse might give a mighty force to a person the power who deserved it - “Be like a butterfly, go where you can fulfil your life purpose.” (with permission from Eric Chia 2019). The elder son of the author followed his footstep, building a career in the banking and finance sector, who is now an SVP in a large bank, with his wife an SVP in another large bank, and they have a handsome and intelligent son, my grandson! The second son of the author works hard. Still, the second son completed his Masters of Medicine (Family) after MBBS from NUS and his wife, the second-daughter-in-law of the author also a Masters of Medicine (Psychiatry) holder after she graduated with an MBBS from the NUS. They have a daughter and a son. The author continued to pursue his studies while working as a team head of Commercial Loans Division. The author studied from a postgraduate research course, MBA (Distinction, Strategic Marketing, Hull) in 1994 and Doctor of Business Administration (Strategic Management, Finance and Accounting under research and course) from 2013 to 2017. The research title of the author was on the model of “the Chartered Accountants’ propensity to stay in Singaporean Accounting Firms” (Tan, 2019)

Requiem for the Bone Man is a moving, compelling first novel, told with the assurance and skill of a born storyteller. It is also a meditation on the art of healing, as seen in the adventures of its unforgettable central character, Dr. Robert Galen. From his youth as a street-smart son of immigrants to his career as a gifted physician, Galen is tough-minded yet compassionate. Above all, he is deeply human, willing to risk the pain of loss and failure that inevitably comes to those with an unshakeable commitment to a vocation and to friends and loved ones.