Biography: science, technology and medicine

This story is the first of three completed novels in which fictional Vienna Police Inspector Karl Marbach is a central character.

A PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE: There have been an increasing number of articles and books by medical professionals warning us of the hospital dangers, but very few by patients based on their personal experience.

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies.

Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman.

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, movingand at times raucously humorousone of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Tales of an Ironman is abook about authors journey from childhood to adulthood.

Between the 1940s and the 1960s,rheumatic fever was a leading causeof death in children.

Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564By Stephen N.

This book is for anyone, young or old, who has ever had a desire or ambition to achieve the American Dream.

The book is a collection of stories: assignments from a long and enjoyable engineering career as well as anecdotes and experiences from summer jobs, vacations, and consulting.

Amy Gingrich saw her disease as a prison.

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Retired, seventy-six-year-old Michael Barker was living the good life in beautiful Vermont.

My choice to keep my son at home, during his illness, seemed like the only option due to my sons aversion to staying in a hospital.

Three Roses: Living with Muscular Dystrophy and Marrying the Ideal Woman introduces a man who knew from his early childhood that he would face life with the ever-present reality of muscular dystrophy.

When Dr.

Its Been a Good Life, Dad!

Maria Russo is a retired Service Manager of Verizon Enterprise Solutions and is now an author of this non-fiction book about her life.

I Am on My Way to Healing: Two Strokes and a Recovery shares an authors journey along the path from two strokes toward healing and recovery and a renewed sense of hope.

In 1923 in Andalusia, Alabama, twenty-odd miles north of the Florida line, a physician was born.

All senior citizens look forward to good health as those later years draw near.

Many of us have definite plans about how the story of life goes, but the purpose of God prevails.

It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height.

Stroke no joke is the autobiography of a middle aged African American man who navigates the process of reclaiming and re- finding his life it provides an insightful look into the mind of a once strong independent man after he suffered a serious stroke that changes his life forever.

Albert Lamarre never imagined that one day he would stare down the barrel of a shotgun pointed at him by a Texas ranchers daughter.

When Maria gets a job at Anthonys donut and coffeehouse in New York City, shes thrilled to be working.

Shelly is an amazing little girl who rode an alligator, drove a blimp, and refused to give up her fight against cancer.

Then he tells you Ilike to dress up as a women, and the journey begins.

Born to poor immigrant parents in 1921, author Dr.

Art Marsicano shares the inspiring story of his wifes five-year battle with ovarian cancer in this tribute to God, marriage, and the power of love.

On a warm September day in 1957, author John Allen Resko walked through the gates of Saint Charles into a world he was ill prepared to confront.

Karl Maramorosch may be best known for his accomplishments as a top scientist, but the story of how he became such a success has never been tolduntil now.

Astronaut Dr.

Author Ruth Brown was born with mastocytosis, a rare, complex, and little-known disease responsible for producing a multitude of diverse symptoms.

Dave Faber and Robert McGehee were meant to be together: Less than two years after their first date, they were married.

Pedro Nosa Halili was the one they called the medicine man.

When Everything Changed: My Journey from Physician to Patient is the inspiring memoir of Dr.

Living with bipolar disorder is not just a struggle for the individual; it affects everyone associated with that person as well.

In the heady days of the early 1960s, the United States found itself perched on the edge of technological, sociological, and societal precipices.

A rebellious and willful woman, author Raven White spent years stewing her organs in lethal concoctions of alcohol, meth, marijuana, and cocaine.

On Call is an autobiography of J.

Author Maria Star developed in a schizophrenics womb for nine months.

Author Jerald Watts, a native Georgian served in the USAF in the early 1960s during a period of increasing world tension of the Cold War.

After a decade of unexplainable ailments, Fred was belatedly diagnosed with Parkinsons disease at age fifty.

This book is a quick, fun read in poetic prose that gives insights into the personal life of a Missouri boy who becomes a MD/Biochemist publishing over 130 scientific papers on the biochemistry of Cancer and is presently involved in a great many areas.

Many cannot just forget because these memories are frozen, stored and sometimes buried, surfacing briefly in ways that can seem illogical and crazy.

In Chronic Pain and Me, author Richard Scott chronicles his fourteen-year struggle with intense, chronic pain.

In this humorous, entertaining, and poignant memoir Philip M.

One who Forgets andOne who is Forgotten One in eight over the age of sixty-five and one in three over the age of eighty will be diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease.