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Each year on the third Thursday in March, more than fifteen thousand graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the result of a computer algorithm that assigns students to their hospital residencies in almost every field of medicine. The match determines the crucial first job as an intern, and ultimately shapes the rest of hisâ€"or, in increasing numbers, herâ€"life.Â
Match Day follows three women from the anxious months of preparation before the match through the completion of their first full year of internship. Each has long dreamed of becoming a doctor. Stephanie Chao is beginning her career as a surgeon. Rakhi Barkowski must balance her husbandâ! €™s aspirations with her own desire to work in internal medicine. Michelle LaFonda moves forward in her quest to become a radiologist, but struggles to find progress in her personal relationship. Each woman makes mistakes, saves lives, and witnesses death; each must recognize the balancing act of family and career; and each comes to learn what it means to heal, to comfort, to lose, and to grieve, all while maintaining a professional demeanor.
Just as One L became the essential book about the education of young attorneys, so Match Day will be for every medical student, doctor, and reader interested in medicine: a guide to what to expect, an insightful account of the changing world of doctors, and a dramatic recollection of this pressured, perilous, challenging, and rewarding time of life.
Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotlandâ€"winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemi! sphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very embodiment o! f Margar et Thatcher's Britainâ€"snarling, brutish, and all-conquering. Scotland are the underdogsâ€"second-class citizens from a land that's become the testing ground for the most unpopular tax in living memory: Thatcher's Poll Tax. Fifteen men in blue jerseys are plotting the downfall of the English oppressors. In Edinburgh, nationalism is rising highâ€"what happens in the stadium will resound far beyond the pitch. The Grudge brilliantly recaptures a day that has gone down in history. This is the real story of an extraordinary game, told with astounding insight and almost unprecedented access to key players, coaches, and supporters on both sides (Will Carling, Ian McGeechan, Brian Moore, and the rest). Tom English has produced a gripping account of a titanic struggle that thrusts the reader right into the heart of the action. Game on.
"Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and c! ontracted producing loud pressure pulses I could not hear because I was already dead, I had been walking." So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing account of being struck by lightning. Only when she fell to the ground, her head and body hitting on rock, was she jolted back to consciousness, back to life. In this astonishing chronicle of her experience and of the physical, psychological, and spiritual consequences of the encounter, the author turns her acute naturalist's eye on herself and on the natural world of the body to understand exactly what happened when lightning struck her. Woven into the narrative of her recovery is an examination of the heart - medical, religious, and cultural: There is the path of healing that she traveled not only with the requisite cardiologist but, to quite amazing effect, with her dogs as well. And finally, there is water, and the ways in which, in its contemplation and its immersion, she learned how fire can be extinguished. A Match to the Hear! t is a stunning work of observation and synthesis: bringing to! gether t he most minute self-exploratory and an enlarging, illuminating vision of the world.Set in Boston during the turbulent 1960s and the 1970s, Elisabeth Smith-Fuller Lindstrom (Lish) meets Kentuckian Yancy Boone after a call on a roommate ad. Northern and southern bloodlines merge only to be torn apart by the Vietnam War. Devastated by events, Lish throws herself into her work as an architect in the construction industry. An interest in Art Deco design finally leads to a fulfilling career change.
Memorable characters are plentiful along the way as Lish struggles to bring equilibrium back into her life.Set in Boston during the turbulent 1960s and the 1970s, Elisabeth Smith-Fuller Lindstrom (Lish) meets Kentuckian Yancy Boone after a call on a roommate ad. Northern and southern bloodlines merge only to be torn apart by the Vietnam War. Devastated by events, Lish throws herself into her work as an architect in the construction industry. An interest in Art Deco design fin! ally leads to a fulfilling career change.
Memorable characters are plentiful along the way as Lish struggles to bring equilibrium back into her life.The invention of the friction match in England in the 1830s helped to improve the daily lives of people in ways frequently overlooked. Match holders made their appearance by the 1850s in nearly endless, striking variety. Denis B. Alsford has complied fascinating historical influences, patents, marks and over 680 color photos to she light on the developments of match holders from their beginnings to their more recent forms as commonplace household items. A wide variety of match holders are depicted including pocket, "candle-in-a-box", stand-alone and wall hanging models. Paten drawings, discussions of major manufacturers, and copy from the British magazine "Punch" add dimension as well. All who are concerned with tobacco history, collecting match holders and antiques will find this book a useful reference.
My Sisterâ! €™s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s real-life struggle ! to cure their daughter by creating her genetic match Â
Katie Trebing was diagnosed at three months old
with Diamond Blackfan anemia, a rare form of anemia that prevents bone marrow from producing red blood cells. Even with a lifetime of monthly blood transfusions, she faced a poor prognosis. Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning journalist Beth Whitehouse follows the Trebings as they make the decision to create a genetically matched sibling using preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and in vitro fertilization, and proceed with a risky bone-marrow transplant that could kill their daughter rather than save her.
The Match is a timely and provocative look at urgent issues that can only become more complex and pressing as genetic and reproductive technologies advance.This Just in! Nominated Best Storytelling 2009 Just Plan Folks! Thanks to Hans Christian Anderson, you already know the story of the Little Match Girl who froze to death selling matches on a street-cor! ner on New Year's Eve. But what about the managers who woke up the next morning (their day off!) to deal with the mess? How did they get in the situation in the first place? More importantly, how did they get out of it? What is the role "Brainstorming Sessions" and is there really no such thing as a bad idea? Is it possible to be TOO fawning to a boss? How can blaming foreigners for one's problems solve one's crisis? All of these questions are answered in "ICE Girls: What Managers Can Learn from the Story of the Little Match Girl by One Who Was There."James Spurr continues the saga of two strong-willed men, related through marriage, bound by friendship, separated by war, as they face the challenge of battle on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. In One Sloop and Slow Match Captain William Lee and Oliver Williams become embroiled in the cauldrons of the greatest battles to ever take place on the inland seas. Join them and a young Master Commandant Perry, initial! ly in command of only tiny gunboats, as the struggle with Grea! t Britai n intensifies into a grueling game of wits, bloodshed and perseverance, and Perry rises to become one of our greatest American Heroes. "We have met the enemy. . ." From the Chicago Massacre to the blockade of U.S. Naval forces at Presque Isle on Lake Erie, James Spurr recreates the action with unerring historical accuracy while conveying the emotion of perilous uncertainty.
