physicians

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physicians

Doctor on an elephant

1994
Dr. John Symington faces swollen rivers and an attack by a rogue elephant in order to provide medical care for a plantation worker.

Frontier surgeons

a story about the Mayo brothers
1989
A biography of the two doctor brothers whose Minnesota clinic became world-famous.

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor

1982
Traces the early life of the first woman physician, relating the struggle women had to face in becoming doctors and practicing medicine.

Doctors help people

1997
Discusses, simply, the things doctors do and what people do to become doctors.

The apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

1998
Twelve-year-old Lucas Whitaker, orphaned in 1849 when his entire family is claimed by consumption, takes a job as an apprentice with Doc Beecher, and learns the truth about the difference between superstition and science.
Cover image of The apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

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