Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Medical

Anyone who has been a patient in a hospital or nursing home, student nurses, nurses, and other health care professionals will resonate with the events in the book. While the names of the characters in the book are fictitious, the events themselves did take place historically. The dialogue has been kept as simple as possible, and reflects the flavor of the patients' dialogue. Enjoy.

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In 1972, thirty-two-year-old Ann Garrity couldn't ask for more. She has a satisfying teaching career, a comfortable marriage, two wonderful daughters, and a quiet little farm. But when she discovers a lump in her breast, she is thrust back to the agonizing day her mother died of breast cancer. Ann undergoes a biopsy and wakes to discover that her right breast has been removed. Her ultimate fear has come true: like her mother did before her, Ann has cancer.

Ann makes a complete physical recovery, but her self-esteem plummets as she questions her very worth as a woman. Her husband is...

When the president of JPC discovers that an unknown yet trusted key employee has made a copy of a secret document outlining the cure, he calls in a favor from his old friend, Jean Paul Koenig, PhD. Jean Paul, or J. P., an expert in herbal pharmaceuticals, reluctantly agrees to get involved. Along the way, J. P. befriends a Japanese...

It is a time in history when terminal cancer patients...

After his father succumbs to cancer, medical researcher Sloan O'Hara is determined to find a cure for the disease. He doesn't expect his wife, Ally, to become his research partner, or to be caught up in a world of greed and politics.

As their research begins to show promise, outside pressures intensify, and to make matters worse, Ally learns she has a malignant melanoma, as well as being pregnant with their first child.

Ally is told that she must have an abortion, followed by chemotherapy and radiation, if she expects to live. Refusing to consider their advice, she is told she might...

In 1972, thirty-two-year-old Ann Garrity couldn't ask for more. She has a satisfying teaching career, a comfortable marriage, two wonderful daughters, and a quiet little farm. But when she discovers a lump in her breast, she is thrust back to the agonizing day her mother died of breast cancer. Ann undergoes a biopsy and wakes to discover that her right breast has been removed. Her ultimate fear has come true: like her mother did before her, Ann has cancer.

Ann makes a complete physical recovery, but her self-esteem plummets as she questions her very worth as a woman. Her husband is...