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When a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator
Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case.Gavin Law exposed a
tragic case of medical malpractice but now he's missing. It's just
another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until he comes to
believe Law was murdered. Did the disgraced surgeon abandon his
sacred oath to become a killer? Or did the hospital itself have Law
permanently silenced? As Charlie digs deeper, he discovers just how
bad the world of medicine could be for his health. Across the city,
gangster Sean Rafferty is preparing to exploit the corrupt city
council through a multi-million-pound leisure development known as
Riverside. The project will be good for Glasgow. But not everybody
is keen to work with Rafferty. With more than money at stake, Sean
will do anything to get his way. So, when Charlie's investigation
gets tangled up with Sean's business, someone's going to need a
doctor...or an undertaker. Owen Mullen is a best-selling author of
psychological and gangland thrillers. His fast-paced, twist-aplenty
stories are perfect for all fans of Robert Galbraith, Ian Rankin
and Ann Cleeves. This book was previously published as Before The
Devil Knows Your Dead. What readers say about Owen Mullen: 'Owen
Mullen knows how to ramp up the action just when it's needed... he
never fails to give you hard-hitting thrillers that have moments
that will stay with you forever...' 'One of the very best thriller
writers I have ever read.' 'Owen Mullen writes a good story, he
really brings his characters to life and the endings are hard to
guess and never what you expected.'
The presence of women in the practice of medicine extends back to
ancient times; however, up until the last few decades, women have
comprised only a small percentage of medical students. The gradual
acceptance of women in male-dominated specialties has increased,
but a commitment to improving gender equity in the medical
community within leadership positions and in the academic world is
still being discussed. Gender Equity in the Medical Profession:
Emerging Research and Opportunities delivers essential discourse on
strategically handling discrimination within medical school,
training programs, and consultancy positions in order to eradicate
sexism from the workplace. Featuring research on topics such as
gender diversity, leadership roles, and imposter syndrome, this
book is ideally designed for health professionals, doctors, nurses,
hospital staff, hospital directors, board members, activists,
instructors, researchers, academicians, and students seeking
coverage on strategies that tackle gender equity in medical
education.
Of the three physicians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn,
Doctor George Edwin Lord (1846-76) was the lone commissioned
medical officer, an assistant surgeon with the United States Army's
7th Cavalry-one more soldier caught up in the U.S. government's
efforts to fulfill what many people believed was the young
country's "Manifest Destiny." A Life Cut Short at the Little Big
Horn tells Lord's story for the first time. Notable for its unique
angle on Custer's last stand and for its depiction of frontier-era
medicine, the book is above all a compelling portrait of the making
of an army medical professional in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Drawing on newly discovered documents, Todd E. Harburn describes
Lord's education and training at Bowdoin College in Maine and the
Chicago Medical College, detailing what the study of medicine
entailed at the time for "a young man of promise . . . held in
universal esteem." Lord's time as a contract physician with the
army took him in 1874 to the U.S. Northern Boundary Survey. From
there Harburn recounts how, after a failed romance and the rigors
of the U.S. Army Medical Board examination, the young doctor
proceeded to his first-and only-appointment as a post surgeon, at
Fort Buford in Dakota Territory. What followed, of course, was
Lord's service, and his death, in the Little Big Horn campaign,
which this book shows us for the first time from the unique
perspective of the surgeon. A portrait of a singular figure in the
milieu of the American military's nineteenth-century medical elite,
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn offers a close look at a
familiar chapter in U.S. history, and a reminder of the humanity
lost in a battle that resonates to this day.
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