Medical
"And Neither Have I Wings to Fly":
By Thelma Wheatley
The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canada's oldest provincial institution in Orillia, Ontario. Daisy Lumsden and her family were such victims, along with over ten thousand children, ... Read more
A Gut Reaction
By Sky Curtis
A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help ... Read more
A Life of Caring
By Marilyn Beaton
With Marilyn Marsh & Jeanette Walsh
A collection of oral histories from nurses practicing during the 20s and 30s in Newfoundland and Labrador.
A Trip to Labrador
By Kirby Walsh
A Trip to Labrador contains the letters and journal of Edward Caldwell Moore, who accompanied Sir Wilfred Grenfell to Labrador in 1905 on the hospital ship Strathcona. A Presbyterian minister and professor at Harvard University, Moore writes of his impressions of the land and ... Read more
After the Error
By Susan B. McIver & Robin Wyndham
Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak out often do so at considerable emotional, psychological, and financial expense. But their ... Read more
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War
By Shawna M. Quinn
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing Houses, they worked at a feverish pace to give ... Read more
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War
By Shawna M. Quinn
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing Houses, they worked at a feverish pace to give ... Read more
Amazing Medical Stories
By George Burden & Dorothy Grant
The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life: health, disease, and physical anomaly, birth, death, and post-mortem diagnosis. ... Read more
An Error in Judgement
By Dara Culhane
On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B. C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, ... Read more
An Error in Judgement
By Dara Culhane
On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B. C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, ... Read more
