Bøger af Sally Burbank

In her twenty-five years as a primary care internist, Dr. Sally Burbank has seen everything---lunatics, criminals, hypochondriacs, and even a Cocker spaniel! By popular demand, she has penned a collection of humorous and inspiring true stories to forever capture these memorable encounters. The antics of a demented octogenarian and a dimwitted patient named "Bob" will leave you laughing out loud. Her disastrous attempts to combine medicine with motherhood will reveal a new side to ladies in lab coats. The inane ICD-10 codes and decisions of insurance companies will leave you shaking your head in disgust. Stir in a wheelchair-bound, legally blind dialysis patient who insists on serving others until her last dying breath, a comatose leukemia patient miraculously healed, and an unfortunate soul doomed to chopping onions forty-hours a week, and you are guaranteed to laugh, cry, and tell your friends about this amazing new book. Hilarious cartoons and quotations relevant to each story add icing to the cake and make Patients I Will Never Forget a must-read for anyone who enjoyed All Creatures Great and Small.

Fat, frumpy, forty-year-old physician seeks handsome, smart, Shakespear aficionado.Hmm. Hardly the dating website bio to woo a husband, but Dr. Sheri Morris is determined to find true love before her biological clock ticks out. Enter nerdy, unibrowed Greg Palmer, who decides to practice his rusty dating skills on the dowdy doctor before pursuing a serious wife contender.The unpromising duo forms an accountability pact called "Operation Soulmate", where they agree to mentor each other as "friends only", while they shape up and seek out perfect spouses. Greg agrees to lose his outdated haircut and ghastly unibrow, while Sheri commits to losing thirty pounds and toning down her hair.Four months into their grueling transformation, Greg meets the woman of his dreams online. That's when Sheri realizes she's fallen in love with Greg.What now? Make him jealous or seek out someone new?Will Sheri and Greg discover their true soulmate before it is too late?The course of true love never did run smooth ... William Shakespeare

When Dr. Libby Holman's favorite patient, Sophia Romano, nearly dies after a routine dose of chemotherapy, Libby has more than a hunch the drug somehow got contaminated with a dangerous toxin at the factory. After all, Sophia tolerated the first five cycles of chemo without a hitch. Sophia's son, prosecuting attorney Marcus Romano, isn't buying Libby's lame excuse. Not one bit. He suspects Libby botched up the dose calculation and thereby overdosed his mother's chemo. Can you spell L-A-W-S-U-I-T?Is it malpractice, a manufactoring mishaps, ... or something far more sinister? Libby and Marcus struggle to work together, hampered by her fear of malpractice and his suspicion of medical incompetence.Despite their mutual mistrust, they find themselves attracted to one another.When Libby's life gets threatened by a man from her past, they race to uncover the truth before Libby, or more patients, get harmed. Will they also discover love?Stir in a rambunctious Labradoodle puppy and Marcus's old fiance and the stakes are high.