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1) What We Find
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Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
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English
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A Denver neurosurgeon relocates to the small rural town named after her ancestor in the aftermath of a wrongful malpractice suit to recover and reconnect with her estranged father
2) The Art of Settlement: A Lawyer's Guide to Regulatory Compliance when Resolving Catastrophic Claim
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English
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The regulatory landscape of the personal injury lawyer has become exceedingly complicated. Assisting clients with catastrophic disabilities now exposes you personally to government recovery actions, damages, and malpractice risks. It's vital that your personal injury practice has a comprehensive plan for compliance when resolving cases if you want to protect yourself-and protect your clients.
In The Art of Settlement, Jason Lazarus helps you navigate...
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Women's Murder Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Dare to face the most terrifying heights of suspense. From hospital murders to explosive court battles, the Women's Murder Club takes on their most harrowing challenge yet.
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation...
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"For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her. Suddenly, it's much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely...
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English
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En este ensayo, el autor describe con total claridad el proceso policial y judicial desde la aprensión del presunto delincuente hasta su liberación, y con algo de cinismo ilustra las graves y endémicas fallas de un sistema judicial uruguayo que niega derechos humanos básicos a los indagados, en una máquina de procesar delitos de toda índole a pasos acelerados, con las cárceles abarrotadas y los juzgados penales trabajando muy por encima de...
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021
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English
Description
In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk--still in practice but a shell of his former self--is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes this riveting medical thriller about a lawyer, a homeopath, and a tragic death.
When one of homeopath Carissa Lake's patients falls into an allergy-induced coma, possibly due to her prescribed remedy, Leland Fowler's office starts investigating the case.
But Leland is also one of Carissa's patients, and he is begining to realize that he...
When one of homeopath Carissa Lake's patients falls into an allergy-induced coma, possibly due to her prescribed remedy, Leland Fowler's office starts investigating the case.
But Leland is also one of Carissa's patients, and he is begining to realize that he...
8) CHARLATANS
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
Description
"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"Closing Death's Door explores innovative legal strategies to address the challenge of medical error. In the United States today, several hundred thousand patients die in hospitals each year because of errors in medical treatment-the nation's third leading cause of death. The legal mechanism designed to deal with this epidemic of injury and death is the medical malpractice system. It has failed to stem the tide of iatrogenic harm. Among the reasons...
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"Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that's just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure--one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation on the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On the trail of what initially appears to be medical malpractice,...
11) Trial
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English
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A memoir of the last five years experiences of an average guy who ran into a "few" problems that were not of his making. These experiences of life couldn't really be true in this day and age and in this republic, could they?
Do lawyers get cut slack? What if you did it? Or, I did it?
Who stands up for the average guy?
What if the average guy is somebody's target?
Franz Kafka understood. He had a handle on it.
And yet, we trust our systems and our...
12) Michael Clayton
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
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The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson' is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England...
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Every mob boss needs a hitman. Somebody who will do the dirty job on the mob boss' behalf by threatening, assaulting and if needed killing those, the mob boss wants away.In this shocking world super-exclusive book, we present one of the most famous and active hitmen inside Microsoft. Yes, you read that right! Microsoft does have such people on its rolls because it employs such tactics inside the company to ensure the heads of the company stay powerful...
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Français
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La réparation d'une atteinte à l'intégrité physique est le plus souvent ressentie comme injuste et aléatoire.
Injuste car cette atteinte est, dans notre droit, traitée différemment selon son origine : pathologique ou accidentelle, avec ou sans responsabilité d'un tiers, indemnisable ou non selon le régime juridique dans lequel — par hasard — elle s'inscrit. Aléatoire selon la qualité des experts qui auront à connaître de son estimation,...
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Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The shocking story of New York's most infamous pill-pushing doctor, written by the prosecutor who brought him down in a landmark and precedent-setting case in the fight against opiod addiction"--
"In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li's corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and Xanax, trading prescriptions for cash. Emergency room doctors,...
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