Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
$25.99 Add to cartThe inspiring story of a young Mexican immigrant who became a renowned neurosurgeon.
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge res- Author: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887700175
- Language: English
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Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed
$24.00 Add to cartIn lyrical prose, with musical allusions, clinical references, and a bit of comic relief, Rearranged follows Kathleen Watt’s plunge from the operatic stage into the netherworld of hospital life-its in
- Author: Watt, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 195647434X
- Language: English
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF GQ‘s TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY – The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve childre… [more below]
- Author: Kolker, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 038554376X
- Language: English
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives
$18.99 Add to cartPracticing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience a day in the life of a nurse working on a hospital’s busy cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, patients’ lives… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1616206020
- Language: English
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Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
$19.99 Add to cart“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.” — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam
“A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary.” — Elizabeth Coh
- Author: Brown, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061791547
- Language: English
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What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt
$19.99 Add to cart“Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart.“
Named one of BuzzFeed’s “Best Books of 2021” What Doesn‘t Kill You is the riveting accou
—The New York Times- Author: Miller, Tessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250751470
- Language: English
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From Brokenness to Atonement, Faith, Hope, and Love: A Vietnam War Sniper’s Journey and a Psychiatrist’s Bibliotherapy
$26.95 Add to cartThis is a story of Mr. L, an orphan who was raised and nurtured by a devoted Carmelite nun, then drafted to serve as a skilled sniper during the Vietnam War. A journey of learning and mastering of the
- Author: Khouzam Mph Fapa, Hani Raoul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885403948
- Language: English
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Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
$19.99 Add to cartWhen you lose your voice, who will speak for you? When it all seems hopeless, how do you get through each day? In the New York Times bestseller Ghost Boy, Martin Pistorius tells the harrowing story of
- Author: Pistorius, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1400205832
- Language: English
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 125009013X
- Language: English
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Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s: Principles of Caregiving That Kept Me Upright
$15.95 Add to cartA compassionate memoir of younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease with thoughtful guidelines for caregivers.
On a family vacation in 2009, Dr. Ren e Brown Harmon felt the first jolt of fear that something m
- Author: Harmon, Renée Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1734791705
- Language: English
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Answering Alaska’s Call
$19.95 Add to cartMilo Fritz always dreamed big, ever eager to push the boundaries of what was considered possible.
In 1940, the young Columbia- and Duke-educated eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist and his wife Bet… [more below]
- Author: Fritz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1684920949
- Language: English
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In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
$19.00 Read moreNow a Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The New York Times Book Review: “Awdish’s book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and s- Author: Awdish, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1250293774
- Language: English
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Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon’s Path
$29.00 Read moreHis routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two
- Author: Smith, Craig R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250278538
- Language: English
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF GQ‘s TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY – The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve childre… [more below]
- Author: Kolker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562648
- Language: English
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
$19.99 Add to cartDr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to… [more below]
- Author: Canessa, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476765456
- Language: English
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Life in the Pits: A Surgeon’s Awakening
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fall of 1985, a young, somewhat insecure, surgical resident, trans-planted from England via medical school at McGill University in Montreal, began his second year of his surgery training. He ha
- Author: Maxwell, Nicholas P. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218228743
- Language: English
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
$21.00 Add to cart“Transformative…[Taylor’s] experience…will shatter [your] own perception of the world.”–ABC News
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led t- Author: Taylor, Jill Bolte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0452295548
- Language: English
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park.” –Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile
Lindsey F- Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250872928
- Language: English
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The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
$28.99 Add to cart“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times
This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine”- Author: Nuila, Ricardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1501198041
- Language: English
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All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
$19.00 Add to cart“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”–Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Wellons, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593243382
- Language: English
