Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Face in the Mirror: A Surgeon, a Patient, and the Remarkable Story of the First Face Transplant at Mayo Clinic
$15.99 Add to cartThe captivating story of the first face transplant at Mayo Clinic.
For years, they came in on weekends to plan and practice–nearly sixty surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists, preparing to harmoni- Author: El-Hai, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887700281
- Language: English
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A Real Emergency: Stories from the Ambulance
$18.00 Add to cartIntrospective, richly layered, and surprisingly hopeful, A Real Emergency is a love letter from a paramedic to the best and worst parts of her career.
For fifteen years, Joanna Sokol filled private no- Author: Sokol, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0771006578
- Language: English
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Little Miss Diagnosed: A Surgeon’s Guide to Breaking Bones and Bending Rules
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the real-life Meredith Grey, comes an inspiring collection of essays based on Dr. Erin Nance’s popular TikTok account @littlemissdiagnosed, detailing Dr. Nance’s journey as a young female orthope
- Author: Nance MD, Erin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 006341287X
- Language: English
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Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News
- Author: Cohen, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0060014105
- Language: English
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of sulfa, the first antibiotic and the drug that shaped modern medicine.
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the wa- Author: Hager, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1400082145
- Language: English
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C.G. Jung & Hermann Hesse
$22.00 Add to cartA Chilean diplomat and writer who has travelled widely in India studying Yoga, the author had a close friendship with Jung and Hesse at the end of their lives. This book presents the outcome of his me… [more below]
- Author: Serrano, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 137
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 3856305580
- Language: English
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Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor’s First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains
$19.99 Add to cartCaptivating stories of how a young doctor’s first year of medical practice in the Smoky Mountains shaped his practice of life and faith.
The little mountain hamlet of Bryson City, North Carolina, offer
- Author: Larimore MD, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2004
- ISBN10: 0310256704
- Language: English
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Mommy, Can Boys Also Be Doctors?: A Message to Young Scientists and Other Humans
$16.99 Add to cartMother, Scientist, Immigrant, Scholar, Wife, Trailblazer, Mentor.
Acclaimed biochemist Dr. Marlene Belfort has something to say to the next generation.
The child of immigrant parents who escaped Hitler
- Author: Belfort, Marlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1544548133
- Language: English
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A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
$22.99 Add to cartNominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Named a best book of the year by Amazon, NPR, and Kirkus
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research- Author: Ingrassia, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1250837235
- Language: English
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Mommy, Can Boys Also Be Doctors?: A Message to Young Scientists and Other Humans
$26.99 Add to cartMother, Scientist, Immigrant, Scholar, Wife, Trailblazer, Mentor.
Acclaimed biochemist Dr. Marlene Belfort has something to say to the next generation.
The child of immigrant parents who escaped Hitler
- Author: Belfort, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 154454815X
- Language: English
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Exquisite Moments of Sorrow and Grace
$20.99 Add to cart“Reading these stories brought me right back to Bellevue’s ER, the feelings and the sounds, the sights and smells. Weinberg has a gift for weaving a tapestry of patient tales while pulling on our hear
- Author: Weinberg, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: April 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992573312
- Language: English
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Disease Knows No Politics
$29.95 Add to cartDescription
A memoir of medicine, scientific integrity, and the unwavering belief that disease knows no politics. Disease Knows No Politics is a timely, inspiring memoir that champions the American Dr- Author: Zerhouni, Elias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1493090623
- Language: English
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An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope
$28.99 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking memoir, an award-winning journalist explores the chaos, doubt, and search for meaning that come with staying one step ahead of cancer for decades.
“An Exercise in Uncertainty- Author: Gluck, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 593735781
- Language: English
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Brain and Heart: The Triumphs and Struggles of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
$27.95 Add to cartA warm and brilliant memoir that captures the medical and emotional intensity of pediatric neurosurgery.
In this moving, unflinching, and inspiring book, Dr. David Sandberg, an internationally renowne- Author: Sandberg, David I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368930
- Language: English
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A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled
$21.99 Add to cartThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America’s first public school for mentally disabled people
From the moment he became superintendent of the nation’s oldest public school for intellec
- Author: Green, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276427
- Language: English
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Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
$30.00 Add to cart“A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.” –Anna Lembke, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Dopamine Nation
“A really moving and heart-rending story. Unshrunk w- Author: Delano, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1984880489
- Language: English
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Just B.R.E.A.T.H.E & Believe
$22.99 Add to cartThe story of a true Warrior who experiences two lung transplants and lives to tell the tale. He is courageous and has shared his story with the world so that others may know that anything is possible.
- Author: Rodriguez, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330394166
- Language: English
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Diabetes and Me: Living a Healthy and Empowered Life in the Face of Diabetes
$24.00 Read more“Children with diabetes can live full, happy, productive lives. I hope my story can stand as proof of that fact.”
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age seven, Wendy Louise Novak had to create her own
- Author: Novak, Wendy Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1633310809
- Language: English
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The Little Mo Effect: A surgeon’s compassion for a charismatic Moroccan boy transforms many lives-including her own
$14.95 Add to cartHigh in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the chance encounter of an orthopedic surgeon and an impish boy clad in bright pink rubber boots changes both their lives…
Dr. Pier Boutin responded to the cal
- Author: Boutin, Pier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985806441
- Language: English
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Cost of Living: Essays
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2022 – USA TODAY
“Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is los
Named one of the Chicago Public Library’s “Best Books of 2022”- Author: Maloney, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250213304
- Language: English
