Medical (Incl. Patients)
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God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
$18.00 Add to cartVictoria Sweet’s new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now
For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence o- Author: Sweet, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1594486549
- Language: English
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Casebook of a Community Internist
$22.99 Add to cartExperience begets wisdom and wisdom informs change.
“Patients are the best teachers,” he told a friend, shortly before moving west. The choice of a specialist career in community internal medicine came… [more below]
- Author: Baillie, Hector M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039167632
- Language: English
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartIn this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim
- Author: Dully, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0307381277
- Language: English
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Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy & Death-A True Story
$11.95 Add to cart2022 Winner “Best Indie Book Award” Memoirs (International)
The BookFest 2nd Place, Non-Fiction – Memoirs
Multiple Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Awards
Captured by COVID is a true story that begins with autho
- Author: Bowers, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9798886790214
- Language: English
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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
$29.99 Add to cartPart cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.
Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she w
- Author: Crampton, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006327390X
- Language: English
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Clock Out and Heal
$16.95 Add to cart“We’re doing everything possible,” the doctor would say at times to the parents as he continued the resuscitation efforts on their little girl. Expect the unexpected when you are a medical professiona
- Author: Sanguinetti, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891302822
- Language: English
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E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes
$10.99 Read moreThey save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.
“The compassion, the work ethic,- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1538707241
- Language: English
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Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
$17.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – USA TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF AUDIBLE’S BEST BIOS AND MEMOIRS OF 2023 – “A raw, intimate look at [Hendrickson’s] life with a stutter. It’s a profoundly moving … [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 059331283X
- Language: English
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Raquela: A Woman of Israel
$19.99 Add to cartA National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel’s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.
During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywe… [more below]
- Author: Gruber, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1453258302
- Language: English
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Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
$18.99 Add to cartMoneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time–the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we liv
- Author: Smith, Jeremy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0062237519
- Language: English
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Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing
$17.95 Add to cartEliseo Torres, known as “Cheo,” grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more
- Author: Torres, Eliseo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 15 2005
- ISBN10: 082633640X
- Language: English
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A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
$18.99 Add to cartA former paramedic’s “thrilling, captivating” (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1501110861
- Language: English
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God Is Bigger: Than The Mountain You Are Facing
$30.00 Add to cartWhen cancer comes calling on your fiftieth birthday, what do you do? It would be very easy to be angry. It would feel natural to ask, “why me?”
Through the monumental battle with cancer, Russell L. Es
- Author: Estes, Russell L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218273002
- Language: English
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Slow Dancing with a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s
$18.99 Add to cartEmmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer
- Author: Comer, Meryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0062130854
- Language: English
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Floating Feathers: A Doctor’s Harrowing Experience as a Patient Within Conventional Medicine — and an Impassioned Call for the Future o
$17.95 Add to cartDr. Ross I.S. Zbar spent his career as a plastic surgeon, in the US as well as abroad in developing countries, mending disease- and trauma-related deformities–and he was never hesitant to make his vo
- Author: Zbar, Ross I. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1734541601
- Language: English
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Box of Birds: What New Zealand taught me about life and the practice of medicine
$15.99 Add to cartIn this fascinating memoir, cardiologist Stephen Stowers eloquently captures the various changes that he has lived through over a lifetime spent as a caring and ethical medical professional. With sadn
- Author: Stowers, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987144206
- Language: English
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award
Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing- Author: Aronson, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620405474
- Language: English
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Sick Girl
$17.00 Add to cartThe hardcover publication of Sick Girl garnered tremendous attention, generated impressive sales, and ignited controversy. Both inspiring and provocative, reactions to the book ranged from inflammator… [more below]
- Author: Silverstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143873
- Language: English
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The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman’s Story of Survival in Syria
$30.00 Read moreThis searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a sto- Author: Ballour, Amani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1426222742
- Language: English
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This to Me
$11.95 Add to cartAlbert H. Yurvati, DO, PhD, DFACOS, FACOS, FICS, FAHA, is an emeritus professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He grew up in Allentown,
- Author: Yurvati, A. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887317625
- Language: English
