Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny
$15.95 Add to cartONE OF CBC BOOKS CANADIAN NONFICTION TO READ IN THE FALL
A poet recounts his experience with madness and explores the relationship between apprehension and imagination.
In the summer of 1977, standing o
- Author: Barnes, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1771965126
- Language: English
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Fighting for My Life: How to Thrive in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s
$19.99 Add to cartA practical, helpful guide on how to fight back against Alzheimer’s disease–with expert medical advice and one woman’s inspiring personal journey.
Jamie Tyrone was forty-nine years old when she learne
- Author: Tyrone, Jamie Tennapel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0785222103
- Language: English
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How to Be Depressed
$29.95 Read moreAn unusual, searching, and poignant memoir of one man’s quest to make sense of depression
George Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literatu- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0812252012
- Language: English
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
$19.00 Add to cartThe 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017!
“Marsh has retired, which means he’s taking a thorough inventory of his life- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1250190029
- Language: English
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh’s And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.
As a retired brain surgeon,- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250880998
- Language: English
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Heart of a Lion: A Story of God’s Grace and a Family’s Hope
$14.99 Add to cartFor the George family, there wasn’t supposed to be hope for their newborn son, John Paul, born with a half-functioning heart that was unable to pump blood throughout his tiny body. But one important y
- Author: George, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: February 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0764825453
- Language: English
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I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
$29.00 Read moreAn eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood.
I Cannot Control Everything Forever is Emily Bloom’s journey towards and through mo- Author: Bloom, Emily C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285682
- Language: English
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The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 150119805X
- Language: English
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Bipolar Refugee: A Saga of Survival and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1939, Mary Krotoczynski left Berlin on the Kindertransport while her parents remained to perish in the Holocaust. In this memoir, her son chronicles her courageous struggles as a refugee, first in
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Wiesner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9493276953
- Language: English
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Yes, We Treat Aardvarks – Stories from an Extraordinary Veterinary Practice
$14.95 Add to cartHe’s operated on whales, administered antibiotics to a group of performing lions, barely escaped alive after treating unpredictable chimps, cared for every imaginable household pet – and most of all, … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0984462015
- Language: English
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Walking Out on the Boys
$21.00 Add to cartIn May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabash
- Author: Conley, Frances K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374525951
- Language: English
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After the Fire
$21.99 Add to cartOn January 19, 2000, a fire raged through Seton Hall University’s freshman dormitory, killing three students and injuring 58 others. Among the victims were Shawn Simons and Alvaro Llanos, roommates fr… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Robin Gaby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0316066222
- Language: English
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Untold Stories of a Paramedic: True Stories of Life on the Job
$14.99 Add to cartWhen you see an ambulance speeding by, lights and sirens wailing, have you ever wondered what is happening inside? Have you ever wondered what challenges paramedics face daily? What type of calls they
- Author: Nisi, Luciano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0228801508
- Language: English
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Jonas Salk: A Life
$21.99 Add to cartWhen a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Charlotte Decroes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190679166
- Language: English
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The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth
$16.99 Read moreAt once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room.
Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader, and chief photographer . . .
Before, duri- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1789464579
- Language: English
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One Hundred Thousand Hearts: A Surgeon’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartThe pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley performed his first human heart transplant in 1968 and astounded the world in 1969 by conducting the first successful implantation of a totally artificial hear
- Author: Cooley, Denton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 0999731874
- Language: English
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I May Smell Like Bacon But I Haven’t Oinked Yet: Richard Allen Warner, Captain USMC (ret.)
$14.95 Add to cartThe title of this book, I May Smell Like Bacon But I Haven’t Oinked Yet, speaks to the resiliency of Richard Allen Warner, Captain USMC (ret.).
The Marine Corps motto: Semper Fidelis (always faithful)
- Author: Conrardy, Galen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1644718448
- Language: English
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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice
$18.99 Add to cartA “compassionate, unflinching memoir” (David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas) by a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her i… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 145167659X
- Language: English
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Beyond the Mailbox: A Life with Chronic Illness
$6.95 Add to cartLiving with a chronic illness is not for the faint of heart. Beyond the Mailbox explores the physical, psychological, spiritual, social, and medical aspects of life with Myalgic Encelphalomyelitis, co
- Author: Gavula, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218187736
- Language: English
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Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
$28.00 Add to cart“In her contemplative memoir, Polly Atkin encourages everyone, especially those with chronic illnesses, to look beyond their own history and see the beauty in their world.” –The Washington Post
“Defia
- Author: Atkin, Polly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1961884003
- Language: English
