Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written, including the letters between Schweitzer … [more below]
- Series: Albert Schweitzer Library
- Author: Brabazon, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606753
- Language: English
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER
$20.00 Add to cart“A gem of a memoir . . . Holland takes us for a ride through the psych ER that is at once wild and poignant, a ride that leaves deep tracks in even the healthiest of minds.”–Katrina Firlik, M.D., aut… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0553386522
- Language: English
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
$20.99 Add to cart“Conveys the mysteries of trauma in a way that is unsurpassed in the literature . . . This is the most important book on the subject to come out in this century.” —Times Literary Supplement
“Compuls- Author: Morris, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0544570324
- Language: English
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis “tender and lyrical” memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling documents of the AIDS era-“searing, shattering, ultimately hope inspiring account of a great love story… [more below]
- Author: Monette, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0156005816
- Language: English
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A Chat with Vivien Thomas: She Was the 1St to Interview Mr.Thomas on His Extraordinary Technical Discoveries Used in Dr Alfred Blalock ‘s ‘Blue B
$10.99 Add to cart” Experiece the interview with Mr Thomas himself as though you were there the history making development of the Blue Baby Operation.
- Author: Gladden, Jessie B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1532085850
- Language: English
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Surgeon’s Story: Kids, Transplants, the Red Sox, and the Glass Ceiling
$19.95 Add to cartSurgeon’s Story is the story of the life and career of Dr. Kristine Guleserian, a pediatric heart surgeon who operates on the walnut-sized hearts of newborn babies. One of only 9 women in the U.S. boa
- Author: Oristano, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1946928208
- Language: English
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How to Smuggle Children and Other Confessions of a Country Doctor
$19.99 Add to cartAn engaging and affectionate memoir, How to Smuggle Children and Other Confessions of a Country Doctor tells of three generations of Nova Scotian country doctors, whose combined practices span the twe… [more below]
- Author: Cogswell, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1039144527
- Language: English
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Wild Heart: A True Story of Hippies, Healers, and Harleys
$18.95 Add to cartFor Dr. Stacey Marie Kerr, a road is only worth traveling if it comes with some unexpected turns.
In her midfifties, Dr. Stacey Kerr was diagnosed with osteoporosis and told to play it safe. Instead, … [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Stacey Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1959411306
- Language: English
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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
$19.00 Add to cartA raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad–and doing both at once.
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother–feeling untethered … [more below]- Author: Scanlon, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469100
- Language: English
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No Place to Hide: A Brain Surgeon’s Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
$19.99 Add to cartJoin Air Force veteran Dr. W. Lee Warren as he chronicles his fascinating, heartbreaking, and enlightening experience as a neurosurgeon in an Iraq War combat hospital.
Warren’s life as a neurosurgeon i
- Author: Warren, W. Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 031035756X
- Language: English
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Heart: A History
$19.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was so- Author: Jauhar, Sandeep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234662
- Language: English
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Everything I Did I Did for Happiness: The Life of Enzo Piccinini
$19.00 Add to cartIn May 1999, seven thousand people crowded the basilica in Bologna, Italy to offer a farewell to Enzo Piccinini, a surgeon who died tragically at the age of forty-eight. Who was this doctor who had le
- Author: Bardazzi, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821325
- Language: English
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The life of the first woman physician
$16.99 Add to cartWhen British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble’s remark – ‘Wha
- Author: Boyd, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1839012935
- Language: English
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Playing Doctor; Part One: Stumbling Through With Amnesia
$16.95 Add to cartThis heartfelt, hilarious, self-deprecating and candid memoir of stumbling through medical school, takes readers along for the journey of medical school. John’s transformation, from an uncertain liber
- Series: Playing Doctor #1
- Author: Lawrence, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1735507229
- Language: English
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Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy & Death-A True Story
$22.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9798886790221
- Language: English
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Burden of Pain: A Physician’s Journey through the Opioid Epidemic
$17.99 Add to cartA tragedy unique to modern American culture, the opioid epidemic incited a flurry of news coverage, health policy banter, and-ultimately-arrests. Instead of addressing the root of addiction, law enfor
- Author: Joshi, Jay K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 154453731X
- Language: English
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Living: Inspiration from a Father with Cancer
$19.99 Add to cart“This morning I tried to donate my kidney. This afternoon the transplant team told me I can’t. I have cancer.” That’s the opening to the remarkable book Living: Inspiration from a Father with Cancer.
L
- Author: Stewart, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987669112
- Language: English
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A Splendid Gift: Celebrating Sixty Years in Nursing
$17.95 Add to cart“A forthright, poignant, and heartwarming account of a storied and beloved career in nursing.” – Kirkus Reviews
“…a powerful memoir that holds the uncommon ability to transcen
- Author: Prisceaux, Barbara Elle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1954676530
- Language: English
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The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos
$18.95 Add to cartBen K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a… [more below]
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803270909
- Language: English
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429576
- Language: English
