Medical (Incl. Patients)
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So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience
$19.99 Add to cart“Mark Henick is a powerful storyteller.” –Rosie O’Donnell
“So-Called Normal is a call to arms, yes, but it’s also a call to care, highlighting the power of kindness. Required reading for anyone workin
- Author: Henick, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1443455032
- Language: English
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Burden of Pain: A Physician’s Journey through the Opioid Epidemic
$29.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1544537328
- Language: English
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One True Scrapper: A Memoir of Childhood Cancer, Good Eyeliner, and a Fighting Spirit
$25.27 Add to cart“Phenomenal resilience in the face of near insurmountable odds. I highly recommend this book, especially if you are facing unexpected challenges in your own life. Inspiring!” – Jay Wellons, MD, All Th
- Author: Peebles, Kaden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1944528229
- Language: English
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Living and Loving with Parkinson’s Disease: Our Partnership Through a 45-Year Journey
$19.95 Add to cartAnnie and Rolf Lulloff were entering an exciting stage of life in 1976 when the first signs of health issues that lie ahead for Annie began to emerge. A sudden loss of sense of smell, severe anxiety a
- Author: Lulloff, Rolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1942731469
- Language: English
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Hope Does Not Disappoint: Stories from the life and Ministry of Dr. Bob Paeglow
$29.95 Add to cartDr. Bob Paeglow grew up in humble circumstances in the West Hill neighborhood of Albany, New York. His world came crashing down when as a young boy, his mother was taken away to the state mental hospi
- Author: Paeglow, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890433640
- Language: English
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Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian
$16.00 Add to cartShe knew they would only have a few fleeting months together, but in that time Sarah’s unborn daughter would transform her understanding of beauty, worth, and the gift of life.
Happily married and teac
- Author: Williams, Sarah C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0874866693
- Language: English
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Sick: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, The Paris Reivew, and LitHub.
Time Magazine’s Best Memoirs of 2018 – Boston Globe’s 25 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 – B
- Author: Khakpour, Porochista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 006242873X
- Language: English
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Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
$26.99 Read more“An intense look at the high-stakes world of a NYC paramedic in the months before and after COVID-19 altered our landscape.”—Damon Tweedy, MD, author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflecti
- Author: Almojera, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0358652901
- Language: English
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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery
$27.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring t… [more below]
- Author: Douthat, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593237366
- Language: English
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Resilient Threads: Weaving Joy and Meaning into Well-Being
$16.95 Add to cartPhysician burnout, depression, and suicide are tearing at the fabric of our health care system, which Mukta Panda has witnessed firsthand. In a culture that privileges evidence over empathy, technolog
- Author: Panda, Mukta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0985566558
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Cured Cancer: The Story of Cancer Pioneer Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, M.D., and the Discovery of the Cancer-Causing Microbe
$18.95 Add to cartThis story is now more relevant than ever as the latest science is now validating the protocols of Dr. Livingston-Wheeler who will one day be placed in the same class as Pasteur, Curie, Salk/Sabin and… [more below]
- Author: Addeo, Edmond G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1591203724
- Language: English
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Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death
$20.00 Add to cartIn this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states an… [more below]
- Author: Owen, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 150113521X
- Language: English
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Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor
$18.95 Add to cartMost people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient… [more below]
- Author: James a. Feinstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1440175136
- Language: English
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The CF Warrior Project Volume 2
$34.99 Add to cartThe CF Warrior Project, Volume 2: Celebrating Our Cystic Fibrosis Community is a first-of-its-kind, inspirational book that details the lives of both people who live with the life-changing diagnosis o… [more below]
- Author: Lipman, Andy C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1665304030
- Language: English
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My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s
$19.00 Read moreNamed a best book of the year by The New Yorker A Smithsonian top ten science book of 2023 One of AARP magazine’s favorite books of 2023
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of- Author: Jauhar, Sandeep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321840
- Language: English
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My Husband the Miracle Man: An Organ Donor-Organ Recipient Story
$14.95 Add to cartJoin me in the story of a very strong man. What will happen next? Will anyone ever give us an answer for my husband’s health condition? Maybe caused by a longtime heart impairment or the many years of
- Author: Binkey, Sharon L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887633091
- Language: English
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Complicated Minds: (Including Mine)
$28.00 Add to cartThere is a saying: If you know one Alzheimer’s case, you know only one Alzheimer’s case. Each experience with Alzheimer’s, for both the patient and their caregiver, is filled with unique struggles and
- Author: Haaland, Dianne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888123317
- Language: English
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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
