Medical (Incl. Patients)
-
The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon
$33.00 Add to cartGiven the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in th
- Author: Starzl, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: November 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0822958368
- Language: English
-
Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
$30.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine
As much as we all m- Author: Tweedy, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250284899
- Language: English
-
Hospital and Haven: The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska
$34.95 Add to cartHospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the p… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlander, Mary F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236181
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
These Dreams of You: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cartThese Dreams of You: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience tells the story of a mother’s love for and commitment to her gifted daughter, who developed anorexia at age ten and subsequently die… [more below]
- Author: McCloskey, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987070734
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
$21.00 Add to cartThe first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.
A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord’s struggles to br- Author: Alvord, Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0553378007
- Language: English
-
Unexpected: Finding Resilience Through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith
$26.00 Add to cartIn Unexpected, Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her story of facing life-altering illness, fighting for her health, and overcoming sickness using both science and faith so that others can learn to live their … [more below]
- Author: Carnahan, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1637630956
- Language: English
-
Patient: A Humorous Memoir of Healthcare and Healing
$31.95 Add to cartPatient is a quirky, humorous, and occasionally poignant romp through the American health care system. After a seemingly mild case of COVID-19, the author finds himself hospitalized with acute renal f
- Author: Rao, Akshay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889602637
- Language: English
-
Choosing Wellness: Unconventional Wisdom for the Overwhelmed, the Discouraged, the Addicted, the Fearful, or the Stuck
$13.99 Add to cartCHOOSING WELLNESS is an honest, powerful testament of understanding for the legions of Americans who struggle to lose weight, shed stress, relieve anxiety, overcome addiction, manage their chronic ill
- Author: O’Grady, Eileen T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1736107402
- Language: English
-
If I Get to Five: What Children Can Teach Us about Courage and Character
$20.00 Add to cartThis book is a testament to the extraordinary depth, powers, and resiliency of children’s spirits. –Marion Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book- Series: Living Planet Book
- Author: Epstein, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0805075178
- Language: English
-
On Dreams
$18.00 Add to cartAfflicted with sudden blind spots in her right eye, Maureen Thorson consults her doctor. Her diagnosis is AZOOR (acute zonal occult outer retinopathy), a rare condition that has no known cause and is
- Author: Thorson, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1733529438
- Language: English
-
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
$24.95 Read moreA graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art … [more below]
- Author: Czerwiec, Mk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1637790074
- Language: English
-
E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes
$10.99 Add to cartThey 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
-
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
-
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
