Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
$35.00 Add to cartA brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.
Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient i- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0805063196
- Language: English
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Spilling My Guts: A Crohn’s Chronicle
$17.00 Add to cartCrohn’s disease is an illness people don’t often talk about. Its embarrassing symptoms leave those who suffer from it tethered to the bathroom, never knowing when the next flare-up will have their int
- Author: Dimino, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988120001
- 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 Read moreEliseo 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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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
$20.00 Add to cart* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” –Nora Krug, The Washington Post “Beautiful and haunting.” –Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY- Author: Riggs, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1501169378
- Language: English
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My Body Is Distant: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreAn electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging.
In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes abo
- Author: Maylott, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1770416919
- Language: English
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The Vet at Noah’s Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital
$24.99 Read moreFrom renowned veterinarian Dr. Doug Mader comes a stirring account of his fight to protect his animal patients and human staff amid the dangerous realities of inner-city life and the Los Angeles riots
- Author: Mader, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1954641044
- 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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The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope
$28.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The dramatic, unforgettable, and ultimately cathartic diary of a young pediatric surgeon and mother working on the front lines as the COVID-19 pandemic hit one of New York City’s b- Author: Griggs, Cornelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 198216848X
- 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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The Two Kinds of Decay
$17.00 Add to cartA Spare and Unsparing Look at Affliction and Recovery that Heralds a Stunning New Voice
The events that began in 1995 might keep happening to me as long as things can happen to me. Think of deep spac- Author: Manguso, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428448
- Language: English
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Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow: My Life as a Country Vet
$19.00 Add to cartThe star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan.
Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the Net- Author: Pol, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1592409121
- 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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Paula: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cart“Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful.”–Los Angeles Times
In this literary classic, New Yo
- Author: Allende, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 006302179X
- Language: English
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Rough Waters: From Surviving to Thriving with a Progressive Muscular Dystrophy
$17.95 Add to cartCompetitive ParaSurfer Heather C. Markham is no stranger to rough waters.
At age thirty-four, Heather received a life-changing diagnosis: she had a progressive muscular
- Author: Markham, Heather C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987414705
- Language: English
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Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression
$17.95 Add to cartWhen Nana-Ama Danquah, a twenty-two-year-old single mother, began to suffer from a variety of depressive symptoms after giving birth to her daughter, she thought she was going crazy. Determined to por
- Author: Danquah, Nana-Ama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050616
- Language: English
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The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the Nfl, and Neurosurgery
$29.99 Read moreYou don’t have to change your life overnight–instead, you can make small changes that leave a lasting impact. In The 2% Way, discover the simple, revolutionary practice behind the against-the-odds su
- Author: Rolle, Myron L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0310363659
- Language: English
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Smile: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cart* A People Best Book of the Year * Time and The Washington Post‘s Most Anticipated List * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence *
From the MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize f- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1982150955
- Language: English
