Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon’s Path
$29.00 Read moreHis routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two
- Author: Smith, Craig R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250278538
- Language: English
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
$30.00 Read moreDiscover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history–Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women’s rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826798
- Language: English
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF GQ‘s TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY – The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve childre… [more below]
- Author: Kolker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562648
- Language: English
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Journal of a Black Queer Nurse
$16.95 Add to cartIn this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.
Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class… [more below]
- Author: Daniels, Britney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 9, 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173776
- Language: English
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
$19.99 Add to cartDr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to… [more below]
- Author: Canessa, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476765456
- Language: English
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Life in the Pits: A Surgeon’s Awakening
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fall of 1985, a young, somewhat insecure, surgical resident, trans-planted from England via medical school at McGill University in Montreal, began his second year of his surgery training. He ha
- Author: Maxwell, Nicholas P. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218228743
- Language: English
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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
$32.00 Add to cartUSA Today Bestseller
A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around wom
- Author: Comen, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293013
- Language: English
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
$21.00 Add to cart“Transformative…[Taylor’s] experience…will shatter [your] own perception of the world.”–ABC News
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led t- Author: Taylor, Jill Bolte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0452295548
- Language: English
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Please Don’t Cut the Baby: A Nurse’s Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartMarilyn Fayre Milos was a nursing student on the obstetrical unit in 1979 when she first witnessed a baby being circumcised. The only person to step forward to comfort the infant as it writhed and scr
- Author: Milos, Marilyn Fayre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: 20-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 1950495493
- Language: English
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park.” –Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile
Lindsey F- Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250872928
- Language: English
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”–Lucy Kalanithi
“Belo- Author: Bowler, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04, 2019
- ISBN10: 0399592083
- Language: English
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue
“Remarkable.” -Andrew Solomon, The New Y- Author: O’Rourke, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0399573305
- Language: English
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The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
$28.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1501198041
- Language: English
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All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
$19.00 Add to cart“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”–Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Wellons, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593243382
- Language: English
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This Penis Business: A Memoir
$22.99 Add to cartCIRCUMCISION CUTS THROUGH US ALL. In her eye-opening memoir, Georganne Chapin exposes the business of medical circumcision. This unnecessary and most common pediatric surgery in the United States perm… [more below]
- Author: Chapin, Georganne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1950495450
- Language: English
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Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community–by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1984801457
- Language: English
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The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
$28.99 Read moreA tour de force that diagnoses the structural root of the violence that plagues us all.
Trauma surgeon and professor Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all: gunshot wounds, stabbings, and traumatic bra
- Author: Williams, Brian H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1506483127
- Language: English
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How to Starve Cancer: …and Then Kill It with Ferroptosis
$28.99 Add to cartAfter being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive. Rather than aiming to cure cancer, which in many cases is unachie… [more below]
- Author: McLelland, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0951951742
- Language: English
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The Tennis Partner
$18.99 Add to cartAn unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Opr
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Verghese, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20, 2011
- ISBN10: 0062116398
- Language: English
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Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter about Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew
$21.99 Add to cartWritten with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving a
- Author: Davis, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 132409348X
- Language: English
