Medical (Incl. Patients)
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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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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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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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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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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award
Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing- Author: Aronson, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620405474
- Language: English
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Sick Girl
$17.00 Add to cartThe hardcover publication of Sick Girl garnered tremendous attention, generated impressive sales, and ignited controversy. Both inspiring and provocative, reactions to the book ranged from inflammator… [more below]
- Author: Silverstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143873
- Language: English
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The Cave: A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman’s Story of Survival in Syria
$30.00 Read moreThis searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.
Simply put, there is no one in Syria with a sto- Author: Ballour, Amani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1426222742
- Language: English
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This to Me
$11.95 Add to cartAlbert H. Yurvati, DO, PhD, DFACOS, FACOS, FICS, FAHA, is an emeritus professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He grew up in Allentown,
- Author: Yurvati, A. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887317625
- Language: English
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
$25.99 Add to cartThe inspiring story of a young Mexican immigrant who became a renowned neurosurgeon.
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge res- Author: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887700175
- Language: English
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Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed
$24.00 Add to cartIn lyrical prose, with musical allusions, clinical references, and a bit of comic relief, Rearranged follows Kathleen Watt’s plunge from the operatic stage into the netherworld of hospital life-its in
- Author: Watt, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 195647434X
- Language: English
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
$32.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 038554376X
- Language: English
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives
$18.99 Add to cartPracticing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience a day in the life of a nurse working on a hospital’s busy cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, patients’ lives… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1616206020
- Language: English
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Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
$19.99 Add to cart“Among all the recent books on medicine, Critical Care stands alone.” — Pauline Chen, author of Final Exam
“A must read for anyone who wants to understand healthcare. Extraordinary.” — Elizabeth Coh
- Author: Brown, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061791547
- Language: English
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What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt
$19.99 Add to cart“Should be read by anyone with a body. . . . Relentlessly researched and undeniably smart.“
Named one of BuzzFeed’s “Best Books of 2021” What Doesn‘t Kill You is the riveting accou
—The New York Times- Author: Miller, Tessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250751470
- Language: English
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From Brokenness to Atonement, Faith, Hope, and Love: A Vietnam War Sniper’s Journey and a Psychiatrist’s Bibliotherapy
$26.95 Add to cartThis is a story of Mr. L, an orphan who was raised and nurtured by a devoted Carmelite nun, then drafted to serve as a skilled sniper during the Vietnam War. A journey of learning and mastering of the
- Author: Khouzam Mph Fapa, Hani Raoul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885403948
- Language: English
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Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
$19.99 Add to cartWhen you lose your voice, who will speak for you? When it all seems hopeless, how do you get through each day? In the New York Times bestseller Ghost Boy, Martin Pistorius tells the harrowing story of
- Author: Pistorius, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1400205832
- Language: English
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 125009013X
- Language: English
