Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s: Principles of Caregiving That Kept Me Upright
$15.95 Add to cartA compassionate memoir of younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease with thoughtful guidelines for caregivers.
On a family vacation in 2009, Dr. Ren e Brown Harmon felt the first jolt of fear that something m
- Author: Harmon, Renée Brown
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1734791705
- Language: English
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Answering Alaska’s Call
$19.95 Add to cartMilo Fritz always dreamed big, ever eager to push the boundaries of what was considered possible.
In 1940, the young Columbia- and Duke-educated eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist and his wife Bet… [more below]
- Author: Fritz, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 8, 2023
- ISBN10: 1684920949
- Language: English
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In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope
$19.00 Add to cartNow a Los Angeles Times Bestseller
The New York Times Book Review: “Awdish’s book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and s- Author: Awdish, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1250293774
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital (the Inspiration for the NBC Drama New Amsterdam)
$19.99 Add to cartIn the spirit of Oliver Sacks and the inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam, this intensely involving memoir from a Medical Director of Bellevue Hospital looks poignantly at patients’ lives and … [more below]
- Author: Manheimer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1455503878
- Language: English
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author – “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”… [more below]
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0812973011
- Language: English
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The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
$34.98 Add to cartThe biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century–and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights
For forty years in the mid-nineteen- Author: Syrett, Nicholas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977451
- Language: English
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Two More Years
$18.95 Add to cartHe said the dreaded words, “I give you two years to live,” and my heart froze in time.
“Thank you for this most amazing, inspiring book; it is a very treasured read. It made me do a lot of thinking and
- Author: Stilson, Ec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: June 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1622537815
- Language: English
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Hope Does Not Disappoint: Stories from the life and Ministry of Dr. Bob Paeglow
$18.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890433633
- Language: English
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American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
$32.00 Read moreA Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the
- Author: Lunden, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0062941372
- Language: English
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This Is Going to Hurt [Tv Tie-In]: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor
$18.99 Add to cartNow an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw
The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally “blisteringly funny” (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) sec
- Author: Kay, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0063228483
- Language: English
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