Essays
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In the Basement at the Va: Stories from a Cancer Doctor
$19.95 Add to cart“Clear-eyed and deeply human, In the Basement at the VA shows that medicine is as much about communication as it is about treatment–and that small choices can carry life-changing weight.”
–Danielle O- Author: Tripp, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 158988213X
- Language: English
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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
$16.95 Read moreNo Apparent Distress begins with a mistake made by a white medical student that may have hastened the death of a working-class black man who sought care in a student-run clinic. Haunted by this error,… [more below]
- Author: Pearson, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355853
- Language: English
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Artists Remaking Medicine: The Practice of Imagination and the Power to Create a Better Healthcare Future.
$37.00 Read moreIn this powerful anthology on the intersection of art and medicine, acclaimed author Emily F. Peters teams with 25 artist changemakers to explore the history, practice, and future of radical creativit
- Author: Peters & Collaborators, Emily F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218141691
- Language: English
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123 Very Short Stories from a Long Life in Medicine
$34.99 Add to cartA baby is born, after a long nerve-wracking labour. A family struggles to make the right end-of-life decision for an elderly relative. Addicts and eccentrics find themselves in hospital emergency room… [more below]
- Author: Lubin, Stan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1039171389
- Language: English
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Short White Coat: Lessons from Patients on Becoming a Doctor
$18.95 Add to cartMost people will, at some point or another, either find themselves dressed in a tiny hospital gown or staring at someone else dressed in a tiny hospital gown. Whether from the perspective of a patient… [more below]
- Author: James a. Feinstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1440175136
- Language: English
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123 Very Short Stories from a Long Life in Medicine
$25.99 Add to cartA baby is born, after a long nerve-wracking labour. A family struggles to make the right end-of-life decision for an elderly relative. Addicts and eccentrics find themselves in hospital emergency room… [more below]
- Author: Lubin, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1039171370
- Language: English
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Being A Woman Surgeon: Sixty Women Share Their Stories
$29.00 Add to cart“This is a poignant and moving narrative collection from women who each in their own way were pioneers in their field of surgery. The story of the courage, physical strength, stamina and, most of all,… [more below]
- Author: John, Preeti R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1884092632
- Language: English
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Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
$15.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America’s pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and fre… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0593238893
- Language: English
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These Vital Signs: A Doctor’s Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets
$28.99 Read moreA doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.
In medicine, every patient presents with a stor
- Author: Tabatabai, Sayed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0063291371
- Language: English
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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
$18.99 Add to cartIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge. Complications lays bare a science not in i
- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421702
- Language: English
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Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22, 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427654
- Language: English
