Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Marrow Me
$14.99 Add to cartMarrow Me is written with stark beauty and unflinching candor, filled with equal parts grace and horror as a writer at the height of his powers – even while pharmaceutically challenged – shines a ligh
- Author: Roberts, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 168553015X
- Language: English
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Mindful of You: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Hope
$29.99 Add to cartAfter growing up a happy and carefree child, Paul Mumford found himself totally unprepared for what began happening to him at age twenty-three. This is the compelling, true story of his unpredictable … [more below]
- Author: Mumford, Nancy Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1039197019
- Language: English
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HEALER; Susan La Flesche Picotte: Susan La Flesche Picotte
$18.95 Add to cartThis book is a tribute to Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in the United States. She became a physician in 1889, at a time before either Native Americans or women had bee
- Author: Waltman, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: October 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988763420
- Language: English
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The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt and What We Can Do about It
$19.99 Add to cartPain is not something that most of us would count as a blessing; however, renowned surgeon Dr. Paul Brand and award-winning writer Philip Yancey shed fresh light on the purpose of our pain.
Wouldn’t it
- Author: Brand, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0310221447
- Language: English
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Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work
$16.95 Add to cartIn 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with “imposter syndrome”–a long-held secret belief that she was
- Author: Koven, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 132402190X
- Language: English
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From The Dead To You
$8.99 Add to cartThis book is a rare glimpse into the world of the dead, of their stories untold, and the life lessons that they wish to teach. Coming straight from the morgue, these are real people with real lives an
- Author: Lee, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890300898
- Language: English
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Go By Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor
$24.95 Add to cartFresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. Absent-minded and initially oblivious to island mores… [more below]
- Author: Radis, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1608937550
- Language: English
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Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition: The Ben Carson Story
$29.99 Read moreGifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Chi
- Author: Carson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0310332907
- Language: English
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Death Be Not Proud
$18.99 Add to cart“If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism.” —New York Times
Johnny Gunther was only seventee
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Gunther, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061230979
- Language: English
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Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
$17.00 Add to cartA mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities
Imagine undergoing an ope- Author: O’Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1592409253
- Language: English
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Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother
$14.00 Add to cartWINNER, 2022 Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize in Nonfiction
“Engaging, thoughtful, and tragically timely”
-Kirkus Reviews
“A brave and profoundly beautiful book”
-Verlyn Klinkenborg
In Boundless, respect
- Author: Henneberg, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986066707
- Language: English
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Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker
$27.99 Add to cartFor fans of Women in White Coats and The Woman They Could Not Silence comes the never-before-told story of a woman who moved mountains for medical research and human health
“Lasker, very often the onl- Author: Pearson, Judith L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887701561
- Language: English
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Front Line Nursing Stories: Making a Difference: An Anthology from the 1940s to the COVID-19 Pandemic
$21.99 Add to cartWhen reading real-life stories about nursing, you might not expect mentions of fox fur coats or cages full of snakes (“five feet long and very skinny”). Yet these amusing vignettes sit alongside harro… [more below]
- Author: Facciolo, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1039152287
- Language: English
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Because We Are Bad: Ocd and a Girl Lost in Thought
$17.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Best Book of the Year
“One of the best [books] I have read on the phenomenology of OCD.” —Scott Stossel, the Washington Post
Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Br
- Author: Bailey, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062696173
- Language: English
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The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon
$33.00 Add to cartGiven the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in th
- Author: Starzl, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: November 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0822958368
- Language: English
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Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine
$30.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine
As much as we all m- Author: Tweedy, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250284899
- Language: English
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Hospital and Haven: The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska
$34.95 Add to cartHospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the p… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlander, Mary F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236181
- Language: English
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God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
$18.00 Add to cartVictoria Sweet’s new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now
For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence o- Author: Sweet, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1594486549
- Language: English
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Casebook of a Community Internist
$22.99 Add to cartExperience begets wisdom and wisdom informs change.
“Patients are the best teachers,” he told a friend, shortly before moving west. The choice of a specialist career in community internal medicine came… [more below]
- Author: Baillie, Hector M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039167632
- Language: English
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My Lobotomy: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartIn this heartfelt memoir from one of the youngest recipients of the transorbital lobotamy, Howard Dully shares the story of a painfully dysfunctional childhood, a misspent youth, his struggle to claim
- Author: Dully, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0307381277
- Language: English
