Medical (Incl. Patients)
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These Dreams of You: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cartThese Dreams of You: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience tells the story of a mother’s love for and commitment to her gifted daughter, who developed anorexia at age ten and subsequently die… [more below]
- Author: McCloskey, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987070734
- Language: English
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Captured by COVID: Deceit, Conspiracy & Death-A True Story
$11.95 Add to cart2022 Winner “Best Indie Book Award” Memoirs (International)
The BookFest 2nd Place, Non-Fiction – Memoirs
Multiple Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Awards
Captured by COVID is a true story that begins with autho
- Author: Bowers, Michael E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9798886790214
- Language: English
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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
$29.99 Add to cartPart cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.
Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she w
- Author: Crampton, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 006327390X
- Language: English
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Clock Out and Heal
$16.95 Add to cart“We’re doing everything possible,” the doctor would say at times to the parents as he continued the resuscitation efforts on their little girl. Expect the unexpected when you are a medical professiona
- Author: Sanguinetti, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891302822
- Language: English
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
$21.00 Add to cartThe first Navajo woman surgeon combines western medicine and traditional healing.
A spellbinding journey between two worlds, this remarkable book describes surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord’s struggles to br- Author: Alvord, Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0553378007
- Language: English
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Unexpected: Finding Resilience Through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith
$26.00 Read moreIn Unexpected, Dr. Jill Carnahan shares her story of facing life-altering illness, fighting for her health, and overcoming sickness using both science and faith so that others can learn to live their … [more below]
- Author: Carnahan, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1637630956
- Language: English
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Patient: A Humorous Memoir of Healthcare and Healing
$31.95 Add to cartPatient is a quirky, humorous, and occasionally poignant romp through the American health care system. After a seemingly mild case of COVID-19, the author finds himself hospitalized with acute renal f
- Author: Rao, Akshay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889602637
- Language: English
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Choosing Wellness: Unconventional Wisdom for the Overwhelmed, the Discouraged, the Addicted, the Fearful, or the Stuck
$13.99 Add to cartCHOOSING WELLNESS is an honest, powerful testament of understanding for the legions of Americans who struggle to lose weight, shed stress, relieve anxiety, overcome addiction, manage their chronic ill
- Author: O’Grady, Eileen T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1736107402
- Language: English
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If I Get to Five: What Children Can Teach Us about Courage and Character
$20.00 Add to cartThis book is a testament to the extraordinary depth, powers, and resiliency of children’s spirits. –Marion Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
If I Get to Five is a one-of-a-kind book- Series: Living Planet Book
- Author: Epstein, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0805075178
- Language: English
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On Dreams
$18.00 Add to cartAfflicted with sudden blind spots in her right eye, Maureen Thorson consults her doctor. Her diagnosis is AZOOR (acute zonal occult outer retinopathy), a rare condition that has no known cause and is
- Author: Thorson, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1733529438
- Language: English
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Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
$24.95 Add to cartA graphic memoir and adapted oral history of Unit 371, an inpatient AIDS care hospital unit in Chicago that was in existence from 1985 to 2000. Examines the human costs of caregiving and the role art … [more below]
- Author: Czerwiec, Mk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1637790074
- Language: English
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E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes
$10.99 Read moreThey save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.
“The compassion, the work ethic,- Author: Patterson, James
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1538707241
- Language: English
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Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
$17.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – USA TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF AUDIBLE’S BEST BIOS AND MEMOIRS OF 2023 – “A raw, intimate look at [Hendrickson’s] life with a stutter. It’s a profoundly moving … [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 059331283X
- Language: English
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Raquela: A Woman of Israel
$19.99 Add to cartA National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel’s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.
During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywe… [more below]
- Author: Gruber, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 1453258302
- Language: English
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Spilling My Guts: A Crohn’s Chronicle
$17.00 Add to cartCrohn’s disease is an illness people don’t often talk about. Its embarrassing symptoms leave those who suffer from it tethered to the bathroom, never knowing when the next flare-up will have their int
- Author: Dimino, Russ
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988120001
- Language: English
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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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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
$20.00 Add to cart* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” –Nora Krug, The Washington Post “Beautiful and haunting.” –Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY- Author: Riggs, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1501169378
- Language: English
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My Body Is Distant: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreAn electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging.
In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes abo
- Author: Maylott, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1770416919
- Language: English
