Medical (Incl. Patients)
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Life After Death: Surviving Suicide
$26.99 Read moreAn intertwined tale of a boy’s world shattered by suicide and a man’s story rewritten by neuroscience.
When Richard Brockman found his mother’s body, the simple narrative of his childhood ended. Life- Author: Brockman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1680998056
- 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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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
$19.99 Read moreThe acclaimed portrait of institutionalized patients whose abandoned possessions recall their forgotten lives
“A deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness.” –Oliver Sacks
When Willard
- Author: Penney, Darby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934137146
- 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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Appointments with Heaven
$17.99 Add to cartWhen Dr. Reggie Anderson is present at the bedside of a dying patient, something miraculous happens. Sometimes as he sits vigil and holds the patient’s hand . . . he can experience what they feel and … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Reggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1414380453
- Language: English
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Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of a Christopher Award–now with a discussion guide
“Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books like this one, is that the ICU experience can be changed for the better”- Author: Ely, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982171162
- 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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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION – A BOOKLIST EDITORS’ CHOICE BOOK SELECTION
One doctor’s passionate and p- Author: Tweedy, Damon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1250105048
- 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 Read moreThis 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
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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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Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine
$17.95 Read moreAfter a terrible misjudgment in the delivery room, Dr. John Bruchalski realized that with every pregnant woman he attends, there are two patients–the mother and her unborn child. In addition to this
- Author: Bruchalski, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: October 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 1621645169
- Language: English
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My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one’s deepest prejudices and fears.
“Remarkab- Author: Verghese, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679752927
- Language: English
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”–Lucy Kalanithi
“Belo- Author: Bowler, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0399592067
- Language: English
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Little Earthquakes: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartDiscovering she had stage four breast cancer while pregnant with her second baby, a clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, after receiving good news, was unable to celebrate due to being fro… [more below]
- Author: Mandel, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063270919
- Language: English
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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago Er
$21.00 Add to cartThe riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare s… [more below]
- Author: Fisher, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593230698
- Language: English
